I Need Lightbulbs

It's 4:30 am on a Monday morning and I can't sleep. In fact, I haven't closed my eyes all night. Wait a minute, I take that back - I did close my eyes, but I couldn't sleep. I've watched movies on TNN and AMC and still no sleep. I'm glad I was awake at 1:00 am because I happened to be clicking the TV channels and came across my favorite Christmas movie, "Holiday Inn" with Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. I just love that movie. My daddy and I would watch it every Christmas and if we were lucky, it would come on three different channels at three different times and we would hit the mother-load of holiday fun.

I love to hear Bing sing and watch Fred dance, but I digress. Back to the lightbulbs, I have a chandelier in the dining room that needs five bulbs, I have one burning bulb. The light on the ceiling fan in the den is burned out, as is at least one bulb in each of the four bedrooms. I swear the bulbs I've been buying are defective. Maybe it's because I buy light bulbs at the dollar store. Why pay the "high" prices of the "fancy" Wal-Mart store when you can buy more lightbulbs than you can carry home in a sack for $1.00 at the dollar store? My love affair with the dollar store may be the source of my lightbulb dilema.

My baby-sister-cousin, Jen has trouble with lightbulbs also. She told me that each day for the past week the lightbulbs in different rooms burned out. Her nine year old daughter became concerned and asked if Jen had paid the light bill. She wanted to know if the light company was cutting their electricity off one room at a time. I think that is hilarious. I guess if you're a few days late on your bill, the light company just dims the bulbs.

Well, I guess I should go back to bed and try to take a little nap before it's time to get up and go to school. Trying to middle-school children on two hours of sleep is going to be tough. If I'm lucky, they've all had trouble sleeping and will take naps at their desks. Who am I kidding, you can't pay middle-school kids to sleep in class. They're too busy talking and running around the classroom to sleep. Night Night!