How much worse can this day get?
Nov 13, 2019 21:13:53 GMT
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Post by Lexica on Nov 13, 2019 21:13:53 GMT
I'm just venting here since there is no advice that could possibly help me.
I have insomnia frequently, and despite taking an Ambien last night, I could not fall asleep. After laying in the dark for enough time to make me crazy, I got up at 4 a.m. and started watching movies on my laptop downstairs. I was sitting in my recliner and having a cup of coffee. As happens after drinking coffee, I needed to pee. My recliner is touchy and sometimes it can refuse to lock the footrest portion when you push it down to the chair. I kept kicking it and kicking it and it wouldn't lock down to let me get up out of the chair. It is maddening. I ended up having to climb out over the foot portion of the chair to get up. The room was pretty dark except for the glow of my laptop screen but I really needed to pee so I quickly walk toward the bathroom without taking time to go the light switch.
I am hurrying along and *wham* I stubbed my toe on the leg of the kitchen table. For whatever reason, that pain triggered my bladder to let go! I am starting to pee as I am doing a hop/hobble on one leg due to the stubbed and now bleeding toe. All I can think is Thank God I live alone! I hobble the rest of the way to the bathroom and finish going. I clean the floor while pushing the dog and two of the cats out of the way as they want to investigate what is on the floor. The dog smells the blood on my toe and is trying like mad to lick it. He has a real thing for the smell of blood and always tries to go after any cut I ever have. I throw my wet clothes into the washing machine and go take a shower.
After getting dressed, I go to brush my teeth to get ready for the day. I began to brush. That's odd. I thought in my exhausted stupor I must have forgotten to wet the brush because there is no foam building. I wet the toothbrush. I begin brushing again and notice there is still no foam, plus it doesn't taste like my toothpaste. I open the drawer again to check the tube. Son of a biscuit. I had grabbed the tube of rash cream instead of the tube of toothpaste. I never noticed how closely the packaging of these two products look to each other. The rash cream is now going to be put into the cupboard, well away from the toothpaste. I usually only use it during the summer anyway.
Do you know how thick Balmax rash cream is and how much it wants to stick to your teeth? I had to wipe them off with several paper towels and put a new brush on my electric toothbrush because the first one, which had just been changed last week, felt greasy and wasn't coming clean, even with dish soap and hot water.
Now I sit down to begin getting my laptop ready to ship off to Apple due to a battery issue that they just notified me about. Apparently the battery can burst into flames. I need to back it up anyway, and I am pulling off all the sensitive files that I don't want on there (list of passwords, even though it is only a partial of each password) household banking information, etc. You know, the files you don't need anyone to have access to.
As I am getting everything ready to transfer to my new auxiliary drive, my phone rings. They claim to be from Apple and are telling me that someone from Nigeria currently has control of my computer and they need to walk me through how to fix it. I listened for about a minute as they direct me to go to a site that would let them live link to my computer. I started laughing at the man and told him there was no way I was giving him access to my laptop. He then wanted to send me an email file. No thank you. I've heard that some people have lost all the money in their bank accounts as you allow them control of your computer. Thankfully, I am not so exhausted that I fell for that scheme.
I haven't even had breakfast yet and it is almost 1:00 in the afternoon. I think I will modify my to-do list and stay home instead of driving anywhere today. I am going to do only the most necessary of chores and call it a movie-watching day.
Oh, and I also think I fed the dog twice this morning. I couldn't remember whether I had fed him when I made my coffee, which is what I usually do. I am blaming all of this on sleep depravation instead of me getting older and clumsier. Tomorrow is another day, right?
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I have insomnia frequently, and despite taking an Ambien last night, I could not fall asleep. After laying in the dark for enough time to make me crazy, I got up at 4 a.m. and started watching movies on my laptop downstairs. I was sitting in my recliner and having a cup of coffee. As happens after drinking coffee, I needed to pee. My recliner is touchy and sometimes it can refuse to lock the footrest portion when you push it down to the chair. I kept kicking it and kicking it and it wouldn't lock down to let me get up out of the chair. It is maddening. I ended up having to climb out over the foot portion of the chair to get up. The room was pretty dark except for the glow of my laptop screen but I really needed to pee so I quickly walk toward the bathroom without taking time to go the light switch.
I am hurrying along and *wham* I stubbed my toe on the leg of the kitchen table. For whatever reason, that pain triggered my bladder to let go! I am starting to pee as I am doing a hop/hobble on one leg due to the stubbed and now bleeding toe. All I can think is Thank God I live alone! I hobble the rest of the way to the bathroom and finish going. I clean the floor while pushing the dog and two of the cats out of the way as they want to investigate what is on the floor. The dog smells the blood on my toe and is trying like mad to lick it. He has a real thing for the smell of blood and always tries to go after any cut I ever have. I throw my wet clothes into the washing machine and go take a shower.
After getting dressed, I go to brush my teeth to get ready for the day. I began to brush. That's odd. I thought in my exhausted stupor I must have forgotten to wet the brush because there is no foam building. I wet the toothbrush. I begin brushing again and notice there is still no foam, plus it doesn't taste like my toothpaste. I open the drawer again to check the tube. Son of a biscuit. I had grabbed the tube of rash cream instead of the tube of toothpaste. I never noticed how closely the packaging of these two products look to each other. The rash cream is now going to be put into the cupboard, well away from the toothpaste. I usually only use it during the summer anyway.
Do you know how thick Balmax rash cream is and how much it wants to stick to your teeth? I had to wipe them off with several paper towels and put a new brush on my electric toothbrush because the first one, which had just been changed last week, felt greasy and wasn't coming clean, even with dish soap and hot water.
Now I sit down to begin getting my laptop ready to ship off to Apple due to a battery issue that they just notified me about. Apparently the battery can burst into flames. I need to back it up anyway, and I am pulling off all the sensitive files that I don't want on there (list of passwords, even though it is only a partial of each password) household banking information, etc. You know, the files you don't need anyone to have access to.
As I am getting everything ready to transfer to my new auxiliary drive, my phone rings. They claim to be from Apple and are telling me that someone from Nigeria currently has control of my computer and they need to walk me through how to fix it. I listened for about a minute as they direct me to go to a site that would let them live link to my computer. I started laughing at the man and told him there was no way I was giving him access to my laptop. He then wanted to send me an email file. No thank you. I've heard that some people have lost all the money in their bank accounts as you allow them control of your computer. Thankfully, I am not so exhausted that I fell for that scheme.
I haven't even had breakfast yet and it is almost 1:00 in the afternoon. I think I will modify my to-do list and stay home instead of driving anywhere today. I am going to do only the most necessary of chores and call it a movie-watching day.
Oh, and I also think I fed the dog twice this morning. I couldn't remember whether I had fed him when I made my coffee, which is what I usually do. I am blaming all of this on sleep depravation instead of me getting older and clumsier. Tomorrow is another day, right?
Thank goodness I had never used that brush to scrub the toilet!
Do you have caffeinated drinks after 3 in the afternoon? Maybe that is why you are having trouble sleeping. I had caffeinated tea from 3-5:30 yesterday afternoon. I was wide awake til 3 this morning. I would suggest getting the computer off to be fixed as soon as possible if it might be a fire hazard.
