You guys.  I have seriously never been so tired in my entire life.  We were out of town for a wedding and were actually away for most of last week, and it happened to coincide with the worst week of sleep ever.  In the past seven days, I’ve gotten five hours of (non-continuous) sleep a grand total of one time, and that was the good night.  Several nights, I’ve gotten ninety minutes.  Most of it has been due to a major sleep regression by Peanut – of the same variety (all night tantrums FTW!) that had me feverishly checking toddler sleep manuals out of the library a few months ago.  And then last night, Nugget had me up until 1:45 a.m., and then from 3:30 to 4:30, and then again at 5:30.  It’s been brutal – worse than the newborn days, because I don’t have any of that brand-new baby adrenaline to call upon, not to mention the fact that I haven’t had a full night of sleep in over four months.  Nerves are seriously frayed.

Anysnores, all this is to say that I got next to no reading done over the weekend.  I made a tiny bit of progress on The Fellowship, but it’s a really complex (interesting!) read, and I don’t have the brain power for it right now.  It’s due back at the library tomorrow and I still have 300 pages to go, so I think I’m going to return it and hop on the queue again – in hopes that when I get it back I’ll be better rested and more able to focus.  Paying the $0.25 to reserve it again will be a lot cheaper than incurring late fees.

I also started The Millionaire and the Bard over the weekend and got about 75 pages in.  (Seriously, why do I keep picking up these nonfiction books when I’m a sleep-deprived zombie?  At least it’s an easier read than The Fellowship.)  That one’s due back and non-returnable too, but I think I’m going to make a push to finish it during lap naps today and tomorrow (if I don’t zonk out myself, which is the more likely scenario) and hope that I can avoid an overdue charge.  And then it’ll be back to Doomsday Book (exciting fiction, but the print is tiny, which is why I keep avoiding it) and some young adult titles that I hope will hold my attention a little better until I get a decent night’s sleep again.  I’m particularly excited about Brown Girl Dreaming, so that one will probably be next.

So.  I’m going to go ahead and hit publish, although I have no idea if this post actually makes any sense.  It does to me, but when I reached for my tea mug this morning I mumbled the words “I wanna wear this one,” so there’s a good chance I actually wrote this whole thing in symbols instead of letters, and I’d have no idea.

How was your weekend?  What are you reading this week?