Pain or No Pain?

That's a no brainer, right?  Well, maybe not.  No, I'm not one of those people who LIKE pain.  I try to avoid it at all costs.  But there is something I like even less than pain and that's pain killers - or at least the effect they have on me.  Unfortunately, sometimes I forget that.  Last night I forgot.  My neck and shoulder were really bothering me.  (When you get rear-ended on the Interstate at 65mph, you will have neck and back problems for the rest of your life.  That's another story.  Hopefully you'll just take my word for it and not have to find out for yourself.)  Anyway, I broke down and took a pain pill before bed.  And THAT is the reason that I'm still awake at 6am.  That is one effect they have on me - they wire me up.  It might not be a bad thing if that was the only one.  I could probably accomplish a lot on my "to-do" list if I planned it just right.  Like I said, IF that were the only one, but it's not.  They also wire my mind up.  So while I'm laying in bed wide awake, my mind is going a gazillion miles an hour.  I'm thinking about all of my lists (I'm a list person), all of the fun topics I'd like to write about on here, all of the crafts I need to finish for the Holiday Craft Fair at our church next weekend, everybody on our Christmas list and what to get them, what I want to cook for the holidays and the fact that I need to start buying the groceries now, and....you get the picture.  If you've ever been wired up and your mind's been wired up and you're trying to go to sleep then you know how much every little thing is magnified and really wears on your nerves.  That is where my husband's snoring comes in.  I don't know if he snores all of the time because it never bothers me as long as I'm asleep before him.  But bless his heart, he was having allergy issues last night so he snored all night.  At about 3 a.m. the itching started.  My least favorite side effect of them all.  I feel like my skin is crawling from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet.  Have you ever had the tops of your fingers itch?  It's an interesting experience.  The final effect should start any time and that's the headache.  I'm not sure if that is caused by the medicine or lack of sleep, but I usually end up with one before it's over.  And the absolute worst part of all is that my shoulder never did stop hurting.

So, right now I'm trying to get 48 cupcakes baked and decorated for Kupcakes & Kisses (my side business that will probably never amount to much, but I sure enjoy).  They are being picked up at 10 a.m.  Can you say "fresh"?  Then my plan is to take a nap, but at this point, I'm still not even close to being sleepy.  Maybe I'll get to mark a lot off of my list before my batteries run out.  But the Good Lord knows that my batteries will definitely run out before my lists do!!!!!  Maybe next time I'll write about my lists or anniversaries or Pinterest or........I guess I need to make a list of topics too!