{"id":180,"date":"2006-03-05T13:05:40","date_gmt":"2006-03-05T17:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alison.com\/wordpress\/?p=180"},"modified":"2006-10-13T22:45:21","modified_gmt":"2006-10-14T02:45:21","slug":"pursuit-of-normalcy-part-2-my-brain-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonblogs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2006\/03\/05\/pursuit-of-normalcy-part-2-my-brain-hurts\/","title":{"rendered":"Pursuit of Normalcy! &#8211; Part 2 &#8211; My Brain Hurts!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    The zaps are pretty darned annoying at night, I have to tell you.&nbsp; I finally    gave up and took a sleeping pill about 12:30, because I&#8217;d drift off, and in a short    period, be awakened by one.&nbsp; You know how you sometimes have those not-quite-asleep    things where you&#8217;re semi-dreaming of walking down stairs and suddenly missing a step    and physically jerking awake?&nbsp; All.&nbsp; Night.&nbsp; Long.&nbsp; The sleeping    pill lasted until almost 5:30, and at 6:30 I figured it was just time to give it up.&nbsp;    Read the papers.&nbsp; Had a high-protein breakfast.&nbsp; Lit a nice fire in the    fireplace &#8211; family slept through the smoke alarm.&nbsp; Hmmm.&nbsp; I guess not being    able to sleep for shit might be a good thing.&nbsp; At least if we have a fire.&nbsp;    I can see a nap (or an attempted nap) in my future today.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>    Once everyone&#8217;s awake, I&#8217;m going to hit the treadmill &#8211; work off some food from yesterday    and try to tire myself out a bit.&nbsp; I had thought last night that I&#8217;d hit the    gym, but it&#8217;s probably better if I don&#8217;t drive until my brain is a bit less problematic.&nbsp;    This is really only the third day of this, and I know it&#8217;ll stop, but boy, does it    make me irritable when I can&#8217;t sleep.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The zaps are pretty darned annoying at night, I have to tell you.&nbsp; I finally gave up and took a sleeping pill about 12:30, because I&rsquo;d drift off, and in a short period, be awakened by one.&nbsp; You know how you sometimes have those not-quite-asleep things where you&rsquo;re semi-dreaming of walking down stairs and suddenly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-wellness"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pursuit of Normalcy! 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