Groggily I Sit...

I crawled into bed at 4 am after turning the air conditioning down low. I spent most of the night sitting in my Lazy-E-Boy recliner reading Model Railroader magazines as the television droned on. I am fixated on Peter Thomas' voice on Forensic Files. I also have the model railroading bug bad at the moment.

It took Maggie quite a long time to settle down this morning. She finally curled up snugly against my chest after vanquishing many cooties on the field of battle and went to sleep almost instantly. Her rhythmic breathing lulled me to sleep as well.

I opened my eyes in what seemed like a night's worth of sleep. I was disorientated. I looked at the clock and emitted a nice and nasty cuss word. F--K! The clock said 7 am. I had only been asleep 3 hours and was now wide awake again. Maggie was like, "don't go!" when I crawled back out of the bed, "we have much sleep left in us!". Maggie can enviably sleep at the drop of a hat.

Well, I got up, caught my second wind, and got a big pot of meat sauce going. I put it on simmer in case I need to fall back to sleep again and it needs to cook longer. My house smells wonderful at the moment. I fixed myself a bowl and am waiting on it to cool down some before I taste test it. I once again tried a new recipe -- variations on a theme. I added an extra pound of lean ground chuck and left out a can of tomato sauce. I do believe this one is going to be the winner.

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