Well this morning I had a nice little shock.
I couldn't sleep.
Stop laughing.
This is a serious problem!!
Edited: I had no pictures or links or songs to put up so I put this picture up. I just think it's pretty. Now I need to know why a naked woman is riding through a town on a gorgeous horse. It's labelled Lady Godiva?
I had taken my normal sleep aid and a bonus and was all prepared for my voyage into the deep when the next thing I know I have been laying awake for an hour! My mind kept on racing through the things that needed to be done. I wanted to get up and paint but I knew that would be bad news.
Words of wisdom from Cindy - Never do anything that is supposed to be done 'well' when sleepy. Things start to go wonky.
Then I was packing in my mind - which I admit I have been doing since the day I realized we were moving.
Oh and the best part? There is this commercial for some diet soda that I can't remember the name of (dang, I can't find a clip and I have been looking for an hour. Funny how I know the song and everything that happens but I have no clue what soda it is!) where the guy holds the can to his mouth the entire time, even while swimming and there is a song with the words 'You've gotta hold it, just a little bit longer and a hold it'. Because I think the commercial is funny and I like the beat of the song, the damn song has been playing in my brain for the last 24 hours!!
So I got up and took another bonus pill which should have done the trick but no. I was up until noon yesterday! Ah, bonus pills are anxiety pills which apparently can be taken to help with sleeping also. Since my mind wouldn't shut down I knew it was alright because that is the sign of an anxious brain. All the same, I figure I will be having natural anxiety for the next few months and just need to get over myself. Looks like sleep will be considered non-essential.
Damn.
Ahhhh, what the hell, let's find the silver lining.
Today is our anniversary and I will be up for most of the daylight hours sooooo, that's good. We'll go to breakfast which is really my favourite meal of the day soooo, that's good. I finished the painting in the back room, sooooo, that's good.
That's all I got. Oh, I will now empty my system of all sleepy drugs sooooo, that's good. I mean, if they aren't working then you have to stop taking them so they'll work again.
Let's just hope C-Rex doesn't find her way to the surface today.
That, would not be silver in the lining.
5 comments:
I took some faux-Tylenol PM last night, and I am so woozy today. So I feel your pain, sorta.
Hey, did you get those books yet?
Lady Godiva is an old English or Anglo Saxon legend. I think. I'm assuming she wasn't real. The version I've heard was that she wanted her lordly husband to lighten the tax on his citizens of Coventry and kept nagging him. To shut her up, he said he'd do so if she rode naked through town. So she did, covered only by her long hair. The townspeople were supposed to stay inside with the windows shut and not look as she rode through, and everyone did except one fellow (I've heard that he was a cobbler or a tailor in alternate tales), known thereafter as Peeping Tom.
I hate Tylenol PM with a passion. Makes me feel like crap in the morning. Ambien I wake up feeling fine. Of course that news things about people driving in their sleep has completely freaked my mother the fuck out.
At the time I had over 75 pill (LONG story) over a year old and hadn't taken the stuff in over a year. But oh no... that didn't shut her up.
Anywho... I have a wicked tolerance level due to the fact dr's have play spin the pill so many times with me over the last ten years.
So either A. you need to stop taking it for a week or two B. see your dr and change to something else and give your body a break from what it is taking now C. if your dose is low, see your dr and see if he/she thinks it is a good thing to up the dose
I wouldn't mix any over the counter sleep meds with all the stuff you are taking now, but you could see about herbal stuff. Still a good idea to call your dr first. There is Valerian which is prolly mispelled and somethign that begins with a M they suggest for sleep.
With as stressed as I am sure you are, you may just need to go with the fact you are going to lose sleep.
If you can't go night night, get out of bed and pack (help with the stress if you are doing something you are stressed over getting done) or read a book, so you can tell us about it ;).
They say tossing and turning is the worst thing you can do. Sez the one who has no medical degree. So feel free to tell me to shut the fuck up ;).
Megan - I've only taken T PM a few times and after the first time they never worked again. It was like my brain adjusted fast ;) I haven't got the books yet but sometimes stuff gets stopped in customs. I'll keep an eye out this week.
jmc - I knew someone would know what it was about. Now if only I knew why they decided to name a chocolate after her - may have to Wiki but I need to get my blog hopping in!
Sybil - I love your suggestions!! Bob likes the calendar idea that will be put into place in the next house - Hey anything to C-rex from emerging ;)
I've been pretty liberal with the sleep meds lately - I've never taken more than one but I do take the anti-anxiety meds with them when they stop really working. So I know there is always a time when I have to stop taking the drug for a while. My Dr. swears that the sleep med I'm on is not addictive but I think it's my 'what if' brain that makes it my crutch. I mean it is real. I normally try to back off the meds slowly till I stop for a few nights but there is always that day where I am just wired and I have to be somewhere and I *have* to sleep. Then everything gets wonky again.
Luckily I have tons of things to do with my restless mind - packing is only one of many projects ;)
CindyS
wellll you know they said ambien wasn't addictive either
Now they say it is. Really anything can become a habit, at least I think, hell if you have a coke every morning and stop cold you can get a headache from withdrawl if you don't replace it with something else with caffeine.
My dr was fine with me taking it other meds, one that is a painkiller with a shit load of caffeine in it, so that seems counter productive ;). I suck so more often than not, I just don't sleep vs taking pills.
So hey, we know I am not addicted *g*.
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