I’ve been having another insomnia wave this week, and on top of it, I’ve had a headache that just won’t go away. When I had insomnia in college I would get out of bed and walk the halls. I’d do a few laps and climb back into bed, and I always feel asleep right away. I decided to try that a few nights ago. As I walked around my dark house, I remembered that I kiiind of don’t like the dark, and then I became convinced that something was going to jump out at me. I started to oh-so-casually sprint back to my room when something did, in fact, jump out at me.
This precious skeleton dog:
The dog is motion activated, and Annie loves to play with it. She had no doubt left it turned on, shaving several years off my life. It’s been four days and my heart rate has finally come into the 190s.
So I’m extra-tired this week. Mike is great when I have my insomnia bouts. He gets up with Annie, encourages me to sleep, and this week he has even gone the extra-mile and brought my morning cup of coffee to my bedside. I used to have a major, multiple-cups-a-day addiction to caffeine, but now I am a one cup a day girl. I need my coffee before I do anything else. Like, if I eat before I’ve had my cup, I get sick. It’s part of my routine.
Anyway, yesterday I dragged myself out to the couch before Mike had made my cup. As I gave Annie morning snuggles, Mike went to the kitchen to brew my coffee.
“Since you’re awake, I’ll confirm with you what kind of coffee you want,” He called to me from the kitchen, “Do you want the breakfast blend or the donut shop?” He walked back to where I could see him.
“Breakfast Blend. Donut Shop is decaf.”
He got a funny look on his face. “Okay.” He started the coffee maker and then walked over to where I was sitting on the couch. “Your coffee this week might not have, uh, been full-steam.”
“What does that mean?” I was still very sleepy.
“I apparently made you decaf all week. I’m sorry! But this explains why you’ve been so grumpy!”
“I’m in caffeine withdrawal! I’ve had the worst headache for days and I also haven’t been sleeping! You’re lucky all I am is grumpy!”
Then I drank an entire pot of coffee. Okay I actually drank two cups, but still. My body needed it.
I can’t get mad because he was trying to do something nice for me, but I can get even by secretly draining his regular Diet Cokes and refilling it with the caffeine-free version.
Molly says:
I just laughed out loud (while drinking my caffeinated coffee)! Oh, no!
Heather says:
We moved a few weeks ago and my mother in law was onhand to help. The After the movers dropped the boxes off at the new house she rolled up her sleeves and got started on our kitchen.
Some how, along the way, she mistook our two separate coffee cans (med roast, caf – almost empty and bold roast, decaf- half full) and combined them. Thinking they were the same. Husband went a full week complaining of headaches and grumpy attitude before he realized that we were not out of our ‘guests are here and want’ decaf.
He might never forgive her.
Adrianne says:
And here I sit with my decaf latte! Sometimes I really wish I could enjoy a good, early morning caffeine jolt like normal people. But alas, it makes me so jittery and shaky and nauseated that the temporary little buzz I get from it just isn’t worth it. BUT, I still love the taste of a good latte and the experience of sipping a warm drink in the morning, so decaf it is! Hope your headache gets better. I do have one question though…how does the caffeine HELP you sleep?!
Heather says:
I drink one cup by 10am, and caffeine is out of your system after about six hours. So it doesn’t affect my sleep at all – especially proven by this past week!
Glenda says:
I have to have one cup first thing in the morning. Last week I tried Cafe Caramel and I guarantee you that it didn’t have caffeine because I had a bothersome headache all week.
Adrianne says:
Ooooh….I misunderstood and thought you were saying that you hadn’t slept well this week because you hadn’t had your caffeine! Oops:)
giselle says:
WAIT is donut shop ALL decaf or just what you happened to have? Because if all of it is decaf, that explains SO MUCH.
Heather says:
No, it’s not all decaf – I just happen to have a decaf box from when my Mother in Law was visiting!
TamaraL says:
I do not even understand WHY decaf exists?? What’s the point?
When my grandmother first entered a nursing home a few years ago, she started sleeping A LOT. Like, we could never wake her up. (She was pretty non-communacative anyway). My dad finally realized that she wasn’t ever given coffee at the nursing home…after drinking it pretty much 24/7 for say, oh…FIFTY + years! We started bringing her coffee…and she woke up!
Coffee…crazy, delicious, amazing coffee!
Kelly says:
Mmmm, coffee.
Debbie - Wrinkled Mommy says:
I remember that time I tried to wean myself from Diet Pepsi. My family almost called Dr. Phil.
ldoo says:
“as I walked around my dark house, I remembered that I kiiind of don’t like the dark, and then I became convinced that something was going to jump out at me. I started to oh-so-casually sprint back to my room…”
I can not express to you how many times I have done this! I’m, like, an adult and kind of scared of the dark. Sigh.
Denise says:
Ouch! Giving up caffeinated coffee is one of the most miserable tasks, especially if you’re doing it unintentionally. Hope the insomnia wave goes away.
Tara says:
*GASP*
That is terrible!
Nikki says:
I too get really bad headaches if I don’t drink coffee at least every other day..but mine has to be an iced peppermint mocha from starbucks! I can go right to sleep after a coffee…I mostly drink it because it’s good..and to manage my headache’s! Anytime I do get a headache my husband will ask when the last time I had a coffee..he knows me too well!
Oh and I too sometimes get scared of the dark..all especially in the laundry room…cause it has a small window..haha…and all the other windows are big…but I’m scared of the little one
ldoo says:
Caffeine makes the world go around. Gonna heat mine up now.