Hello. My name is Jenny and I’ve had issues sleeping since …. forever. Yes I have sleeping pills, but don’t like to take them. Waking up in a pill induced haze is sometimes worse than just not sleeping at all. This post is not looking for suggestions – I don’t have caffeine in the evening! My sugar intake is minimal! I kick my ass daily at the gym! In the mornings or afternoons! So the high wears off before bed! Yeah. I’m just really sleep-challenged. Rather this is a post to give you a little look into what my days are like after not sleeping well …. or at all. Two nights in a row.
This morning I woke up pissed off. Or rather, too tired to be pissed off, but if I had any sleep at all, I would have had the energy to be sufficiently pissed off. I got ready and trudged out the door of my apartment and headed towards the subway listening to Dan Savage. Somewhere in between a call about a 28 year old fag hag (I SWEAR IT WASN’T ME) and a call about sounding (DO NOT GOOGLE IMAGE THIS) I reached up and touched my head. I WAS SOAKING WET.
HUH?
Oh that’s right. It looked like THIS out in Boston this morning:
AND I HADN’T NOTICED. And no, I’m not kidding. I showed up to work looking like a wet noodle.
Somehow I made it through a 2.5 hour meeting this morning and MADE SENSE during the whole thing. Although I did find my eyes getting pretttty heavy at times. Which was probably a combo of the fact that a.) I obviously didn’t sleep b.) I hadn’t eaten yet today and c.) my venti coffee ran out roughly .02 seconds into the meeting.
Just now I was talking to Danielle and telling her that I am using the totally awesome and totally environmentally friendly mug
And I was telling her that it’s great for tea, because the lid catches and holds the tea bag string for you. To which Dink responded with “You’re a tea bag!”
And here’s where the reaaaalllllly tired part comes in. The part where that internal filter, the one that stops you from saying stupid or gross things, kicks in. Except when you don’t sleep … it just goes away.
Case in point: My comeback?
“I’ll tea bag you.”
Yup.
Jenny, GET SOME SLEEP. For all our sakes.
PS. If that post didn’t entertain you, check out this outfit from Chanel Hell that I snapped in my Starbucks this morning:
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I hear you loud and clear. I go through periods of sleeplessness every year, usually with seasonal changes. I’ll go a couple of weeks getting two hours of sleep a night, at best. I hate taking sleeping pills because it’s worse than waking up with a hangover.
Of course, I can’t always blame my sleeplessness on my internal filter not existing to begin with. As soon as I heard you describe your mug, I went the same dirty route you did!
A Chanel claw? REALLY?
I hope you run into her again and she’s wearing a Chanel scrunchy.
Wow. Please strike out my last sentence, and rearrange it so that it reads “I can’t always blame my internal filter not existing on my sleeplessness.” Sleeplessness FTW.
Wowza… You and I have so much in common it’s creepy.
Jenn … I just LOLed at your comments. And RHI … CLICK ON THE PHOTO INTO MY FLICKR!!! That’s exactly what I said!!!
As long as you don’t sprout a split personality bent on world domination, I think you’ll get better.
Now get some sleep!
Any thoughts I may have had about sleeplessness disappeared when I saw that outfit. Whatever would posses someone to make them go out looking like that?
That overkill Chanel lady reminds me of a photo I saw of that stupid chick from “The Hills”, the dumb blonde one, who’s with that turd Spencer- she had the Chanel logo painted on her nails. Maybe both of them should get together and have a party.
I didn’t even notice that the hairclip (EWH) was Chanel, too, until I read Rhi’s comment. DOUBLE EWH.
I’m sorry you (and Chris) have The Sleeping Issues. I wish I could give you some of mad sleeping skillz.
Been a fan of the blog for awhile… but never commented. Just had to point out that when I first saw the headline and the pic I thought it was a great choice for the “foggy” feeling ones has at times who suffers from Insomnia. After reading I realized it really wasn’t intended to be a visual… but still a good pic.
Sorry for the insomnia… at least you still noticed the Chanel billboard
cheers