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I used to have to tell Doug to come to bed at night. He’d be on the computer reading inane sports drivel for hours. Now that he’s adopted his new Amish lifestyle, up with the roosters, Doug looks just like this little guy every night by 9pm.
I’m not sleepy. I’m not sleepy. I wasn’t sleeping.
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i use a combo of shea butter and aloe vera moisturizer. Works great. I use shea butter on my lips, around my eyes and nose (dry areas), My father swears by vasoline.
p.s. I dropped your name on Gina's post, Barb. ;)
Hi again. I have to laugh. My friend Gina Mcnew just wrote a blog post about the myriad of skincare and beauty products women use compared to men. And how it gets crazy as we get older. I laughed my butt off! I thought you ladies would enjothank you so much Lisa, that helps a lot. I know he tried to blame me for so much stuff, but like I told all of his family and mine none of that added up to a divorce. I do realize it's his needs, it just hurts so bad to think how many years he'sI used Noxzema from the time I was old enough to wash my own face, all through school and into adulthood. Then I decided it wasn't 'sophisticated' enough and went with higher priced, higher end products. About 5 years ago, I went back to 
Doug, I’m on your to do list, hello!…M….yeah, I know, close…TRACK…l.o.l….just getting in!
Partying on a Tuesday night? Only you, Track. Get some sleep kiddo.
HEY. I think I’m married to Doug/Spudgy’s first cousin! Jim is obnoxiously active and productive all day, but if he sits down (both during the day and at night), he falls asleep. Without fail. I’m pretty sure he has a “sleep button” on his butt somewhere. He won’t let me search for it, though. 0_0
Does he deny he’s sleepy like Does does? He’ll be on the couch and I say- “Go on to bed. You’re sleepy.” “No, I’m not.” We usually have at least three rounds of this before he goes to bed.
Then while going to bed he’ll choose what to watch on TV in the bedroom. He doesn’t want to “learn” anything on TV. (I watch a lot of the History Channel, Disc. Health, Nat. Geographic and the like.), even though he’ll be fast asleep in 5 minutes.
Sometimes I really don’t understand men. Is this just an issue of control?
Does he deny it? Well lemme see. I’ll hear snoring while we’re watching something together – or while he’s watching one of his beloved White Sox games, I’ll look over to see that he’s OBVIOUSLY sleeping and if it’s something we’re watching together (recorded via dvr only, never live), I pause it. I ask him if he was sleeping and he ….. swear to GOD….. says:
“Nope. Just resting my eyes for a second.”
I inform him he was too sleeping, in fact he was snoring. And he gets all pissy on me. (It’s vaguely possible I laugh at him.)
I don’t know if I’d call it an issue of control…. it’s certainly an issue of something, though! With my husband, I’m pretty sure it’s an issue of “I am NOT so old I fall asleep while watching TV!” My husband’s 67 now. He’s not dealing well with the fact that he’s facing 70. Oh yeah? Well I’m not dealing real well with the fact that I’m facing 60, you moron!
At least I had the sense to go through two sleep studies to find out I really need a c-pap machine and a Darth Vaderette mask. He has obvious sleep apnea and will he do anything about it? Hell no.
Oh geeze, please don’t tell him I called him an old-fart moron. (snort)
P.S. Jim very rarely ever chooses what we watch together, and in fact, he’s SO bad with the dvr control that I’m in charge of all remote controls in this house. CRAP, I may have a control issue!
Obviously there is some chromosomal abnormality in men’s DNA that explains this behavior.
Do you really use a C-pap? My mom had one of those on the day she died. She hated it. Then when the final dose of morphine kicked in, we could take it off her and just use the cannula again til the end.
I don’t know if I could use one or not; but I guess you just do what you gotta do. I assume you can only sleep on your back while wearing this.
That would be bad for me. I’m all over the place in bed. I bet I change positions 25 times a night.
You can definitely sleep on your side, which actually is better for you. The hose connection on the face mask does a 360-degree turn to accommodate your sleeping habit. My problem has been finding a mask that fits my face without causing pain either on the bridge of my nose, (Eventually caused scabs even!)
That one’s gone now – the new one arrived yesterday, tried it out last night and found out it sits right below my bottom lip and digs in there. HARD. I’m now considering just ordering my own mask (going by reviews) and being out some money instead of trying to talk to an idiotic rep over the phone, one who won’t drive here and do her job because we’re too far away out here in the boonies.
Oopsie, I did a chatty run-on there again. Don’t care. (grin) I only change positions to switch from one side to the other in bed, because otherwise my joints start hurting. I need the C-pap because three sleep studies showed (over 15 or so years) that I quietly quit breathing an average of 12 times an hour and therefore spent most of my time in Stage 1 sleep. Not apnea, what I do is called hypopnea, because I don’t breathe through my mouth.
Both doctors (1995 and now) told me it’s amazing I’m able to be on my feet at all, and chronic fatigue wasn’t at all surprising. So yes, I’ll use my machine and my mask happily just as soon as I find a mask that fits right. It’s worth it. I sleep SO much better with it. Of course, I wear ear plugs and don’t hear the machine at all. I also don’t hear Jim’s loud snoring.
P.S. You know, I did a whole blog post on this. If you’d read that, this long story I just told wouldn’t even have been necessary, Missy.
All right, all right I sit here reprimanded. You know, I’m exhausted every afternoon and I never thought it could be apnea. I always had hot flashes before, but now that they’re gone, I’m still exhausted.
Years ago I was diagnosed with EB virus, which causes mono. I was told then that it never really goes away. It just lays around waiting to bite you in the butt again. I’ve been assuming it was that.
BTW- I don’t care if you have a chatty run-on here. Feel free to have one here anytime.
Like you two chatty caddies, l.o.l….TRACK
HI TRACK! I like you back. :-) I’m not really here, though – oh no, I’m NOT. I’m doing laundry and very busily packing to fly to Ohio tomorrow and spend 5 days with two very fun and crazy friends. We call them Thelma and Louise, because adventures always happen when they’re together.
Let us all pray now for nothing involving guns or Brad Pitt-like con artists. (They’re insisting they’re going to take to me to a tattoo place – I told them that’s fine since they have no way of forcing me to actually GET a tattoo. Duh.)
Are you suggesting that we talk a lot?
I know I don’t. Nope, not one person in my life has ever suggested that, not EVER. Can’t speak for you, though.
Well not to my face anyway!
L.O.L.,…TRACK
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