Fugue!

Today has not been a great day for old Iron Bess.  Probably because I didn't get too much sleep last night, it was one of those nights where I felt tired but could not convince my body/brain to actually take the plunge and get some sleep.  I thought about getting up and playing some games on my iPad but my eyes just couldn't focus on it.  I also thought of just lying there and listening to a book on tape until I was too tired to pay attention, but in my state of crappiness I couldn't remember how to increase the volume on my Kindle so couldn't hear the words over the snoring coming from the hubby's side of the bed.  So consequently I think I actually fell asleep somewhere after four am which was around the time the dog bugged me to put her outside.  So shitty sleep. 

Then in the late morning just as I seemed to get myself together the weather outside went from sunny to blowing and overcast...grrrrrrrr.  I figured that a nice walk outside in the sun would give me enough vitamin D to get me out of the feeling of crap.  I did manage to drag myself out and wander down the road figuring that a five k walk would perk me right up, but I only got about 1.5 k and started to hear a few coyotes howling ahead of me.  I was in such a mental state of abstraction that it didn't occur to me until I started hearing them quite loud in front of me that I probably shouldn't keep walking towards the pack, most especially with the hellhound leading the way.  Coyotes love themselves a good meal of dog.  So we turned and headed back.  Well I turned the dog was not so thrilled with our about face but when I threatened her with a serious beating she wagged her tail at me and kept walking towards her new would be friends.  Did I mention that a parsnip would give her a run for her money in the brains department?

Eventually we did make it back to the house, in one piece, where I managed to do a whole lot of nothing, I might have split a handful of kindling and then called it a day.  I wasn't even up to reading so I pretty much wasted my entire day doing sweet tweet.  Being all by my onsies it would have been a great day to start on my next article, but I didn't even have that in me.  Oh well, days like this make the good days so much better.  I think I will go and make some chocolate pudding now and perhaps watch a movie...so why didn't I think of that earlier?  Chocolate always makes things look less bleak!