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Getting Hip in the Bedroom

Well I have figured out some of how to help my sleeping around issues. First off, do my best to stay in one place to sleep. Have done that for two nights now. Problem? Well one night Dear Hubby slept in another bed. Yeah we both was able to get some sleep but that is not the answer to the problem at all.

I do know that I have figured out that if I can sleep on an incline that I will rest better. Some acid issues? Yes. But also I tend to breath easier and rest better. I know we could put blocks under the top of our bed but I am not too sure of that. And Dear Hubby loves to hog pillows so doing the 100 of pillows propping up is not really the answer. Instead I am going for the sex toy solution. Really! Hey I said I have been sleeping around.....well the house here....only!

I ordered the Liberator Hipster to help me out. Now I am sure it is great for the 'intended' uses. But I also know that it is firm and wide. It can handle my weight thus providing me support. I love the curved design and imagine that it will work well to help me to sleep at an incline while being on my side. (Just never been one who can sleep on my back.) I found mine at EdenFantasys and went for the bold hot red color. Tan would have matched the bedding better but it was sold out. So guess I will let my inner wild woman come out in the color instead.

This should be arriving next week sometime. So I will let you know how it works out. Hey for sleeping purposes. Any thing else is.....well.....private! But? I do want to thank EdenFantasys for helping me out. They have sponsored many of my post. With the coupons I received from them I have ordered this for me now. Pretty sweet! And this post too will be sponsored by EdenFantasys. They are kind to give me a chance to order items from them in return for doing a post. This is the first item I have ordered thus far. We shall see how it all works out.

Sleeping Around

Yes I am married and I am sleeping around. All around and all night long. To tell you the truth it is quite exhausting.

We have (as many of you know) chosen not to run the a/c in our Texas home. Quick run down. We are not crazy we are poor. 97 year old house without insulation. Without running a/c electric bills are around $100 a month. With a/c running $600 a month. Pretty easy to see decision making process.

So instead our home is open. The doors and the windows. Plenty of fans running too. But in daily 100+ temperatures it is hot all day and most of the night too. Many a night is in the high 90's at midnight still. But we are resourceful poor folk. Old houses have those big ol front porches and ours is no different. With small walls and pillars and lattice work for the plants to climb. So we put a full size bed out there to sleep on. Hey it goes with the table that seats 8 for dinners and the small section of rocking chairs and regular chairs to relax in. Big ol front porch....remember!

But as I was saying, we have a bed there too. Plenty of fresh air and still privacy with the lattice work and plants hanging around. Now this is all nice if I could just sleep. No, not me. Have to get up and down to run to the ladies room. And disturb my Dear Hubby and the passel of dogs that keep watch over us. Let me just give you a run down of how well I slept around last night.

First off I went to bed before Dear Hubby. So I was sleeping next to the dining room windows on the porch. All fine. We actually had a lil rain storm and it was cooled off. During the early night nature called. So I pushed my pillows off the top of the bed and climbed out successfully not waking up Dear Hubby but alerting all the dogs. Plodded off to the lil ladies room. Well not wanting to bother the sleeping man I then moved to the rocking chair on the front porch with my feet propped up in another lil chair. Sorta like a red-neck recliner. That worked for a bit but had an ache in my neck. Off I went back to the porch bed. Climbed in, retrieved my pillows and off I went....out like a light. Good so far.

Now of course nature calls me all night long so it was not long before I was back awake and needing to do the same thing once again. Okay I have this routine down. Knock off pillows, wake dogs, climb out.....wait no no no....no climbing out. Instead massive leg cramps. Wake Dear Hubby as I squirm in pain. Finally he is now out of bed and I am limping to the lil ladies room. (I am the poster child for the Vesicare Pipe Lady commercials. Always gotta go!) Seriously considering sleeping right in that lil room too! But no. I try again not to wake up the sleeping man and return to the red-neck recliner. Crick in neck so I move to couch in the living room. That room has finally cooled off so it should work out. Dogs bark and cats play with my feet. But sleep finally overtakes me once again.

Then Dear Hubby wakes and stumbles to the bedroom. Falling across the bed there for a morning nap before work. I try to join him as it seems a good idea to nap when sleep has not been so restful. But no....no room. But! The porch bed is empty. Off I scurry for my morning nap there. Ten minutes later Granny M wakes and comes to the porch to wake me. Wow how nice of her. Now I get to start the day.

Have a plan for tonight though. Prop open the dining room windows and when I have to get out of bed I can climb through into the house to run to the lil ladies room. Gosh something wrong with sneaking in to my home at night. Must be getting old. As a teen we were trying to sneak out. Someone help me.....I know I have lost my mind.

To Sleep or Not to Sleep

Image by bornazombie via FlickrOkay, I am going to decide that sleep is just over rated. Who is with me on this one? I am tired of trying to get good sleep dang it. Decided it would be best to bite the bullet and take my sleep meds every night. This way I would rest well. And that would proceed to better days with less depression. NO!

I took my meds last night. Then had nightmare after nightmare all night long. Screaming and crying in my sleep. And unable to really wake up. It was horrid. From arguments with my mother, to my husband being in the hospital, to looking for Princess Emma who was lost and ending up with my father shooting himself. My throat is sore, my eyes puffy, I am physically exhausted and emotionally strained.

So what is the answer? I am up for suggestions at this point. HELP ME!

Sleep, Beautiful Sleep

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Sleep, I wanna SLEEP!
Yes, I am back into insomniac stage.
Lil or not enough sleep for me is back here again.
6 hrs on Sunday nite (waking at 4am) was not enough.
Monday nite we took another hour off (woke at 3am).
So I thought I would push it and stay up til 130am Tuesday nite so I would sleep through. Yeah did that, woke at 6 am (again 4 1/2 hrs of sleep).
Wed nite (last nite that is) I woke up at 130 am!!!! 4 hours of sleep was all I got.
I am so tired and want to just sleep for 8 hrs without stop.
Is that too much to ask for?

Another Sign I'm Old

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Well I asked if I was old.
And here another flaw in the age thing.

You know that my Dear Hubby has two jobs.
And he works 7 days a week.
And most every single evening too.

And my mom (Granny M) is an active senior.
So she is out again with friends playing cards.
She may be in before 2 a.m.

Then there is College Girl.
Who is at school of course.

So that leaves me home,
Alone,
Again.
Without anything to do.

So it is 8:30 p.m. and I am going off to bed already.
No wonder I wake any where from 3 a.m. to 5 a.m.

SO the OLD lady is off to bed.

I Just Want to. . .

Not be bounced out of bed at 3 am

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or 4 am
or 5 am
or anytime early....

I am getting really tired,
and sleepy,
and fussy about it all!

Nuts or Sleep Deprived?

Ok, the not sleeping thing is getting really old!

Image by Getty Images via Daylife

But to take a nap from 8 pm to 9 pm does not count as a nights sleep.
I am tired..exhuahsted..and want to sleep the sleep of the dead!

I am also so tired I can not tell if I am hungry or not?

To tired to cook, go get something or just chew on my arm.

This has to stop!

Too Early To. . . Care

Good Morning
and
Happy Saturday!

Well It is 6 am and I am up for no apparent reason. I know it is the normal time I am up during the week. But it would be nice to sleep in just once in a while. All is quiet back in my Mom's area so I will start with the hammer just yet.

Today I am getting to
Rip up Tack Board and Lay Tile
Whoop----eeeee!
N O T

I would much rather doing this instead.
This is my long lanky adorable CG contemplating life up in a tree.
Actually this is her not showing fear up in a tree.
She is terrified of any heights.
But doesn't this look like the place to be.
Warm, green and surrounded by nature.

Middle of the night and awake again.

Boy was today a long day! Took a 6 hour round trip drive to visit my niece. Yeah a round of "awwwws". Ok, now the truth. She is in prison. So it was over 3 hours to get there, get lost finding it of course, 1 hour of wait time for her to be available, 2 hour visit and then another 3+ hours to drive home. Long, long day for me and my mom. And I do not like car trips anymore. Driving makes me tired, my eyes hurt, my back to ache and my knees to seize up. But I did love seeing my niece. Am glad I was able to do that and that she knows she has family who loves her. It must be awful to have to live by others rules all the time. My daughter did get "most" of the garage sale things put away. Of course there are boxes of books still on the front porch. And storage is still open and boxes not all put up there either. Which will be fun to see since it is now raining at 3:00 a.m. One table is still in the yard and I can't move it alone so it is getting soaked. Pray it does not do any bad damage. I had a wet dog wake me from sleep. How she got outside I am not sure? But she was able to open the front door to come in. Old houses have lousy door latches. So got up, closed and locked the front door. Well now I am awake so might as well clean. Right? Started a load of laundry that my daughter said she would do. Ha Ha, she gets sidetracked so easy. ADD! Picked up the living room, did dishes, put out meds for hubby. That is a weekly chore in itself since he takes over 25 pills a day. Two more months and he will be done with the interferon treatments. YEAH! I was going to clean the porch off today and paint it. But not sure now that it is raining. Will see how that goes. Guess I will surf the web for a bit and then see if I can lay down on the couch and read til sleep hits again. Might get another 2 hours of rest sometime tonight. Insomnia, my constant companion, how I hate thee!

Who sleeps?

I am becoming a fan of not sleeping. It seems that I wake each night while the rest of my family is resting. I know I am tired but still wide awake. Of course I do the customary turn and flip from side to side for awhile. But eventually I get up, steal my robe and socks from their hidey hole and wonder out of the bedroom. My entourage of pets follow to make sure I can find my way from one room to the next. I hate being awake half the night if not more. And it does make me so tired later in the day. I actually of fantasies of just having time to sleep. To nap or just rest my eyes for a bit each day. I do not wish to wake my family so I try to be quiet. Often I end up here on this machine letting it steal the time from me. Or I may do household chores that no one else ever wants to do. I catch up on letters, bills and emails. I doctor my foot that is always seeming to be on a verge of a breakout, in the middle of a breakout or healing from a breakout. Yeah, weird thing I have going on there.
But I am wondering how others who have trouble sleeping solve this problem? Do they ever get to sleep enough? Or have they happily embraced this as "their" time? Any ideas? Suggestions? Or are you just as tired as I am?

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