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Is it cold in here?:
The best way to recover from my current illness is probably to sleep a lot. I may be running a fever but I don't know since the only thermometer in the house is not necessarily accurate. My throat is so inflamed that I gag when I imagine gargling.

Amazon Prime will fix the thermometer problem soon. Did you know that if you search for quick-reading thermometers all the first half dozen results are meat thermometers?

It's not that my mind is keeping me awake. For example I have trouble spelling "thermometer".

EDIT: This time it's been an hour and a half since my bladder woke me out of a sound sleep and nothing has worked to get me back to that much-missed sound sleep. For heaven's sake, I was sleeping better on the train. It seems unfair that I'm getting neither unconsciousness nor insights.

EDIT: Aand again. Dark cool room. No late caffeine. The same thing happens with or without daytime exercise. No unusual stress, unless you count preparing for a meeting with my state representative about which I'm highly motivated. The cough isn't helping but it started after I'd been lying awake.

Welu:
Been getting work done in the back garden and the builders have been coming and going and leaving the gate unlocked. This sets off my paranoia but I’ve been at work all week and unable to keep track of keeping the gate locked. Last night my Partner and I were in the living room with the window open and I hear someone say my name and I near have a heart attack. This is one of my nightmares, a stranger trespassing into my home.
Turns out it’s my goddamn mother. Just popping in when they noticed the gate was open.

It scared the shit out of me and a day later, I am still freaked out. I went for a nap and had a nightmare about people breaking into my home.

I’m trying to sleep now but brain won’t turn off. Goddamn.

Also I can hear what sounds like it might be a dog snoring outside but it might be a bear summoning an Elder One.

Is it cold in here?:
Eek. I think I'd be scared too.

SubaruStephen:

--- Quote from: Welu on 11 Jun 2016, 18:12 ---This is one of my nightmares, a stranger trespassing into my home.

--- End quote ---

A week after I moved into my new house, some guy just opened the front door and walked in, saw me (all 6foot 1, 350 lbs of me), said "Sorry, wrong house.", got in his truck (that was parked in my driveway, next to my car) and drove off.

Guess who now locks the door even when he's home?

Welu:
Holy crap. I've always locked the doors when I'm home, even when expecting people. Helps me feel safer.

A big part of it is that when we were first moving in, the old tenants barged in and started lifting stuff. They stopped paying rent and the landlord locked them out and then sold the house to us still full of items. It was mostly broken furniture. We let them grab some stuff that we'd already thrown in the skip but still had to argue about what was actually ours that we just brought in and some items we wouldn't let them take, since at this point it was all legally ours. Then a week or so later, we had the front door open while moving more stuff in and out and the same people sent their daughter into the house alone while the mum was outside watching in. She ran as soon as she saw my Partner. What kind of person makes their child do that?
We saw them scoping out the house a couple times even after calling the police but they eventually stopped showing up. Took me a long time to not think they were about to bust through the door at any moment.

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