After a week of sleeping like a relatively normal person, last night I simply did not fall asleep. Oh, I napped from about 10:30 to 11:15, but then I wokek up and I never fell asleep again. Or ...
I believe part of my problem is something called Sleep State Misperception. I really am asleep, although I am also aware of my surroudings and feel that I am awake. As a result, I don't feel rested, even after I've slept. I left work after lunch today and came home to sleep, but it took an hour and a half just to fall asleep ... or did it? ... and even though I knew I was sleeping after that because I was dreaming, I also seemed to be awake. Once again, nature + freak = me.
We had a bout of unpleasant weather today, rain mixing immediately with wet heavy snow, followed by snow for only a couple of hours, and now bitter cold. Driving is nasty out there.
Ooh, I forgot, I did this meme yesterday, so here it is.
I stole this from Robyn,
who didn't answer any of the sex questions, and since I wasn't going to answer
them either, I left them out.
- The scar you're most proud of : Probably the craniotomy
scar behind my right ear where they cut my head open, because it's like
Harry's lightning bolt: proof that I survived. I also have odd scars in the
center of each palm -- how weird is that -- from when I got my hands caught
while I was trying to assemble something. But you can explain them any way
you like.
- Your favourite condiment : I like horseradish sauce
and honey mustard, but I really like mayonaisse. I just can't spell it.
- If you have freckles : Not the cute kind like fair haired
children have on their noses and cheeks. Just the old lady kind that pop up
on arms and shoulders.
- Your preferred method of cooking : uh ... uh .... uh ...
- What shoes you're wearing : None at the moment.
- How many children you have : Just the two.
- The first person you french kissed : That would be my
first high school boyfriend, Bob, but it was so icky that I made him not do
it any more. The next guy I dated for a few months showed up again four
years later so I married him. He does not labor under the same restriction.
- Your preferred breed of dog : I really just want a dog
and I always have! For looks, a long-haired Jack Russell. For brains, a
poodle. Temperament, maybe a pug. I'd like a nice poodle mix, probably with
a cocker spaniel. They fit the bill.
- Where you were born : Bronx Lebanon Hospital, Bronx, New
York City.
- What colour underwear you're wearing : white, I believe.
- Where your keys are right now : On my desk, eye level on
the edge of the open roll-top. Never far, never lost.
- If you have split ends : My hair is too short for split
ends. If I had them, they'd be split up to the scalp. I get my hair cut
about every 6 weeks.
- Your opinion on airline food : It's just so strange,
isn't it? The tiny cups and plates and stuff are so cunning, but the food is
like a Lean Cuisine frozen meal, but not even a good one, and sometimes you
can't even tell what it is.
- What cosmetic surgery you would consider : Let me make
one thing perfectly clear: I would never, under any circumstances, have
cosmetic surgery. (Don't forget to laugh and me and cite this specific page
one day, okay?) There are, however, two procedures that have attracted my
attention.
- they pull the skin at the top of your neck back towards your ears and
tack it there or tape it or whatever so your neck doesn't look like Fat
Bastard's did at the end of the third Austin Powers movie, or like
someone should be chasing you around the barnyard with a hatchet on the
day before Thanksgiving.
- Okay, this is a simple request. I remember where my boobs were when I
was twenty, and I want them put back RIGHT THERE. Not higher, not lower.
They were centered just fine, too. None of this falling into my armpits
when I lay down, or taking five minutes to work 'em into place every
morning but they still hang there closer to my hips than my shoulders.
That just ain't right.
- Your worst malady : Ever? Brain tumor wins! Chronic
maladies are my bad sinuses (thanks, dad) and my bad stomach (you too, mom.)
- If your mum loves your dad : My parents had an
increasingly dysfunctional relationship as the years went by and they
generally deteriorated health wise. But there was never a doubt that
they had married for love (or he would have run screaming into battle when
he met his mother-in-law) and always did love each other.
- If you can sing well : If I'm alone.
- What your olympic event would be : We must be talking
olympic cheese shredding, or something else non athletic. I am the olympic
remember of who played what part in old movies and tv shows, and what all
the character's names are.
- Someone you admire : In fact today I am very much
admiring sasori-gal
for the way she went after what she wanted and did it both like a lady (she
was polite and pleasant) and like a man (she didn't back off.) This was an
excellent thing.
- Which country would be hardest for you to locate on a map
: any place in Africa that isn't on the edges, and probably some that are.
- The last time you cried : When I was watching Big Fish
over the weekend.
- Part of the Sunday papers you read first : I read all the
advertising flyers and then I read the magazine section. And then I'm done.
If the Hubs points out an article about Bizarro World High School, I read
that.
- The languages you speak : English, so I'm told, and I can
understand smatterings of Spanish, French, and Yiddish. But not in that
order. And Latin, of course, smatterings of Latin.
- The religion you were raised in : I was raised very
specifically in an American Jewish household, where Yiddish was spoken and
chanukah candles were lit. But there was no religion, faith, or beliefs to
speak of. None of us went to synogogue, willingly or otherwise, unless a
cousin was being bar mitzvahed, and then we went. Unwillingly. Although one
of my grandfathers was Orthodox and believed it very strongly.
- If you can draw well : I can't even draw a bath. There is
one thing, though, that I can draw, and I'll try to post it tomorrow.
- Your favourite photograph : Here are two:
Me with my sister, 1953
and
My daughters, 1955
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