With just a couple days left until I embarked on my 51-day journey through India and Nepal, I still had a large to-do list, and more stress than I needed. Trying to wrap up two website transfers (and one new web site design) on top of packing, final shopping, and, oh, maybe actually figuring out WHERE I was going to travel to upon arrival I felt a bit stressed out.
Getting around 6ish hours of crappy sleep a night wasn’t really cutting it, so this night, going to bed before 1:30 was something of a treat! Until Jasper (the puppy) started throwing up at 3:50 a.m.
So up I jump (as a friend and I once quipped, nothing will wake you faster than the sound of your dog vomiting) and then cleaned up the large pile of dog puke. Before he could eat it back up again. Ugh. The outside for a pee for both dogs, and finally back into bed with the to-do list still on my mind.
Tick… tick…tick.. Now it’s 5:00am, dogs are snoooooozing, and I am not. I opened my laptop and started to work. Bam! Just like that a mini-epiphany with one of the sites I was working on came through. And all of a sudden that was basically done! And just like that, work just flew from my feverish fingers as I had the most productive 2.5 hours of work I’d had for a while.
After that jaunt, I was able to fall back asleep fast for a couple of hours, and woke up to tackle the last bits of my to-do list with a lot more relaxation knowing I’d gotten that work done.
Now as long as the pups don’t think puking in the middle of the night can be a good thing (for me, that is) this one time, it was.
