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Dec. 22nd, 2009 06:34 pm
The things I do for sanity's sake
Last night, my daughter fell asleep at 5:30. Since she's sick, and since we TRIED not to let her, and it would have been cruel to force her awake by that point, we let her sleep, knowing one of us (me, because unlike Elli I didn't have to work) would pay for it later.
At 3am she woke up. She did not go back to sleep. So I woke with her, and dozed here and there until Elli woke up while Tegan watched Sesame Street. Most of the day, she's been ok, but very hard to handle.
As you may suspect, I am bone tired. Not "I want to go to bed now" tired, though that may come sooner than normal, but "Oh good gods, I need Tegan to sleep so I can relax" tired.
In an attempt to not do that again, I'm letting her watch her favorite movie, which she hasn't seen in a month or so--and I'm tickling her every few minutes so she doesn't pass out. She's not real happy about the tickling, but she's bearing it well. Matter of fact, right now she's getting me back.
Anyway, come 7 or so I'll put her in her jammies; at 7:30 I'll give her her binky and let her sleep if and when she passes out.
Then I'm watching a silly movie I didn't manage to see over the summer, but because I'm a sad geek, I wanted to: GI Joe. What can I say, explosions and Eccleston as Destro... I'm so there.
In the meantime, I'll keep tickling her whilst simultaneously going into Vendetta Online and seeing if I can't manage to finish a mission without dying. Again. True newtonian physics makes things hard, man. And you can't dogfight drones with Flight Assist on. I need a better solution for side-slips than AWSDRF. Hmmm. Maybe I can map the side, dorsal, and ventral thrusters to the hat switch... hmmm.
At 3am she woke up. She did not go back to sleep. So I woke with her, and dozed here and there until Elli woke up while Tegan watched Sesame Street. Most of the day, she's been ok, but very hard to handle.
As you may suspect, I am bone tired. Not "I want to go to bed now" tired, though that may come sooner than normal, but "Oh good gods, I need Tegan to sleep so I can relax" tired.
In an attempt to not do that again, I'm letting her watch her favorite movie, which she hasn't seen in a month or so--and I'm tickling her every few minutes so she doesn't pass out. She's not real happy about the tickling, but she's bearing it well. Matter of fact, right now she's getting me back.
Anyway, come 7 or so I'll put her in her jammies; at 7:30 I'll give her her binky and let her sleep if and when she passes out.
Then I'm watching a silly movie I didn't manage to see over the summer, but because I'm a sad geek, I wanted to: GI Joe. What can I say, explosions and Eccleston as Destro... I'm so there.
In the meantime, I'll keep tickling her whilst simultaneously going into Vendetta Online and seeing if I can't manage to finish a mission without dying. Again. True newtonian physics makes things hard, man. And you can't dogfight drones with Flight Assist on. I need a better solution for side-slips than AWSDRF. Hmmm. Maybe I can map the side, dorsal, and ventral thrusters to the hat switch... hmmm.