Good Morning and Happy New Year

[velvetpage]

Okay, I haven't thrown up in 23 hours. I went to bed within five minutes of the baby - that is to say, I was in bed by 9:30 - and I don't remember anything else until she started waking up at 2:30. That means I got five uninterrupted hours of gravol-induced sleep. (I took the gravol as a preventative measure before I went to bed. This time, it seems to have worked.) The baby was up on and off after that until about 5:00, when Piet actually rocked her back to sleep. Since then she's slept. So has he. I did until 7:30, but I wasn't tired anymore so I got up. I like that feeling.

I think this was the first New Year's since I was about 12 that I didn't stay up until midnight - though there were one or two at-home New Year's where I went to bed at 12:05. I don't regret it. I feel much better this morning.

Agenda for the day: eat little, drink lots of juice and stuff, see the in-laws, go to my mother's for dinner, probably avoid eating much of it. (Originally, summerfields were supposed to fly home out of Buffalo today, but since their flight was delayed by last week's snow, they're actually here until tomorrow now. I said yes to New Year's Day at my mom's because I thought they'd already be gone. Now they're still here, and we're in a bit of a bind. Not that I'm complaining of course - but I want to be able to see everyone without offending anyone. We'll see.)

I really should go down and get some juice, but I'm afraid going down the stairs will wake up the baby, and I don't want to do that. So I'll wait.

Happy New Year, everyone!

Comments

[michellinator.livejournal.com]

What IS Gravol? You and another Canadian on my list take it. I doubt the product name (grave all - sounds really Kevorkian-esque) would get past the marketing department of any pharmaceutical company here.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

It's an anti-nauseant, and it's been around for decades. I'll look up the actual name of the drug that's in it, but basically, it's supposed to inhibit vomiting. My mother used to give it to us before long car rides, because it inhibits motion-sickness, as well. Oh, and it's pronounced with a short a.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

The box says the active ingredient is dimenhydrinate. Actually, the stuff I took was a generic store brand, not gravol at all. I'm just so used to thinking of it as gravol - it's like referring to acetomenophen as tylenol, even though I haven't bought the brand-name stuff ever.