Alright.

So, a long while back, I wrote an entry about having trouble sleeping.

That was written on March 16th, and I haven't slept an entire night through since. On average, I have been running on about two to three hours of sleep. Whatever. I've been handling it okay.

Here's what will happen. At midnight, I'll shut the tv off and try to get to bed, feeling tired and like I could fall asleep soon. I'll toss and turn and toss and turn and toss and turn until, in frustration, I look at the clock and see that it is 2:30. Still feeling tired and like I could get to sleep soon, I get up, walk around the room, usually listening to music, etc. I heard once that walking around is good when you can't sleep-any physical activity will make it easier to get tired. Anyway, I finally realize that this isn't working. I look at the clock and see that it is now 4:37 or so. I have to get up in three hours. Great. It is too late to take a sleeping pill, as that is so potent it will make me sleep through my alarm. So I just try my damndest to get to bed, and eventually I drift off.

Hokay.

Last night, while I was enjoying a nice weekend back at home, I'm having another one of these nights. Since I won't be having to get up at eight in the morning, I call my mom (who was working) at five in the morning and ask her if she has any sleeping pills. In her rush, she says "yes, I think so, the blue ones in the drawer on the bottom left." I look in said drawer, and find some blue pills. They didn't look like the sleeping pills she normally had, but I figured she just went with a different brand-it wouldn't be the first time. So I pop one without a second thought.

Okay...one of the stupidest things a person can do is take a drug without knowing what it is. I guess I deserved to be punished for doing something so blatantly STUPID.

Okay, the pills come in a foil wrapper sort of like this:

Like some cliche scene out of a teenage comedy, I turn said foil wrapper over and see in big bold letters what medication I had just consumed:

LAXATIVE TABLETS

Uh. Oh.

Without any pun intended, the first thought that came to my mind was "shit!"

Eh. I'd write more, but...I gotta go.

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