It's 2 a.m. Do you know where your restaurant critic is?
I'm awake. Are you awake? If so, it's not because you fell asleep reading at 8 p.m. and your body has now decided to wake you up from your nap.
Ever since the California trip my body clock has been off, but it's been the wrong way, like I've come from Europe.
I'm usually a good sleeper, so I don't have any remedies for wakefulness. I don't mean sleeping pills. I mean kitchen remedies. ...
I'm going to slip downstairs now to the dark kitchen and see what awaits me. Hot milk? Hot cocoa with whipped cream, if I had any whipped cream? Peppermint tea? (I bought a jar once from the Aveda store where they were giving out samples. Never brewed it, though.)
What I really want is breakfast, but that would be fatal.
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I was already awake from my neighbor fighting with his girlfriend; both of then are married but at least one of them has a mate who just doesn't get him/her. it's tragic
Posted by: cal diggity | April 23, 2009 2:08 AM
Just finished a mushroom onion omelet, served with Natty Boh, so it's not breakfast.
Posted by: mobtown999 | April 23, 2009 2:38 AM
Close. I got up at the ungodly hour of 3 for the third night in a row. I can't blame jet lag.
All I can tell you is that it's hard to get back to "normal" once the pattern gets broken, EL!
Posted by: Joyce W. | April 23, 2009 5:14 AM
Its quarter past five in the blessed a.m. and the fiancee is sawing logs so loudly that the windows are rattling!! I feel your pain but I hope by now you've made it back to sleep.
Posted by: kimmer1850 | April 23, 2009 5:15 AM
I don't have any kitchen remedies, but sometimes playing solitaire on the computer breaks the "oh, man, gotta sleep! Oh, man, can't sleep!" stress cycle.
Not fun...One shouldn't be up at 2 am unless you haven't been to bed yet. I hope it sorts itself out.
Posted by: Lissa | April 23, 2009 6:39 AM
whiskey Guinness and freecell.
Posted by: jl | April 23, 2009 6:43 AM
Chamomile tea. My family has been using it for insomnia for generations.
Posted by: Eve | April 23, 2009 8:51 AM
Iwas up at 1:57 EDT, but I never thought to check the blog. Wow, a blog that runs 24/7...
Posted by: Bucky | April 23, 2009 9:05 AM
You never know what you'll find when here, Bucky.
Personally, I'm a tad creeped out by knowing where my restaurant critic was at 2 am. It is either TMI or implying a relationship we do not have.
Of course, that my mother's name is Elizabeth already confuses me.
Posted by: Lissa | April 23, 2009 11:58 AM
Of course, EL, if you Twittered, you could have sent out a tweet when you woke up, to see who else was awake.
Posted by: Bucky | April 23, 2009 2:00 PM
24/7 ... "The Only Blog You'll Ever Need" -- Seriously!!
Posted by: MD Cann | April 23, 2009 2:26 PM
EL, try SleepRemedy for those nights when you just can't relax. The label says it is all-natural, and contains calming herbs as well as "27% alcohol". Works for me.
Posted by: YumPorchetta | April 23, 2009 4:54 PM
I had dozed off earlier and woke up about 11 my time. Since the computer was still on, I visited the blog and posted some comments. To my surprise, they appeared pretty quickly. I just thought EL had recruited some late-night folks to approve comments.
Hope tonight is better EL, sleep well!
Posted by: PCB Rob | April 23, 2009 7:12 PM
64 proof works for most people, YP.
Posted by: Lissa | April 23, 2009 7:22 PM
Bourbon, or "brown water" as the Southerners refer to it, is much tastier.
Posted by: PCB Rob | April 23, 2009 8:48 PM
Benedryl and Šljivovica.
Posted by: Rev'Ed | April 23, 2009 11:01 PM
Elizabeth, there's a wonderful product called MidNite that I use for those pesky wee-small-hours hot flash wake-ups. The box says it's all natural, and you don't need water--just let the cherry-flavored tablet dissolve on your tongue. It works for me, maybe it'll work for you.
Posted by: Dottie | April 23, 2009 11:25 PM
A mug of very warm milk sometimes works for me. That, or the putting of cold feet on the loudly snoring husband.
I've done that. It also stops the snoring. :-) EL
Posted by: One Too Many Mini Eggs | April 24, 2009 12:27 AM
Lissa, you are right. I bought it thinking it would be just herbs and was surprised to see alcohol listed as an ingredient.
Posted by: YumPorchetta | April 24, 2009 11:54 AM