Too Much Caffeine is a Bitch

06-28-2009

One can just imagine the headache I had last Friday night when I went to work in spite of having 2 hours of sleep. I have no choice. In the cruel world of call center, being sleepless in the day is not enough reason to be absent. No reason is good enough, to tell you the truth.

Up until now, I'm still wondering how I managed to stay awake in my 11 hour shift without losing some vital parts of my body, like my brain for example. I was a walking disaster again, my eyes can barely focus on the computer monitor, my head is throbbing, like my cerebellum was about to force it's way out of my skull, and to top it all off, I had my period that same day so let's add the menstrual cramps and what do we have? Cranky me.

I blame it all on the cappuccino I had in the afternoon. My grandma made those iced candy cappuccinos, I found it all on the freezer and munched one long tube of iced cappuccino. I was stupid enough to not remember that what I'm indulging on is caffeine. After eating, I lie on the bed to sleep, hugged my pillow, hid under my blanket and I tossed and turned. Tossed and turned. That's all I did because I couldn't sleep!

Saturday afternoon (yesterday), I was still cranky after my shift. I stirred up a petty fight with Alex because I feel like he's not listening to what I was saying. I'm really fucked up when I'm without sleep and when it's my period and it's all on me at the same day so Alex was pretty mad when he left our house. I felt bad but I forgot about the whole thing when my beaten up body touched the bed and off to dreamland I went.

12:10 am

My grandmother woke me up because Alex went to pick me up. Shoot, I almost forgot that I had to go to work for a 4-hour rest-day overtime. I was myself already so I knew I had to apologize to Alex. Before I could say anything, he surprised me by apologizing and gave me one long-stemmed red rose. I can't remember if I ever had a boyfriend who did that in spite of the obvious fact that I'm the one who should say sorry.

All's well, ends well, as the saying goes if I remember correctly. It is now 1 in the afternoon and I had to get dressed and ready in a couple of minutes because Alex and I are going to SM North. I made a deal online on the book The Fifth Mountain by Paul Coelho and I'm meeting the seller later.

Oh and note for myself today; too much caffeine is a fucking bitch so avoid being overdosed with it.

posted by Monica-Lynne @ 6:38 AM