Fry Meme
First, an apology that I won’t have a teaser going up today. Getting very hard to pick out of everything and not sure how to change that. Also check out below.
I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I got maybe an hour sleep and I don’t know why, but I did notice my stomach giving me issues. Was it stress? Was it the old cake that was pulled out of the freezer for consumption? Was it the severe lack or disruption of sleep I’ve dealt with for two weeks?
Probably everything, but I want to touch on that last one. (EDIT: Apparently, the cake was a major factor and has been filed.) The weather constantly changing and making me run through the gamut of pajama types isn’t helping. Neither is the chorus that I’m now sleeping next to. Now, I snore and I’ve caught myself do it. A rather standard noise that sounds like something is stuck in my throat and I’m trying to breathe around it. The wife changes noises every 10-15 minutes. I’ve heard the following:
- Goose getting strangled underwater.
- Running chainsaw put through a woodchipper.
- Tweety bird snore.
- Gargling mouthwash.
- Standard sawing of log.
- A choking thing that makes me think she’s in trouble.
- The gasp from a dramatic movie that requires you put your hand to your chest.
- Baby elephant blowing bubbles in chocolate milk.
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My nights are being spent more on coming up with odd snore descriptions than actually sleeping. She does have a small cold that has decided to get a little worse this morning, but that’s not surprising. There’s a running gag in this house that if I get sick, the person most likely to take some pressure off my shoulders goes down too. This results in me being the one to push through my own malady, make myself worse, and eventually get a lecture about not resting when I should. I think that last part is done specifically when I’m too weak to lift anything heavier than a pillow, so the threat of anything solid being thrown or wielded is gone.
An aside: You know it’s going to be a bad day when your phone and laptop refuse to get their act together as well. Must be an omen when an author and all his toys are unable to fully wake up. *hears beep from phone* Oh, NOW you download the emails.
I’m hoping this is just exhaustion from bad sleeping because I have a family meeting at my son’s school. I do feel less like an infected human and more like a guy who simply needs to sleep for a day. That’s probably what I’m going to do, so you won’t see too much of me today. Not that the blog, Facebook, or sales have been requiring my attention in the last 24 hours. Twitter is the only really active place. This is probably for the best too because I’m going to be moody. What I wrote yesterday for Book 12 was fun and I was aiming to have more of it. I mean, I got to do a Luke solo scene with a lot of action and a Sari being cunning scene. It’s hard to do these things so late in the series when the group is together and I feel bad when a character is just standing there. I always hope to give them one line, but it doesn’t always work. At least with Luke, Nyx, and Sari. Although, the first two seem to have mellowed in their old age. I’m rambling.
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(Small note for spouses of sickies: For the love of GOD, do not commandeer the nearest bathroom for a cleaning when your significant other might have to make a mad dash. It doesn’t matter if you’ve been meaning to do it and promising to do it for the last 2 weeks. Now is not the time!)
She is going to kill you for writing this. I hope you live long enough to feel better.
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Eh, I see wives write about their husbands snoring all the time. Besides, cutting off the ailing spouse from the bathroom pretty much earned this post. That’s just not nice.
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I agree! I hope she doesn’t read everything you write. I don’t worry about H. He doesn’t read unless I shove it under his nose and he could go one on one in a snoring contest with your wife. Hope you get some rest. ~Elle
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She doesn’t, but I showed her anyway. Honestly, this is stuff I say directly to her. We have a school meeting this morning and then I might try to go back to bed. The author in me doesn’t want to lose a day of writing, so I’m exhausted and torn. Too used to pushing myself when not at my best.
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If you are like me by the time you get up and through that meeting you will have your second wind! Good luck.
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I kind of do. Feel slower and tired, but part of me wants to function. Also something is kind of forcing my hand to stay awake.
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I thought the same thing that coldhandboyack thought. 🙂 I’m sorry you’re not sleeping well. I haven’t either. Haven’t posted either. I’m going on a retreat soon, but didn’t announce that on my blog.
Hope you can get some needed sleep.
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I was wondering what happened and thought you were on vacation. I’m trying to figure out what to do about sleep. Let’s just say a new wrinkle has turned up to stop that from happening.
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Oh man! I hope things turn out okay.
I’m about to head out for a few days. So I’m trying to do last-minute stuff before I go. Will post when I return.
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Hope you have fun while away. 🙂
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Love those odd snore descriptions! I’m so using them in my writing 😀
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Came up with another one after the post:
A marching band falling down a flight of stairs.
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Ha ha 😀
How about, “a typewriter wrapped in tin foil falling down the stairs?”
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Good one. Haven’t heard a typewriter snore yet. The broken snore is a strange one. Starts normal, cuts off suddenly, and returns a few seconds later where it left off.
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A good night’s sleep is one of those things you don’t appreciate until it’s gone. My favorite snore type was the choking thing where you think she’s in trouble. Very sweet 😀
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Sometimes sweet. I’ll admit that after the 3rd round of that one, my response is shove along with ‘stop dying’. Still better than when I snore and her method is a blind backhand or elbow to the spine.
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Alex smoked cigars with my brother last night. And my eardrums paid dearly for it. All. Night.
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Ouch. I’m considering keeping some duct tape by my side of the bed until this thing stops.
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I can SOOOO relate! Hubby snores something AWFUL. Your descriptions made me laugh; now I know what I can do when his snoring is keeping me awake. I have the same problem when I get sick; when he gets sick, I take care of him, but when I get sick, I’m still taking care of everyone else and doing all the things I do when I’m not sick. I hope you are able to get some rest and get better quickly!
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I know for myself that it’s sleep apnea, which I’m trying to get a handle on. Weight loss is the best method, but that isn’t going very well. Though I don’t think I’m snoring as much as I used to.
Yeah. It usually goes to the point where I either throw whatever I have or get bedridden. That’s equally frustrating because then I get lectured about doing anything. That’s if people remember I’m in the house. One Christmas, I got the flu with a fever and everything. Nobody came to check on me or bring me more water for most of the day. The bedroom is on the second floor of the house and I couldn’t stand for long enough to take the stairs.
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😦
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You should write a manual on life, health, and coping behavior. I’m sorry you don’t feel well, but you sure are humorous.
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Interesting suggestion. I can make a book that tells everyone what not to do and make enough money to buy this candy bar I’ve been eyeing. 😛 I really do need to find a way to cut some of the stress and irritation out of my life. Just tends to be from other people.
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Well if you don’t want to be alone…
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Never alone. The voices are always there . . . Never any fun in normal. 😉
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Ha ha ha
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I hope you manage to get some rest, to say you need sleep would be an understatement! At the moment, it’s the opposite for me – all I want to do is sleep and what I haven’t been doing is write. Oh well, I’ll push through and hope I come out writing! 😀
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I may have found a few minutes to rest, but it wasn’t really possible. Too loud and chaotic. Now it’s at the point where napping will throw me off for sleeping at night. Really hating that today is becoming a wash as far as writing goes.
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Oh no, sorry to hear that. Fingers crossed you crash completely and don’t get disturbed tonight. Also fingers crossed you get at least a little writing in 🙂
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I’m dreading a complete crash. Those are never pretty.
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True. Though I’m one of the lucky ones – I sleep like the dead and it takes a stick of dynamite to get me out of bed. Unless it relates to my girls and then all they have to do is sneeze! Of course, because I like to be contrary, there are times when I either can’t sleep and the insomnia kicks in, and times when I want to sleep all the damn time. But, anyway…I hope you find a happy medium and if not crash, at least sleep soundly 😀
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I’m a very light sleeper and tend to have very little space. Way back when, I’d react to every noise my son made over the intercom. A lot of authors seem to have some level of insomnia. Probably because the mind keeps rolling along.
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Yeah, I guess. And I know exactly what you mean about the intercom; we are so in tune with our children, aren’t we? It’s a sense all of its own!
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For the first 6-9 months, he slept next to our bed too. Nobody warned me that baby breathing is so shallow, which led to a lot of freak outs on my part.
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I hear you about the freak outs!
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I’ve got one word for you … ear plugs. Years ago, I got tired of waking up to the various sounds of the night — the dogs scratching their neck and jangling their dog tags, the guy across the street who left for work at 3:30 in the morning and had to fire up his noisy car, the sounds of the paper delivery guy walking up our drive way (our bedroom overlooks the drive way, and who knows what else). I’m an uneasy sleeper and rarely get a good night’s sleep. Now, on occasion, I take my ear plugs out and realize that I couldn’t possibly sleep through my wife’s snoring without them.
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I considered it, but I’m also the light sleeper who hears if the kid wakes up crying or falls out of bed. Though I definitely think my mind will change if this keeps up. Thanks.
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That’s the thing with ear plugs though. If you can’t hear the kid, somebody else will and will take care of it. Hopefully. 😉
In all seriousness, I didn’t start with the ear plugs until our kids were old enough that the nighttime issues weren’t much anymore.
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That’s what I’d have to do. He’s six, but we still run into issues from time to time. Newest thing is him falling out of the bed and getting stuck in the blankets.
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Oh Charles, you have a wonderful sense of humor! I laughed so hard reading this and shared with my husband! He was a champion when it came to snoring until he was diagnosed with sleep apnea and now sleeps with a C-Pap. Now I just hear the machine humming. Hope you get some rest and that your lovely wife is feeling better too.
Thanks for sharing! Blessings to you and your wife!
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I think she’s getting bronchitis, which always happens around this time of year. So we know what to do. Glad to hear your husband got some help with his snoring.
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Sounds like you might have CDS, which my husband has frequently (Coming Down with Something). Hope the meeting at your son’s school goes well.
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The meeting went well. I’m holding my own for a bit. Just really tired.
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Good to hear. Rest – take a nap. Sleep is a great healer!
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Feels too early to nap, but I’ll see what today brings.
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