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Sunday, July 01, 2007 - (see all news for this day)
lack of sleep - 08:23 AM
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someone in the block of units here must have been having a party last night. there were lots of noisy, mostly drunk people coming & going throughout the night. the majority of them passed by at a reasonable hour with all their loud conversation, but one lot of three guys was hanging about outside the gates (my unit is close to the gates) from about 1:15am, talking & laughing. they weren't causing trouble, but they were too damn noisy for that time of night.
smiley's sleeping was erratic at around that time (maybe because of them, but more likely because of his cold) & so he woke about three times over the hour that it finally took me to get annoyed enough to call the police to ask the guys to move on or shut the hell up or something. a couple of times i considered calling out from my balcony to ask them nicely to keep it down, but in my sleepy state & their drunk one, i had no idea if they were going to cause more trouble or start hassling me or something.
of course, by that time, i was wide awake & couldn't get back to sleep even though i was trying very hard. also, about three minutes after i finally did go downstairs in the freezing cold to call the cops, a taxi arrived for them (i'm guessing that's what they were doing all that time, waiting for the taxi since i heard them say "about time!" my thoughts were exactly the same, i tell you) & took their noisy selves away. so then i felt compelled to call the police back to say "don't worry about it."
not only was my mind wide awake by then, but something i ate for lunch at mum & bill's place yesterday gave me terrible wind & i'd been having awful gut aches all day & night. lying down didn't help the air to move at all & it just hung around in my tummy hurting me. i have no idea what on earth filled me up with so much air, because mum made a delicious pork roast & vegies & there was nothing in that meal i hadn't eaten before, so i don't understand why my body reacted that way.
since i was lying there wide awake, i decided to read for a bit & did so for about an hour. at 4am i put my book away & tried for more sleep. even then it still took me about an hour to fall asleep properly. so i got about two & a half hours sleep in the first stretch & then three hours in the next stretch. with my tummy ache though, even that small amount wasn't satisfying sleep.
ugh. what a horrible sleep i had.
Ahhh, I so know what you are talking about. We live in a block of 5 with a block of 6 next door and we can hear people from about 10 backyards in summer. I started sleeping with earplugs and now I can't fall asleep without them anymore.
Hope your tummy is getting better soon. I've been sick all week with tummy bug, cold, fever...can you believe - I'm excited to going back to work tomorrow...hmmm...
drunks are hard to deal with when you're sober; but not so when you are one of them. lol! sorry about your rough night. hope things are better today.
It might have been the pork!! I know in my family pork causes tummy troubles!!
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Sorry to hear you had such a lousy night.
I find that the best thing to do when my tummy is feeling like that is to put some baking soda in a glass and add water and drink. In a few minutes it makes you burp very loudly LOL but it helps gets rid of built up gas and also nutralizes any acidity.