Category Archives: sleepless in Vancouver

argh. We returned from High Sierra on Monday night and I took Tuesday off and did a recovery day with lots of laundry duty and other chores like buying food. Tuesday night I slept poorly due to some sort of sinus type thing which felt like the inside of my skull was being polished with a putty knife. I figured it had something to do with dancing around in the dust all weekend. I felt crappy on Weds, my sinus ache started to feel like a cold — blowing my nose every five minutes, generally fuzzy head. I slept poorly again Weds night. At HSMF I bought this frozen fruit on a stick, dipped in chocolate and peanuts treat that was so fantastic, I couldn’t stop talking about it so we invented our own home version (Bob did) using Magic Shell and I thought that might be contributing to my sleep problem. Dragged my ass around all day today. Didn’t eat any Magic Shell, sugar or take anything that had a ghost of a chance of keeping me awake and had a refreshing adult beverage which I thought would help. No luck. I’m not even sleepy. I tried all my usual insomnia tricks but I keep coughing and having to sit up and blow my nose. I’ve already taken two calms forte — three is my record. And that’s not making a dent in my sleeplessness. I wouldn’t mind being sleepless if I didn’t know that it means tomorrow I’ll be dragging ass and probably cranky and incapable of getting anything done. And we have a busy day planned. Breakfast with Ken and Joyce, new dishwasher buying, mailing off packages and taking foam peanuts to the mailbox store. And that’s just for starters.

What is my body’s problem? It can’t seem to go more than 1 or 2 nights of normal sleep without having a sleep deprived night. Is it getting back at me for never having children — is my sleep repository too full? Last night was terrible. I woke up at 11:30p and didn’t get to sleep until around 3:30a. I didn’t eat or drink anything unusual yesterday nor did I consume unusual quantities of anything. I didn’t watch too much TV or do anything agitating before bed. I was active during the day. I exercised, worked in the yard. I didn’t take a nap. What happened? I wouldn’t mind insomnia half as much if I didn’t feel like death warmed over the next day. I have a lot of work to do today and it’s stuff that needs sharp focus. On the bright side, I read another 100 pages of Middlesex.