h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'd expect you might have a very slight limp for awhile, but that'll very likely wear off the more you walk/use the ankle.

I'm awake, but starting to go into doze mode. (7pm here) Which is fine i reckon, woke at around 8am this morning, but deliberately went back to sleep (depressed, mainly 'cos a certain someone has been messing me around & final straw was he persuaded me to part with my last ciggies...so unless/until he arrived with replacements, daily life is rather difficult!)

But got up around 11 & went & persuaded Pharmacy to give me the "real" B Vits on credit: apparently i should be on 1000mg of B1 & 140mg of B6 with this condition, which is rather different to 0% except from the odd avocado or potato! Also ate baked spud, Marmite on toast, shitaake paté on toast today; which for me is a lot of food!

I am snotty, sneezy & coughing when i get up, for around an hour. i use ventolin now only in the morning, since stopping the beta blocker heart meds. Maybe it's the cat, more likely it's smoking/general allergy stuff. So, since none of us is likely to give up our beloved i suppose we just have to live with it. I actually start coughing when i think about trying to sleep, so maybe it's stress of that also!

JEllen, do you get scared to go to sleep; ie, nightmares, or that horrible thing when you're just dozing off & suddenly jolt awake, feeling like you are falling out of the tree? I get that, always have & that's quite possibly connected with the sleep disorder. I certainly find it much easier sleeping in the day than at night; not afraid of the dark as such, but it disorientates me. It helps to have a torch by your bedside, so if it's dark, you can at least find out what time it is or your way to the loo or whatever!

You may find it becomes easier once you've adjusted to your new place, the old neighbourhood seemed distinctly unpleasant & enough to keep anyone on edge! If you're worried about security issues, try this:

(Obviously after you've locked doors etc!)

...I have a nifty little string of cowbells, which loops from the spyhole in the door to a pin on the wall, no way could anybody get past that who doesn't know it's there & even if they did, the mere action of opening the door sets it off & i would be up instantly with finger poised on mobile phone for pre-set alarm call to the cops!

Anyway, hope you sleep better tonight.

zdt

Gosh, I don't even lock the (front) door to my apartment when I'm home, awake or otherwise.

I got tired early last night, and went to bed around 8. That would've been almost *too much* sleep, but fortunately Herman woke me up for an hour at around 1:30 so he could hack up a couple of hairballs.

Hope you don't nap too long and then wind up wide awake late tonight, JEllen.

>>Ed just gave me an *eh oh, lets go* ear worm...

But that's a *good* earworm!

Tsk, tsk, can't Herman hack up his hairballs by himself? There are probably training courses in this sort of stuff "How to raise your pussy to be a self-sufficient vomiter" (Failures will be shaved)

Thankfully, Yoda doesn't puke much, but when she does, just before the act, she makes this weird noise, sounds like she is trying to say "Hello" in a human voice, very alarming for anyone who hasn't heard it before! "Jeez, your squeaks English?"

I've bought her some new cat grass & she has left a little heap of "thank you Mama" on her lower balcony.

Gabba Gabba hay!

zdt

Actually...maybe JEllen should be playing I wanna be sedated...

I'm up. Ow, yow, man I wish I could go right back to sleep!

Terri, I rather like going to sleep at night, even when I have insomnia, because it gives me time to daydream.

I occasionally have that falling sensation you mention, but it is very rare.

alert:
That falling sensation is caused by the veins de-toning.

(I know these things because at university I was taught by a leading sleep researcher.)

Ah, cool!

Well; since she doesn't seem to have eyes right now, hopefully she is in the Land of Noddy (Hold'er?)...& if she wakes up, we can create a whole heap of backlog to bore her back to bed with.

I've got a Bloody rendezvous at Bloody 11.30 am with my Social W**ker, so am fretting about sleeping & waking stuff... I've turned my phone off & am praying that nobody rings my doorbell, or the social w**ker may get exchanged for a Probation Officer!

How was your curry Ed?

zdt

I DO have *eyes*. I'm here, I'm here.

Madeleine moment:
In my answer to one of his exam questions, I was able to slip in the phrase 'penile or clitoral erection'. Happens in Stage II sleep, you see.

In fact...a standard diagnostic test for impotence is to get a man to stick a strip of postage stamps around his penis when retiring. If in the morning he finds them separated at the perforations, he's capable of nocturnal erection.

So now you know!

The curry was very nice, thank you. Even if I couldn't find any star anise, which would have gone nicely.

I feel like the Whos in Horton Hears a Who.

Dang, everyone's gone. How am I supposed to stay awake?

*sleepy* *sleepy* *sleepy* *sleepy*

*poke, poke* Hey JEllen, what's new?

Hi Jazz! I watched the Oscars this week. I may have to go see No Country for Old Men.

I had considered the movie...might reconsider. Just saw the(real) )dentist.