It's very disorienting

[sid]

I've woken up three times today.

It's been a ridiculously cool summer, other than one very bad week in July. So along come two days around 90 degrees, and apparently I can't cope with the heat.

Tuesday night I went to bed around midnight and woke up around 2:40 a.m.

Back to bed around 10 a.m. Wednesday and up around 1:20 p.m.

Back to bed at 7 p.m. and up again at 9:50.

It's just after 11:30 p.m. Wednesday now. Thunderstorms were supposed to sweep through and cool things off, but they seem to have missed me. It'll still cool off, but it's taking longer. It's quite comfortable downstairs now, but my bedroom will still be pretty warm for a while.

Who knows when I'll sleep again, or for how long.

I need more eyedrops. *blink, blink*

Comments

[ivorygates]

Oh *dear*.

I don't suppose you have a nice box fan or two?

[sid]

I do have many fans (mostly quite antique), but no box fans. I had one until last year, but my ex-neighbor insisted that I stick it in my bedroom window to suck the warm air out. I told him it wouldn't work, but he was all: "It totally fits, look!"

Yeah. The window is a slider (side-to-side, not top-to-bottom), so there was no weight to hold the fan in place. It scared the crap out of me as it vibrated itself loose and crashed to the floor, breaking one of the blades.

The heatwave is over for now anyway. It's about 72 degrees in the office. :-)

[ivorygates]

um.... yay?

[sid]

Yay! I'm off to crash again. c u later.

[ivorygates]

*waves*

[delphia2000]

I hate to suggest this but it might be more age-related than temperature-related. I've had occasional bouts of insomnia all my life, but it really exploded when I hit menopause. My mantra is "some nights I sleep, some night I don't."

[sid]

Oh, I'm used to the occasional up-til-dawn nights, or the tossing and turning for an hour and then just getting out of bed because it ain't happening. Menopause has made those totally familiar. This was not so typical.

And to cap it off, I went to bed at 2 a.m. today, when my eyes would not stay open another second, and slept pretty well...until 6:40 a.m. when I had to make the first of a series of dashes to the bathroom!

Things calmed down after a couple of doses of Immodium, but at this point I'm a physical wreck. Of course, that's not that much different than most days, lol!

[esteven]

I hope you will be able to sleep better. 90F would see me up all night because I cannot cope with that heat.

Would you like another thimble?

[sid]

It's nice and cool again, and I think I'm caught up on my sleep and pretty much back on schedule. Hopefully tonight I'll sleep right through the night.

No thimble for me! I'm staying healthy and heading over to the farmer's market in a minute! :-)

[esteven]

I know you are no longer a regular visitor at the Read, but will you bring something for the BGT?

The thimble will be waiting for your return

[sid]

Would the Read like a nice head of cabbage? LOL

No, some nice blueberries!!! :-)

*accepts thimble daintly*

[esteven]

Since we are reading Desolation Island cabbage would not be far off, but blueberries would be nicer.

*snaffles a small bowl of them*

Jsut give the word when you would like a refill