Sleepy Head.

I am so sleepy. I'm sitting here in my office with absolutely nothing to do right now and I am having extreme difficulties just trying to keep my eyes open. All my work for the week has been completed and I just had a heavy lunch, well, not really heavy but my stomach has gotten used to smaller portions of food that even eating a wee bit extra makes me feel bloated! And now I feel like taking 40 winks right here in the office.

I'm a sleepy head by nature. Besides reading and running, sleeping is way up there on my list of favourite things to do. I can sleep anywhere and anytime, all I need is a comfy place to lay my head down and that's it, I'm out for the count :)

Ever since my primary school days (we had two sessions of school at that time). For six months we'd be in the afternoon session and the remainder of the six months we'd be in the morning session. This was from standards 1-6. During the morning sessions, I had to get up pretty early to get ready for school and wait for the school bus to arrive.

I had to wake up around 5.45am and get ready by 6.15am cos my house was the first destination of the stupid school bus (of all the houses in the neighbourhood, he had to pick the most laziest person's house to stop at first!). I'd hurriedly get dressed, and then rush out to the porch and try to catch a couple more minutes of sleep until the bus arrives. Sometimes I'd fall into a sound sleep that the bus driver would have to come out of the bus to wake me up ... LOL!

Then after school in the afternoon (of cos my house would be the last destination of the school bus), the first thing I'd do when I reached home, was chuck off my school bags and uniform, take a bath and immediately go and get a nap. I'd forsake my lunch, homework and everything for sleep. I'd even skip the after school extra-curriculum activities until they started insisting that students had to take up at least one extra-curriculum activity. God, how I hated those activities!

I'd sleep until about 4-5pm (I get home around 2pm) and then I'd get up, watch TV and wait for dinner anxiously looking forward to bedtime (I had to be the only boy who didn't have to be told to go to bed ... hehehe). Of course when it came to the afternoon sessions I'd have trouble staying awake in class cos I'd miss my afternoon naps.

Even to this present day, I still love sleeping. If given the choice I'd sleep the whole day long. Before getting married, especially on weekends, I'd sleep right up till lunch time. There's been occasions that I've slept through lunch until late evening ... hehehe ... (boy did my body ache after waking up). Once I sleep I usually have a difficult time waking up. I'd hang on to every minute of sleep that I can. Even in the mornings when the wife wakes me up for work, I'd always say, '5 more minutes honey' which will turn into another 20 minutes or so before I finally and unwillingly wake up. To get extra sleep time, I'd even shave at night so I can sleep that extra 10 minutes it would take me to shave in the mornings, can you believe that? I just love to sleep. I have no problems with staying up late it's just the waking up bit that's the problem ... LOL!

Gone are the days when I can sleep in late on weekends. With the kids now, sleeping past 7.30am on a weekend would be considered a miracle. I don't know why, but my 8 year old boy just loves waking up early on weekends and then comes into our room and starts creating a ruckus (that boy just loves to talk & talk & talk by the way) that will wake both the wife and myself up. His favourite question every weekend morning is, 'mummy, where's my breakfast?' and he won't let up until breakfast is finally made. And the strange thing is, on school days (he's in the afternoon session) he sleeps until 8 - 8.30am! And don't even think about an afternoon nap, with him at home, the house is never peaceful ... LOL! Oh, I just have to add this in, he got an 'A' for science in his exams recently and I'm pretty proud of him. Now I've got to buy him a toy cos I promised him a toy for every 'A' that he got. And he's the kind of boy who will hold you to your word!

Well, at least writing this post has kept me awake for a bit, but I know the moment I post this I'm gonna be dozing off again, maybe I will try and catch 40 winks seeing as how I know for a fact my boss won't be coming in again ... hehehe ... then again maybe not. Who knows, she just might decide to turn up! Well, the good things is, it's about an hour before I pack up and head for home, the bad thing is I got some do-it-yourself projects to work on at home this weekend so any chance to get any naps are a lost cause. Gosh I just love to sleep. I guess that's why NAP are the initials to my full name :)