My planets aren’t aligned so I’m having trouble sleeping. I refuse to resort to anything but natural strategies so why is it when I try counting sheep, the only mammals that flutter across my eyelids are the ones in the Serta Mattress commercials? Staring at me with a certain arrogance, bleating expletives. Why can’t I find a sheep from the market? Typical to NS, humble, helpful and soothing? —Little Bo Peep

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  1. If I have to listen to another person bitch about not sleeping I’m going to F’n snap!!!!

  2. yeah, booze is natural….
    so is another certain natural plant who’s ‘side-effects’ include heavy eyes.

    you want to be bored to sleep…
    try counting penguins jumping over a fence.
    if you get to 1, you’re not doing it right.

  3. One lone Gravol wouldn’t kill you. Don’t you realize that everything that exists is natural??? You remind me of someone who would rather suffer with a huge migrane than – fucking god forbid – take a painkiller! I say fuck that, if I can’t sleep, I take Gravol – not on a regular basis, just a couple times a month, max. Otherwise, a hot shower or bath and clean sheets might help you – with a shot of Tia Maria for a bedside chaser.

  4. drink chamomile tea
    put lavender potpourri in your bedroom
    read math or statistics textbook
    eat turkey
    exercise moderately during the day
    take a nice bath and relax

  5. 🙂 Thanks RC for your vote on eating turkey. I know it works…that’s why they make children eat turkey on Christmas eve…so the creepy fat guy can sneak into people’s houses without waking up the children!

  6. For some insomniacs anecdotal remedies just don’t work. Sometimes, waiting for exhaustion to finally take over is the only thing that works. Tryptophan, herbal remedies, boring reading or tv, exercise, massage, meditation, visualization, sleepy-time music, compter les moutons or counting sheep, the horizontal bop. All totally useless when the insomnia monster triumphs over the sandman!

  7. sorry sweet thang, ever since i mastered the art of the copy/paste i have turned into a beast<⓷

  8. Painey – I knew a girl who had that exact same Satan Claus. She could never understand the terror provoked by the expression of unutterable evil on it’s soulless face.

  9. It must be good because the antiquated software here can’t handle the download. I’ll have to wait til I get home. Grrroooooooooo!

    I had lunch and a pint with Hugo Phurst today – and what a cool fella he is.

  10. The hunt is on – we are eventually going to find the lair of the elusive Paingirl
    and pay her a visit. MWA-HA-HA-HA-HA >: )

  11. My post from yesterday didn’t make it. 🙁

    It definately was an enjoyable lunch, Ivan is a great conversationalist :>)

    pingirl, I still don’t get your clues 🙁

  12. sorry hugo i can’t really really give more info or ya know…and i don’t wear pins or sell them^^^

  13. Back at ya Hugo. Standing invite when you’re in the city; drop on by for a chin wag and an elbow bend. Maybe Painey can play hookey and join us .Screeeeeeeeeeee, >; )
    That’s hookey, not hockey – Go Habs!

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