October 31, 2007

• Rested and Home With Three

  Thanks for all of the suggestions regarding my insomnia problem.  It’s been an ongoing problem for about 12 years and is currently having one of its “spike times” bothering me.  I have Ambien or Xanax to help me sleep, but have tried to stick with Benadryl or Actifed on most nights, since using antihistamines to make me sleepy seems less harmful and addictive.  I learned years ago that I HAVE to take something to help me sleep.  I’ve discussed the sleep issues with several doctors and they don’t seem to be concerned.  Maybe insomnia is more common than I realized.  Hormone imbalance (due to my age) is most likely the cause.  Thanks for all the info, Tina, because hormones and low blood sugar are both likely culprits.

  Jesse bought 99cent Sonic burgers last night because I called whining that I felt like the room was spinning and I was going to crater.  I didn’t feel like I could even manage the frozen chicken fettucine I had planned to stick in the oven!  I ate, chatted with him a bit, then took my “drugs” at 8:15 and fell asleep around 9pm.  I slept until 5am – an improvement – and I was pleased.

  NOTHING much was on the news this morning – Democratic debate info (of which I have no interest) and a few repetitive stories.  I flipped between NBC’s local station, The Today Show, and Fox & Friends and felt I pretty much had a handle on the world’s news within the first 30 minutes!  I was sad to see Robert Goulet had died awaiting a lung transplant.  He was my early childhood crush and even kissed my hand once after a performance I had attended (I recall he had a cigarette in his hand at the time).  This morning, I spent more time opening and closing the back door for Stormy, our youngest cat, than I did watching the news.  In and out, in and out, in and out . . .

  We decided to keep Luci home from daycare today because of all the Halloween goings-on.  They’ve turned the back room into a “haunted house” and have honored our wishes by not allowing Luci to participate.  However, they kindly let Jesse know (when he picked her up last night) that most of the children would be in costumes today and doing the “creepy” celebration stuff with gummy eyeball candies and witches brew punch . . .   Now, we only have one more day of monitoring television shows and the fateful day will be gone!  I wish I could think of somewhere we could go – just us girls – but everything is decorated for Halloween.  A park is out of the question since none of us can be outside playing due to sore throats and the sniffles.

  If I had enough eggs and a clean kitchen table (it’s STILL loaded with homeschool materials!!!), today would be perfect time to color and decorate eggs.  We don’t “do” Easter eggs, but I buy different boxes of the dye during that season and we decorate eggs as art projects throughout the year.

  It looks like we are making a trip to SE Oklahoma this weekend to pick up free firewood from Jesse’s brother.  The weather is supposed to (we’ll see, we’ll see!) get down into the 20′s early next week.  I should really have the fireplace cleaned before we try to burn stuff.  I didn’t have the chimney sweep come out last year.  We use our fireplace almost every day in the winter months.  I’m all about being safe!

  I think we’re having breakfast for dinner tonight.  Haven’t done that in a long time.  It’s not usually one of Jesse’s favorite meals, but pancakes, sausages, & eggs sound good and DIFFERENT.j  Actually, a regular old-fashioned meal with meat, potatoes & vegetables sounds good too, but I’m taking baby steps as I get back into cooking.  And after my raw chicken fiasco the other night . . . (!!!!!!!!)

  Luci’s in the bathtub and I’m next.  Rissy wants a quick bath, too.  She’s discovered bath products and anything that smells good.  I think she’d bathe twice a day if we let her!  She’s growing up so fast.  Not my skinny little baby any more!

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