How to get a good nights sleep with a bad cold?

How do I get a good nights sleep when my family is so noisy?

• I'm 14 years old and I'm always so ******* tired!! I live with my dad, my 8 year old triplet siblings, and my my dads friend who lives here because he has nowhere else to stay and we need help paying the bills. Everyone else sleeps on the top floor and I sleep on the bottom floor. Well I can't go to bed until ******* 1 a.m. because my dads ******* friend has his tv so loud and I can hear it because I sleep right below him!!!!! I tried complaining to my dad about this but he says stop being selfish and stop complaining. I mean, they have to get up at 8 in the morning and I have to get up and SIX because of school. I'm running on 5 hours sleep here!! And I'm constantly sleeping and class, I'm always grumpy, and my grades are slipping. I even try sleeping in on the weekends but at 6 in the morning my dad and brother and sisters stomp down the stairs like a wild herd of elephants and laugh and scream. I can hear I ******* pin drop from down here I swear the walls are so thin. My dad doesn't care he says to stop complaining. I'm about to chug a bottle of niquil or take a handful of sleeping pills for **** sakes just to get some damn sleep!!! I'm sorry this was such a rant but what do I do!?!?

• Answer:

  i would say when his tv is loud go directly to him and ask him if he can lower it a little bit. if that doesnt happen.... Ear Plugs are a good answer. Maybe even headphones and listening to music to go to sleep. but i would say, ear plugs if anything