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Hiya Groggy
Don't worry . . . I will still be here for you, even if I am cured and a bit late with my replies !
I am sat here awake now so am not really cured . . . I have just learnt to accept that being awake in the wee small hours is okay, especially as I have 5 hours in the sleep bank already ! I fel asleep c 7.20 pm and woke up 5 hours later and decided to watch one of the soaps I had missed earlier as I was conscious that if I went to bed and slept through ( God forbid ! ) I would have had10 hours sleep and I didn't want to do this as I seem to wake up with a headache if I get too much sleep these days. I have Walked 3 hours over the last 2 days ( an hour to work and back each day and half an hour at lunch with my friend ) and I think this has help me sleep as I yawned all the way home tonight . . .I was really surprised I managed to stay awake until 7.20 pm !
I am quite happy with my Alcoholics Unanimous reputation and would you believe I didn't have a G&T in the end as I found a smidgen of will power ( more to the point there was only a smidgen of gin left ~ so it would have meant having much more T than G ! ) I have just done an essence of G&T as I was really dry and it is the early hours after all !
I decided to not wake Mr M by going to bed as he is tired and it will do him good to get a full night in the COMFTY bye bo's . . . Think I will get in bed early doors on Friday snd have a long luxurious night for a treat I am on holiday Friday and I was taking my mum to one of the shopping centres out of town to get her wedding outfit but the roads where we live are compacted ice and Friday is a bad day for snow so we are just going into the city centre for a bit of shopping and for a nice lunch . . . We will look very glamorous in snow boots and Wellies but at least it beats being at work ! I have booked 1 February as holiday and hope that the snow has cleared by then so we can have a good shopping day.
Oh well I will close now . . . Time to roll over Rover and get the last couple of hours in the sleep bank . . . Hope you manage to get some ZZZ's and post to you soon.
TT x
How did you manage to get another post in before my reply !
Don't worry about jogging on little sleep . . . Exercise is great for promoting sleep so you will probably get a better sleep tonight.
Don't worry about napping earlier . . . You body needed it and remember . . . You are not the only insomniac in the village this morning . . . What a refreshing change that is !
If you are awake and alert why not start the day extra early and have another go at your purse, or have you finished it ? Sleep is sleep, whenever you get it and it is still going to take time to get this right . . . Insomnia is a very persistent young man . . . Did you notice I said man . . . A woman would have given up bothering us by now because of all of the effort we have been putting in and she would probably be having a G&T ( or three ) with me to celebrate our success !!!!!
Chin up . . . No sleep pressure and do something pleasurable, or relaxing for you, rather than worrying about not getting to sleep . . . In Martins words . . The more you try to sleep . . . The less chance you have of actually getting to sleep . . . 'Ello . . . 'Ello . . . 'Ello . . . Whose worrying too much ere then !
The Chief of Sleep ( and Awake ) Police xXx
Morning Chief of Sleep and Awake Police,
You're so funny! 😆
Well done on calmly managing your nightly awakeness once again – and yes, fancy having to make sure to not get too much sleep! -_-
(I assume that one is the sleepy emoticon…)
Yeah, once I realised that it was the jogging I was so anxious about, I managed to get snoozy and comfortable. I watched a documentary on Christopher Columbus and nodded off to that… for a whole hour! Haha… yeah, fell asleep at 5am and got back up at 6am – so I'm very relieved and proud of myself, cos I expected getting up to be one heck of a trial this morning, after yesterday's sleep-in…
So good to have this forum, especially when the anti-insomnia offensive suffers some setbacks… I was reading a post by Deanka in the forum yesterday, where she was saying she'd conquered big old insomnia for a month – only to have it kicking back in again at the moment full-force, and I thought “Oh gosh, yes, of course that could happen…!” and am now relieved that a) I've been warned ahead of time of such a setback and 😎 that I will have this forum to help see me through such a crisis, one night at a time…
Hmm, speaking of which – do you think we should open a thread with a more general, open-sounding name? Cos the few ppl who are popping by the forum at the moment don't seem to just be jumping in here to introduce themselves…. Maybe we seem too daunting??
I mean, on the one hand, I love having our now regular funny chats here and think “Who wants to talk to people who possibly don't have as silly and twisted a sense of humour as we do?!?” but on the other hand, it does seem a bit silly to *not* talk to the people that drop by, if you know what I mean….?
Yeah, I think I'll start a general-sounding thread, and if anyone pops by there, we can shift to there….?
Right, first task of the day, must come up with a name for it!
XXX
Groggy
Hi Groggy . . . WELL DONE YOU . . . Must go buy another bottle of gin to celebrate.
I don't think we will ever get rid of insomnia completely and I think we just have to learn to live in peace with it . . . Luckily I have years and years of exoerience of failing off the wagon on every diet in the book so I am quite used to slip up and startagain tomorrow !
Remember . . . Our way of sleeping was the norm until that bloke invented electric lighting and the TV's et al came along and everyone jumped on rhe sleep at the same time band waggon.
Sounds strange I know but I quite like my new routine of sleeping early evening and waking up anytime between midnight and 2pm for a bit of time for me and Insomnia Land so I think I am going to call this my new norm . . . SO THERE INSOMNIA !
No problem starting a new thread . . . This one is getting a bit big and it will be good to see how other insomniacs in the village are getting on. You start the thread and let me know when and what it is called and I will join.
Keeeeeeep vertical and enjoy your day and your jog.
TT x
Well, I figure we can stay here unless someone else turns up that wants to talk to us…. I started one called Insomnia 2013 – Hi! How're y'all coping? (Or something like that…)
But it's nice and cozy here, so my vote is that we stay put here for now, but like I say, if people want to join in a conversation, maybe they'll feel less like they're butting in on a D&M there??
More later… got to work now…
🙂
Ew, hello…!
Just came back from my jog and am pooped now!
But it went really well – no “lack of sleep” issues as I feared… (Sometimes, if I get close to zero sleep, I feel like my heartbeat goes a bit wonky, which doesn't feel very nice – and to have that happen during strenguous exercise would feel scary to me!)
Unfortunately I “managed” to squeeze another 2 hour nap in this morning… drats.
My best friend called at 8:30am and we had an hour's gas bag and then I was so comfy on the sofa that I dozed off after the phone call…
I think I'm going to have to give my nap monster a name too and find a pic for him – cause it's certainly not just Scrumble the insomnia monster haunting me any more… Mr Napsy is being the bigger pain at the moment!!
Ah, well, I need to get back to work – it's not going to do itself while I nap, unfortunately!
Cross your fingers for me that I don't have any more nap-mishaps today!!
Groggy 😎
Okay, I think this will be Mr. Napsy:
I decided that I want him to be an idiot. A slack-jawed fool. Who is only good at one thing: napping.
I need him to be an annoying dope, so that the persistent “Let's have a napsy!” suggestions really get on my nerves!!
So there you go, he's a bumbling fool…
Mr. Napsy
Haha, well that picture turned out bloody ENORMOUS!
I had made it smaller, but it doesn't seem to have worked…
Haha, well that fits – Mr Napsy is too daft to do anything right, other than NAP…
Pfft <_<
Mr Napsy GO AWAY.
I am a grown woman, a working professional who cannot simply NAP all the time, do you hear me?!
While you are a cutey, in your own bumbling dunce way, I cannot be snoozing about on the sofa with you all day.
Forgive me, but you are going to have to do some snoozing without me.
I understand that you are a big snooze fan and that is fine and I will gladly join you as often as I feel able, I need you to not interfere with my days all the time. You're just making it hard for me to cope.
How about we reserve ourselves as much snooze time as we want from 6pm onwards?
Does that sound like a deal?
Okay, so bide your time, cos we still have 3 hours of non-nap time to go yet…
XXX
Love Mr Napsy although he looks soooo cute I don't think I would have much will power if he came knocking on my door.
A 2 hour nap is nothing and your body obviously needed it and you more than make up for it by going for a jog. Did you feel energised after your jog ? I have felt full of beans after walking to work but have yawned all the way home for the last 2 nights . . . Just yawned twice when I typed the work yawn . . . Oh, there is another one ! I don't fancy my chances of making 7 pm to night but that is okay.
I am on holiday tipomorrow so can at least stay in bed a little, if I want to . . . Have booked a cuddle with Mr M as he is off as well as he has a hospital appointment. I am doing lunch with my mum and some clothes shopping . . . Snow permitting. It is allegedly going to be a bad day for snow and bitterly cold so we are going to be flexible and do what ever the day permits. Have you had much snow ?
How are you getting on with your purse ? I keep meaning to finish the dress I started but am either too tired, or it is the middle of the night and it would wake Mr M.
How have you got on this aft ? I finished at 4 pm which was nice and my eyes are bobbing after my meal.
Oh well I will sign off now . . . Mr M is looking like he wants a bit of attention.
Take care and post to you soon
Very Tired Teddy x
Heyho Teddy,
Oh lucky you to have a holiday tomorrow! That sounds lovely. I hope the snow behaves itself for you!!
I ended up having a good afternoon and getting a lot done. And Mr Napsy was put in his place just fine…
In fact, I got so much done, that I gave myself the whole evening off (not something I do all that often! – I usually do quite a bit of work in the evenings too, cos insomnia keeps me up anyway and I've often been dragging my heels throughout the day.
I'm very happy at the moment, with the insomnia/ sleep progress I've made over the last fortnight. The results are definitely going in the right direction.
Pffft – soon we will have graduated Martin's sleep classes too and then the forum will be even quieter… Do you think his course is too good? Curing everyone and then they're off sleeping at nights and keeping busy during the day?
Ach Teddy, I'm yawning too now… I could just go and get and early night, I guess.
Go and see if Mr Napsy wants to cuddle with me, after I was so rejecting of him this afternoon – haha!
But somehow, I think that he does the day shift and Scrumble the insomnia monster is the one who works the night shift… :wacko:
Getting drowsy now, so i will go and brush my teeth!
XXX Sweet dreams!
Hm, well that is not polite – the forum just ate my post to you…
And I am too TIRED to re-write it…
Sorry!
Sleep tight and sweet dreams!!
🙄
Oh, no it didn't… it just put it on a new page, but sneakily made it look like it hadn't…
Ach, technology…
HiyaTired Groggy
Have you managed to snooze ?
Inhave just woken up after 5 hours sleep ( bladder / bowel calling ) and I am sat here bleary eyed and like a little kiddy rubbing my eyes to get them open ! I keep having to take my glasses off so I can see to type but the I can't see the TV to watch the soap I taped. Shouldn't complain as my injection affects my eye sight . . .another downside to the injection but still better than the pain without it.
It is sad to graduate from Martins sleep school but the positive is we are in a much better place than before we enrolled and we have become friends and as far as I am concerned we don't need chronic insomnia to keep us posting. Plus we could be just the Mrs Motivators the new insomniacs need . . . Well if any of them ever read our posts and don't think we are a pair of fruit cakes !
My view is our part of the forum has been a lifeline and made such a difference to me . . . Posts during the night or day . . . It's all the same . . . Support and encouragement and a laugh along the way . . . Perfetto ! I do agree however that it is nice to get a reply in the wee small hours to let you know you are not alone in Insomnia Land !
After reading your last few posts I had a thought . . . Do you think your insomnia could have been made worse by working in the evening because I know when I have been to work I am stimulated ( think a number of my colleagues would beg to differ ! ) and once stimulated that has an effect on the hormone in your brain that promotes sleep ( can't for the life of me think of the name which is a tad embarrassing, given the amount of research I have done ! ). it could be that by concentrating and working you have tricked your brain into thinking that it is thime to start the day and nowhere near time to sleep . . . Like it, or not . . . Our bodies seem to be programmed to GO once we start working.
How about setting a time of say 6.30 pm as the last time you work at night for at least 2 weeks just to see if this makes any difference. If you start today you have the weekend for your body to adjust the shock of this radical change . . . I take it you do allow yourself some time off at the weekend !
Let's make a pact to do only pleasurable / relaxing things to keep us occupied ( if said activities are required ! ) after 6.30 pm. I used to do work at home on nights when I couldn't sleep and was really busy but this just meant my body got no rest and was probably in shock and overdrive. I have stopped this now after the lack of support that I received when I was poorly and what doesn't get done has to wait until tomorrow as there are only so many hours in a day and I do work much harder than most anyway. This is easy for me because my office is not at home and I can have the switch off when I leave the building. Do you have an office at home you could keep for work only and not work anywhere else . . . You could close the door on it and maybe put a poster on the door to say do not enter except within normal working hours and keep the office for work and no other room . . . just as Martin said the bedroom is for sleep and s*x only !
Oh well that is the Chief of Sleep ( and awake Poloce ) over and out for tonight
Tired Teddy ? . . Ready for Beddy !
Haha, Teddy 😆
I agree 100% – and yep, I too had that thought about working in the evenings – I am too groggy to reply to that indepth right now, but I will get back to it later in the day…
I fell asleep really well again last night – not quite as amazingly as on Tuesday night (I think it was Tues…?) but still really well.
In a bit of a stupid turn of events, I didn't hear my 2 alarm clocks going off (repeatedly) this morning at 6am – so I slept for 12 hours!!! From 1am to now 1pm, lunchtime. Ooops!!
I would be so embarassed to write that to anyone but fellow insomniacs…. But I know you will understand that it has nothing to do with laziness or being a slack person….
Anyway, the long sleep-in is not what I was planning for, obviously, but I am going to make the best of it now, cos what else can I do, right?
It was certainly very refreshing and it's nice to not feel mega-sleep deprived, as I have been for most of the last 3 weeks…
Well, I'd better get to work now, else I'll not make my Monday deadline for my current contract…
Well done on another night of sleep and insomnia that you have spent successfully.
Hey – I've got a question for you too – since you and Mr. M both have some insomnia issues and since snoring is an issue for you (as it is in so many relationships) why do you guys only have one truly comfy bed?
If I were you I would make sure to have the other bed be just as comfy, so that at least it's not a daily issue of who sleeps where and in what shifts – cos surely that's adding to an unsettledness?
My “theory” is that maybe your 2nd bed is uncomfortable cos you 2 are hoping not to need it – that you would prefer to sleep side-by-side in the big proper bed (which I too aspire to with my b/f as it seems the most romantic option) but seeing as we both struggle with insomnia too, we have 3 comfortable beds!! (One of our sofas is a daybed-sofa) So there is always plently of comfy sleeping space and it's eays to pick who can go where…
Have a lovely day!!
Groggy 🙂
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