The Glade 4.0

It's been quite hot lately, especially so over the weekend with me getting a total of 6 hours of sleep across 3 days. Come last night, tried to sleep but had too much going on in my head due to the new house.

Fast forward to this morning, it's finally caught up to me. Drove into work like a zombie and being told we're out of coffee. What stupid eatery place doesn't stock up on coffee like their life depended on it >.<

So here I sit in my office, in a complete daze. I have a fully booked afternoon, several important letters to be done before that and no brain juice what so ever. I am even too incoherent to attempt a reply to threads in hell fire.

This along with the tight time frame I have for settling on the house due to Christmas breaks is driving me up the walls. I got told yesterday I am in my “argumentative mode” and even boarder lining on “*****”.

Lack of sleep + no sleep + no coffee = a very very unimpressed me >.<

1.5 hours later... no work done... did catch up on web stuff...

Maybe I could go and bum a ciggie >.< This is getting desperate.

Go home and down a bottle of wine. Turn on the ac. Or cover yourself in one thin sheet and tuck it around most of the bed - the little open area stick one of those square floor fans into. It creates a little tent of constantly circulating air. Good for temps around 105 or lower.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

My Dr. suggested Melatonex (over the counter), and for days when my allergies are acting up, ceterizine (basically the over-the-counter version of Zyrtec in generic form). These two have really helped my quality of sleep lately.

Come on over, chat until we both fall asleep, I'll leave the light on.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Where's Raell? He usually has a good suggestion in these cases.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

Such as "wrist one off"??

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"Said I never had much use for one, never said I didn't know how to use one!"~ Matthew Quigley

"nothing like a little meow in bed at night" ~ Bruskey

"I gotta float my stick same as you" Hondo Lane

"Fill your hand you son of a *****!"

You said it, not me!

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

From what I understand, that just rev's up a lot of the women. Their physiology works different. For guys, orgasm is a sleeping pill, for gals, a shot of adrenaline.

So, in this case, not good advice.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

You are correct Mike, my wife has this problem. That being said, I am sure it is just stress over the new place and everything else. All I can say is this, long hot bath with a nice meal. Even if you can't sleep, stay in bed. Do not read or try to do anything else. Just think of flying purple ponies until you are out.

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Raell Kromwell

Well, yes, that's true...until about the 5th or 6th or 8th orgasm! Then it's Bedtime For Bonzo!! and me as well!!

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"Said I never had much use for one, never said I didn't know how to use one!"~ Matthew Quigley

"nothing like a little meow in bed at night" ~ Bruskey

"I gotta float my stick same as you" Hondo Lane

"Fill your hand you son of a *****!"

Hmm, with the caveat that everyone's different, and so everyone can have different results from different remedies, Conventional Wisdom definitely disagrees with some of your advice, Raell. CW says that changing your body temperature as well as eating just before bedtime can contribute to insomnia. CW also says to get up and do something until you get drowsy if sleep just won't come.

But sometimes CW doesn't work, either.

One thing to try is to lie quietly in bed and just try to stay awake. This one works best if its not your brain on speed that's keeping you awake, though.

I've been working night shift for like 14 years, so my sleep/wake cycle is completely borked. I've tried all but prescription sleep medications, and I'm getting close to going to see my doc about that.

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Women are from Hoboken, men are from Trenton. ~ Jimmy Kimmel

It was just a thought. I so rarely get to suggest that ...

I was going for the relaxation angle, but, yeah, maybe that's not the best way to go about it. But you definitely need to get your mind off of the new house purchase and stuff.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

Can't stop thinking >.<

I've always had a problem with over thinking. When it comes to things I want, I will set a priority to what I need to do, as well as set up a list of the probability of things to go wrong in decending order. I then will take measures to decrease the probability until I'm satisfied with the result. I'm sure they have a name for my condition.

The house is getting to me though. Just realised I will be scraping it through if everything goes right, leaving no time for any errors. This plus the family trip thats coming up in 3 weeks (grand mother's not doing too well) means I settle on the house the day I come back.

I haven't been running around like a mad woman yet, but the overwhelming probability of something going wrong is driving me up the wall. I don't like all these uncertainties.

I have the thinking issues at bedtime too. My thoughts are never really centered around anything. They're just all over the place. I can go read my Physiology book and that does slow me down a bit. But then I still lay there half in a daze still waiting for sleep.

Melatonin seems to be doing the job for me right now. Some nights I can get by without. On winter break, I intend to try getting entirely off of it. I still haven't figured out what's changed that causes my sleep problems.

I feel you.

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The Dude abides.

I dunno. I'm a dude and it can go either way for me, just depends on how tired I am really. Whacking off really just enhances where you're already at, in terms of energy / wakefulness.

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Ron Paul 2012

Wait...Is Bonzo your hubby or your....

Nevermind...

Regardless, I LOLed.

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This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

This thread is quickly turning into quite a er... 'educational'... thread

It's hard on me cause i've turned from a face plant on keyboard and snooze away person to a tossing and turning, get up play another couple of hours of games, toss and turn some more... type of person. >.< And the suggested method of sleeping doesnt work as well for girls I dont think...

hheh heh heh she said "hard on"

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

It wasn't Beavis who said that was it?

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Funny, Elmo!

So, what relaxes you, Lydiaa? What will set your mind at ease, even if only temporarily, about all the stuff that's going on in your life? When it's all over?!

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

Funny you mentioned that Aethien hehe… The only two things which makes my mind stop going haywire at everything else is games and stimulating it with something else interesting. Like arguing with you guys in hellfire or reading something philosophical and eventually learning new information from it. Maybe I have ADHD and not know it.

I have however been feeling slightly depressed as there’s this feeling that I’ve seen most of the things I really wanted to see, and it can only go downhill from here on. Only thing I’d really want to work towards at this point is a senior management position in which I don’t need to work much and still get paid really well, visit the Maldives in one of those little huts with the glass floor for a week, and having a kid. Preferably in that order.

Fly other people on your back to the moon like I do in my dreams.

Its fun watching other people discover things.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Whoa, whoa, whoa - you're like, what, under 30? You can't be depressed until your pushing 40, and even, then, I'd reserve it for pushing 50. And, if I'm in a good mood, even that's not depressing. Have you seen Krak Des Chevaliers in Syria? Have you seen the Sequoias in the Sierra Nevada? There's lots left, really.

Stimulating your mind doesn't really slow it down. I had something more in along the lines of sitting on the beach, watching the sunset or something.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge