Now that I’ve finally caught up on my comments I’m allowing myself to post. Except… I can’t think of anything to write. Add the fact that I’m so tired that if tired was an animal, my tired would be an elephant. And it would be sitting on my lap. Do you have any idea what it’s like trying to type with an elephant on your lap? Ugh. He just farted.
This is how my family can tell when I’m exhausted. I either go hairy and bounce off the walls until someone placates me with either a cup of coffee or a glass of wine (depending on what time of the day it is… though if I’m honest I’ll take the wine any time) or I get creatively silly.
How ’bout you? Do you scream everyone around you into complete jelly-bowls of submission when you’re tired? Do you giggle until your insides hurt and your bloodshot eyes are ready to walk up the stairs to bed without you? How do your loved-ones know you’re tired?
October 22, 2014 at 7:43 pm
They can generally tell that I’m tired by the snoring 😉
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October 22, 2014 at 5:47 pm
Oh how I hear you! 🙂
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October 21, 2014 at 6:33 pm
I get even weirder than I usually am.
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October 21, 2014 at 1:00 pm
I certainly get irritable when I’m tired, but I also get apathetic. The attitude becomes, “Eh.” So I try to make sure I get my zzzzz. I’m sure my kids appreciate that. 😉
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October 21, 2014 at 12:31 pm
My husband knows exactly when I’m tired because he is usually my first target, poor guy. I mean, I can’t possibly take it out on my one-year-old. Coffee and wine (not necessarily in that order) placate me temporarily. But I am not a person who can function well when sleep deprived. Everyone suffers….
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October 21, 2014 at 12:04 pm
I get emotionally dramatic. I cry in a nearly inconsolable way, like a small child.
Which is a good reason to rest 😉
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October 21, 2014 at 11:47 am
Yes, when I get tired I just hop into my pyjamas and into the couch. Surely the best way to regain the strenght. If someone speaks to me before they know I either yell or cry or doesn´t answer..
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October 21, 2014 at 11:33 am
I fell asleep talking to a woman onc ……. zzzzz 😉
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October 22, 2014 at 5:46 pm
Oooh, that must not have gone over well! Hahaha! Thanks for sharing that, Ralph. 😀
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October 23, 2014 at 6:04 am
Not too well. Have a lovely day Linda 😀
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October 21, 2014 at 11:14 am
I’m tired all the time. I wonder if my family even knows what I’m like not tired? I’ll take the wine anytime too :-D.
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October 22, 2014 at 5:45 pm
Yeah, I’m either tired or extra-tired. Nothing less. Wine helps. 😀
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October 21, 2014 at 11:13 am
I’m either really, really cranky or so incredibly floaty that they just help me drift my way to bed.
I hope that you get feeling better and get enough rest, though!
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October 22, 2014 at 5:44 pm
Thank you! Hopefully I have a weekend off to look forward to. And I’m SO going to sleep all the way through it!
The floaty side sounds like fun! 😀
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October 22, 2014 at 9:20 pm
She always makes those around me smile!
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October 21, 2014 at 10:04 am
I get crankier than usual. 🙂
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October 22, 2014 at 5:42 pm
Yep, that’s my first indication to myself that I’m tired. 😛
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October 21, 2014 at 9:40 am
There is no difference bewteen tired and not tired these days. I am deep in the sticky mud of two toddlers and too many things to do. So I do tired with a glass of wine and Home and Garden television for an hour before bed every night, lol.
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October 22, 2014 at 5:41 pm
Sounds like me – only it’s a glass of wine and a book. 😀
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October 21, 2014 at 8:55 am
Tired? I sit and watch a mindless TV show and then remember how much time is wasted being tired. Grab a book and crash.
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October 22, 2014 at 5:39 pm
Books are the best to help wind down from the day, aren’t they? Bedtime is when I do most of my reading. …aside from WordPress reading that is. 😛
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October 22, 2014 at 5:46 pm
Me too, Can’t tell you how many times I dropped the Kindle on the dog.
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October 22, 2014 at 5:47 pm
Hahahahaha! Oh, poor thing!
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October 22, 2014 at 5:59 pm
Me or the dog?
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October 22, 2014 at 6:00 pm
Haha! Both! 😉 But mostly the dog.
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October 21, 2014 at 7:55 am
When I’m tired, I find it difficult to talk, probably because my brain slows down so much. My husband can tell just by looking at me when I hit the fatigue wall, so there must be some visual component, too, or, given that we have known each other for forty years, he can just sense it.
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October 22, 2014 at 5:34 pm
After forty years it has to at least be a combination of the two. Couples who have been together that long tend to be very in tune with each other. 🙂
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October 21, 2014 at 4:12 am
Bouncing off the walls? I don’t think I would even have energy to do that lol! I just stay quite and like I am now reading blogs coz my brain is already fried from work. I can’t think of anything to write right know. My partner just give me my space when I’m tired coz I get grumpy easily hehe 🙂
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October 22, 2014 at 5:32 pm
Yep, space around here for me is essential. My family knows when they’re going to get their heads bitten off. 😛
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October 21, 2014 at 3:47 am
My friends know when I’m tired- I giggle at everything they say. They used to think they were being extremely funny…now they know better!
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October 22, 2014 at 5:30 pm
Ha! That’s funny… yet such a let-down for them at the same time. 😛 Hehe! Thanks for sharing that, Kate. 🙂
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October 21, 2014 at 2:54 am
When I’m tired, I mope until bedtime, maybe even catnap a little if I can get away with it…
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October 22, 2014 at 5:24 pm
Oooh, catnaps are good. When they’re seriously needed.
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October 21, 2014 at 2:21 am
I. Shut. Down. Like now. Done. Good night ❤
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October 22, 2014 at 5:24 pm
Hope you had a good night’s sleep Angie!
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October 23, 2014 at 1:36 pm
Thanks, Linda! Sleep has been a bit bumpy lately, but last night…sweet 🙂 Right back at you 😀
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October 21, 2014 at 12:20 am
I typically get very quiet, unless it’s 3am in which case I go a little bananas, talking nonsense until my eyes can’t stay open any longer.
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October 22, 2014 at 5:16 pm
Haha! That sounds like fun. 🙂
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October 21, 2014 at 12:00 am
I get punchy and giggly. Then I lose my filter when answering the wife’s “Do I look good in this?” questions. Not always a good situation.
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October 22, 2014 at 5:14 pm
Oooh, brother. That’s not good at all. Better get lots of sleep!
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October 20, 2014 at 11:26 pm
When I get to the “not blinking anymore” stage of tired, my brain has totally shut down. I don’t get testy or yell, cuz I just don’t have any energy left by then! My tired has usually been a symptom of Over Achiever Beaver… But now that I have re-tired!!! so far (all four days of it and counting) I have quite a lot of energy. lol
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October 22, 2014 at 5:12 pm
Congratulations on your re-tirement! 😀 Yep, I’ve been in shut-down mode myself many times. That’s when nothing can keep me awake!
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October 20, 2014 at 11:13 pm
ROFL …the elephant on the lap, what a creative description lol. Ok (calming myself down, its that time of night), I (obviously), get very silly. Matter of fact, I think I see an elephant now and he’s got…wait…is that…ok, I have to go.
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October 22, 2014 at 5:10 pm
Haha! Thanks for sharing the laugh. 🙂
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October 20, 2014 at 10:50 pm
I go quiet and calm and go and try to be on my own, even if it means lying on the bed and doing nothing.
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October 20, 2014 at 10:59 pm
Sounds like you’ve got it pretty much under control I like to try to go off and meditate sometimes when I’m tired. But I’m usually not allowed.
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October 20, 2014 at 10:43 pm
I’m pretty boring I think, I get tired, go to bed, try and sleep, I tend to get more testy if I feel I have not had enough sleep, which of course is the reverse of what you are asking.
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October 20, 2014 at 10:58 pm
Oh I dunno. Testy for me comes right before full-out hysteria some of the time. Fun stuff!
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October 20, 2014 at 10:40 pm
I can fall asleep just about anywhere, Linda G, but put my body into my recliner and let the sun set below the horizon, and if I’m tired, my eyes will droop, close … and I’m out. And my dear wife Karen knows I’m in la la land.
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October 20, 2014 at 10:57 pm
Sounds like La-Z-Boy heaven, Mr. Mark. 🙂
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October 21, 2014 at 9:11 am
At the end of a busy writing day, Linda G, the lazy boy is me, not the chair! 🙂
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October 22, 2014 at 5:09 pm
Ha! 🙂
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October 20, 2014 at 10:38 pm
Actually, I think I created Not CM when I was tired. Or drunk. Take your pick.
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October 20, 2014 at 10:55 pm
Same thing.
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