4:30 A.M. Phone Calls

I know I said in my last post that I was heading to the bed but I just had to post one more thing.  

Last night was stormy.  It was sort of a surprise.  I watched a bit of the news and they said it probably would not be stormy in our area and that the thunderstorms would be well south of us.  But as I was turning off the tv and trying to drift away I thought I heard a rumble of thunder.  Off and on I heard thunder as I fell asleep and since I love a good thunderstorm I was all settled and ready for a good night's sleep.  However, around midnight, there was a massive crash of thunder that woke most of us up in the house, including Roxie the psycho Shar-Pei.  She HATES bad weather.  She then attempted to burrow under my pillow.  I was able to finally get her in a sleeper hold (sort of) and she settled down and went back to sleep.  Nothing like sleeping with a stinky, sweaty, drooling 40 pound dog who is shaking and twitching and periodically stopping all that to chew on her own leg.  Finally we settled back in for 6 more hours of sleep while it poured outside and the wind howled.  But the weather had other plans.  At about 3:00 a.m. it happened again.  I don't know if it was a branch falling out of the pecan tree outside and bouncing off the house or just another huge rumble of thunder but out of bed I came.  So after a trip to the bathroom and a relocation of the dog to the foot of the bed on top of one of my feet and under the other foot, we went to bed again for 3 final hours of blissful rest and much needed sleep.  HOWEVER.....

Why do people feel the need to call me at 4:30 a.m. to tell me they are having stomach issues?  I don't care.  At that hour, you better be related to me and something better be bleeding profusely and dangerously if you are going to wake me up.  Of course that does not seem to matter to my co-workers.  They feel some deep obligation to call me and wake me and the rest of my house up to TEXT me with the good news that they are calling in sick to work----AGAIN!  And then, as if that is not enough, they want to carry on a long texting conversation to tell me that they don't have lessons plans and that they have been sick all night and that they would like a certain person to sub for them and when I tell them that she is no longer subbing, they want to text and ask me why and what happened.  I just turned my phone off.  But that left me with a problem.  I use my phone as an alarm clock as well.  So with it turned off, I did not have an alarm.  I was so tired and knew I would not be able to wake up on my own so I just stayed awake.  An hour and a half earlier than I shoudl have been.  I watched some news and kind of dozed a couple of times.  Finally at 6:00 I very grumpily got up and headed to the shower.  When I got to work I found out when I stopped talking to this co-worker she moved on and texted another co-worker and woke her up which upset her quite a bit because she was up and down all night with her little pod person kicking her insides and she had just gotten soundly asleep as well.  Finally she moved on and called and woke up our boss and his whole family to tell them that she did not feel good.  Would not be such a problem but she has missed 25 days since school started and has no days to take so she is just a drain on the whole system.  Luckily we were able to get a sub for her kids. No one wants to sub for them because they are SO bad.  But in fairness to the kids, they have not had any consistency in the classroom all year and think it is okay to run around like a pack of wild dogs.

So needless to say, I dragged out the old alarm clock and am hoping it works.  I am turning my phone off and have told everyone at work that if they try to call me before 7:00 anymore, I am no longer available unless they have my home number which is for emergencies ONLY!!!  We will see how things go tomorrow.  I am going to try not to scream at a certain teacher TOOOOOO loudly.