sick sucks (and other stuff)

*sniffle, sniffle*

It's 5am here and I'm up.  This simple cold has taken a turn and now I feel like crap.  I tried to go to bed a little before 3am.  I don't think I actually fell asleep.  I could breathe just fine sitting up but as soon as I hit the pillow it all drained into the back of my throat leaving me coughing and gagging and unable to breathe.  After awhile I gave up and took some cough medicine and one of my last sinus pills then tried to go back to bed.  My husband keeps tossing and turning (he went to bed around 9pm) and every time he would move the blankets would move around me and I would start to shiver.  He has his own separate fleece blanket that he's curled up in under the comforter.  I just have the comforter.  I couldn't stop shaking so I just got up and came back in the living room.  I was in bed for just over an hour, I think.

I'm so going to regret this in the morning...later in the morning...in a couple hours.  I don't have a choice to go back to bed later and sleep all day.  We HAVE to go to Costco today.  Easter is Sunday and I have nothing to cook for dinner.  Not that I really care.  We're atheist so Easter has no significant meaning to me but the kids enjoy painting eggs and baskets and all that and it's an excuse to cook a big meal (it's about the only time we have ham).  Either way I have to go to Costco for meat, cereal, cheese and some other stuff.  This is my husband's last day off this week.  If we don't go now I have no food to cook the next week. Ugh.

I think I'll try to get him to go early and then come home and sleep the rest of the day.  I hate being sick.

( other stuff )

Stargate SG-1 fic: Nothing More Perfect

I'm really enjoying writing in 1st person/present tense.  Never in a million years would I have thought I'd be doing that.  They always seem to be Daniel fics, though.  Hmmm.  Anyway, here's another.  Was up all night not feeling well and decided to try and tackle the stargateland challenge.  I thought at most I'd get a couple paragraphs done.  Instead I got a nearly 1000 word story that I really enjoy.  Took me an hour to write.

Nothing More Perfect
by jennickels (aka Jen Connelly)
Stargate SG-1
Daniel/Sha're
984 words
rating: PG
WARNINGS: none

 

When looking death in the eye Daniel's life doesn't flash before his eyes. He just lives in one single moment until the end comes or he's pulled back from the brink. Written for challenge #8 at stargateland .

don't own... wish I did, but I don't. No infringement intended.

 

( perfection under the cut )

 

Stargate SG-1 fic: A Very Good Place to Start

A Very Good Place to Start

[#2 of The Great Ring series]
by jennickels (aka Jen Connelly)
Stargate SG-1
alt!SG-1
2021 words
rating: G
WARNINGS: none

 

In the alternate reality the new Program is established and Major O'Neill joins Major Kawalsky and Colonel Carter as part of Alpha Team...now if they could only get themselves sorted out.

don't own... wish I did, but I don't. No infringement intended.

 

( start here at the beginning: it's less confusing that way )

 

writing without sleep

I have always found it interesting that I do some of my best writing sleep deprived.  That's considering when I'm sleep deprived I'm barely functioning and every little thing upsets me and I start to feel like I'm losing my mind.

I've been up for about 34 hours straight now with just a 40 minute nap around 3am.  I just tried at 5pm to lie down but as soon as my head hit the pillow, before I even found a comfortable position, the kids started barging in wanting things from me.  My husband is home.  He's in the other room playing video games so, naturally, he can't be bothered with trivial things like dinner and diaper changes.  Sigh.

Back to writing.  I gave up around 4am with trying to sleep.  My sinuses were draining into my throat and gagging me.  So I got up and played on the computer for awhile.  Around 6am I decided to tackle a prompt and had for a challenge and everything clicked into place.  For an hour I wrote and I loved the story.  It turned out so good.

My husband got up and told me to go lie down for a nap (like a unruly child even though he was being just as unreasonable and mouthy).  I refused to lie down because if I had fallen asleep I would have slept the whole day and we had shopping to do.  So, instead, I started working on story 5 and low and behold the story seemed to come to me.  I wrote like 15 pages of really good stuff and now I'm thinking I might get this one done and then #6 is started and is going to be short (hopefully under 1000 words).  I already have ideas for the next 3 stories after that and could possibly get them written (if I could get some sleep).

I write great when I 've had just the write amount of caffeine and lack of sleep but eventually it all falls apart.  Now I can't control my eye muscles so my eyes keep crossing.  Makes writing really hard, lol.  It's now 6pm here.  7:30 will mark 36 hours awake.  Sigh.  Might as well just stay up until the kids are in bed at 8pm.

Back to typing up story 5, I guess.  Really need to think of a name for this one.