Sunday, November 8, 2009

Okay WTH?!

I had trouble sleeping with H's snoring so i just laid there. McSexy comes out of her room and came to sit next to me on the couch. We talked a bit and then the unthinkable [maybe not so surprising] thing happens, she leans in to kiss me! She started to take off my shirt and I her's but H's tossing and turning stopped us both. It was weird, we just looked at each other and she said sorry and left.

After the finals i didn't hear from her so one night i was at a party, drinking, and decided to text her.. Me: hey i haven't heard from you in awhile, how've you been? MS: good. and you? Me: good. okay lets get to the point, can we talk about what happened before? MS: there's nothing to talk about. It was a mistake. I'm not even like that. Me: oh, okay. I understand.

But in my head i was really thinking, BTCH! How can you lead me on all semester and then when i finally fall for you just leave me hanging?!

I can't stop thinking about her now.

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Saturday, November 7, 2009

Snoring – Causes And Cures

We try and giggle it off whenever we come across a filler in the mags or papers about a pair getting divorced because one of the spouses was snoring. Basically the difficulty of snoring is more major. It isn't a trifling bother. Snoring can end up in significant social and health implications. Heightened risk of diabetes, stroke, heart problems and high blood pressures are linked with snoring. In the day, the couples face lack of productiveness, irritation and sleepiness thanks to the ruffled sleep due to snoring.

Snoring may cause one of the spouses to sleep in another room, leading the relationship to go sour. Social and physical intimacies of a pair are also influenced by the snoring. Mild snoring can be cured by awakening and turning to the other side. Harsh snoring may also cause serious sleep deprivation for the couple which can end up in the immune mechanism not replying quickly to the process of recovery, awfully poor emotional and psychological health, mood changes, not thinking extremely obviously and slow reaction.

Heredity, obesity, approaching old age, being a male, smoking, lacking health fitness, defects in the nose, tonsils or enlarged adenoids, lengthy soft-palate, alcoholism, allergies, cold, sinus infection and sleeping on the back with overlay of pillows which are soft are a few of the causes for snoring. To cease snoring, attempt to shed weight, sleep on your side, sleep without a pillow, try and raise the head at least 4 inches from the bed, avoid smoking and secondary smoke, don't eat unhealthy foods or alcohol before bed and say no way to fat heavy dairy goods before bed time. Try decongestants to clear nasal passages. Nasal strips and sprays which claim to heal snoring are available in the market. A lot of them are unproven and can not bear any significant medical research.

Sometimes a few of them might cure mild snoring.

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Couples sleep alone over bed habits

The results revealed that constant snoring, stealing the duvet, rolling over to a partner's side of the bed and sleep talking and walking have all made for rocky relationships and a new trend for his and hers bedrooms.

A third of Britons confess to being kept awake by their other half on a nightly basis, the study reveals.

A fifth of Britons are regularly kept awake by a partner's snoring with a quarter of couples battling over their duvet every night.

One in ten confess to being bashed in bed by an over-active partner and the same number are kept awake by sleep talking/walking partners.

According to the survey, commissioned by bed manufacturer Silentnight, women suffer the most through their partner's bad bed habits, with 30% of them now sleeping in a different room.

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Sunday, October 25, 2009

Real Housewives: The Horrors of Home Design

As they made passionate, gummy, slit-like love to each other, then slept the sound, snoring sleep of lovers, Alex and Simon could not here the scritch-scratch... scritch-scratch...Scritch-Scratch...SCRITCH-SCRATCH getting louder and louder and louder and Johan's terrible screaming and then a great hissing and whispering, like demons coming spilling out of a fissure in hell's marbled ceiling, more terrified shrieks and the sound of bedsheets tearing, of legs kicking, of tiny feet or paws skittering across the floor, a great crack of lightning, one final swallowed "Nooooo..." and then silence.

When they walked into Johan's room the next morning, they saw the torn sheets and nothing else. He was gone. "So he was right," Alex stammered. "They're back." Simon nodded, gravely. "They're back.

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Sunday, October 18, 2009

Train of thought

When I had to commute to London once a week for six months, I used to doze off for the three-hour journey, until I realised my snoring annoyed the other passengers. Then I read or did sudoku, anything to keep me thinking about work. When I travel by train for non-work related things however, I love looking out the window and just watching the world go by, my mind emptying like a blank slate. Wonderful. A Sinclair, Weston-Super-Mare

Practise yoga-breathing - very relaxing, good for stress. M Wardle, Stevenage, UK

Knitting gloves is my current pass-time. Also enjoying the lovely view. Noting the passing of the farming year. Talking to other regular commuters. Knitting is good. Less fiddly than sewing when you go over speed bumps or round roundabouts. Louise, Galashiels-Edinburgh

I'm finishing my degree part-time while I work full-time and the commute is an ideal time to catch up on the piles of reading.

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Sunday, October 11, 2009

Video Imaging Provides Dynamic View Of Airway Obstruction In Those

"It is an easy way to measure the soft palate changes and may be a useful technique to differentiate obstructive sleep apnea from simple snoring with short examination time."

Journal reference:

Chul Hee Lee et al. Evaluation of Soft Palate Changes Using Sleep Videofluoroscopy in Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg., 2009; 135 (2): 168-172 [link] .

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Sunday, October 4, 2009

The You Docs tips for the week

It might nix your bedmate's sleep apnea, and some of the snoring that goes with it. When a group of overweight people with mild sleep apnea - meaning they stopped breathing for more than 10 seconds at a time while sleeping - went on a very-low-calorie diet, their apnea and lives improved (they lost weight, too). It's no big surprise that weight loss helps limit sleep apnea. After all, part of the problem is that there's obstruction in the free flow of air through the passages in the back of your mouth. When fat accumulates there, this blockage becomes even more likely. But the study did suggest that if you catch sleep apnea in its early stages and intervene with weight loss, you may be able to cure it or at least prevent it from getting worse. Sleep apnea isn't just an inconvenience: When you stop breathing, your body wakes up (hey, breathe, will ya?!) and prevents you from getting the rejuvenating benefits of sleep.

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Sunday, September 27, 2009

'I will never forget'

He said at that point, all was silent except for snoring sounds from Rabaka who was later carried to a nearby tin shack.

He recalled Rabaka was vomiting before they left Black Rock later that night and continued to vomit when they arrived at the Namaka Police Station.

Mr Ratuvou said Rabaka and Josua Saunaqali, also a witness in the trial, were told to lie inside a bure at the station while he was made to drink yaqona.

He said Nayacalagilagi threatened him and told him not to report the matter to anyone.

He said Nayacalagilagi also told him it was no use complaining to the authorities because the officers were protected under the amnesty.

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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Life in a hostel environment

'ROOM for rent: bunk bed, share with 250 housemates, must tolerate mess, snoring, drunks and the smell of budget travellers."

You won't find this one up on the rental board at your local bookshop. If you did, you might deride it as a bogus prank, a joke ad for the desperate. Backpacker hostels offer basic accommodation for travellers, but for some inner-city house hunters, the hostel life offers a better option than the ordeal of enduring the home rental blues.

Andrew (surname withheld by request), 35, of North Fitzroy, has found the rigmarole of looking for an inner-city share house to be a game of cutthroat frustration.

"I'm not a student, not a woman, not a vegetarian. Once you whittle it down past that, down to your area, your price range, to the places that are still available and suitable, the odds of finding the right place just get smaller and smaller."

Andrew recently racked up his 450th consecutive night in a shared dormitory bunk bed.

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Pink road signs and funny place names

Great Snoring and Little Snoring are two other towns who possess curious names despite their relatively mundane appearance.

Set in the backdrop of Norfolk in south-east of England the two towns sit near the edge of the coastline.

The strange and curiously titled village of Wetwang sits at the northern edge of the Yorkshire Wolds in England. Like Lower Slaughter there are several suggestions to the origin of the places name.

One of the more popular theories is that Wetwang gained its name from the Viking word Vaettvangrr which means the 'field of summons'.

But despite its bizarre name Wetwang knows how to draw in the tourists. The town was subtly featured in JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy under the fictional name of 'Nidalf'.

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