Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Sleep Aid

I have discovered a new sleep aid. Completely non-pharmacological. It is astonishingly effective. Every evening after work I race into the house, put on something tacky, and then run outside with the kids. I practically need a nine o'clock bedtime, and I hate to go sleep...well, unless it about two a.m. or some time that is considered generally unreasonable.

I have discovered that I need NEED a football coach. JBB is apparently a complete natural, and I...throw like a girl. Well, imagine that.

I hope y'all get to enjoy the spring weather. Sleep tight.

6 comments:

JDB said...

Oh you goose! I was just teasing!

Hope you're having a great week!

Bathwater said...

All my kid wants to do is go out in the wood and shot at me with his airsoft pistol. Which just leads to muddy shoes.

The Preppy Princess said...

That sounds like loads of fun, if you could bottle some up and send it our way we'd be ever-so-appreciative! (Hee-hee.) Good for you Miss Lipstick, I just know they are loving having you out there with them.

Sending you a smile,
tp

Jen said...

Since I don't have kids of my own, I might have to try that with the neighbor kids! But girl, I'm sure that's exhausting! I'm exhausted just thinking about it!! :-)

WPMomOf2 (jen) said...

yea kids can wear us moms out! ha

Joyce Lau said...

I'm a terrible sleeper. And I don't have kids (yet) to wear me out.

A friend put me onto Zopiclone. He takes tons of it. I don't. I was taking half-dosages (3.75 mg) when I needed it, like when I was doing late shifts and couldn't sleep after.

Then I got freaked out that I was taking it too often. It's easy to get prescription meds without papers here in Hong Kong, and people are very blase.

So I switched to melatonin. While that doesn't have the same side effects (like dry mouth or morning drowsiness), it's not as effective as Zopliclone.
Do you have any advice?
And, by the way, it's fine if you don't.

I have a doctor friend who hates it when he's at the bar and people come up to him like, "Hey, can you look at my sore neck / rash / goiter?" So my apologies in advance if you don't like getting pharmaceutical comments!