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It was a day where i had a feeling i would have to be on my guard, especially against anger and impatience, or feeling overwhelmed, and i was right, as at one point, i was so close to my tipping point i used my precious mobile data to stream Chris Tomlin and Steven Curtis Chapman music to calm myself.
My Sweetie sometimes has a night terror, coming awake suddenly yelling and in fear, but he can never remember what the bad dream is and seldom recalls much if anything in the morning about the incident.
When Link Linker the Stinker cat woke me with his soft snoring Tuesday night, i turned over and was almost drifting back off when the snoring must have triggered something in Sweetie and he woke with a start, yelling and scaring poor Link into running for his life.
By the time i calmed him and he went back to sleep, i was awake the rest of the night, praying and reading Scripture, finally giving up at 4am and getting ready for work, of which there was going to be a tremendous amount.
My Wednesday consisted of the very crowded cat shelter, the catios at another rescue that Ms. G asked me to help on her day for the next few weeks while they are short-staffed, then Ms. G's animals and a house she's trying to ready for sale that needed cleaning up from the workmen and we all know how much mess they can leave behind.
After spending the day losing and misplacing things, having an "upset tummy" (i'll spare you the details), and working only on adrenaline and prayer the whole time, i think if Sweetie had a bad night last night i wouldn't know because i was exhausted enough to sleep through it.
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Guard.
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While Good Fences Around the World seems to have gone the way of the dodo bird, i still enjoy looking for and posting interesting fences, so i will!
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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week's image and my poem:
You may think we're crazy,
but the pay we get is great!
We really do not mind it,
my pals are all top rate.
Although right now i'm antsy
for work to end, you see,
it's not that I mind being up here,
but I really need to go pee!
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Brian of Brian's Home hosts the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop. It's time to share something for which i am thankful.
Today i am thankful i got through yesterday's 5:30am-4pm work shift on 3 hours sleep and lived to tell the tale, as well as thankful that those sleepless nights don't happen very often.
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Today is:
Battle of Britain Day -- UK
Dia de Nuestra Senora de la Bien Aparecida -- Santander, Spain
Eleven Days of Global Unity -- Day 5, Health (sponsored by We, the World)
Engineer's Day -- India
Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows (Mater Dolorosa) related observance
Grito de Dolores -- Mexico (Cry of Dolores,a/k/a Father Hidalgo's Cry for Freedom Day, the evening before Independence Day)
Virgin Mary of the Seven Sorrows Day -- Slovakia
Felt Hat Day (Traditional day upon which men started to wear their winter felt hats, similar to women beginning to wear white shoes on Memorial Day)
Hawaiki Nui Va'a Race -- French Polynesia (spectacular three-day open water outrigger canoe races from Huahine to Raiatea to Tahaa to Bora Bora)
Hummer/Bird Celebration -- Rockport and Fulton, TX, US (ruby-throated hummingbirds and other avians are the stars of this show; through Sunday)
Ig® Nobel Prize Ceremony -- Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, US (each winner has done improbable research, something that makes people laugh, then think)
in 2022, the whole ceremony will take place online
Independence Day -- Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua (all in 1821)
International Day of Democracy -- UN
Make a Hat Day -- just for fun (and if you are a guy, make a felt hat)
National Creme de Menthe Day
National Hispanic Heritage Month -- US, through Oct. 15
National Linguine Day
Really Bad Ideas Exhibition -- Fairy Calendar (Gremlins celebration)
Restoration of Primorska to the Motherland Day -- Slovenia
Silpa Bhirasri Day -- Thailand
St. Catherine of Genoa's Day (Patron of brides, childless people, people in difficult marriages, people ridiculed for their piety, victims of adultery and unfaithfulness, widows; against adultery and temptation)
Anniversaries Today:
Greenpeace is founded, 1971
Birthdays Today:
Heidi Montag, 1986
Prince Harry, 1984
Dave Annable, 1979
Josh Charles, 1971
Dan Marino, Jr., 1961
Tommy Lee Jones, 1946
Oliver Stone, 1946
Carmen Maura, 1945
Jessye Norman, 1945
Merlin Olsen, 1940
Gaylord Jackson Perry, 1938
Norm Crosby, 1927
Jackie Cooper, 1922
Fay Wray, 1907
Roy Acuff, 1903
Agatha Christie, 1890
Robert Benchley, 1889
William H. Taft, 1857
James Fenimore Cooper, 1789
François de La Rochefoucauld, 1613
Marco Polo, 1254
Debuting/Premiering Today:
USA Today(Newspaper first issue), 1982
"CHIPs"(TV), 1977
"Columbo"(TV), 1971
"I Spy"(TV), 1965
"Lost in Space"(TV), 1965
"Bachelor Father"(TV), 1957
"The Lone Ranger"(TV), 1949
Today in History:
The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy, 1616
The French army under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow, 1812
The first Negro National Convention begins in Philadelphia, 1830
The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad, 1831*
HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands, 1835
Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell becomes the first woman in the US to be ordained a minister (Congregationalist), 1853
Timothy Alder patents the typesetting machine, 1857
RCA releases the 12AX7 vacuum tube, 1947
United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia, 1952
The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
*The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C., 1981
Vanuatu becomes a member of the United Nations, 1981
Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history, 2008
In Australia, "Indeterminate" can now be listed on a passport as a gender, 2011
A previously unknown species of bottlenose dolphin is found by Australian researchers, and named Tursiops australis, 2011
Japan switches off its last working nuclear reactor, 2013
Archaeologists document their find of the oldest-known brewery and the remains of 13,000-year-old beer in a cave in Haifa Israel, belonging to the nomadic Natufian people, 2018
Norman Lear becomes the oldest person to win an Emmy at age 97, in the variety special category for ABC’s “Live in Front of a Studio Audience," 2019
SpaceX launches the first all-civilian spaceflight from Cape Canaveral, Florida, for three-day orbit around Earth, 2021
I am glad, and impressed, that you survived your busy day on so little sleep.
ReplyDeleteI like your poem, but that is a job I could not do.
Nigth terrors are frightening - I hope they will be few and far between for you and Sweeetie.
ReplyDeleteI get a strange feeling in my stomach just from looking at that photo! I won't even look long enough to make a poem.
And your fence is a charmer :)
Exhaustion definitely helps to sleep through conditions we normally wouldn't be able to.
ReplyDeleteNot preferable long term.
The photo of the skyscraper workers...I have it as a poster at my workplace...gives a perspective!
Why is it that when one has a big day ahead, the night is almost always a disaster? Hope you were able to get home and go to bed early to get some rest.
ReplyDeleteThere's little worse than sleep deprivation. As for the photo, I hope the people below had their umbrellas up!
ReplyDeleteHow to negotiate a busy, caring life, Mimi.
ReplyDeleteI remember those sleepless nights. Not fun at all when you have a hard days work ahead. I'm glad they don't happen often.
ReplyDeleteLove your take on the poem. Well done. You made me chuckle.
Have a fabulous Thankful Thursday, my friend. Big hug. ♥
i suffer from insomnia and rarely sleep longer than 2 hours at a time. good post, loved the poem as always and Battle of Britian day, how apropos.
ReplyDeleteThe universe does try for balance, the night without sleep is often followed by a night with sleep beginning before the head hits the pillow.
ReplyDeleteGood to hear you made it through the Day of Alert
Oh my goodness- what a day you had! Hope there never is a repeat! That 1932 photo is so famous- "Lunch atop a Skyscraper is a black-and-white photograph taken on September 20, 1932, of eleven ironworkers sitting on a steel beam 850 feet above the ground on the sixty-ninth floor of the RCA Building in Manhattan, New York City. It was arranged as a publicity stunt, part of a campaign promoting the skyscraper." Wikipedia
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I get the feeling you like felines, Mimi
ReplyDeleteCute poem. I had not thought of the needing to go to the bathroom part. :) Sorry you got so little sleep. Hope that doesn't happen again. XO
ReplyDeleteWOW, what a day and night you had, I'm hoping it's lots better from her on out. That was a good poem, I would have passed out and fell from up there. Thanks for joining our Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!
ReplyDeleteUffda! Sounds like you had a rough couple of days. Hope it all passed & naps and downtime are the order of the day!
ReplyDeleteI was wondering when you slept with all that you do each day and now I know: almost never. You can't even nap here and there. I hope you get a good night's sleep tonight.
ReplyDeleteWell Mimi you outdid yourself on this one! Love the poem......and for the record - I wondered about that "issue" too for those guys way up there....LOL
ReplyDeleteHugs, Pam
Not sleeping and working a long day ~ you are amazing ~ I think the full moon brings on sleepless nights sometimes ~ Sweet dreams and sleep well, my dear friend ~ Xo
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days ~ Xo
A ShutterBug Explores ~
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Sounds like a really bad day.
ReplyDeleteThe poem though 😂
Husby gets those wild, almost-waking moments when he's really stressed. I've had a few sleepless nights following so I totally understand! You still manage to pack more into a day following a sleepless night than any two people I know! Love the picture--AND the verse. But that picture makes me breathless!
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