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[davidgillon]

I'm currently stuck in that thing where my body keeps insisting I fall asleep on the spot. This wouldn't be so much of a problem if I was getting 8 hours as a result, but it's been more like 4 or 5, or even 1 or 2, and that's just not enough. Worse, it means I'm tired enough any activity is triggering the fall asleep on the spot thing.

It's a good thing I'm off to spend Christmas and New Year with the family on Wednesday, as that will probably break the cycle. I haven't quite decided what I'm doing about internet while I'm up in Durham, it may just be intermittent access whenever I pop over to my sister's, or if I can find my MIFI hub I may buy a SIM and hope it lasts longer than the 2 hours of the one I bought last Christmas.

On the plus side, two years ago today I was being rushed through A&E with acute pancreatitis, so at least I'm doing better than that.

I spent 5 hours running errands today, and I think my body hates me for it. It wasn't meant to be 5 hours and it started quite well, I whipped through the stuff with my banks in Chatham - there was a really helpful guy on their helpdesk who did everything for me on the spot rather than sending me off to the teller windows, which made things much simpler. OTOH the Coastguard SAR helicopter was overhead and searching the river, which was a bit grim. But then I went to Rochester and it was full. I literally could not find a space to park at lunchtime. Presumably that was down to the Christmas Market in the Castle, but I couldn't park so I never got to find out. I went off and did some grocery shopping instead - okay some booze shopping, the bar is bare - and tried again at 3:30. Even then I only just managed to find a space, but at least I managed to get my repeat prescription (the one my GP forgot to do on Tuesday) and finally picked up my train tickets for the trip to Durham. God help anyone trying to park tomorrow if it was like this today.

So I came in and fell asleep. For 6 hours.

I hit a milestone on the car while I was out - 20k miles on the clock.

Since 2001.

And no, that isn't missing a zero

One of my friends was complaining on FB this morning that they'd just had an email about a delivery that excluded any useful information whatsoever about what was being delivered and who it was from. I'd no sooner commented on that than I found a card through my door from the post office. They have a parcel for me, with inadequate postage on it (fortunately only £2), and I need to pay up to get it. Of course there's no indication whatsoever of what the parcel is and who it's from.

I suspect it's the stuff I ordered from the States. In May.

I knew I was ordering in advance, I just didn't realise how much in advance. As soon as they indicated they'd started shipping a few days ago, it's been a nightmare as to whether it would arrive before I disappear North, because I'm away for longer than the post office hold onto parcels before sending them back. The postage is already extortionate, I really don't want to have to pay it twice. Delivery on Monday, hopefully.

On a completely different topic, one of the webcomics I read stopped updating over a year ago, with no real word as to what was happening. I noticed today it had been updated, and it's the author explaining how she had a breakdown, but is now recovering. Its fascinating to see someone talking about it so openly, and in graphic format.

 

Comments

[yhlee]

I went through a period where I was getting sleep in half-hour to hour snatches and remember how miserable it was. I'm sorry you're going through that and hope you'll be able to get some decent sleep soon.

[davidgillon]

Thanks.

I've done the half-hour snatches thing - a flare-up with my neck where I could only sleep sitting and with my arm propped up - and that was truly miserable. This isn't nearly as bad, just tiring and disruptive - I've been trying to run the errands I did today all week, but needing to get to the doctor, chemist, train station and bank doesn't really work well when the only time you're awake enough to drive safely is 3 in the morning!

I've been here before, so I know going up to see the folks will almost certainly fix it.

[lilysea]

Sympathies/empathies/solidarity on the sleep issue, that's miserable. :(

At the moment I'm sleeping from 3am/4am til 11am/noon, and I'd really like to reset to midnight til 9am

- MUCH better for medical appts and errands,

- and also the sleep I get at 3am/4am isn't as good quality as the sleep I get at midnight

- and also, as the weather here warms up, sleeping til 11am/noon will
a) not be possible, or
b) result in waking up severely dehydrated and with heat exhaustion...

[davidgillon]

3 or 4 til midday is pretty much my default and I can manage fairly well on it. The problem is any time I overdo it, and my body can consider coffee with friends to be overdoing it, I tend to crash uncontrollably as soon as I'm back in the house, and it's then very difficult to get out of sleeping 6 or 8 til midnight and being exhausted come daylight.

Heat exhaustion is definitely off the cards up here at the top end of the globe, though I actually do better in heat, it's cold that does me in.

[davidgillon]

So that insufficient postage thing, not the package from the States, but a Christmas card from a friend! I can't tell whether the stamp fell off or what, because of the huge label on it saying there was insufficient postage. *Headdesk*

I'll just have to cross fingers the parcel from the States doesn't arrive til the new year.