Insomnia Sucks

Photo Credit: Joe M500

I can’t sleep. And it sucks.

We had a nice weekend with my parents in Blowing Rock this weekend. They left on Sunday morning and we hung around for a bit longer to do some shopping and hang out with my bro-in-law Matt and his girlfriend Lauren.

Sometime on the drive back - around 3 in the afternoon - I started getting crazy tired. Like all I wanted to do was fall asleep. I managed to trudge through the rest of the day but ended up going to bed around 9 on Sunday night, which is pretty early for me. I figured I was just paying the price for a week of staying up late to watch the Olympics and that a good, nice, long rest would do me right.

I was wrong. I woke up this morning with a full-on migraine. I haven’t had a migraine in years, and I’m thankful for it. This was the crazy blurred-vision-because-my-hair-hurts-variety, and it was not good times.

This was like at 6 AM. I took some Advil, called in sick to work, and went back to sleep. I didn’t wake up until around 10, making for a nice 13 hour slumber.

Wow, this is getting more boring as I’m writing it. Hopefully that means I’m getting tired and it will be sleep time soon.

The upshot is that I think I’m fighting off some kind of illness. My migraine finally went away today and was replaced by nasty congestion that filled my lungs and head. So then I loaded up on some Mucinex D to help clear everything up, which it did.

The only problem is that now I’m paying the price for sleeping 13 hours the night before and taking a monster dose of pseuphedrine, which can make it hard for me to sleep at times…. you know, like now.

So while AG went to be 3 hours ago, I stayed in bed for a bit and tried to go to sleep, but no dice. Then I got up and read about 100 pages from The Looming Tower, a fascinating read about the history of Islamic extremism and the lead-up to 9/11. That ate up about an hour.

Ever since I’ve been just sitting here surfing the web and not being tired. Bad times. Now I’m punishing you, the poor blizzog reader, with this mindless account of my day.

The good news is that the next time I need to read something that will put me to sleep, I’ll have this post to come back to.

Good night…. hopefully.

Update: Um, so it’s 3:18 AM. I’m still up.

Update: 3:54 AM. Shit. :(