I should have been asleep long ago, I get up so very eary.
But tonight/this morning, for some reason, I can’t sleep. I’ve tried reading, some light meditation, but nothing is working.
So I figured I might as well surf the SDMB. Can’t hurt, can it?
I’m going to feel like hell when I get up later this morning. Pity me.
Oh good. Someone else is feeling my pain. I got about four hours of sleep and I’ve been wide awake ever since. I haven’t had a bout of insomnia this bad in nigh onto twenty years.
I’m up way too late, with my alarm due to go off in six hours. Ugh.
I have nights when I sleep better than others but most of the time I am awake a lot. I blame one of the cats, she’s an attention whore and constantly wants fuss if she thinks I’m awake.
I don’t usually get out of bed and do anything, I just fuss the cat and hope to get back to sleep.
Might have an early night to make up for it!
Blurf.
Melatonin was my friend last night, too.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’ . YAWN ‘Tis 73 Amurrkin out with a predicted high of 92 for the day. The weather PTB say highs will climb back to the mid to upper 90s this week and then startin’ Thursday, we should have rain over the next five days. We shall see.
Baker hope you got some sleep.
BBBobbio melatonin was my friend last night as well.
Ok, that’s all I got. Time for more caffiene and rumbly tummy wants to be fed. Then, alas and alack, 'tis Moanday so irk purtification must commence. Le sigh. Lots of paperirk stuff to deal with today.
Happy Moanday Y’all!
I guess I’m in the same boat, except, I go to bed and get up whenever I choose. As long as I’m quiet, so as not to waken the giant. He actually is finally sleeping better.
He still has some pain, but the perscription NSAID, tylenol, an occasional oxycodone, maybe once a week, and ice packs keep him pretty ok. It hasn’t been easy for either of us.
The pain meds make him emotional. He cries over movies even I find lame, even an occasional commercial.
The insurance paperwork has us buried. His LOA is through the company his work hired to get people back to work. They pretty much harass him with threats of firing if they don’t get their weekly doctor’s note.
His union has a different insurer for short term disability. They assigned us one person, who calls or e-mails when they need documentation. That means the doc, well his minions, are writing the same 25 words about once every two weeks.
The kittens are doing very well. Buddy goes for his little procedure on Friday. I don’t have any current pictures, my camera is MIA and I don’t have a cell phone*
Hubby is more upset about the surgery than Buddy will be after. Calie is still much smaller than Buddy, but catching up. He’s 6.5 lbs she’s a little under 5lbs.
Buddy still likes to be escorted to the litter box in the basement. He’s afraid of “things” they aren’t always the same things. Sometimes it’s the trash can, that hasn’t moved since he got here. Sometimes its the strip of left over carpet we have in the laundry room. So, two or three times a days I walk down with him and tell him what a brave kitty he is.
Yes, they are spoiled.
Well, I’m sleepy again. Let’s see if i can creep back into bed without alerting the whole household.
*Hubby is insisting I get one this week. He wants to change plans, so I guess I’ll soon be dragged into the 21 century.
Amazingly, I slept pretty well last night, despite the heart-pounding terrors of Sharknado 2 before going to bed! :eek: OK, so the story wasn’t exactly Shakespeare and logic was nowhere to be found, but at least it was rife with continuity errors! 
And they’re going to make another one!
I just finished a PB&J, and I’m working on the Diet Coke. Today’s big plan is a ride to Brandywine to get a ton of pellets. Better pellets from local places are running $250-$280, but in Brandywine, they’re $209/ton. Even driving the gas-hog of a truck, we’ll save a buttload driving 30 miles out there. We actually need 2 tons, but we’ll save the second one for tomorrow. No need to kill our backs all at once. The trick will be finding space for 100 bags - we might have to scootch the camper out of the way a bit.
Other than that, just another day in paradise!
Happy Moanday!!
Blurf. I didn’t sleep well last night, either. Trazodone should have been my friend, but I didn’t take one. (Melatonin doesn’t do it for me.)
I’m on the bus on my way to irk for the first time in three months. Wish me luck, y’all!
Good morning all. I used to have trouble sleeping through the night. I blamed it on the random sleep schedule I had while in the Navy, and it took about ten years for me to get to the point where I can sleep uninterrupted.
Not much happened this weekend. Took the bed apart yesterday so that we could put a new pad under the rug. Seems that the girl cat decided that she needed to piss on my side of the bed (on the floor) and it had soaked through to the pad.
Happy Moonday!
It’s bright and sunny, 63 degrees with a high of 84 today. It poured down last night.
Sah-dog woke me up twice last night, some nights he will sleep all the way through, other nights he will have me up every hour or so. I can’t complain though, sometimes it’s my bladder waking us up several times a night. Since I have flexibility with my work schedule it’s not so horrible if I don’t get sleep.
One thing that will guarantee sleep though is to get interested in a TV show. Boring stuff will keep me awake, let me get interested and I’ll fall asleep right before the ending.
So I wait to see if my offer has been accepted. I don’t even care this time. If it is it is, if it isn’t oh well.
I cry at that Budweiser commercial with the puppy who loves the Clydesdale.
I did go back to sleep for another four hours. I’m still tired but that’s what coffee is for. Today is laundry day and then I’m going to the used bookstore. I thought about going downtown to see if I can catch a glimpse of the Hillbilly Heist Movie Filming Part 2: Electric Boogaloo, but I’m just not up to it right now.
I went through a period of sleep anxiety about 5 years ago. My wonderful doctor finally put me on Restoril. It calms my mind so that I don’t worry about falling asleep. It doesn’t make me fall asleep but now I don’t care. Drugs are my friends. Despite the Restoril, I haven’t slept well the last few nights. I have a few things on my mind, nothing earth shattering.
Friday my friend and I are visiting our alma mater (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) to see the newly refurbished Alma Mater statue. We will be cheesy and take our pictures in front of her and then haunt the bookshops in pursuit of new Illini t-shirts. I’m very excited. I loved my college years and despite its flaws, the U of I is great. Unfortunately the school colors are orange and blue (yuck).
Rockin’ good luck with the new gig.
There was a wreck (I presume cause I didn’t actually see it) on the way into irk today. Traffic was backed up for a ways on my main road into irk. It starts out as a four lane road, narrows to two lanes for about a mile and then becomes four lanes again. I assume some sort of wreckage occurred where the road narrows from four to two lanes. Fortunately there is a side street where I can turn, go three blocks and take an alternate street, which I did so I didn’t get to the point where the road narrows. Still, that ain’t nice especially on a Moanday mornin’.
Irk is not too horribly irksome right now except for the ton of paperirk I’m dealin’ with and even that is slowly but surely goin’ away, so yay for that.
blurf
Two tells - one, they addressed me as “anyrose” instead of my real name, and two, the date of the supposed transaction
[QUOTE=shady email]
We are investigating a fund remitted from a UK based bank to the United States, with your names on the original papers we received from The UK Financial Intelligence Unit (UKFIU).
Transaction File #: CTUK/ACN1619-10, Transaction Tracer Reference: 60260791392220, SWIFT VALUE: $15,300,000.00 U.S Dollars.
Further verifications confirmed the above @ 9:15:48 AM, Eastern Standard Time (EST) - 0500 UTC. Monday August 1st 2014.
I am James W. Doyle, Secretary, Intelligence and Analysis and Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment on “1&A” reconceived, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), United States Department of the Treasury (NY).
Be informed that we received a SAR (suspicious activity report) from the UK Financial Intelligence Unit (UKFIU) concerning this transaction. The aforementioned sum of money was remitted to a U.S Company account, with different information in the fund origin papers that was sent to this department.
However, the fund (US$15.3million) was transferred to the company account below;
Company Owner: Dimitrios Karras
Account Name: Ares Armor
Bank: JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A.
A/C #: 811874953
Routing #: 322271627
Swift Code: CHASUS33
Bank Address: JP Morgan Chase Bank,N.A. Santa Monica, CA 90401, USA.
Hence, the UK Financial Intelligence Unit (UKFIU) sent us a SAR (suspicious activity report) so that we can further investigate this transaction from this end before releasing the fund to the stated account above.
It is thus very imperative for me to ask you; did you authorize this change of account? If yes, send us a reply email or call the number below with your reasons for this change of account, to enable us release the fund to the company account above. However, if you did not authorize this change, please quickly respond to this letter. And if you still have few document(s) relating to this transaction don_t hesitate to send us copies. Upon confirmation we shall obtain appropriate legal papers from the authorities, as we must ensure that this fund goes to the right person. So we need your support to ensure success during this investigation. And for safety reasons, you must seize communication with whomsoever you may be communicating with about this transaction, because if you have not authorized this change of account information, then, it is obvious that someone diverted the fund, and if so, the Chase Bank account owner would be apprehended and prosecuted accordingly, however, he already has a problem with the Feds.
WARNING:
YOU MUST NOT SPEAK OF THIS INVESTIGATION WITH ANYONE THAT IS INVOLVED WITH YOU IN THIS TRANSACTION, AS NO ONE CAN BE TRUSTED AT THIS TIME, EVEN YOUR PARTNERS OR WHOSOEVER. THE FUND IS HERE IN THE U.S FLOATING WITHIN THE BANK OF NEW YORK UNTIL OUR INVESTIGATION IS FRUITFUL AND FINAL DESTINATION DULY APPROVED.
Your prompt response is highly required.
Yours in service,
James W. Doyle (Jr)
Investigations
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)
under the U.S Department of the Treasury
(917) 338-2115
[/QUOTE]
and yes - the warning was in red in the email. I thought y’all could use a giggle this morning
I was up late last night because for the past few days, I’d been at a music festival. It was intense, crazy, and lots of fun! I’m kind of tired today. I have to get a lot done.
Mama Plant needs an operation. May I borrow a couple of hundred thousand?
I slept like a baby last night. I woke up every two hours, wet myself and cried.*
Now I’m up and caffeinated, and off to work this afternoon.
If you don’t cry at that one, you’re a psychopathic monster, or possibly Flytrap.
rosie, have you spent the morning seizing all communications?
Good luck, Rockin’!
FCM, I watched Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda last night. The sharktopus was the best actor in that one.
picu, that’s a lot of paper. Hope hubby is better soon.
[sub][sub]Thank you, I’ll be here all week. Try the veal.[/sub][/sub]
We have one ton of pellets stacked in the garage, and **FCD **is enroute to getting our second ton, leaving me to clear a spot to put it.
I’ve also got a set of sheets in the washer, and when it’s done, I’ll do a load of whites. Very productive for a humid Monday morning.