another all-nighter?

My insomnia has been bothering me again. If I don't get to sleep early, like before 10:30 PM at the latest, I may not sleep until after 3 AM.

Tonight I have to stay up. Lisa is sick again and has a lot of chest congestion. I bought DM cough syrup (dextromethorphan to quiet the cough and guaifenesin to loosen the mucus) for her - the non-alcoholic variety, in case I need to partake of it. That helps, but even without alcohol it messes her up. It must interact with one or more of her prescription medications.

And so she couldn't get to sleep because she was worried about not being able to breathe. If I stay in there with her, she moans and cries. When I sit out here in the kitchen she sleeps. I suppose I could go sit on the couch.

On Friday night I made peanut-butter fudge. It took over two hours to make; I had been at it for an hour and it still hadn't cooked down, so Lisa came out and added a bunch of milk. Not sure about the reasoning there. Anyway, it took another hour and a half before she gave up and told me to put in the final ingredients and pour it into the pan.

It came out delicious and smooth, and set up properly. She ate most of it the first night. Between us we had it gone in 20 hours.