1:14am; what's YOUR bedtime routine?
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- on computer till anywhere from 11 to 2. – Go upstairs, get out cereal & milk – Attempt to pour milk with two cats glaring at me and one trying to lick the lid – give in and get out three dishes & give milk to cats – eat cereal in peace – go upstairs; stumble around in dark trying to find light switch; trip over shoes on floor – Do evening ablutions – contacts, pills (I"m supposed to take them at *bedtime*), etc. – go to bathroom; brush cat while – um – seated – go to bedroom; do remaining ablutions – fight off tabby cat for space on bed – try to ignore other obese tabby cat purring like a mack truck and tapping me with her claws out, begging for a glob of vaseline – give in to cat and give her a glob of vaseline – remember that I forgot to do remaining meds; turn on light and get out of bed – get back in bed; fight off tabby cat who has claimed the middle – sing to tabby cat; pet tabby cat – get up to go to bathroom – get back in bed; fight off tabby cat who has claimed the middle – fit self in between two tabby cats – turn on TV/vcr; watch a little Highlander – go to sleep, finally ZeldaK — For more information about this service, send e-mail to:
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Random thought: isn’t it AMAZING how Zoloft can give you both insomnia and drowsiness??? grrr.
You get a *nod*nod*nod* and a *grrrr* from me on that…. I complain to friends that I’m tired, then later say I can sleep. They can’t make any sense of it… but then again, neither can I… -p- -and I was left to wander alone in this desolate land…. - peng(rms)TE16
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am……up again at 7:00 am……when I do finally go to sleep it is fitfull and not very satisfying. At about 11:00 am I am BACK in bed till about 1:00 pm…..at about 5:00 pm I am BACK in bed till about 8:00 pm. I can’t get away from this whacky cycle and like alot of you guys on here—–I am staring at this computer screen till my eyes bulge and actually GLOW red! (taking effexor—150 mg/daily) Ugh! Whatta life!
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Undress and crawl into bed about 10 pm. Read and (usually) drink a bottle of beer for a while until I start to doze off. Usually I leave my radio tuned to a classical music station. Usually I wake up about 5 am. Of course, some nights sleep won’t come and then I just read and hope I get sleepy. Sometimes I turn on TV. The knife sale on Home Shopping Network often puts me to sleep, for some reason. –
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leave the t.v. set on all night so it will wake me up in the morning. i also leave one light on
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i stare at the monitor or walls till my eyes bleeled, then i check in here to see if anyone in the world answered my post. then i go to sleep if no one is emailing me. finally, i have to check under my bed for monsters, then i go to sleep. panack The chinese government supports oppression, slavery, torture, sterilization & genocide. **BOYCOTT CHINA!** see how you can help to FREE TIBET! at HTTP://www.tibet.com ommanipadmehumommanipadmehum FREE TIBET! in Tibet even a child, would get nine years in a torturous prison, just for saying the words:"FREE TIBET!" so say it for those who can’t. Panack
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watch tv until eleven or so take meds brush teeth wash face (depending on energy level) close blinds change into sleep wear (nothing so official as pj’s) *log on try to check e-mail find that connection is faulty disconnect repeat from * n times log on check e-mail check asd get into bed open window prop feet in window sill to cool (ok i know it’s weird but my feet get really hot. my toes even turn red and feel hot to the touch. i think it’c cause my bp’s low and the blood pools down there. course when they aren’t hot they are freezing and purple. sigh. realize i forgot to turn off light get up and turn off light stumble to my bed in the dark get back in bed put feet back in windowsill turn on lamp look for book (on headboard? on shelf under headboard? under pillow? tangled in blankets? in bag across room?) eventually find book attempt to read shut eyes because too tired to read turn off light lie there find that am wide awake turn on light try to read feel tired again turn off light lie there wait mentally lists states then capitals in alphabetic order (it’s boring. if i’m lucky it bores me to sleep) count put purple toes under blankets close window wait eventually fall asleep (sometime after one) "It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head." Sally Kempton
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Drink last beer (if there is one). Get coffee ready for morning. Yell at the kids to "shut the hell up and go to sleep!" Turn off the goddamn computer. Turn off the goddam tv. Turn off all the goddamn lights everybody left on. Turn down all the goddamn thermmostats everybody left up. Yell at the kids to "shut the hell up and go to sleep!" again. Brush my teeth. Take a piss. Get a glass of water. Set the alarm. Hit the hay. Yell at the kids to "shut the hell up and go to sleep!" again. Turn off lamp. Yell at the kids to "shut the hell up and go to sleep!" again. Tat’s about it. Aren’t you glad you asked? Simply Steve Don’t ask me – I just work here. nielsens(at)ccmail(dot)orst(dot)edu
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So… what’s your bedtime routine? I read for at least 30 minutes before I turn out the light. I almost always listen to some kind of instrumental music, playing it repeatedly through the night if possible.
work on computer till I can’t see straight, then go to bed. Used to read till I fell asleep, but I figet too much to keep it up for long. Lights out about 1:30-2:00 am tgn — "yeah, yeah. But four wrongs squared, minus two wrongs to the fourth power, divided by this formula, *do* make a right." –Larsen
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So… what’s your bedtime routine?
For me, it seems to involve aligning myself with the bed and then executing a (hopefully) controlled crash into it. I may not be awake enough to go through the normal routines… Never fear, I’ll be awake at least twice more during the night for at least short periods of time. Random thought: isn’t it AMAZING how Zoloft can give you both insomnia and drowsiness??? grrr.
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So… what’s your bedtime routine?
* Several last-minute retrievals of ASD * Watch Star Trek reruns * Turn off PC (cat starts preparing for bed when he hears the PC-shutting-down-music) * Turn off TV * Turn off lights * Get some water * Get in bed * Read awhile * Listen to Earth Children series audio-tapes * Cat crawls under covers (after several turns around) Random thought: isn’t it AMAZING how Zoloft can give you both insomnia and drowsiness??? grrr.
didnt make ME sleepy AT ALL.
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Can’t sleep. Think it’s because I stay in bed to long in the am… makes sense to me. A body just isn’t meant to go to bed 14 hours after it gets out of it… so trying to go to bed at midnight when you get up at 10am means your body doesn’t like it. Guess I’m just gonna have to get out a bed earlier. Uh, yeah, right. So… what’s your bedtime routine? I read for at least 30 minutes before I turn out the light. I almost always listen to some kind of instrumental music, playing it repeatedly through the night if possible. Random thought: isn’t it AMAZING how Zoloft can give you both insomnia and drowsiness??? grrr. regina snyder http://members.aol.com/rksfreek/ichthus.htm "if you can’t hold onto God, ask God to hold onto you"–touched by an angel
