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The Insomnia Thread

My sleep time starts at around 9:30pm, that's when I go to bed, after my 8 & 10 year old girls go to bed. I then wake up around 2:30am, toss around for a half hour or until I realize I may wake up the wife(she turns into a pitbull if she doesn't get a full nights sleep), then around 3am, I get up and check on the girls to make sure they have blankets on and are sleeping soundly. Next I migrate to the kitchen to fill my water glass, I look outside to make sure the garage door is still closed and has wasn't left open for any reason. I check my fish (guppies) then look in on my birds(finches). I then head down the stairs to the lower level of the house and check my pepper plants, fuss over them for awhile.

I attempted to file my income tax return (tonight is our deadline) and found I can file online until 4am, 10 minutes to go.

So then I head to the rumpus room to check that the girls had turned their TV off and Wii, looked out the window to check if everything is in order, ah, the hookers next store have a friend visiting, another strange car in the neighbourhood. Actually they are college students, all girls about 6 of them 22'ish, living in the house next store, they come and go all night long, this is about the time a couple of them start wandering in from partying, cars pulling up, car doors thumping, yelling and screaming about who knows what. Different boys wandering in with them. 8 to 10 cars line the street, one will leave in the next hour, another will show up, by noon all the cars will be gone and it will all start over again at 5pm when they all return home.

For me.......... I will then do some stretching, perhaps some light exercises on my universal weight machine. Tonight I will practise Gojushiho Sho an advanced japanese blackbelt kata, I am starting to forget some of the patterns that I was taught years ago, thank goodness for youtube. Once completed, I head back to the computer room, where my pepper plants reside, I may log into the Coast to Coast show and listen online to hear the topic of the evening(another conspiracy theory-James from Tulsa just called in about a Bigfoot experience), while that is on in the background, I will check the Hot Pepper forum for any new posts, I normally don't log in, just browse. Perhaps, I will look for job online or send out some emails to a few friends.

In about an hour I will head back upstairs, refresh my glass of water, recycle the previously consumed water, look in on the girls, check where the dog is sleeping so I don't step on her whilst making my way back to bed, I will lay there in meditation revisiting what I did during the day, perhaps reflect on some people I have known in the past. Perhaps I will fall back to sleep but not likely.

The wife's alarm will sound at 5:30am, she will get up and turn it off, then get back into bed ?????? does this every weekday ?????, my alarm will sound at 7am, I will then get up to start my day, put on a fresh pot of coffee, let Sparky out for a pee, turn the TV on to local news, check the weather for the day. Sip my freshly brewed coffee until 7:30am, when I wake the girls up and ready them for school. Make their school lunches, get breakfast ready for them, make sure all teeth are brushed, hair is combed, then off to school we walk. I come back home 9ish, have a glass of orange juice and pet Sparky, I turn on my local talk radio and my day begins...... what will I due today?

Oh look, its 4:25am, I can now log in and send off my tax return.

Good night.
 
Ahhhhh man, reading your long post did not induce any sleep after I got up an hour back at 2.45 am eastern .

I am seriously thinking of starting blogging again but TPBM threatens me to file a divorce suit at almost 39 years of marriage. LOL
WAIGTD?

I think me and pi would be soon posting at this hour.

Ok, lemme post some pics of Incredible India.

NJA
 
Its ok.
Just owling around to make my presence felt again today .
Got up at 3 am. Have 4 guests staying overnight and fifth is my son who also landed y/day afternoon.
So sleeping on travel beds in common area on the floor with son's snores keeping me company.
HELLO WORLD.!! HOW ARE YOU ALL?
Where are you Pi?
Good Morning. !!
 
This is bugging me. I went to bed about an hour ago and probably slept 20 mins.

What can I do to get to sleep w/o pills or booze?
 
I'm capable of having zero minutes worth of sleep for a few days at a time, my norm can be maybe 2-3 hours at the start then 1-2 hours after 3am.

I find eating dinner really early in the afternoon helps a huge amount. Also a small bit of protien such as a banana and a glass of milk ( has a natural sedative in it). Since starting this routine I've been having a good nights sleep with only the occasional sleepless night.

I think the basic idea is the body can't put enough energy into going to sleep if its also trying to cope with a full stomach and the other side of it is that the body still needs some extra energy (like the banana) to kick start the recovery mode.
 
Good morning Pi,
I went to bed at 10 pm and got up at 1 am.
Just took a pill now and thought to check if other owls are up and about.

NJA
 
I'm back. I logged off almost 1 1/2 hours ago. I guess I could just watch tv. I don't care if I fall asleep with the tv on.
 
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