The latest from Buck's Sooper-Sleep Study: I went to bed at 2030 hrs last night, which would be 8:30 pm for you civilians. I don't think I've gone to bed at that time since I was about ten, but I did last evening. I woke up at 0300 hrs (or so) which is about six hours of drug-induced sleep. (About which: we're having ourselves some GREAT BIG WONDERFUL dreams; I just wish I could remember the details. They're good, though... trust me.) We made the coffee and all that other stuff, drank a full pot and then went BACK to bed around 0700 hrs and remained there until 0930. I've never had "normal" sleeping hours since I rejected gainful employment as a valid lifestyle, but THIS is ridiculous.
So. We've been out and about already this morning... renewing our lease for another year (Celebrating one year on these premises on 9/15/2012. Come to our anniversary celebration!), renewing the beer supply for a day or three (Turbodog!), and purchasing a screen door for our humble abode (for cooling Fall breezes!). About which, this:
Fudge, coffee, and cool fall breezes. Sounds pretty darn idyllic to me.
ReplyDeleteI cannot believe you've been in Al Casa de Pennington Nueva for a year. It does fly.
It took me a while... like four months... to get approval for the screen door, but it came in just in time. We're supposed to be in the mid-70s tomorrow. Yays!
DeleteFudge is not my downfall, although it always looks good. I can pass it by. The store looks kind of small-town-ish. Nice.
ReplyDeleteOur True-Value IS small-town... the very definition of such. I LOVE it and do all my hardware shopping there. Fudge now, too. ;-)
DeleteI am about to embark on the wonders of modern chemistry... Not looking forward to the screwed-up sleep cycle. Hope yours rights itself soon Buck; I plan on getting myself a nice fat prescription of 10mg Ambien to go along with the Oxycodone and muscle relaxers. I'm hoping it will help keep my sleep cycle relatively - normal.
ReplyDeleteOur sleep cycle is determined primarily by the whims o' modern chemistry, as it were. That said, I'm being ever-so-cautious with these drugs, almost to the point o' paranoia. That said yet again... this episode is worse than the previous, or at least it seems that way. I was off the serious pain-killers two or three days after the event, last time. Not now, though...
DeleteSleep is a funny thing, I've found. About three years ago I was diagnosed with Sleep Apnea, likely due to being a tad over-weight.
ReplyDeleteDuring the sleep study, I hit REM sleep about four times, I'm told. Normally, it's hit only twice. While they were regulating the air pressure on my Bi-Pap, at one point the pressure was too high, and it forced my lips apart, and then filled my cheeks like Dizzy Gillespie's. I was aware of this, however, I was sleeping... In my dream, I'd woken up, and was getting ready to leave the sleep study place, but my cheeks would not un-puff... I'd force them in, they'd just puff back up. It was very strange to have a dream that I woke up, only to wake up later and find out that I hadn't woken up before...
I had ridiculously vivid dreams for MONTHS after getting my bi-pap.
Sleep IS a strange thing. One of the best things the AF taught me was how to sleep anywhere at almost any time, but I find that capability to be slipping away as I get older. That most certainly was a strange dream you had. I just wish I could remember the ones I've had lately.
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