Sunday 2 September 2007

Insomnia? Nah...

Friends of mine made my day today. They are a couple (the Zimbabweans if anyone remembers them) and they independently decided as soon as they saw me today that I have lost weight. The man said he just HAD to tell me that they both thought the same...so I thought I just HAD to tell you.

I joined the insomniacs club last night. I'd taken 3 hours to get to sleep on Friday night after going to bed early. Last night I watched the football, experienced my usual start of season incredulity: "But I thought he played for Middlesbrough. And Koncheski was a West Ham player. What has happened to him? What do you mean Rooney is injured?". I take so little notice of anything during the off season and being away for nearly 3 weeks adds to the effect. Not even my chance meeting in a Chinese take-away in Los Angeles with a football (soccer) obsessed wine dealer who knew a darned sight more about West Ham (and English football in general) than I did, increased my awareness of what was going on in the football world back home. Back to the story, I got into bed at 12.08am. I was full of caffeine having been out for dinner, washing it down with 2 diet Cokes and a double espresso to finish. At 12.50 I decided to get up, make some peppermint tea and write down my thoughts to stop them spinning through my head.

Back in bed an hour later, I still felt overly alert but soon fell asleep having committed my random musings to paper (well, screen obviously). I have had only one cup of coffee today after lunch so I'm hoping for more sleep tonight...and the way my head keeps on aiming spontaneously for the keyboard, I don't think it'll be all that long in coming.

15 comments:

lyndyloo said...

Well done Moose, it always feels good when someone notices that you've lost weight! I only know that I put on shedfuls when Mum was going through her treatment and now I'm back to the PMcK cd and starting to eat healthily again... that just doesn't make sense does it? My family are ill so I decide to eat really crap food that's of no use to my body at all! Anyhoo not to dwell as I'm intending to be fit at 40 so I've got 14 weeks to make a difference!

I have the opposite problem with sleeping at the moment, since we got the all clear on Mum (well as all clear as it can be) I've been sleeping for England!

Happy Monday everyone!

Luv
Lyndyloo
& the Bears
-x-x-x-

Anonymous said...

Good Morning everyone and Moose, it's great to see you are back!

We really missed you, but as you can see your troops rallied round and stayed in touch.

So glad you had a great holiday. I'm sure the mooselets had a wonderful time. It is really difficult to get the old sleeping patterns back on track though. Eventually exhaustion will take over and things will be back to normal!

Hope everyone is o.k. today. Our office day out on Friday was a roaring success, we had such a good day. I was TERRIFIED in the vaults, under the city, but it was fascinating.

Well back to work I guess. Will check back later.

C xx

Anonymous said...

Morning all,

Moose welcome back from your holibobs! ;-)

I have been off work last week and I have to say I had a very nice time, thank you! Coming back into work is never easy after any time off, and my in tray oh please god no!

Moose good news on the weight loss, it is nice when people notice. I have had some success in the weight loss department recently and have started to turn a few heads from those who I have not seen for a while. Still a long way to go for this BigUn but every little helps and as we all know that size does not matter ;-)

There were so many birthdays last week. Happy birthday to all (that way I cannot miss anyone) who were celebrating.

I will be back later, work permitting.

Keith the BigUn
XX

P.S. A tourist walked into a Brighton curio/antique shop. After looking around for a while, he noticed a very life-like bronze statue of a rat. It had no price tag, but it was so striking that he decided to buy it anyway.
He took it to the owner and said: "How much is this bronze rat?"
The owner replied: "It's 12 for the rat, and 100 for the story."
The tourist gave the owner his 12 and said: "I'll just take the rat, you can keep the story."
As he walked off down the street, he noticed that a few real rats had crawled out of the sewers and begun following him.
This was a little disconcerting, so he started to walk a little faster, but within a couple of blocks the swarm of rats had grown to hundreds, and they were all squealing and screeching in a very menacing way.
He increased his speed and ran on towards the beach, and as he ran, he looked behind him and saw the rats now numbered in their MILLIONS, and they were running faster and faster.
By now very concerned, he ran down to the pier and threw the bronze rat far out into the water. Amazingly, the millions of real rats jumped into the water after it and were all drowned.
The man walked back to relate all this to the shop owner, who said: "Ah, you've come back for the story then?"
"No," said the tourist. "I came back to see if you've got a bronze Muslim fundamentalist cleric, a Manchester United supporter and anything French!"

jollygit said...

Moose - I meant to say to you last week that you're looking particularly trim at the moment! Well done on the weight loss, particularly having had such a good holiday too!

Hazel is absent at the moment due to her pooter having a particularly hissy fit ...... however, she has just managed to close a rather tricky road so her powers are not completely gone and she will be back as soon as she can!

Had a lovely quiet weekend pottering around home and went for a long walk along the prom and into town yesterday. Students are all back at Uni next week and it's already starting to get very busy - and noisy - so it'll all kick off next week .............

Happy Monday one and all!

jollygit xx

Anonymous said...

Hello folks. Nice to know the newly returned Moose is the slimline version - well done. Wish I could say the same. But I can't.

HL - if you're out there tell me you went along to see this!!!!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/6972315.stm

Exactly what is a full beard freestyle???

Anonymous said...

Hi there all!
Insomniacs - did you hear JV this morning and his doctor friend talking about it? I didn't really listen admittedly although I do find it hard to sleep currently. Hubby is working nights for the forseeable and instead of being unable to sleep because of his very, very loud snoring - I now find it hard to sleep 'cos he isn't there and its a psychological thing of not hearing the boys if they wake I think. I am probably getting about 5/6 hours a night and am surviving thus far - it has been 7 weeks now (less the hols).

Moose - congrats on the noticeable weight loss - you should be proud of yourself - carry on the good work.

Loads of work to do for the next couple of weeks so will pop in when I can.

I will leave you with this thought:

A man wakes up one morning to find a bear on his roof, so he looks in the Yellow Pages and sure enough, there's an ad for ''AAA Bear Removers''.

When the bear remover arrives he's got a ladder, a baseball bat, a shotgun and a mean old pit bull.

''What are you going to do?'' the homeowner asks.

''I'm going to put this ladder up against the roof, and then I'm going to go up there and knock the bear off the roof with this baseball bat.

When the bear falls off, the pit bull is trained to grab his testicles and not let go.

The bear will then be subdued enough for me to put him in the cage in the back of the van.''

He hands the shotgun to the homeowner.

''What's the shotgun for?'' asks the homeowner.



''If the bear knocks me off the roof - shoot the dog.''

A x

Anonymous said...

Amanda - great joke as always. It's really not cricket when one's workload gets in the way of one's blogging! And I know what you mean about not really being able to sleep on your own. I always think it would be bliss to have the bed to myself, but if Mr S wasn't there I would find it very difficult to get to sleep.

Hazel - you can't hear us, but hope you are o.k!

Jollygit - I have now managed to read the end of last week's comments and it would seem you had a really awful week. Hope everything is ok now.

Lyndyloo - I had to check the diary - 14 weeks until you are 40, 15 weeks until I am 51 and it's just over 16 weeks until Christmas! Ye gods!

C xx

Anonymous said...

.......... and 6 days 'til I am 41!

A x

Anonymous said...

Afternoon!!

Still in complete overdrive. The good news is that the extra hours will be given back as hols, although when I'll take them, I don't know, as I have 15 to take between now and the end of Feb, but can't take any time off until November! Guess I'll be having the full two weeks over Christmas then!

Glad you're all well and Susan - how nice that you've blogged!

How odd Moose, that JV covered Insomnia on today's show.

I either can't sleep at all until about 4 am, or I sleep deeply for 2 or 3 hours and then spend the next 4 wondering if I will get to sleep again. And then of course, when I do sleep, I have really, really vivid dreams, so that sometimes, I don't feel as though I've slept at all! All this then leads to migraine...


Ah well. The search is on for an internet based job that I can do from Crete, supplemented by working in the tourist industry during the season. Ho hum... Have had a few suggestions, mainly linked to fetishism, after I confessed to someone that a man on an internet dating site asked me to send him pictures of me wearing suede, for which he'd pay handsomely!

Crikey - all such a laugh.

Back later,

S xx.

lyndyloo said...

Morning peeps!

I woke this morning with a very positive head, clear of obstructions and negativity that seems to have been weighing me down of late and ready to take on... well the bears at least, first thing and then see if there wasn't something I could find myself to do that was worthwhile in this bit of a lull.

I have started by cleaning out my laptop, doing a thorough bug sweep, sorting files and then I'm going to do a synch onto the desktop so everything is bang up to date. Then I'm going to do the biggie! Ask everyone else if there's anything I could be doing for them while I'm not too busy (this obviously has it's dangerous side).

I'm off to see the Police tonight (yes I know you're not impressed HL) who were my teenage heros, as is Sting to this day. I'm taking 2 of my friends who frequently cook me delish' meals and often give me lifts to the airport.

Right I'm off... (thought I could smell something) ... debugging almost complete!

See you later

Luv
Lyndyloo
& The Bears
-x-x-x-

Anonymous said...

Morning all,

I did not manage to get back on here yesterday due to my work load, I must try harder today. ;-)

I also heard the JV show regarding insomnia (very interesting). I have suffered for years with sleep deprivation mainly due to not being able to switch off from work, crap diet and health issues. I have to say though over the last few months I have slept really well (for me) and I know average about 6 hours a night which means that I have much more energy during the day and my concentration level is much better.

Just for a recommendation I thought I would share that one of the movies Mrs B and I went to the cinema to watch last week was “Knocked Up”. I have to say I did not think I would enjoy it but it had me laughing out loud several times so for anyone needing cheering up go and give it a go!

Later friends,

Keith the BigUn
xx

An Englishman an Irishman and a Scotsman were in a pub, talking about their sons...

"My son was born on St George's Day," commented the Englishman. "So we obviously decided to call him George."

"That's a real coincidence," remarked the Scot. "My son was born on St Andrew's Day, so obviously we decided to call him Andrew."

"That's incredible, what a coincidence," said the Irishman. "Exactly the same thing happened with my son Pancake."

And…

Two Irish hunters got a pilot to fly them to Canada to hunt moose. They managed to bag 6.

As they were loading the plane to return, the pilot said the plane could take only 4 moose.

The two lads objected strongly. "Last year we shot six. The pilot let us take them all and the had the same plane as yours."
reluctantly, the pilot gave in and all six were loaded.

However, even on full power, the little plane couldn't handle the load and went down.

Somehow and surrounded by the moose bodies, Paddy and Mick survived the crash. After Climbing out of the wreckage, Paddy asked Mick, "Any
idea where we are?"

Mick replied, "I think we're pretty close to where we crashed last year."

Anonymous said...

Good morning all,

Nothing much to report so far - really busy day ahead yet again. So much paperwork to organise I could weep!

Lyndyloo - I have never seen The Police but I did see Sting a couple of times and he is fantastic. Of course I was madly in love with him in 1980! Hope you have a great time.

Keith - brilliant joke. Bless the Irish! My lovely Uncle Barney from Co. Donegal came over here and hired a car for a few days. My mum was with him and said "Barney, you really need to put your lights on, it's getting dull". He said "sure now, I'm always forgettin. Still, the other drivers always let you know, and they also warn you when you're driving on the wrong side of the road"!!

C xx

lyndyloo said...

It must be a very busy time for everyone at the minute. It seems awfully quiet (never a good sign I find) I might have to busy myself with planning how to decorate NC1... I thought a nice shade of pale yellow?

jollygit said...

It's like a ghost town here at the moment!

No word from Hazel so I'm assuming that her pooter is now working and that she is head down, getting on with all the work that she couldn't do yesterday! HL - if you can hear me - take it steady hon!!

I've been busy getting to grips with my new role here at the Uni, attending a multitude of meetings and generally rushing round like a mad thing.

Chrissie - thank you xxxxxx

I can feel the tumbleweed around my ankles, it's so quiet, but I'll try and pop back later.

jollygit xx

Moose said...

New post up...