What is it about not being able to sleep that just makes you extra sensitive?

Last night I was lying awake dead tired but unable to fall asleep. This happens very rarely to me, I usually sleep within 5 minutes of putting my head on the pillow, so I got very annoyed.

As I lay there I was trying to decide which sound was more annoying; El Hombre snoring next to me, the cat cleaning itself and making the whole bed move with his efforts, the spanish teenagers from next door smoking joints on the street outside our house and chatting or the baby tossing and turning and sitting up all the time.

Obviously it couldn’t be the baby, El Rubio, because that would mean that I was an uncaring mother. And who would want that tag on them?

So I put the cat top of my list and threw him off the bed.
Then the teenagers left and El Hombre stopped snoring.

That left only the baby. Shit.

Furthermore I felt the bedding was all itchy and there wasn’t enough room to lie properly.

But then I committed the cardinal sin of sleepless nights. I started thinking about money.

About the money I need to pay back. About where they are going to come from next. How am I going to get that holiday I so need/want. Etc etc.

Needless to say, I was quite tired this morning.  But I did make sure to hover really early in the hope of a little payback. It might just wake the grumpy teenagers up next door.