Ugh. No sleep.

[liz_marcs]

So.

Went to bed around 11:30ish last night and then stared and stared and stared at the clock.

Pulled out Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Garib to read in an effort to fall asleep.

Mistake. Just got pissed off.

Meanwhile, I've got herbal sleep aids, Nytequill, and all other fine things available to help me fall asleep.

Did I use them?

No. It's like I forgot I had them.

Gave up around 5 a.m. and called 'rents (who were supposed to do lunch today) and began whining about utter lack of sleep.

Plans put on hold to see if I'd actually get some sleep and told to call them at 11 a.m.

I finally crashed at 8:30 a.m. or so...and woke up a half-hour a go when 'rents called to see how I was feeling.

Like shit, thanks.

Anyway, everything hurts and I can't concentrate. Sleeping all day is kinda out of the question because, honestly? Don't need to be up all night tonight either.

So, in short order, will crawl over of pizzaria one block away to grab a sub (fresh air and too shaky to trust myself near an open flame), crawl back home, install self on couch with book, Bend It Like Beckham, and Dead Like Me S1 discs from Netflix.

I figure I'll maybe nap two hours this afternoon (wait, is it almost 1 p.m. already?) and then crawl into bed for the night somewhere between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Yeah, so. Sleepless night sucks. Have no freakin' clue what happened there.

Comments

[4thdixiechick.livejournal.com]

Gah!

I hate insomnia. I recommend taking Benedryl, or similar, for conking out. (And turn off the ringer on the phone - darn those well-intentioned parents!)

Hope you feel better - I think the fresh air & food will do wonders for you, not to mention the DVDs.

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

Well, no. It's the other way around. I was supposed to call them and they got worried when I didn't.

Actually, I'm glad they woke me up, because sleeping all day would be a bad idea right now.

[4thdixiechick.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'm glad they woke me up, because sleeping all day would be a bad idea right now.

Yeah - it's all the drawbacks of jetlag, without actually going anywhere!

[kurukami.livejournal.com]

:( Sorry to hear about your insomnia. I've only had that happen to me a few times, and it always leaves me feeling like roadkill the next day.

[mochi-tsuki.livejournal.com]

Insomnia sucks. I've had it quite a few times, thankfully not lately.

BTW, you called your parents at 5 am when you weren't actually bleeding and they didn't threaten you with gross bodily injury? I'm not sure how to wrap my brain around that one. Do your parents normally wake at freakishly early hours or have you been so crushingly negligent that they are pathetically grateful for any form of contact regardless the hour? Or, you know, possibly some more benign explanation. Inquiring parents want to know.

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

Insomnia sucks. A couple of years ago, due to all the hormonal swings of menopause, I rarely slept for more than an hour or two at a time. Nothing much helped and I was a very, very cranky person for about a year. Luckily it stopped and I recovered my sanity. Now I still have frequent bouts of insomnia,(shift work screws up my sleep patterns) and have learned that the best way to deal with it is to get up (don't lie in bed tossing and turning, you'll just get mad), make myself a cup of herbal tea, and read something that won't raise my blood pressure for half an hour or so, then go back to bed. Generally, that works.
Hope you get some rest today. Fresh air is good, too!