I'm Awake! Also, a Plea to the Flist!

[sisabet]

Firstly: This has been posted, quite rightly, all over my friendslist, but on the off-chance that there is someone reading this here who hasn't seen it:  counteragent's little sister is very sick. Her diagnosis is uncertain and right now the family is searching for people they call "comparables" - people with similar symptoms and treatments that they've used.  Please, take a few minutes and check out their blog at http://jenjensfamily.blogspot.com/
Thank you.





My sleep issues seem rather silly, but here is an update: melatonin knocks me out (Sekrit message to jarrow: I am sorry I wimped out and fell asleep before I could do the thing I said I would do. Tonight? Is tonight good?).  This is good to know.  Also, melatonin, unlike Benadryl, doesn't make me a zombie. I am wide awake and aware of what I am doing, which is always a plus when posting something online.

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to keep me asleep for a full seven hours - I woke up at 5am today. At this point in my life, I am okay with this.  I've fixed breakfast, given Sid his medicine, put a load of clothes in the dryer and watched an hour of MTV and they actually played, gasp, videos. It was crazy.  In the 40 minutes I watched they played a Rihanna vid and then an Usher vid. I flipped during commercials and turned right back and there was Rihanna again! Since I love her, I was okay with her showing up again so soon even if she brought Maroon 5 with her.  After that it was Fall Out Boy's "Beat It" cover which they ran viewer-comments over which kinda sucked because I wanted to watch the actual video. The cover wasn't that great, but there was Donald Faison! And BUSTER!!! Then they played "Handlebars" by Flobots and that is the first video I've seen in a long time that caused me to stop everything else I was doing and just watch. Awesome.

Also, I think this is a Heroes song. Possibly.

Also, Also: What is the deal with that Maroon 5 dude, Adam Levine? Why does he never smile? I mean, not once - I have never seen him crack a smile ever and he is all over my TV right now - he is on some dumb commercial and then he was in that hilarious Andy Samberg "Iran So Far" SNL thing and you'd think one time, just one time - he'd crack a grin*. Maybe even a shy, looking down kinda self-deprecating type almost wry, little tiny movement upwards of his lips. I mean - even Tom Cruise does that.  But, no - he just keeps posturing as this super-intense dude who can't even enjoy the fact that he has Rihanna in her underwear draping herself all over him.  Which, maybe he is this humorless, super-intense dude - wouldn't be the first one in the world.


*I should say: I get why he isn't smiling in the short and that in this particular instance it makes it funnier - just that his shtick is getting old fast. At least for me.

Comments

[way2busymom.livejournal.com]

I can hook you up with the FOB Beat It vid if you want it. It's the most lolotastic thing I've seen in ages. Made me fall off my chair laughing.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Hee, it looked a bit insane. Just... no, that pretty much captures my reaction: insanity.

Also, for some reason, I thought Pete Wentz was the lead singer and the bassist and it was kinda jarring to realize this wasn't the case. Or is it? FOB confuses me - teenagers with their crazy rock music and flatirons.

Also, I made one of my 13 year olds cry when I told her Pete got married. I tried not to laugh...

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

Ha ha, Mr WG and I comment all the time about how MTV doesn't seem to play videos anymore. Sheesh.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

I was all impressed and surprised! Videos on MTV!

[crazywritinfool.livejournal.com]

OOOOOO!!!! If you vidded Handlebars I would LOVE YOU FOREVER!!! They're a local Denver band and I think I'm the only one in the office who isn't sick of that song.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

It is a great song but apparently they've been uber-popular in Denver, so I can feel your pain. Like when I lived in NOLA and the radio stations couldn't play Cowboy Mouth's "Jenny Said" enough.

Wait, no. My pain is greater than yours. Cowboy Mouth. Damn.

[deejay.livejournal.com]

I was actually considering using 'Handlebars' for an 'Iron Man' vid, possibly even for this year's Premieres show, lol...! *shrug*

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[counteragent.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that would totally work!

[deejay.livejournal.com]

Yup...but it also would for 'Heroes' (definitely for Nathan P.), so I'll wait and see if she's gonna use it before I make mine. =D

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Dude, NEVER wait on me to make a vid. It is long and lonely, waiting for me to make a vid. Also, IM would totally work and I'd love it to pieces so you should do it!

[deejay.livejournal.com]

Since having to recently scrap my 'Burn Notice' Premieres vid (crappola torrents), I have been sorely tempted to vid 'Iron Man' (which isn't all that much better a copy to vid from and nowhere near being as "legal," lol!) with this song ever since I first heard it played on Sirius over a week ago. Ehhhh, I'll play around with it a bit, and see if it's even viable at this stage. =}

[rydra_wong]

Yay melatonin! It's been invaluable for me.

Re: waking up early -- I've found that often when that happens (which it does regardless of melatonin or not), if I make myself stay in bed and read for a bit (and generally go through my standard pre-sleep wind-down routine) I can get back to sleep again; it's just a question of keeping my brain from flipping the mental switch that says I'M AWAKE SO I'M AWAKE NOW GET UP GET UP.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

I was kind of scared to try to go to back to sleep - what if I then oversleep? So, it made it difficult to relax and then I decided to just go ahead and watch TV.

[rydra_wong]

I was kind of scared to try to go to back to sleep - what if I then oversleep?

Really good alarm clock? *g* For what it's worth, if you've got more than an hour or so before you actually have to get up, going back to sleep shouldn't leave you groggy -- the brain naturally cycles in and out of deep sleep, so spontaneous waking up and then going back to sleep won't mess with you too much.

[sdwolfpup.livejournal.com]

Wow, I hadn't heard the song or seen the vid of "Handlebars," thanks for linking to that.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Their website, one of the emcees, Brer Rabbit, lists his influences as:

Influnces include The music machine, The Akira Soundtrack, Afrique, Digable Planets, Marvel Comics 1985-92, The Dark Crystal, Friends and family.

I feel a deep connection.

[counteragent.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for the announcement! We really, really appreciate it.

Also, that Flobots song is so cool. I hadn't seen it before, but I'm so glad I did. That video is awesome. I think it would make an awesome vid, and I can see how it could work like mad for Heroes.

Thanks for the link!

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

I hope your family gets some encouraging and good news soon. You're in my prayer.

[counteragent.livejournal.com]

Thank you, that means a lot to me.

[jarrow.livejournal.com]

Yes, honey! You can do the thing whenever is a good time for you. *big hugs* I should be around tonight if you have any thoughts on it :-) *smooches*

[lapillus]

If you have insurance it may be worth getting a sleep study done if you don't find anything that's letting you stay under. {{{}}}

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I don't know that it wasn't just excitement/anxiety over oversleeping on my new, normal person work schedule.

Except, both of my sisters are like this - we tend to sleep in pockets of time from 3-5 hours long. Most doctors tend to say I am clinically depressed because of this, but that diagnosis feels wrong to me.

[lapillus]

If it's something that happens regularly I'd be curious if there were either breathing obstructions or if you had weird brainwaves. Or something like restless legs which wakes you up. Also, you may not be emotionally depressed but you might have seratonin issues which are treatable with antidepressants but which primarily show up for you as sleep issues. If you have insurance that will cover it, it's worth poking at it at least once. If you turn up nothing at least you know that you aren't stopping breathing for 45 seconds at a time like I was (and like Lum spotted for me one Escapade when we were roommates).

[cee-m.livejournal.com]

I hope you feel better soon. Good luck with that sleeping thing. I hear it's awesome.