Way. More. Tired.

Well, Heartland and my son conspired to make yesterday's tiredness seem like a cake walk! Austin woke up at 11:45 p.m. crying last night and just was inconsolable for about a half an hour! Luckily, Nick came home from his bowling league soon after the crying began and was instrumental in helping calm the boy down. We still don't know what happened or what was upsetting him! We decided to let him sleep with us, but that's always a challenge. I typically don't sleep very soundly when Austin is in bed with me or both of us because I'm always subconsciously "monitoring" him to make sure he's not falling off the bed (we've been there...twice!) or something. It took Austin a long while to settle into a comfy place on the bed, apparently, so I'm going to guess that we all got to sleep around 1 a.m.-ish or so. That's pretty dang late, even for me! Then, to keep the fun rolling, Austin decided it would be fun to wake up at 5:30 a.m. and continue on his upset jag from the previous night! Buddy!! What is the deal? From 5:30 until we left for daycare around 7:30 a.m., he oscillated between happy and terribly sad/distressed. The only thing that seemed to consistently cheer him up was playing with the "Moov", a.k.a. the Smooth, which is what we call the lotion. He really liked it and wanted to rub handfuls of it into my sheets. Awesome, but not really the activity I wanted to partake in this morning!

I dropped him off at daycare and he was pretty crabby, but I know he's in good hands over there. I'm really, REALLY hoping that the change of scenery helped and that he's back to his normal happy-go-lucky self tonight! I'll even settle for quietly crabby, as long as we can all get some sleep!

I say that Heartland also is in this conspiracy to make me even more tired because we had an orientation today and it was hell. Pure and simple hell. We are down one advisor (because someone chooses to take vacation time to go to HEALING SCHOOL during one of the busiest times of the semester -- thanks for that!), and Lindsay is still feeling like death warmed over, so really we're down 1.5 advisors. Plus, they haven't yet hired another half-time replacement for Jenn, so TECHNICALLY, we're down 2 full advisors right now. The students weren't the worst I've seen at all, but there were just so many of them and they kept coming. We probably saw all 37ish of them in a short 2 hour period, in addition to the students who just came in and weren't a part of the orientation. All of this makes for a VERY LONG DAY, and I get to teach the Zumba class tonight! I had fun doing it on Monday night, but I'm just not feeling it tonight with all the tiredness. I hope it goes well!

Sorry for the whiny, complaint-filled post, but this is my day! Hopefully I will be able to post more cheerful things tomorrow (maybe I'm following Erin's rough day pattern?)...