Still small of brain

[annathepiper]

Another restless night. So I stayed home today, in an attempt to try to actively combate this insomnia thing. I just got back from a walk down to Lake Forest Park Town Centre, where I purchased the following:

• "Sleepytime Extra" tea by Celestial Seasonings. It's like their "Sleepytime" tea, which is chamomile and peppermint and one of my favorite combinations already, but the "Extra" is valerian. Had this recommended to me by caligogreywings, and shall try that first.
  
• Some actual valerian.
  
• A product called Melatonex, which has melatonin in it.

I shall see which of these actually does anything about letting me get some sleep this weekend. Or at the very least, tonight. solarbird and I want to go down to the U-district tomorrow so we can get my bike and I can get some new bubble bath at the place I like on the Ave, and then we're going to ride our bikes back since I need to fetch my bike from MurkSouth. But if I'm going to do this, I need to be coherent.

And because I haven't actually bought any books in a while, I picked up three novels: William Gibson's Pattern Recognition (which is not in my usual line of fare, but I liked Difference Engine), J.D. Robb's latest (Visions in Death), and Sharon Shinn's Angel-Seeker. I still actually need to read Angelica, but I like Shinn enough that her Samaria books are now 'buy, no questions asked'.

But now, for tea. My primary ambition of the afternoon: see if I can take a decent nap.

Comments

[poetry-lady.livejournal.com]

OOOh, is Angel-Seeker out in paperback?? I really enjoy Shinn's stuff. I do wish she'd put out Hagar's story, though!!

(J.D. Robb's putting out hardbacks now--her latest is actually Survivor in Death hardback, which I just finished.)

[annathepiper]

Yeah, I saw the hardback of Visions in Death when it came out. I should say 'latest paperback'. :)

And yeah, Angel-Seeker is out in paperback now. :)

[mamishka.livejournal.com]

Hope the sleepy stuff works for you! If you're going to be in the area tomorrow can you do me a favor? I forgot to borrow your Writer's Guide when I came out on Wednesday. Would you mind bringing it with you? :) That would be fabu. :)

[annathepiper]

OH RIGHT the Writer's Guide... yeah, I'll bring that down.

Just got up from a bit of a nap, after having some of the sleepytea. My head's still fuzzy, but now in a sort of 'but, but, I WASN'T DONE SLEEPING' kind of way.

[mamishka.livejournal.com]

I SO know that feeling! I'll see you tomorrow! If you're not in a hurry, maybe we can do the Ave like old times? :) Give me a buzz! :)

[annathepiper]

Doing the Ave might be cool! I plan to go to the Soap Box anyway and get refills of my bubble bath bottles and also to get Dara some bath salts. Our only time constraint is that we do plan to ride the bikes back up here to MurkNorth and that'll take a while. :)

Dara has to take a shower and clean the birdie cage, so it may not be till 11:00 or so that we take off... in which case we'll hit MurkSouth between noon and noon-thirty. We'll check and see if you're up and about. :)

[kieri.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed Pattern Recognition -- it's very different than classic Gibson, and I think it has a lot more warmth of character to it. Good stuff.

[annathepiper]

Cool! Glad to know it'll be a good read. :)

[shikyrie.livejournal.com]

"Sleepytime Extra" tea by Celestial Seasonings. It's like their "Sleepytime" tea, which is chamomile and peppermint and one of my favorite combinations already, but the "Extra" is valerian. Had this recommended to me by caligogreywings, and shall try that first.

sounds yummalicious... :)

[annathepiper]

It was pretty good, yeah. The box says it's got orange blossom in it, too.

Also, it did aid me in taking a nap this afternoon.

[shikyrie.livejournal.com]

i might look into something like that... had massive trouble sleeping last night... was tired all day :-\

[annathepiper]

Well, I'm trying the standalone valerian tonight; we'll see what that does. You can get valerian most likely at any local drug store. At the Rite Aid I went to, they had both the valerian and the Melatonex, which is also meant to aid sleeplessness.

I got the tea at the local grocery store. Look in the tea section wherever you buy your groceries. :)

[shikyrie.livejournal.com]

We had some Valerian around here somewhere... picked some up at Free Spirit a few years back... dunno where it is now though (cats may have gotten to it) I'll check wally world on sunday when we do the shopping to see if they have the celestial seasonings teas there... thanks :)

[annathepiper]

You're quite welcome.

[poodlgrl.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you've already done this, but regarding the insomnia: have you given up all caffeine?

[annathepiper]

Actually, no. But I am on a hard two-cans-of-soda-a-day limit, and that's only while I'm at work. I haven't been having any soda in the evenings, and often none on the weekends as well.