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Hey there Deanka,
Sorry to hear that your insomnia has sneakily crept back up on you!!
Seeing as traffic on the forum is a bit light at the moment, I've just started a new thread called Insomnia 2013 – Hey there! How are y'all coping?
If you want some company while you're trying to put insomnia back in its place, pop by and have a chat with Tired Teddy and me…
And don't despair – I'm sure this is just a brief glitch in your sleep patterns – you will be back in positive territory soon!
See you round!
Groggy
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
Well, its 20 mins to 4am now and I'm still not sleepy. So now I'm a bit annoyed in retrospect about my napping today… I feel like that confirms that I shouldn't have napped. Tho, granted I usually have trouble sleeping even if I didn't nap, so…
I guess the reason that I am annoyed is that I am going for my weekly jog with a friend tomorrow and I feel like it's not good for my body to do so much exercise with so little sleep – but maybe I'm over-anxious about that, I don't know.
I guess I will just have to adjust how fast and far I run to how well I'm feeling – that probably makes more sense than stressing out about it now…
Ach, just some late-night frustraton, I guess…
Me being silly…
😮
Heya Teddy,
Yeah, I'd been figuring that with all that sleep you're getting, that you don't have as much insomnia-time to surf the forum! 😛
That's okay though!! That's what forums are for…
It's been really cool to start this insomnia learning journey together but it's okay if you get cured!!
I started this thread out as my sleep journal on purpose – cos it seemed like the traffic wasn't so heavy at the forum at the moment and cos I wanted somewhere I could post, even if other insomniacs here came and went…
So as much as I am pleased to have a Sleep Police Officer checking on me, do make sure to use the forum on a needs-basis – ie as you need to deal with the issue of insomnia…
Anyway – with that “serious” stuff out of the way – let's get back to entertaining nonsense, huh??
Not that I know if I have any to report… let's see…
I got out the power tools and finished my building project – shelves etc… So I'm happy that's finally done – I got distracted by so much stuff from finishing it for ages!
Oh, and I copied my post from this morning here into Skype to explain today's sleep-in/ nap situation to my best friend… and she replied saying “Haha. Who's the G&T drinker? 🙂 “
(I think I had written something about giving you too many reasons to celebrate, or something??)
So there you go – I've unwittingly given you a REPUTATION!! 😮
Sorry about that – feel free to slag me off to your friends too now!! 😆
Well, I'm not very tired this evening so far (not unsurprisingly, after all that NAPPING going on – d'oh!)
But I will crawl under the covers shortly and get some Zzzzzs before my 6am wake up call…
Sweet dreams!
Groggy
Well, I still don't feel guilty today, even though I have more napping to report…
I put the heating pad in my neck and shoulder area to do some stretching, cos my cricked neck is pretty sore and you'll never guess what that turned into… yep, a nap.
A four hour “nap”…
Anyway, as I said, I'm not upset by it, cos I had sort of given myself permission – it just needs to stay the absolute exception….
Well, I had better get some work done, else this Wednesday is going to turn into a Sunday for me, after all…
I'm so proud of your insomnia progress too, Teddy. I need to be praising and celebrating your daily progress too!
I think it's so brilliant how you are coping with it and how positively you are approaching it… You are definitely my insomnia-beating role-model!!
You must be very proud! Who would've thought it would be such a turn-around for you, so fast, huh?
So glad to have bumped into you here in this forum!! SOOO much nicer to put insomnia in it's place together with somone as lovely as yourself!!
Right – I'm off to work!!!!
XXX
Groggy Gal, feeling a little less groggy right now than usual
Hi there Teddy,
so sorry your post disappeared! Obviously cos I can't read it – but also cos I know how frustrating that is!
I've had a bit of an odd morning. I will try to explain….
I had a really good night last night. I think I fell asleep around 2:00am – which is better than I managed the last 3 weeks…
But – more importantly – I had PROPER sleepiness going on at the RIGHT time – it felt totally brilliant and I fell asleep beautifully.
So…. there's another big milestone you can honour with a G&T – tho I worry I am driving you to drink!!
Now this morning has gone a bit oddly… I must have slept very deeply, cos I have a slight crick in my neck since waking up this morning and the last time I had this my physiotherapist explained to me that you usually get that if you sleep very deeply and hence don't “move about” the normal amount in your sleep, but lay for ages in an odd angle for your neck…
That and it also feels like I had a deep sleep – and I overheard my first 2 alarm clocks doing their thing at 6am. I had a backup one set for 7am – and I heard that one and got up to turn it off.
Since I was supposed to go to the Drs office this morning to have some blood work done, I figured I would allow myself and hour's lie-in til 8am and then get up to go to the Dr's since I had nothing urgent to do and it had been such a successful night.
I ended up extending the lie-in til 9am, cos I figured that was still early enough to go by the Dr's (you just have to get there before 10am for bloodwork) but then got so comfortable, that I decided to call the Dr's office to reschedule, cos the morning was turning so cosy that I couldn't be bothered turning it into a rush and annoyance just for some bloodwork…
So now I've been awake since 9:30am and it's just gone 10am and I'm still in bed, posting this on the laptop. But I'm about to get up and have a coffee and start the day.
I don't feel guilty or upset about the way the morning has gone – cos I did give myself permission to have a lie-in…
But I do feel a bit sceptical, whether it was a smart idea…
I mean – last night was finally a successful falling-asleep night – which was due to my getting up early. So isn't my getting up late rather defeating that progress, instead?
I don't know… on the other hand, I sort of think “Well, it's not a CRIME to get up a bit later…” but yeah, while it may not be a crime, it's also the opposite of helpful for my insomnia.
Anyway – I know that one morning of getting up later is not going to ruin my insomnia/ sleep schedule – what I'm more concerned about is that my brain will latch on to this as a perfect excuse to have a lie-in on lots of mornings now… like there will be a TON of “exceptions” to follow on from today… That does feel like a serious concern.
So I really need to make sure this doesn't happen more than once a week – which means that I will have to get up at 6am the next 5 days at least, to make sure my sleep schedule doesn't get wonky.
Anyway, I will get up now, enjoy the fact that I feel rested, celebrate last night's super sleep success and make sure I don't do any napping today and am on track for another 6am wake-up tomorrow.
Sorry to post about this in such (boring) detail… But it's important to me, to be clear and aware re my sleep habits… I need to analyse it, to stay on top of it… so it's very helpful here, to have a sleep forum and journal in which to reflect on such seemingly small, but also crucial sleep decisions and actions…
Thanks for your patience, Teddy…!
Hope you had a good start to your day and that it's going along nicely…
XXX Groggy
Haha, yes it is, and yes, I did…
Very welcom nap – and I gave myself permission to have it, so all was fine 🙂
The evening turned out ridiculously stressful – so my adrenaline levels are currently at about 300% so not sure how I will go about getting some more sleep tonight 😮
But never mind… I am going to relax now and make the best of the evening and night…
Sleep tight, Teddles…!
XXX
Ach, poor Teddy…
Getting snappy with each other with the partner sucks… It's one of the things that I get truly angry at my insomnia for… I figure it's one thing for it to turn my life upside down, but when it starts impacting on my relationship, that's just unwarranted, in my books…
So – I have a question – why… if Bianca can park herself – can't she “unpark” herself….?! I would surely have thought that it goes both ways automatically – in and out…?! Surely those onboard computers would just have to do the “reverse” of whatever they do to get you into the gap…
But I can already sense what you're going to say… No, those cars don't do that… Ugh! Why are they always putting products on the market than only do half the job they are supposed to?! Honestly!!
Well, I have spent most of the morning out and about and need to dash off again in half an hour, but then the afternoon will be a bit quiter, which will be nice…
Right now I'm having a snuggle on the sofa, getting a few minutes of peace and quiet, before storming off again…
Nothing else to report here, really.. With being out and about, there was obviously no NAP ATTACK stuff going on, so all's calm on that front…
Hope you're breezing through your work day – and I bet you're looking forward to that Cassoulet – it sounds very yummy – especially if it caused the whole kitchen to go topsy turvy – that is always a good sign for yummy cooking, I reckon…
Byebye insomnia friend, talk later… 🙂
Morning Teddy,
I must say, Chief of Sleep Police sounds a little scary 😆
Especially since I may be living a life of insomniac crime… :ph34r:
But I know you mean well, so I will not be scared – even if I'm not sure if some of my napping and staying up late is not highly illegal… 🙂
Well, I'm awake, after 2 hours of sleep and feeling surprisingly fine… just got to take the last hurdle now and get UP (am cozy in bed with the laptop right now…)
So what's this magic parking your car has got – is it that thing in the adverts, where it truly parallel parks on it's own?!?! If so, that is SOOO cool.
I dunno what the snow situation is here at the moment – haven't looked outside yet, cos it's still so dark out there… It was just half an inch here yesterday, max, when I was outdoors… so not much of a problem really…
But I am someone who quite likes a bit of chaos… I think it's so funny that things will grind to a near halt, just cos nature is doing it's normal thing… So I will gladly suffer some inconvenience for the entertainment of watching that whole spectacle… It warms my heart to think that nature can grind our oh-so modern and powerful society to a halt with a few snowflakes… (But as you say, I'm lucky to work from home and to not have to ferry any kids to school or other urgent things… so I can be frivolous and enjoy the mini-crisis unfolding outdoors….)
Well, I think I must head into the kitchen and try to make a coffee without scalding myself… 😮
Have a lovely start to your snowy day!!
Oh dear, I'm wide awake… this is kind of looking like and all-nighter, at this point….
Hi Sleep Boss 🙂
Yes, you are right of course.
I guess the reason I'm being so “strict” about this is that I've had insomnia for soooo long now that I feel I kind of need to be “strict” else I will never get on top of my body's long-developed routine… And I really don't want to have to keep “stopping and starting” with the attempts to get on top of my insomnia, cos I have tried so often in the past, unsuccessfully, and now is a really good time to try and do this – work-wise it is good timing, my best friend doesn't start her new job for another 4 weeks so can call me in the mornings, I had major improvement with my migraines last year, etc, etc, so the timing would be really good, if it started to gel now… especially with the cool support here 🙄
So yeah, I don't really have an issue with the occasional exception – it's just if it gets to be exceptions all over the shop, I will get frustrated – and I guess sometimes I don't mind them, if at the back of my head I've given myself the “all clear” that I'm on track and an exception wouldn't be a problem, but sometimes (like today) I did NOT want a nap happening and I SO should've seen the warning signals (and I did, really) but I did nothing to prevent the nap running its course… So I am kind of annoyed at myself for having managed it very poorly, despite kind of being aware that I was on dodgy territory… does that make sense?
I guess its important for me to start feeling more empowered about my sleep and to feel confident that I have some sort of “control” over it… and so napping some days is “fine” but today it sort of was not… and that throws my (still somewhat tenuous) sense of control about my (non)sleep…
Anyway, I've gotten over it now… just came back from a 20km bike ride in the snowy cold… Had to go and pick something up and seeing as I had been working indoors all day at a desk with the heating on, I thought “Right – I am going there by bike!” It was quite nice on the way there – I really loved it, but it turned out to be… hmmmm…. shall we say a little further than I had bargained for…? Haha…. So on the way back, despite my toasty “snow” pants (well, ski pants) etc I got cold toes and fingers… and started wishing it wasn't quite so far back to the heated comfort of home… :wacko:
But I am settled in again now, with a luscious heating pad under my frozen toes… :wub:
So, to explain this Etsy thingee… I will try copying and pasting a Skype convo between me and best friend (I will call her “Doona” here – as she is a (morning) insomniac too and I have suggested her to join here too and she loves her doona soooo much….) So I will see if the Skype convo explains the Etsy situation, or if additional comments are needed…..
Groggy:
Hey 🙂
I have to ask you something really silly now:
Did you order a pair of earrings for me on Etsy, or did I??
I don't remember if I ordered them or not – it's possible, cos I was quite upset about having lost one of my favourite earrings at the time (which has since, unexpectedly turned up again)…
Anyway, a pair of Etsy earrings arrived yesterday – and they were gift wrapped…
So now I'm all confused…
So, thank you, if you did – and thank you for being the kind of person that would, if you didn't 🙂
XXX
Doona:
Haha, yes they are from me! (pretty sure). I did order some – the ones that you said you liked when you first started looking around etsy – as a little thank you for all your help (bottomless gratitude, so just a token) over the MAud & esp. that last assessment period!
Groggy:
Oh gosh – how cute are you!!!
Thank you 🙂
They were so gorgeously gift-wrapped!
And phew that I'm not as alzheimerish as I thought, yet!
Doona:
That took a while! I ordered them ages ago! Well, just before we went away over Xmas.
Groggy:
Yeah, they're somewhere from the American Midwest or something…
Doona:
Oh, I'll have to let the lady know you liked the wrapping – I didn't know they would be gift-wrapped to boot!
Sweet.
Groggy:
Well, thank you so much for the lovely treat.
I've decided I'm an earrings girl…
And they're so pretty!
I will honour them as my MAud earrings then!!! Haha
Doona:
When I went to buy them they'd JUST been sold a couple of days before. I wondered & wondered whether maybe you' bought them for yourself already. So I explained the sitch & asked if she could organise another pair just the same – I figured even if you had, it would be good to have a 2nd pair in case you ever lost one!
She was really nice about it
Groggy:
Aw…
Ach, you're so cute…
So yeah, that's them…
My best friend just finished doing her Masters in Audiology (just got the brilliant news that she passed it this week) and I was helping her with her Masters Thesis for the MAud, cos it was a ridiculous amount of stress and assessments and she was just wrecked at some point, struggling to bring the last assessments home over the finish line… so these are my MAud/ Etsy earrings… which I didn't know who had bought for me… haha…
That's my cute Etsy story for you….
I'd best get back to work now 😉
Talk later, insomnia friend!!
Groggy
Oh for crying out loud! You'd think I'd be better at nap-avoidance by now…
I think I must've fallen asleep around 11am or 11:30am and slept til 2:30pm… so that's what… 3 or 3.5 hours of NAP….
Ugh.
Trying hard not to be annoyed. But I guess I did stay up late, working, yesterday, so maybe this evens that out….
Hard to not feel like I've “ruined” today's sleep and work schedules – and hence the perfect excuse to just go back to sleep and be sooky for the rest of the day….
Boy oh boy, aren't I a fool sometimes… 😮
Okay, need to turn this day back around now (it was going SO well, before the NAP) so that my insomnia buddies can be proud of me! 😕
XXX
Trying-to-be-sensible Groggy
Oh hey, that's great!
Welcome along LisaJayne!
I must warn you, that speaking for me at least, my insomnia has my IQ dipping into single-digit territory rather often, so not sure how classy our conversation here is, but anyone who's brave enough to put up with it can sit with us, waiting for sleep to strike!!
Bout to do my exercise video in a bid to stay active and awake!
Have a good day at work, insomnia buddy/ies!
XXX Groggy 😎
P.S. I must tell you a very cute “Etsy” experience I had on the w/e Teddy! Remind me, if insomnia-induced Alzheimers strikes me!
P.P.S. Tis snowy here!
I'm UP 🙂
Ach, what a lovely post you've written, as ever, Teddy…
You're a sweetie compared to me – I adore a good grizzle!!
I'm going to make a coffee and try to gain at least 50% consciousness before writing anymore, cos none of it will make ANY sense otherwise 🙂
Thank you for being my partner in crime… errr, I mean in insomnia!!
So, in truly confused insomnia style, I'm going to end this post, with what I should've begun it with:
Good morning, Teddy!! Hope you slept well and are having a nice start to your week! 🙂
