Arrrgggh

I haven’t slept in 2 days.

I was hoping to be much better today and because I  didn’t want to bore you, my reader, any more than necessary, I avoided mentioning to you the fall I had on Monday. 

Now though it’s reached the point where my compulsion for oversharing dictates I must do so.

On Monday evening I fell. I bruised and sprained the intercostal muscles between the ribs on my left side. It hurts. The analgesic I was first prescribed made me vomit repeatedly so I’m now taking a new one which appears to be working though I still haven’t found a way to lie down AND continue to breathe.

I spent last night standing and/or pacing watching movies most of the night. I’m so tired it is health hazardous to come anywhere near me. I only lasted the morning at work before my team begged me to go home, a request to which I ungraciously acquiesced.

I’m going to try lying down again now – wish me luck.

Monday

It’s 6am on Monday morning and I am procrastinating.

I don’t usually get on my computer before my shower but this morning I found myself leaning off the bed and reaching for my laptop (note to self: don’t leave laptop within reach of the bed). It’s getting cold here and I want to stay in my nice warm bed.

It’s also so frantic at work right now that my usual leap out of bed is just not a happening thing right now. I was up way too late last night drinking wine with a girlfriend and now I am paying the price. It was the second night in a row having a few wines and I am just not up to that anymore.

I have a list as long as my arm of what I need to get done today or else I might have considered ringing my boss and begging an annual leave day today and staying in bed all day.  I’m in the middle of a great book.

OK it’s now 6.20 (just wasted a further 5 minutes searching for an animated picture for this post to cheer me up) and I really have to get in the shower so I will sign off now and publish.

Have a great day everyone.

Hollow words

I read a passionate and angry post earlier today and it elicited an emotional response from me. I haven’t been able to put the subject matter out of my head all day and it’s left me feeling drained and bereft. No amount of distraction has been able to fill the hollow feeling that is mine today.

It’s only 10.00 on Saturday night but am going to bed where I’ll pop a fluff movie (The Holiday) into the DVD player and hope it’ll lull me off to sleep. When I wake this crater inside me will be filled with my dreams of tonight and life can resume.

For now I’ll get some words down which might help to empty me of this absent feeling.

Green coat bloodied,
Dying, twisting, falling
Bare arms reaching for the concrete sky
Beseeching, more sun
Imploring, more time

Off to never never land (poll results)

Unsurprising really, it appears that bloggers don’t sleep as much as the general population.

Whilst I accept that my poll may not, statistically speaking, stack up with its + or - error margin of 37% and while I also  know that gut reaction is not usually the best fit with statistics, I do in fact, feel  that these results may reflect a valid indication of the sleeping habits of genus homo bloggeris.

Poll results are as follows;

• 15% of the 19 respondents (3) to my poll say they sleep less than 5 hours a night
• 47% (9) have between 5 hours and 7 hours each night
• 26% (5) have around 8 hours and
• 10% (2) have more than 8 hours every night

My analysis is as follows;

1. No zombies responded to my poll
2. Most respondents (62%) sleep less than 8 hours a night*
3. A minority (36%) sleep 8 hours or more
4. Non bloggers on average sleep longer than bloggers (see the trusted and reputable Science Buzz site) and therefore it can be said that bloggers are more physically active and therefore fitter – doesn’t sound quite right but we can’t argue with the facts. Stats are always right!
5. 14 of my so called ‘followers’ didn’t bother voting humph!

*Or is that this group are more likely to respond to polls – perhaps there’s a causal type relationship that I’m not fully considering? Are they voting on polls later into the night and therefore have less sleep time available?  This poll is generating more questions than answers – how frustrating for us scientifically minded folks!

Mr Sandman

Well that’s that for what it was worth. Thanks for reading. Call by again sometime. Vote next time :-)

 Ps. New poll published today

 

Keeping our kids in line

…plus the chores get done so it’s a win:win all round.

Don’t forget to turn off your lights for Earth Hour 

8.30pm Saturday night your time

‘tis but a scratch

No time for a proper post today so I thought I’d share a laugh.

Pity about the picture quality but it’s worth watching anyway. This is one of my favourite scenes from one of my favourite movies, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. My #1 ranked comedy is actually ‘Life of Brian’ also by Monty Python but this clip tells anyone all they need to know about my sense of humour .

….dry, anarchic and juvenile

I was 10 years old when Holy Grail was released in 1975.

Off to bed now as it was a tough Monday and it’s nearly 10pm already. I’ve had nowhere near enough sleep recently.

Sleep tight, don’t let the bedbugs bite.