unrestful sleep

Last night I got a terrible night's sleep. It seems that a few times a month I will toss and turn, doze in and out of sleep, and dream about not being able to sleep. When the alarm finally does go off, I am still exhausted. I know that I have gotten some sleep when this happens although I am not sure how much total. I do not know what triggers these bad nights. I have noticed they do tend to happen on Sundays most often. When it happens my mind does seem to be racing before hand and I can not seem to make it stop. I do try and watch a little TV before bed just to clear my head and slow down before bed. Maybe being up later the night before hurts me when trying to go to sleep although I am usually not up ridiculously late any night. Maybe if I take a nap that day, it comes back and hurts me. I don't know what causes it for sure. Any suggestions to solve my restless sleep problem?

funny stuff

I am a fan of Will Ferrell and I loved the video he did online called "The Landord" and I am guessing most of you have seen it. I just saw the follow up one "Good Cop, Baby Cop," and it is also very funny. Check it out if you have not seen it http://funnyordie.com/videos/33f2687080

Herniated disc

I am in the process of recovering from a herniated disc in my back. For those of you that do not know what that is or what the symptoms are let me fill you in. A herniated disc, or rupture of the intervertebral disc of the spine occurs when, the cushion that sits between the spinal vertebra is pushed outside its normal position. A herniated disc would not be a problem so often if it weren't for the spinal nerves that are very close to the edge of the intervertebral disc. Because of all the nerves that are so close to the disc when it gets pushed out of place it keeps touching the nerves and it is incredible painful. Common symptoms of a herniated disc include Leg Pain, Parasthesias and muscle weakness. There are a few other symptoms, but luckily I was spared those.
To put what I have been going through in real terms I herniated my disc last Thursday. Six days later is the first day I can walk around unassisted for about thirty minutes before I need to lay down again. For the first few days everything hurt, laughing, sneezing and walking was out of the question. I actually did try to walk last Friday to go to the doctor and I fell down, it was not a good scene. I do not wish this pain on anyone, so the point of this blog is to forewarn people to be careful. I was not doing anything tremendously strenuous when I did this, I was putting in grout on our new tile floor. I felt my back starting to get soar and I ignored it and kept working! I have been paying the price ever since. So the moral of my story is listen to your body especially your back when it tells you to take a break.

Helpful hint

Learn from my mistake. If you are pulling up linoleum flooring use a heat gun. It took us three hours to do a 1/3 of our floor without one and one hour to do the rest of the floor with it.

Mmmm

I have recently discovered a new delicous cold treat for these hot summer months. If you have not had orange sherbert and vanilla ice cream mixed together than you are missing out my friend. You can even buy them already mixed. Go to the store right now and get some, you will thank me later.

Lost Luggage

So as Nathan and I were preparing to leave Myrtle Beach we were talking with our brother-in-law about how lucky they were that their luggage made it to Myrtle Beach since their connector flight ran late. Nathan went on to say the same thing happened to us and we were fine. He also added that he flies about eight times a year for work and in the seven years he has been doing that he has never lost his luggage. I am a bit superstitious so I said right after that “knock on wood” however their was no wood to knock on in the car.

After breakfast we said our goodbyes and Nathan and I hopped on our connector flight to Charlotte and then off too Chicago. We get to O’Hare and are standing at the baggage claim. Twenty minutes later we are still standing at the baggage claim. Another twenty minutes and we are the only ones left from our flight still standing at the baggage claim. So we register our lost luggage and they reassure us that it is probably still in Charlotte but that we should have it by tomorrow. The next morning they are still looking for it and tell us to check back later. I call around noon and the completely unhelpful woman on the other end says there is no information about our bags in the system at all. They are completely lost. Well at that point I really start to get angry and start thinking just how much it would be to replace everything in my luggage as well as my luggage. I sat down and wrote out everything I could remember taking and including my luggage the cost was just over $2000, just for my stuff. I was blown away by how expensive it would be. A few hours after that the airline called and they found our luggage. I my rethink my packing strategy the next time I travel and take a full size carry on with my valuables. Nathan says I am carrying it though.