Friday, March 25, 2011
Sleep and the Single Girl...
Hola, blog readers! How have you been in my absence? Good? Glad to hear it.
So it's no secret that I have sleeping problems. The kind where my days and my nights get mixed up and inevitably, I will be up most of the night and down most of the day and then I'll have something that I have to do during the day but still be up all night and then... well... then you really want to clear my path like a kid who just ate a pot of baked beans.
I have been told by people who love me despite my bitch tendencies that even they don't want to know me when I get on a no sleep kick. Hell I don't want to know me. My kids, well, my kids run from me. Except Livy. Livy hugs me. Continuously. As if all the hugs in the world are going to banish bitch mommy. They don't but I try really hard to pretend that they do.
So I was in Wal-Mart the other night and I decided it was time to replinish my drugs. And by drugs I mean Chocolate, soda, Bayer Back and Body, Advil Migraine, and sleeping pills. You know the basic stuff that makes me the loveable Dette that you all know and love
Shut up. I can hear you laughing, I just want you to know that.
My mom was as usual not happy that I needed yet more sleeping pills. No one wants to see their daughter maybe addicted to sleeping pills. That scenario NEVER turns out well. I'm either hooked and can't sleep without them, or I tell myself it's time to come off them so I don't take them, and I don't sleep and I pretty much scare, alienate, and piss off everyone not necessarily in that order.
I picked up Unisom because as I figure it, you can't get addicted to sleeping pills if you keep changing your brand. OF COURSE I KNOW THAT'S A HUGE LOAD OF BULLSHIT, THERE'S REALLY NO NEED TO POINT THAT OUT. But anyway, I notice that the box says something about Melatonin. So naturally my brain clicked to what is this melatonin? Is this the stuff that makes you sleep? IF this is the stuff that makes you sleep, then can I get it pure? DO I have to take this filler crap?
I asked the pharmacist. He said that they sold Melatonin and that I didn't need a prescription. Yay!
Well, no not yay. In order to get the dose that they put in sleeping pills I kinda have to take four. So not happening. BUt I bought the stuff anyway and have been taking two a night for a week now and guess what???
It's daytime outside and I'M NOT ASLEEP!!! I don't even have a desire to crawl back into bed!!! I sleep most of the night meaning I go to bed between eleven and one and when I wake up at six fifty, I'm not tired anymore.
I have so much freaking energy it's amazing! Yesterday I put together two bookcases. The day before that I did a desk hutch thing. Today I am tackling laundry and I might even get to do my own clothes!
Keep in mind I am not saying that the pills are giving me energy. I know that they aren't just the thrill of having no desire to crawl back into bed until a less heinous time of morning, like, oh say, noon arrives is giving me a boost.
I have even started cooking again and not feeding my kids that heat and eat shit I do when I get really funky.
Night before last I rotisseried a pork roast that between my kids and I is gone. The day before that I think it was chicken and last night... OMG!!! I bought a slow cooker. Let me tell you, if you don't have one, freaking get one! I put a pot roast in with strips of bell peppers, whole new potatoes and seasoning at sevn thirty yesterday morning and by last night.....
Insert Homer simpson like drool here.
About an our before serving I put two cans of french cut green beans in and stirred it up and then made white rice and ladled the beef stew-ish mix on top of it. Two one pound bags of rice later, I had a happy and full household. Even Livy cleaned her plate. That right there is an accomplishment that it so awesome it speaks in tones only dogs can hear.
So okay, Grey's anatomy is on on the big TV. The one I rarely get to watch so I'm going to go!
Terminally Single and Blogging is bouncy today!
Stay Chilly Bloggies!
So it's no secret that I have sleeping problems. The kind where my days and my nights get mixed up and inevitably, I will be up most of the night and down most of the day and then I'll have something that I have to do during the day but still be up all night and then... well... then you really want to clear my path like a kid who just ate a pot of baked beans.
I have been told by people who love me despite my bitch tendencies that even they don't want to know me when I get on a no sleep kick. Hell I don't want to know me. My kids, well, my kids run from me. Except Livy. Livy hugs me. Continuously. As if all the hugs in the world are going to banish bitch mommy. They don't but I try really hard to pretend that they do.
So I was in Wal-Mart the other night and I decided it was time to replinish my drugs. And by drugs I mean Chocolate, soda, Bayer Back and Body, Advil Migraine, and sleeping pills. You know the basic stuff that makes me the loveable Dette that you all know and love
Shut up. I can hear you laughing, I just want you to know that.
My mom was as usual not happy that I needed yet more sleeping pills. No one wants to see their daughter maybe addicted to sleeping pills. That scenario NEVER turns out well. I'm either hooked and can't sleep without them, or I tell myself it's time to come off them so I don't take them, and I don't sleep and I pretty much scare, alienate, and piss off everyone not necessarily in that order.
I picked up Unisom because as I figure it, you can't get addicted to sleeping pills if you keep changing your brand. OF COURSE I KNOW THAT'S A HUGE LOAD OF BULLSHIT, THERE'S REALLY NO NEED TO POINT THAT OUT. But anyway, I notice that the box says something about Melatonin. So naturally my brain clicked to what is this melatonin? Is this the stuff that makes you sleep? IF this is the stuff that makes you sleep, then can I get it pure? DO I have to take this filler crap?
I asked the pharmacist. He said that they sold Melatonin and that I didn't need a prescription. Yay!
Well, no not yay. In order to get the dose that they put in sleeping pills I kinda have to take four. So not happening. BUt I bought the stuff anyway and have been taking two a night for a week now and guess what???
It's daytime outside and I'M NOT ASLEEP!!! I don't even have a desire to crawl back into bed!!! I sleep most of the night meaning I go to bed between eleven and one and when I wake up at six fifty, I'm not tired anymore.
I have so much freaking energy it's amazing! Yesterday I put together two bookcases. The day before that I did a desk hutch thing. Today I am tackling laundry and I might even get to do my own clothes!
Keep in mind I am not saying that the pills are giving me energy. I know that they aren't just the thrill of having no desire to crawl back into bed until a less heinous time of morning, like, oh say, noon arrives is giving me a boost.
I have even started cooking again and not feeding my kids that heat and eat shit I do when I get really funky.
Night before last I rotisseried a pork roast that between my kids and I is gone. The day before that I think it was chicken and last night... OMG!!! I bought a slow cooker. Let me tell you, if you don't have one, freaking get one! I put a pot roast in with strips of bell peppers, whole new potatoes and seasoning at sevn thirty yesterday morning and by last night.....
Insert Homer simpson like drool here.
About an our before serving I put two cans of french cut green beans in and stirred it up and then made white rice and ladled the beef stew-ish mix on top of it. Two one pound bags of rice later, I had a happy and full household. Even Livy cleaned her plate. That right there is an accomplishment that it so awesome it speaks in tones only dogs can hear.
So okay, Grey's anatomy is on on the big TV. The one I rarely get to watch so I'm going to go!
Terminally Single and Blogging is bouncy today!
Stay Chilly Bloggies!
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