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So tired … but dreading sleep

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I’m dreading trying to go to sleep tonight. I haven’t been sleeping very well over the last few days … a combination of my husband snoring and making weird sounds in his sleep, it being too hot upstairs and uh … bad dreams.

Last night when I finally did fall asleep I had a dream about the pain clinic I used to work in for close to 10 years as a nurse. I loved the job but I hated my boss – the “nurse” manager who was a complete twit, and the owner – a doctor that had very questionable morals and who took human growth hormone regularly. Most of the other doctors and nurses were ok to work with, but not those two .. and unfortunately they ruled the place.

My old boss literally made it a point to pick on a nurse each day or week … she wasn’t happy until she had one of us crying and then of course she’d try to comfort who ever she’d hurt. She wasn’t happy unless she had total control over each of us. Needless to say there was a very high staff turn over there. I’m not sure how I made it through close to 10 years! I was the longest working employee there at the time that I left.

The owner of the company was smitten with her for some strange reason … we all suspected that they were having an affair or that the nurse manager had something on the company owner that she could use to hurt him.

I don’t know why I dreamed about that awful place, but I did. I was assisting in a procedure in my dream and things started going terrible wrong and my ex bad boss started screaming at me and the other nurses. Then I woke up.

Anyway .. hopefully I have a good sleep tonight! No bad dreams, no weird snores from my husband. I’m tired enough that I should sleep well … but who knows!





The garden looks superb but my back is shot

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I think I’m still recovering from the long weekend. Ok I know I am.

Since we had fantastic weather here in Toronto (seriously 25 C (77 F) is HOT for April here!) I spent a lot of time outside in my garden. My husband and I started tidying up the garden beds on Thursday evening when he came home from work and we continued working on the garden on Friday and Saturday.

14 yard waste bags later and we’re done!

Yes you read that correctly … we managed to collect 14 bags of leaves and uh rose branch trimmings. Yes it’s a little early to trim the roses, but most of them actually have leaf buds or actual leaves now … so I think it’s ok. LOL

My back is done too. Each evening I had to lie down with a heating pad to ease the spasms and ache in my lower back and hips. Luckily my back is a bit better today, but I sure did a number on it.

I’m sure not getting enough sleep over the weekend didn’t help either. My bedside lamp, a really nice one from Ikea that I’ve been using for a few years started humming or buzzing. Why do Ikea lamps buzz? Well, it’s not the actual lamp, it’s the attachment near the end of the plug that buzzes. Grrrr

It bothered me enough last night that I went looking for new lamps online and I found some wall scones at Hinkley lighting that might work if we place them on the wall on either side of the bed. That way my husband will finally have his own light. Not that he needs one … he tends to fall asleep most nights as soon as his head hits the pillow and if he’s not asleep in 5 minutes he thinks he has insomnia. LOL

Anyway … the good weather is over for a few days. We’re back to closer to normal temps and it’s raining raining raining oh and gloomy. Oh well it’s good for my garden (which has plants coming up that I don’t normally see until May!) and it will give my back a few days to get better before the garden lures me out there again.

Did you have a good Easter weekend too? Was the weather great or what?

I’m so stressed out!

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I haven’t been feeling like my normally cheery self the last few days. Not even close …

I’ve had two colds or perhaps one loooong cold almost all year! Out of the 10 weeks that we’ve had so far in 2010 I’ve only had two that were cold free. That sucks! I do think I’m finally starting to recover from this latest cold though so maybe in a few days I’ll be done with this virus once and for all.

We’ve also continued to have trouble with our awful renter neighbors. They were supposed to be kicked out by the Sheriff on March 2nd … but as I suspected the home owners daughter in law didn’t do all the paperwork correctly so now they’re going to be evicted by the sheriff on the 23rd. Hopefully they pack up and move on their own this weekend or the next as I think if it comes down to a formal eviction things are going to get nasty. These people are just bad evil nasty people.

I’ve been more stressed the last few days because the renter neighbors – who’s turn it is this month to use the tiny shared driveway we have – have been having a lot of cars going in and out at all hours of the night.

I haven’t had much sleep in the last few days because our dog barks every time she hears our neighbors “visitors” slamming their car doors or talking just outside our house … you know at 2, 3 and 4 a.m! Grrrr

Plus my brother was visiting from Vancouver over the last week so I was staying up to try to keep the dog quite while our neighbors were doing whatever stuff they were doing in the middle of the night.

Now thanks to the cold and all the stress I’ve been under my Crohn’s is really acting up and my abdomen feels like I just had bariatric surgery or something. I mean … it hurts. I don’t want to do anything but lie on the couch and not move, because every time I move or drink or eat anything my abdomen hurts really bad. Damn Crohn’s. What a terrible disease this is.

Hopefully if I take it easy over the next few days my Crohn’s will settle down, my cold will go away and I’ll start to feel better. With any luck our awful renter neighbors will move out on their own as well … I know that will help me de-stress!

This lady has way more energy that I do!

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This elderly lady sure had a lot more energy than I do lately! I can only hope that if I reach her age I’ll be able to do a stretch like that! LOL Or at least be somewhat active!

This picture also reminds me that I should look into wrinkle treatments as I age if I want to be a decent looking old lady. wink.

I’ve been overtired for about a month now and being on Benadryl for the last five or so days didn’t help! I had an allergic reaction to yet another new medication – hives, itching and other unpleasant side effects .. so I spent the last several days with a bobbing head as I tried to stay awake.

Then, early this morning I woke up from a strange dream and I couldn’t get back to sleep for a long time. So even though I’m not taking allergy meds anymore I’m still overtired. Sigh.

The way things have been going for me lately I doubt I’ll be as spry as that little old lady in the photo if I ever reach her age! Do you ever have weeks or months were you just feel worn out?

Headachey, sick and having some mighty strange dreams!

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I’ve been feeling just awful all week. Rather than my normal Crohn’s aches and complaints I think I might be fighting something else this time around.

I’ve had a headache since either Monday evening or sometime early Tuesday morning, fevers (normally have lots thanks to the Crohns) and I’m feeling nauseated. If I am fighting something I hope I get over it soon! This is a drag!

Another thought occurred to me. My dog who I haven’t had spade yet (been meaning to all year but we keep having health and or financial emergencies) just went into heat for the second time. Maybe her hormones are messing with mine and that’s why I’m having a headachey week? Hey … anything’s possible.

Maybe you’ve experienced this as well … you know when you are getting sick? Sometimes your dreams change. Either your don’t seem to dream at all (noticed by those who seem to dream all the time otherwise) or your dreams suddenly get even stranger than normal? Mine have gotten stranger!

The other night I dreamed that I was standing up near the couch and placing crackers with peanut butter on them on the COUCH (???) when I felt someone staring at me. I went over to the loveseat by the window and I could see the body of a man leaning against the window and looking down at me. Then I glanced at the door and the lock was damaged and two people ran into the house. I woke up after that terrified with my heart racing! Scary and strange dream, eh? Maybe our mouse or whatever wild animal it is that we have in our wall influenced that dream?

Then last night my dreams had TV commercials in them! Hmmm you know you’re watching too much TV when your dreams start to have commercials. LOL One was a life insurance commercial that drives me nuts whenever it comes on because it’s three times as loud as the other commercials and the TV show that I’m watching and another was about motorcycle accident lawyers Los Angeles. That was weird, I live in Toronto, why would I dream of LA lawyers or motorcycle accidents other than the fact that I’ve always been a little nervous around motorcycles. Odd.

Do you have strange dreams when you have a cold, the flu or some other bug? I always seem to have ones that are much stranger than normal and that’s saying something since most of my dreams seem to be more than a little out there to begin with. LOL

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