Leif for Amiable Overlord in 2020!

Leif for Amiable Overlord in 2020!

That'll lead to mandatory butt jokes.

That'll lead to mandatory butt jokes.

You say that like it's a drawback.

"The Senator from Virginia will please open his argument with a butt joke."

We can change filibuster to fillibuttser.

We can change filibuster to fillibuttser.

Now you're talking!

We can throw the bums into office.

"The Senator from Virginia will please open his argument with a butt joke."

I couldn't see Mark Warner admitting he has a butt, much less telling a butt joke. Jim Webb, maybe, but only when he's with "the boys."

Al Franken, on the other hand,....

Anthony Weiner could possibly start having grade-school flashbacks.(Mom and I joke that's made him so tough, though. Getting through grade school as Tony Weiner. Whatever anyone might say about him now, he probably heard when he was a lot younger.)

I was having awful pressure the last couple of days where my teeth used to be.

Yeah, the jaws have that, "Um, 'scuse us, but we were ATTACHED to those teeth," feeling for a while. It definitely lasted longer than I expected, but now that I think about it, it seems to have faded far enough into the background that I don't even remember when it really stopped.

Al Franken, on the other hand,....

Don't you wish your Senator was a firy, irrevernt liberal like mine?

Yes. I mean, I hate to bust up your riff, but short answer, yes. Dear Chris Hayes, I think it's cute that you're surprised Kyl's a dick. I think he fooled many of y'all with his "I R serius lawmaker" face, but this is the Kyl we all know. Stay as sweet as you are. xo, Me

So...anyone else ever have Ambien decide to go rogue and cause Insomnia rather than prevent it? This is the second time for me, and I could cry with frustration. It's still early, but I took the sucker at 9 and am more awake 90 minutes later than I was then. Dammit. I can't toss and turn tonight; I really need a good night's sleep so I can be less zombified tomorrow.

Your tolerance does build up after a while. How many mgs do you take, Pix? And what type: regular or CR?

Honestly, the next time it happened, if I wasn't asleep within 1/2 an hour, I would take another 5 mgs or drink a half glass of wine. I'd go with the wine, unless you'd be getting 8 hours. (I AM NOT A DOCTOR. Based on my own experience.)

I feel your pain. 10 mgs just...stopped working for me about 1 year ago, and my doctor upped me to 20 mgs. And sometimes that's not enough, and I lay there for 2 hours and then wake up in 3 or 4 hours. It is a combination of tolerance and anxiety levels for me, I think. The more anxious I am about something (including that lovely cycle of anxiety about falling asleep @@), the less likely it is to work.

I am on my 4th day of being out of my script, and it fucking bites. I went to bed at 3:45 am last night, and lay there until 6:30 am. Slept till noon, though which is the most sleep I've gotten in 6 days. I was pissed that I couldn't fall asleep earlier last night, because I was WIPED. Just wiped. And D. switched to an earlier sched, so now he's getting up at 4:45 am to be at work by 6. That's going to be kind of a clusterfuck for a while.

I wish I had a Senator (and a root, but that's pretty much permanent).