Caffeine is my Best Friend

I'm sure many of you know the woes of staying up too late when you have to get up early.  The morning can be a terrible time of day.  Too bright sunrises, chirpy birds, dogs that wake you up at 6:30 to be let outside.  What makes this time of day even less bearable is minimal amounts of sleep.

Usually, I am pretty good at getting my required hours of snooze time, but this week has been a busy one and my not-a-morning-person demeanor has flared into a curse-the-alarm-repeatedly crab.

What's keeping me up?  This week I'm house-sitting for my aunt and uncle who have three dogs that like to go the bathroom at ungodly hours of the morning.  The situation would not have been too bad, except I went to a musical Wednesday night, which pushed back my bedtime by another precious hour.  And then last night I had a very necessary midnight movie premiere to attend.

I know I'm bringing the lack of sleep upon myself, especially with the movie (but it's Harry Potter and I'm way too much of a dork to pass up the final movie in this series!), but do you know what makes everything better?  Copious amounts of caffeine.

I'm actually feeling not too terribly tired now and I got to work on time and can perform my duties, but it's all thanks to numerous cups of coffee and soda.  Staying up too late to go to special events is definitely not something I plan on doing all of the time, especially with the possibility of developing some sort of caffeinated jitter looming over my head and the need to take a nap or go to bed early this evening.  However, I'm still amazed at the power of caffeine.