Things always happen in 3’s.

Today I found out that I don’t have a brain tumor, aneurysm or some other weird condition and I am going to live.

I saw Miles Austin walking his dog on my way to work. I came to the conclusion that I need to be about 15-30 minutes late every day so I am more likely to see him again.

I got a great (well, in my opinion) placement for my client today on a major blog.

See, things always happen in 3’s and in my case, good things happen in 3’s.

Sleep.

When I was in high school/college I had a lot of sleeping problems. I would find myself sitting up in bed in the middle of the night. I never remembered tossing and turning or waking up, I would just sort of come-to and be sitting up in bed.

The last few months I have been having some sleeping problems again. I wake up at 2am almost every morning. I think the exception to waking up at 2am is when I come home at 2am. I have been sleeping so much on the weekends, when it comes Sunday night, I have slept so much that I can’t fall asleep at a reasonable time.

Take last night for example…this weekend I had a late and sort of crazy Friday night. I did nothing on Saturday during the day. I went to dinner and hung out with some friends on Saturday night, but was home and in bed by about 10pm. On Sunday, I slept until about 8:30am, worked out, ran errands, read some magazines, etc. and then last night, I was awake, in bed until about 1am. And then awake around 2am. Then  my alarm went off at 6:40am. And I snoozed until 7am. Today I had three caffeinated beverages and at 3pm I could have leaned over on my desk and passed out.

I am not really sure what to do, but I sort of feel like one of those people in the Ambien commercials - “Need help falling asleep and staying asleep?” YES! That is me. Maybe I should see a doctor…it’s only been…YEARS since I have been to a doctor for a normal check up/physical. I don’t even have a general practitioner in Dallas. I have every other type of doctor, but not a regular, old doctor.

Great, now I am going to be worrying about not being able to sleep and finding a doctor that I won’t be able to sleep tonight.

Entirely TMI.

This is probably way too much information to share, but I found it rather funny.

While at the “lady doctor,” my doctor decided talking about the fried food at the Texas State Fair was a good conversation to have while she was doing her business.

I love the fair, but I am not sure I have the excitement for corny dogs and other deep fried goodness as I did before.

Conversation with my eye doctor.

Doctor: I mentioned this when you were here last year. Your eye is most likely twitching because you are stressed out. Do you feel stressed out?
Me: Well...I was sitting in a meeting the other day and my boss was listing out a whole bunch of things I needed to work on this week and my eye went crazy. So yes, I think I might be stressed out.
Doctor: OK then.
Me: I also live in a noisy apartment building and I don't sleep very well. I have called the on-site police officer twice in the last month because of loud music at 3am.
Doctor: Oh, that's unfortunate.
Me: Yes. I am hoping to move soon.
Doctor: In the meantime, I think you should go buy one of those gel eye masks that you put in the fridge. Relax for about 10 minutes every night with that on. I will also give you some drops on your way out. I also think you should see a general practitioner for an overall physical. And hopefully, work will calm down and you will find a quieter apartment soon.

I have eye problems.

I had some serious eye twitching issues over the last 10 months or so. My right eye started twitching again about a month and half ago.

I attempted to ignore it. Took Tylenol PM on occasion to help me get a good night’s rest. Bought some eye drops and kept them in fridge and put them in my eye when it started twitching, something the eye doctor told me to do last year. Nothing is working.

I have also been getting raging headaches lately. I thought it was because I don’t always wear my glasses while reading or sitting in front of the computer, but when they started happening while I am watching TV or driving, I knew there was an issue. They also last for hours at a time and are terrible in the morning if I watch TV before I go to sleep, which I do every night.

I made an appointment at the eye doctor tomorrow to see what is going on. I assume my eyes have changed over the last year and I may need glasses or contacts on a more regular basis, but who knows. I know the twitching is from stress (my boss was talking about everything we needed to work on during a meeting today and my eye went out of control!) and lack of sleep, so maybe I need to see a shrink while I am it.

Eye update.

I went to the eye doctor this morning. This appointment was long overdue, but unfortunately, she didn’t tell me much more about my twitching eye than I already knew. She did give me some eye exercises to do (weird) and some drops to keep in the fridge (apparently the cold drops may help relax my eye muscles).

I also found out that my left eye, the twitching one, has become worse (which has nothing to do with the twitching) and that is why my old glasses, which I haven’t worn in about 3 years, gave me headaches and why my eyes feel strained at work.

So, in the end, I had to get glasses. I picked out a pair of funky red ones. I figured I should live a little.