Bored, bored, bored. B O R E D

[caddyman]

I seem to be hard wired so that I cannot get to sleep early.

As you can imagine this is something of a pain. I get in completely knackered and think about having a doze. Can I fade out? I think not, and it's not as if there's anything on telly until later in the evening so I just get bored and tired. And not a drop of coffee has been had.

Grumble.

Never mind. Frasier was good and, er... well, that's it. What do I normally do on Wednesday nights? I have completely forgotten. Which is odd since I have a Wednesday night at least once a week by last count.

Bored now.

And the nt-hell mail server has been down all evening.

Again.

Comments

[mollpeartree.livejournal.com]

Have you ever tried valerian tea? (Straight valerian smells funky to me so I drink it in blends. Teepee Dreams; it may not be available over there but most herbal teas for insomnia will have some valerian in them). Puts me out like a light without the hangover effect you hear about with sleeping pills.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I'm not a great fan of teas which don't actually contain tea. I've tried them a few times - though not, I have to admit, Valerian (which sounds sort of Roman and Imperial)- they almost always smell great but taste like old chewing gum.

My favourite late night beverages are either hot milk with sugar (the only drink I can take sugar in), or Horlicks. I don't know if you have that in the US, but it's a malty powder thing which you mix with boiled water. It tastes great and has a similar soporific effect to hot milk.

I occasionally go for hot chocolate or cocoa, but I find them a bit sweet for late at night.

[mollpeartree.livejournal.com]

Fair enough; I certainly don't drink it for the flavor (which is neither good nor bad).

Thanks for the explanation of Horlicks. We don't have it here, but it figured prominently in a Bollywood movie I saw a while back, where a sick and disabled old man kept trying to alert the household to an important document in a trunk, and the family kept thinking he was asking for Horlicks, because the Horlicks box was on top of the trunk.