I have to stop going to bed so early............
Chunks of rocks believed to be the remains of a meteor that lit up the Midwestern sky as it exploded rained down across the southern suburbs early this [Thursday] morning, damaging homes and other buildings but injuring no one.

The meteor streaked across the sky about midnight before apparently blowing up with a bright flash and a thundering boom. About 100 fragments ranging in size from small stones to softball-size chunks were recovered from yards, driveways, streets and even the insides of houses in Park Forest, Matteson and Steger.

For the department of poor sleep hygiene: I fell asleep on the couch - after deciding not to go to a book discussion at church because I thought the children deserved a maternal presence for the evening. Someone woke me up about 10:30, so I could floss, brush and go to bed. To help lull myself back to sleep, I watched Rosemary’s Baby on Bravo. I don’t know if it was the story line or Mia Farrow’s Vidal Sassoon haircut, but I didn’t sleep very well. And a splendiferous meteor comes streaking through town, but I miss it. There is some sort of lesson here, but I’m not quite sure what it is. I can look out the window before I pop into bed every night for the rest of my life and most likely never see a meteor come crashing into the ‘burbs.