This should work better than Ambien:

[Redstone]

I'm tired and want to go to bed, but I'm afraid that if I do, I won't be able to sleep, as happens frequently.

BUT: It's 25 degrees out there tonight. In about 15 minutes, I'm going to take off my sweater and socks, and go outside in just a T-shirt and a pair of pants. I'll stay out there and read my book for fifteen minutes.

When I come back in, I'll be so cold that I'll have NO choice but to go directly up to the nice warm bed that has the nice warm Mrs R in it, because we don't heat the house to much over 60 degrees in the winter. (We like the house to be cool, but that won't cut it after my cold-soak.)

What do you think? I'm betting it will work.

Redstone

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Redstone.........

I'm not certain it will work......but it's worth a try!

You might be so cold that you can't sleep......:shrug:

[Kali]

2. ooooo poor Mrs. R!

I think that would wake me up! (either version - yours or hers):scared:

[Redstone]

8. No, I'll stay a foot or two away from her until I thaw; I'd never put her into the

Nightly Full Clinch (yes, we still do that after 16 years) with cold hands & feet.

That would be beyond cruel.

Redstone

[Possumpoint]

3. Depends on what you're thinking.

Just don't try to get it on, you'll probably be fighting a recession.

[Redstone]

5. Oh, no I won't, not with The Dreaded Shrinks. I know better.

Redstone

[graywarrior]

4. You're nuts!

You won't get away with that stuff up in NH.

[Redstone]

7. It works even better when you risk frostbite.

Adds that frisson of the risk of permanent maiming.

Redstone

[graywarrior]

10. Do us a favor and take a picture and post it.

[Redstone]

13. Not hardly. I'd have to change my name from Redstone to Blueskin.

Redstone

[graywarrior]

15. Then you'll really be a blue liberal.

[LeftyMom]

6. I think it's a good way to lose a toe.

The last thing somebody who's about 75% scar tissue needs to do is spend more time than needed in the cold. Try a hot bath and something a bit dull to read, instead.

[Redstone]

9. I'm absolutely NOT 75% scar tissue! Maybe 70%, tops.

But you may be right. Various joint siezures could result. And we DO have the hydrotherapy tub upstairs.

I need to give the some thought.

Redstone

[Gormy Cuss]

11. Well, leave your socks on. Soon you'll be closer to Canada after all.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5908919&mesg_id=5908919

[Redstone]

14. That's funny. Mrs R or I will sometimes forget to remove something...

heat of the moment and all that. 16 years, and we're still like a pair of hormone-saturated teenagers.

Redstone

[Haole Girl]

12. This is going to sound flippant, but I don't mean it that way...

...have you tried just lying in bed, with all the lights off, and closing your eyes...and thinking pleasant thoughts? It usually works for me. But, then again, I won't ever try to go to sleep until I am nearly exhausted. :shrug:

[Redstone]

16. Thanks, but that doesn't work for me. There are just too many thoughts, and given

that thoughts inevitably turn to memories, and the preponderance of memories being less that pleasant ones (I had 36 mostly dreadful years before I met Mrs R after all), they crowd the good ones out.

But a nice suggestion anyway.

Redstone