Ally ([info]ally_h) wrote,
@ 2007-05-21 22:49:00
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Current mood: mellow

Happy Feet, Sad Me
I watched Footloose with penguins Happy Feet tonight. I give it a C- because penguins are cute and I find computer animation visually pleasing. I also found it funny when the humans made sweeping environmental changes (penguin dancing is very compelling stuff!), but only within a 30 mile radius around the shores of Antarctica. If only coral reefs could tap dance...

I hope that I didn't just ruin anyone's day by not putting the Happy Feet spoiler behind a cut.

Maureen is out of town for the next 6 weeks. It's strange how many benefits there are to living with someone... no one to laugh at the silly local people on the evening news, no one to help give the guinea pig his medicine, no one to look at the strange bump I can feel on the back of my neck... I would say no one to watch Happy Feet with, but there's no way Maureen would have sat through that entire thing.

I must refrain from any substance use over the next 7 days (including the 3-day weekend) as I am on call for work. I went ahead and took an Ambien tonight, though, because the odds of someone having a crisis during a few hours of Ambien-impairment verses having an entire day of not-enough-sleep-impairment tomorrow from not being able to fall asleep are stacked in such a way that favours Ambien use. And it's starting to kick in, so I'm off to bed.


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[info]stardigan
2007-05-22 05:16 am UTC (link)
Have you had any weird side effects with Ambien? I don't take sleeping meds because I'm "ultra med sensitive" or something my doctor told me, but my mom is one of those rare people that did strange things in her sleep on Ambien. She actually got up, rode her exercise bike, and peed on it. I'm not saying anything against sleeping meds, I was just wondering what your experience was. btw, I have forever been meaning to tell you that your userpic is so pretty. :)

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[info]ally_h
2007-05-23 03:02 am UTC (link)
Taking Ambien leads to some very pleasurable side-effects for me, to the point where I am sometimes having so much fun I don't want to go to bed... which wouldn't be so bad if I could remember all if it the next morning. It's sort-of like a legal high with more memory lapses. I stopped taking it for a long time (2 years maybe?) because I abused it so badly for a while (at my first meeting with my current psychatrist I told him I never wanted him to prescribe it to me so I wouldn't be tempted). I also used to abuse it to try to avoid eating dinner (it works faster on an empty stomach, so I could go to bed without eating). One of the factors contributing to me giving it up for so long was discovering evidence that I ate something after taking it, but I didn't know what (my roommate at the time said it involved the microwave and everything)...that really freaked me out. He also said I would act really strange and watch TV or listen to music really loud...I thought he was making it all up until I started noticing things like all of my cds out on the floor without me knowing how they got there. Maureen has since observed such behavior if I take it and don't go to bed on time. I don't think I've urinated on anything inappropriate after taking it, but am only about 98% sure. It's a controlled substance for a reason.

So now, I use it responsibly... like I said, I can't remember the fun the next day anyway, and I build up a tolerance to it if I use it every night so then nothing will help me sleep (the first sleeping med I tried gave me nightmares so bad I decided it was better to just not sleep, and that Rozerim shit must sell thanks to the placebo effect alone). I try not to take it more than once or twice a week when I'm really struggling with insomnia.

Thanks for the user pic compliment (blush!). I think that photo of me is from over 6 years (and 70 lbs) ago.

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[info]untitlednothree
2007-05-22 05:33 am UTC (link)
even tho you and i have become LJ pals because of maureen and me becoming LJ pals, if you'd like we can get tea/coffee/lunch/dinner sometime!! or watch a movie. i know what it's like being sad-panda 'cos the other half (that's such a strange term..) is gone.

xoxo

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"Favours"? Does Ambien make you write like a Canook? :)
(Anonymous)
2007-05-24 04:41 am UTC (link)
OMG she updates!!! Publically no less!!! Where is Maureen??? Which guinea needs medicine and why??? NECK-BUMP????????? Hey, guess who's moving to Overland Park on Tuesday? WENDY WALLACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Re: "Favours"? Does Ambien make you write like a Canook? :)
[info]maureen_w
2007-05-24 08:09 pm UTC (link)
Oh Wendy Wallace, how we have missed you.

I'm in Bloomington, Indiana so that ik kun Nederlands studeer. That's right, I'm learning Dutch in an intensive summer class. All the cool kids are doing it.

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[info]franshals
2007-05-24 08:14 pm UTC (link)
Hahahaha, I'm sorry that Happy feet wasn't the greatest experience for you. I will be home, 3 weeks from tomorrow, and I'm very much looking forward to seeing you! At some point Maureen told me that I should stop you from unleashing the guinea pigs in the living room as their own personal home, like an alternative to their cage, so try to not do that. Maureen will be sad if the carpet is destroyed when she gets back from Indiana..... Anyway, this little post reminded me of all that I'm missing out on, and how cool and funny you are, so I will call you asap when I get home!

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[info]ally_h
2007-05-27 06:07 am UTC (link)
I released them in the hall a while last night and they LOVED it. They made like 30 turds in 10 minutes which kind-of sucked. When do you move to Lawrence?

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