It's 3 am......Might as well get up....

Jack Sleeping like a baby

 Sleep is a naturally recurring state characterized by reduced or absent consciousness, relatively suspended sensory activity, and inactivity of nearly all voluntary muscles.^[1] It is distinguished from quiet wakefulness by a decreased ability to react to stimuli, and is more easily reversible than being in hibernation or a coma. Sleep is also a heightened anabolicstate, accentuating the growth and rejuvenation of the immune, nervous, skeletal and muscular systems. It is observed in all mammals, all birds, and many reptiles, amphibians, and fish.

The purposes and mechanisms of sleep are only partially clear and are the subject of intense research.^[2] Sleep is often thought to help conserve energy,^[3][4] but actually decreases metabolism only about 5–10%.^[3][4] Hibernating animals need to sleep despite the hypometabolism seen in hibernation, and in fact they must return from hypothermia toeuthermia in order to sleep, making sleeping "energetically expensive."^[5]

I'm jealous of this kind of sleep eye right now!

It's 3 am and I fell asleep on the couch around 11:30 got up to go to bed and never fell back to sleep.  I am a bit of an Insomniac so this happens every now and then.  Until my Dr. gave me something to help.  I know a pill for this a pill for that.  Is that a sign of getting old?  Up until recently I took pretty darn good care of myself. Exercise and diet were my top priority so I could take care of myself now and not be an old woman relying on pills to stay alive and normal until recently when I broke my ankle.  So I got up and took a pill because it is 3 am, walked it off because my foot is extremely swollen, therefore in pain (I stepped on an uneven surface at Walmart yesterday and wrenched it sideways so I may have hurt it, it hurt right away and felt it crack, of course it still isn't really healing yet as far as I know, until Monday when I get more x-rays) and so I had to loosen my boot to barely nothing and loosen the Velcro, and grabbed some ice water and my book, so I don't keep Jay awake tossing and turning and am currently on my way to the couch to read for awhile and see if my Xanax will help me fall asleep.

Me and Murphy asleep

Tomorrow if football lazy Sunday so I will probably read and nap in shift anyways, another sign of getting older, is suppose.  Napping in this house is called having an accident.......If we fall asleep during the day, it was an accident.

Dogs sleep all day, why can't we?

To me, sleep is sacred because it's rare for me to get a full night, especially now with this very comfortable stylish boot I get to wear to bed and my foot swelling and having pain at odd times.  I hope you all are sleeping right now, although, this is Reno, I know a handful of you are probably still out dancing the night away.

Oh to sleep like a baby again...........one can only fantasize these days....Goodnight or good morning, I'm not sure which it is.  Anyways happy Sunday.

Asleep at the table at Noodle Cafe, Grandma holding his head up so he can (it was an accident!)

How I try to get sleepy

Crank it is..........(pages 405-537)

So now Bree sneaks out of the house because she is GUFN to see Chase who is her knight in shining armour despite the fact that he does drugs as well.  It is sad, but I had often wondered why these high school girls had either gotten extremely overweight or way too thin.  For awhile, when my son was in school, I would look at the girls and wonder how they had gotten so thin.  Now it all makes sense, even the "good" girls, popular girls, smart girls got into the monster.  To keep up with everything, stay thin, be accepted etc.  I keep my daughter as busy as possible and always feel that it will keep her out of trouble, now I know I will keep my eyes open, if she is getting overwhelmed and too busy, we are cutting her schedule back.  For those of us that have young children, I know now after reading this book, it only takes one person to change a life forever, if she had been forbidden to go see her father, she may have stayed clean, or not met the boy, who knows I guess, just always know your children's friends and as annoying as we get as parents, it is our job to be nosy, search rooms, invade privacy. It could change our children's lives forever. My sister knows the author of this book, and she really is raising her grandson now, this story is loosely based fiction on her life and her life with her daughter, sad but true.  Keep your eyes open!  Wow, what an incredible book........Thank you Ellen Hopkins.

Crank it is..........(pages 270-405))

So Brendan, the cute boy who Kristina/Bree's mother thought was just her daughters type, ended up being a complete asshole!  Raped her, hooked her up on her drugs, booze and used his looks to manipulate her into being stuck up in the middle of nowhere, high and helpless.  I know she brought a lot of this on herself, strutting her stuff with her "new" friend Robin in front of the men and the air races.  When our children find new friends all of a sudden and sleep patterns change, school and hygiene goes out the window, it is time to step back and take a look.  All of a sudden Kristina/Bree is constantly GUFN.  Open your eyes!  She is going downhill our of control as quickly as she can.  The boy who is the nice boy, Chase is even a druggie, it is everywhere in high schools, Reno High School, I have heard is the worst , under Manogue, mainly because the money is there, Bree/Kristina had unlimited access to her bank account, and she had started sneaking out of the house.  I know all about that, that is when the trouble starts......Good Lord.

Crank it is..........(pages 135-270)

So this boy must have been a champion at manipulation.  We have all met him in our lives, Buddy is every parents nightmare, now he is working Lince and Bree to the point of drug obsession, and they are feeling such crazy intense emotions because of the speed.  Lince I feel jumped off of the balcony because she was crazy over him, probably her emotion are more intensified because of the substance abuse she has been doing, hard to believe this innocent young sweet Kristina turned into Bree so quickly because of needing love and acceptance when she had it at home the whole time.  She went from a sweet shy girl to a vixen overnight and I've been to Wild Waters and watched the mating dance of the pubescent teenagers.  It is quite interesting to watch and it does happen that quickly,  sad that a girl will drop all her expectancy's of boys for a drug, now even the bad boys look more appealing. She is still a virgin but acting like a tramp, just to get attention, and to party.  Sad, but this happens every day.  She is pretty good at pretending to be normal, but it is so sad that her Mother didn't notice these changes, in the airport I think she did, however, like most Mother's she was in denial and just didn't want to see what was right in front of her face as soon as she stepped off that airplane.

Crank it is..........(pages 1-135)

I couldn 't put this book down, what an incredible read!  It is so sad that this little girl wanted to see her Daddy so bad she was willing to look passed his indiscretions and not listen to her Mothers warnings about going to see him.  From the time he picked her up at the airport until the day she went to work with him at the Bowling Alley, it was obvious she had no connection with him at all.  She should have gotten on the first flight back home to her safe comfortable life.  Bree, Kristina had a world of first's ahead of her.  Too bad it was only a cute boy that peaked her curiosity and she needed his acceptance.  And her Dad........nice.  Sad thing is, this sort of story happens everyday!

Crank it is..........

This is the book that was voted on for our first book club read.  I am not sure if you can get it at the library but I do know that my sister has offered her copy to the first ask to borrow it.  She says it is a  very easy read, I am still not sure how to do this at all so please give me some suggestions if need be.  We will start on January 1st.  I was thinking of calling it "The Book Thoughts for Thursday."  So every Thursday we will post what our thoughts are on the book for the week.  There are 537 pages in my copy but it is very easy reading so how does 135 pages a week sound to complete this book in 1 month?  It is written more like poetry so that should be easy for all of us even if we are reading other books, completing projects etc.  Let me know your opinions on this!