AUTHOR: Scott G DATE: 9:16:00 PM ----- BODY:

Knew the time had to come..

...when she got mad at me. This time it was nothing like in the past. In the past I did or said something stupid either on accident or on purpose and it caused a mess. This time I just said what was true. Deb sleeps too much, period. She has a couple of 11 AM shifts and a 10 AM shift so this caused a problem. If she gets one night until 11 (Sunday) she can't get enough sleep to work at 11 am the next day. Do the math, that is 12 HOURS! This has been a problem for a while. She sleeps as much as life will allow her, and feels horrible the rest of the day. If you sleep 12-15 hours, I feel that your body will just plain not want to be up the other 9-12 hours in the day. I sleep 8, sometimes 9 and I feel fine. I go out of my way to work as many hours as they'll give me, as early as they want.. even overnights. I go a day or two with very little sleep so we can pay the bills. She gets ONLY 12 hours of sleep and complains. It would be easy to sleep 8-9 hours a night if she got in the habit of it, but she never will. I start to try and wake her up 30 minutes before her shift. She never listens to me and I'm not pushy enough so she has it her way and goes to work groggy every morning. I tried to talk sense into her and say "If you got to bed at a decent time and didn't sleep as much you wouldn't be so tired". Also I said, "If you woke up a little before the time you had to leave for work you'd be awake". So instead of an agreement reached and her saying "Yeah, maybe I should sleep less or give myself time to wake up" she says what she always says when she's mad at me.. NOTHING! But that's okay, because all I said was the truth. Nothing made up or cruel, but I guess the truth hurts sometimes. Why would it hurt to be told you sleep too much? Maybe because some people feel it is their right to sleep as much as they want and work or other people should just deal with it? Well.. to get the hours we get at work (40+ at a part time job) you need to be available. If you specify 6 hours you can work, you'll get those 6 and only a few days a week. If you mess them up by not making yourself available, they'll mess you up by not giving you enough hours. If only I could get through the simple point that 8-9 hours of sleep is enough if you do it enough and get used to it. Of course, if you're used to 12-14 hours every night, 8 feels like you lost half a night's sleep. I just wish I could instill some work ethic into her. It's not a hard job, and we really really need the money. Besides all I just said, there isn't a thing going on. I needed this thing to rant to. If it wasn't for this I'd be in there apologizing for nothing. For saying she should stop sleeping more than half the day, for saying she should wake up before she has to leave. She then claims that staying up late is spending time with me, and that is true, but.. she could spend time with me during the day. Instead of TV at 3 AM, we could be at the park at 9-10 AM. We could go for walks, play basketball, and even ::gasp:: eat breakfast!?!? Whatever.. in the end she'll do what she wants and my opinion counts for shit. Until next time... --------