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Sleepless

Sleepless

A forum for the sleepless, insomniacs, and night owls. We don't count sheep here.

1770 members
Posted bymisbegottenin/sleepless-Sep 05, 2016 at 1:57 PM

Late Night Chat

  • late night chat

Because it's always late night somewhere in the world...

What are you up to?

Comments23
  • alexseanchaiSep 05, 2016 at 5:07 PM

    Just got back to parents' from square dance camping weekend. *fall down boom*

    Gonna try to write a bit later.

  • LettersFromPTSDSep 05, 2016 at 2:27 PM

    Tooth sort of fixed. Sleep hopefully will happen before tomorrow's first meeting!

    • misbegottenSep 05, 2016 at 2:32 PM

      Oh, I hope the tooth fix is permanent! Good luck!

      • LettersFromPTSDSep 05, 2016 at 2:35 PM

        It's been dressed. I got told it's either a root canal or extraction - neither of which could be done today because I have to be sedated. On the other hand it doesn't hurt! So I might manage to sleep for more than a half hour at a time tonight.

      • LizzieSep 05, 2016 at 2:43 PM

        Ugh dreadful situation. I do hope your sleep is less interrupted tonight than it has been!

  • misbegottenSep 05, 2016 at 2:00 PM

    I've been down all day.

    What makes you happy? A few of my favorite things:

    Tulips
    Doggie kisses
    Feedback on my fiction
    A cat tucked behind my knees
    Brownies, no nuts

    • LizzieSep 05, 2016 at 2:05 PM

      Things what make Lizzie HAPPY:

      Cats, Tea, Art Supplies.

      • alexseanchaiSep 05, 2016 at 5:10 PM

        +1

    • LettersFromPTSDSep 05, 2016 at 2:26 PM

      Chocolate and bunnies and food someone else has cooked!

      • misbegottenSep 05, 2016 at 2:33 PM

        Food someone else has cooked is wonderful. 👍

      • LizzieSep 05, 2016 at 2:42 PM

        agreed, gotta love the food someone else has cooked!

    • alexseanchaiSep 05, 2016 at 5:10 PM

      Shelves and shelves of books.

      Time and attention to read books.

      Blue Gatorade (terms and conditions apply).

      (Who puts nuts in brownies? That's a waste of both perfectly good brownies and perfectly good nuts, and as such must be practically criminal.)

      • misbegottenSep 05, 2016 at 5:14 PM

        Outlawing nutted brownies should be a thing.

  • LizzieSep 05, 2016 at 2:04 PM

    I feel crumby, haven't been sleeping. Tried to nap and that's not happening either. So I'll stay awake...

    Drinking tea, looking at HAM certification options on the web, watching trash on TV and cuddling cats.

  • LizzieSep 06, 2016 at 2:52 AM

    I knew it...

    Went to bed early because I am exhausted and fighting an infection and of course I woke up a couple hours in and can't sleep again...

    Went to the doctor a while ago and he says "how do you sleep?"

    I say "I don't"...

    He says "trouble falling asleep? or staying asleep?"

    ....

    I ponder for a moment, "can it be both?"

  • alexseanchaiSep 05, 2016 at 7:49 PMΔ

    Haven't really written yet, but I put in a familiar movie and...

    I think I just solved the puzzle of the portrait in Disney's Beauty and the Beast. You know the one, that's ripped one way in the prologue and another when Belle finds it?

    Well, obviously it's two similar portraits. But that's not the thing. "Ten years we've been rusting" in conjunction with "till his twenty-first year" meaning the Prince was eleven in the prologue, and yet both portraits depict a young man very like the Prince in the epilogue?

    IT'S HIS FATHER.

    ...what happened to him and both mothers, anyway?

    (I mean, still fond of the idea that Belle's mother worked at the castle, and part of the enchantment was a forgetting outside the castle about anyone inside it as of the enchantment, so Belle's parents had a tearful reunion at the first possible moment after he remembered her. But still.)

    Also, Belle and the Beast are both ridiculously autistic.

    • misbegottenSep 05, 2016 at 10:20 PM

      Disney and mothers. ::shakes head sadly::

      • alexseanchaiSep 05, 2016 at 10:42 PMΔ

        Accurate. I don't think we see or hear of a single mother of a Disney character until the D-Renaissance, and even today never as an important or long-lived character, bar only Elinor from Brave, Sarabi from Lion King, and perhaps Rapunzel's bio mom in Tangled. (Hera is immortal and also Disney done fucked up Heracles's story bowdlerizing and updating it. Hera doesn't count.)

        (Lady from Lady and the Tramp doesn't count; she's a protagonist in her own right, and her motherhood is proof of her happy ending. Ditto Nala in the LK sequels and Ariel in Little Mermaid 2, sort of and only if we acknowledge these films having sequels.)

        Wait, no, I lie. Mrs. Darling. Also Lady Tremaine, it's just she's not Cinderella's mother.

      • misbegottenSep 05, 2016 at 10:49 PM

        Brave is Pixar. If we add in Pixar, we can include the kickassingest mother, Helen from The Incredibles.

      • alexseanchaiSep 05, 2016 at 10:57 PM

        Oh right.

        I'm thinking Merida is a Disney princess. If...invisible girl...were a Disney princess, I wouldn't have forgotten about Incredibles.

        Though speaking of Pixar: Toy Story? I forget.

      • misbegottenSep 05, 2016 at 11:05 PM

        The Toy Story mom is probably unique in being the only single-parent female head of household?

      • alexseanchaiSep 05, 2016 at 11:07 PM

        HUH. Cool!

        ...still not inclined to rewatch.

  • misbegottenSep 05, 2016 at 3:49 PM

    Well, I was watching Elizabeth, but the SO has started cooking so he gets control of the remote. We're watching El Dorado.

    I'm feeling a bit more settled mentally than I was earlier today. Looking over my sleep log for the last three weeks, I'm getting a fair amount of sleep but it's in bursts, which I suspect is contributing to the mood swings. Still, the prazosin has knocked out the nightmares, for which I am terribly grateful.

Sleepless

Sleepless

A forum for the sleepless, insomniacs, and night owls. We don't count sheep here.

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