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Jan. 6th, 2018 04:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckFor some reason, in spite of the lack of sleep, I felt really good all day yesterday. I was awake, nothing unexpected hurt, and I wasn't particularly cranky/anxious. I would love to know why because I want to repeat it. The unusual bits-- I spent a couple of hours FTF with a friend the day before. I didn't use my c-PAP the night before. I ate an unpleasantly salty breakfast.
There were unusual bits that would normally have made me feel terrible, too. Having only slept about 5.5 hours is huge. Cordelia had friends over for most of the day so that I felt kind of trapped in my room and was on edge a few times about whether or not I should go out right that moment to remind the girls that there actually was an adult listening.
I suppose it's also possible that I just felt really good in comparison to the prior two days which had been miserable. So hard to tell.
I feel less great today in spite of having gotten more sleep and used my c-PAP.
Last night, I got a strong reminder about why I have to remember to mix in the salt and baking soda when I prepare a sinus wash. I put the packet into the distilled water before heating, and enough mixed that way that I was fine for the first two thirds of things. Then I got a sudden spike of salt. That burned and kept hurting and hurting for almost an hour after. My teeth ached on that side. I rinsed a bit more with plain (and room temperature) distilled water, and that helped a tiny bit. Usually plain water and/or room temperature water hurt, so I take it as a sign that there was a ton of salt left in there.
Cordelia's watching a movie adaptation of War and Peace (the one with Audrey Hepburn as Natasha). I keep catching bits in passing and feeling very unimpressed. The accents are... kind of random. But there's a taking risks while drinking scene that explained to me why that one Russophile guy in the dorm in college (who adored Tolstoy) did the stupid standing on a windowsill on the 4th floor of the dorm then leaning backward and chugging liquor thing repeatedly.
I tried reading the book once and stopped because I realized that all I actually wanted, twenty or so pages in, was for everyone in it to die as fast as possible so that I wouldn't have to spend more time with them. I took that as a huge sign of book/reader mismatch and returned it to the library. The Russophile guy I mentioned above was completely boggled that someone might dislike Pierre, but he and I seldom agreed on what made an enjoyable read, so... ::shrugs::
But watching a three hour movie seems like an alternative to reading the whole book if Cordelia wants more of the story. Maybe Russia in the Napoleonic period feels a lot like some of the YA dystopias she reads?
There were unusual bits that would normally have made me feel terrible, too. Having only slept about 5.5 hours is huge. Cordelia had friends over for most of the day so that I felt kind of trapped in my room and was on edge a few times about whether or not I should go out right that moment to remind the girls that there actually was an adult listening.
I suppose it's also possible that I just felt really good in comparison to the prior two days which had been miserable. So hard to tell.
I feel less great today in spite of having gotten more sleep and used my c-PAP.
Last night, I got a strong reminder about why I have to remember to mix in the salt and baking soda when I prepare a sinus wash. I put the packet into the distilled water before heating, and enough mixed that way that I was fine for the first two thirds of things. Then I got a sudden spike of salt. That burned and kept hurting and hurting for almost an hour after. My teeth ached on that side. I rinsed a bit more with plain (and room temperature) distilled water, and that helped a tiny bit. Usually plain water and/or room temperature water hurt, so I take it as a sign that there was a ton of salt left in there.
Cordelia's watching a movie adaptation of War and Peace (the one with Audrey Hepburn as Natasha). I keep catching bits in passing and feeling very unimpressed. The accents are... kind of random. But there's a taking risks while drinking scene that explained to me why that one Russophile guy in the dorm in college (who adored Tolstoy) did the stupid standing on a windowsill on the 4th floor of the dorm then leaning backward and chugging liquor thing repeatedly.
I tried reading the book once and stopped because I realized that all I actually wanted, twenty or so pages in, was for everyone in it to die as fast as possible so that I wouldn't have to spend more time with them. I took that as a huge sign of book/reader mismatch and returned it to the library. The Russophile guy I mentioned above was completely boggled that someone might dislike Pierre, but he and I seldom agreed on what made an enjoyable read, so... ::shrugs::
But watching a three hour movie seems like an alternative to reading the whole book if Cordelia wants more of the story. Maybe Russia in the Napoleonic period feels a lot like some of the YA dystopias she reads?
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Date: 2018-01-06 10:49 pm (UTC)He recently wrote on Facebook that he doesn't drink at all anymore. I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw that!!!
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Date: 2018-01-06 10:52 pm (UTC)Him not drinking anymore would be a very good thing!