etakyma: (Eureka Worry)
( Jul. 2nd, 2012 12:45 pm)
Not that that is a news flash to anybody.

Stress-induced insomnia has me working with about three-four hours of sleep a night for the last two weeks. Somehow the hours between 5am and 8am are the best hours I've been able to consistently sleep.

Last night I got over five hours and so am feeling a little hungover - without the usual reasons to feel hungover.

Gearing up for vacation - although it is less vacation than "time off real-life work." It is still work, just not work I get paid for. Gwen and I leave here on Saturday, car packed to the gills, and make it to just outside Baltimore Saturday night. Sunday we go the rest of the way to Virginia and catch the Autotrain to Orlando. Monday morning we'll arrive in Orlando and check in to the hotel. We'll be there until the next Monday when we retrace our steps to Boston.

Maybe then I'll be able to sleep.
So the next few weeks are going to be crazy here at chez etakyma. Reg packet creation for Ascendio this weekend, travel to Florida next weekend, Ascendio the weekend after that. Get home and I'm onstage in a one-night musical review the next Saturday and the week after that I go to Vancouver for eleven days.

That takes me in to August. All is quiet for a couple of weeks and then I get one week of Real Honest-to-Goodness Vacation where the most taxing thing I'll be doing is deciding whether or not to go outside to fly a kite.

And then Summer ends.

On the one hand it is going way too fast, and on the other it will be relief when August 17th rolls around and I can finally rest.

Tonight won't be like last night. last night I couldn't sleep and around four AM I realized I hadn't brought my recycle bin back from the street so I hauled my ass out of bed, dressed, and wandered out to get it. One less thing to worry about. Took another forty minutes, but I did eventually sleep for a while.

Gonna try that now. Hopefully this recitation of everything future will calm my mind enough to sleep like worry dolls.

How pathetic is it I have a "sleepless nights" tag? Ugh.
Sometimes, in the suburban parking lots near my neighborhood, tractor trailer trucks overnight. The state thru-way rumbles by less than a mile from here, and I can usually hear some of the traffic on quiet nights - and in my neighborhood all the nights are quiet. We'd have to be having huge storms for it not to be quiet.

Tonight, the subsonic rumble from *something* (I suspect one of those tractor trailer trucks) is driving me out of my mind. And keeping me up. It isn't exactly a sound - but there is a definite (if subtle and very very low) vibration. I feel like there is atmospheric pressure on my ears - but that isn't quite right to describe this feeling/sound/whatever either. The best I can tell it is similar to that thing that makes noise-canceling earphones so uncomfortable for me to use - I hate them, can't use them.

I can't fall asleep - and the constant rumble/pressure/pain has me keyed up.

To sum up - I DON'T LIKE IT MAKE IT STOP!

I suppose it doesn't help that my house is a slab ranch - meaning its foundation is a flat concrete slab that house sits on. No basement.
etakyma: (Anton and Steffan MofRD)
( Sep. 21st, 2011 01:05 am)
The things you think about while trying unsuccessfully to fall asleep...

My brother's new laundry room is only slightly smaller than my small bedroom. His laundry (once complete) will be 9x9 feet. My small bedroom is *almost* 10x10.

I need to do laundry myself fairly soon.

If I rip out the whole front wall of the house in the living room to take out the in-wall air con unit and replace the window I might be able to fit in a bay window.

I need to take my car in to get inspected... it was supposed to be inspected last month - oops.

The grocery store was out of a ton of stuff tonight and I am not sure why Tuesday night is a night when a lot of shelves were empty.

We are getting a Wegmans "near by" - where "near by" is about fifteen miles away. But I think it is the first Wegmans in Massachusetts.

I've got to make tracks for my 40th birthday gift to myself. Hello big four oh! I am looking pretty much straight at you!

Don't pack away the summer clothes too soon - remember Taipei is coming up in less than two months, and currently their daily highs are still in the high eighties.

I wonder if I should try to get a flu shot before I go galavanting around the world.

And thinking of travel, California in two weeks and Florida the weekend after that - all still mid-eighties during the day. So just because the home temps are low sixties does not mean summer has passed by completely.

Okay. I think maybe I can try to sleep now.

G'night!
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