Well, I had a message in my guestbook (already) to write something, so here I am writing something.  A good night for it, too, I guess.  I'm writing on serious sleep deprivation, so it'll probably come out disjointed, but you'll get the idea.

This past week, I took a week of vacation and went on a road trip.  I drove up to Minnesota to meet a couple of my internet friends, and then over to Wisconsin to (the main purpose of my trip) help my friend Cait move down here to Dallas.  The original plan was that she was going to room with this dude TJ, who lives in Houston and was going to move up here, but the guy chickened out at the last minute 'cause his parents didn't want him rooming with a girl.  She freaked, and out of a gesture of being nice and thinking it would be a good plan, Jenny (my finacée, for those who don't know) and I invited her to live with us.

Well, today was the first full day of her being here.  We got here at 6 am, and managed a few hours of sleep.  Then I helped her bring everything up.  At one point, around 6 pm I guess, her and Cas (a friend of hers who lives here) left to get some screws for her bed, 'cause she left the originals in Wisconsin.  They were gone for hours.  I was getting tired, and irritated, waiting for them to come back so she could finish arranging her stuff so I could clean and arrange the living room.  Well, they never came back.  Finally I crawled into bed with a book, with the intention of sleeping.  That didn't work, either, because Jenny's constant typing kept me awake.  After trying for an hour to sleep, I finally got frustrated and turned the light back on so I could read, since I couldnt' sleep.  I was getting pretty mad at this point, btw - I didn't sleep much or very well the night before I left, and I had a seventeen hour drive, and only a few hours of sleep, and working for hours moving Cait's crap in - let me tell you, all I wanted was to fall asleep and for people to leave me alone!

(BTW, in case you couldn't tell, I am the kind of person who requires sleep to retain his loose hold on sanity.)

Jenny eventually decided to be kind and do something else until I was asleep.  I was grateful for that, and told her that I felt bad for it, since I felt like I was kicking her out.  She wandered to a different room, and I settled down to sleep. 

Then Cait and Cas came home.

They were loud, laughing and carrying on, until they realized I was in here asleep.  Jenny apparently kept them pretty quiet, and for awhile I was blissfully unaware, asleep.  Until they were in Cait's room with the door open talking and laughing loudly.

My eyelids moved slightly and I growled.  I couldn't believe that no matter how hard I tried, SOMEONE had to keep waking me up!

I laid there for about 15 minutes before someone finally closed the door.  Someone kept coming out into the kitchen, making noise, and then shutting the door loudly.  Finally, when they had a particularly loud outburst of laughter, I lost it, slammed my long-balled-up fist on the wall a couple times (surprised it didn't go THROUGH the wall considering how it hurt afterwards), and screamed "SHUT UP!!" at the top of my lungs.

Very satisfying.  And effective.  Instant silence. 

Things were quiet after that, excepting for the occasional snigger, but I couldn't hold it against them for actually TRYING to be quiet.  I still couldn't sleep, though.  Getting mad and frustrated had me so wound up that I couldn't sleep.  Eventually Jenny came in, and still angry at how they were acting, I cold shouldered her and refused to talk.  I didn't see a need to at the time - it was quite obvious what the problem was.

Then she started talking, so I talked back.  I explained how annoyed and pissed I was that I've been working my ass off for Cait to help her move and stuff and she couldn't even be considerate enough to let me get a decent night's sleep afterwards.  Jenny explained that they'd been TRYING to keep quiet (apparently before I screamed at them, even).  I laughed.  I thought "Man, if they were trying to be quiet before I yelled, imagine what they would have been like otherwise!"  I didn't believe they really tried.  Jenny insisted they did, so I relented a bit.  It still didn't change the point that they were being INCREDIBLY inconsiderate.  Jenny asked me if I could be absolutely quiet if Cait needed it for studying or what not.  I told her I could.  It's not hard to close doors softly, not make a huge racket in the kitchen, and keep one's voices low if you think about doing so.  I honestly don't see what their problem was.  Maybe I was just being a party-pooper, but man... there is a line to be drawn there.

One other thing that kind of irked me.  Cas is staying the night with Cait.  I don't mind, honestly, and it IS her apartment too, but I'd still like to know when she's gonna have other guys sleeping over ahead of time so I have some warning.  I only knew 'cause I happened to ask if he left.  Few things suck more to wake up and wander about in just shorts first thing in the morning and come across someone who doesn't live there.

Anyway... I hope I'm calm enough now that I can actually go sleep.  I guess we'll find out.  Until next time.