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Tablet is a type of food. I'm from Dundee, Scotland and it's a well known sweet. It's similar to fudge but it's harder. It's lovely!!! Super sweet though and should only be consumed in small amounts! Haha.
Tried making it years ago and failed miserably, it ended up more like a runny fudge and had to be eaten with a spoon…still tasted good though, even with a spoon!!
Hope that helps. If you need further proof, send me your address and I'll send you some! 🙂
Maria x
Hi Tommy,
I think you might be on to something with the happiness being a part of a cure for insomnia.
I had a very weird year last year with extreme highs and lows and I did find that when I was stressed and had a lot of depressing things going on in my life, my insomnia seemed to kick in. Overall though, it was a happy year and my sleep pattern has definitely improved. I used to sleep for about 4 hours a night, if at all, at the start of last year. Of the 4 hours I would still wake up at least once (I have MS, my bladder has a mind of it's own!) Now, I sleep for 7-8 hours quite happily, obviously I still wake up but I generally feel more rested when I get up in the morning.
When I have a lot going on in my life, I struggle with sleep more. Too many thoughts going through my head at once which stops me being able to 'switch off'. I've found though that if I write down what's going on in my head then it helps to clear it a little, allowing me to get to sleep. I have a little notebook and also write a blog online. It was a trick my health psychologist taught me, it helps to get it out of your head and the next day you can go back to it and reflect on whether it is worth stressing about or not. It's a simple thing but seems to work. I have since told a few of my friends to try it who didn't know why they couldn't sleep and within a few weeks, they found out what was the main trigger for their own lack of sleep!
I hope last night was just a blip for you and it hasn't ruined your new and improving sleep pattern 🙂
Maria x
Happy New Year Jane! And everyone at insomnia land! Hope everyone has an awesome year and maybe find cures for insomnia to help everyone out!
Being part of this online community has definitely made all the crap during 2011 more bearable. Here's to more random chat in 2012!! <3
I want to play, loved the programme when it was on TV years ago! Such a big kid.
Is it keep an eye on things?
'MarinaFournier' wrote on '05:I accepted my first proposal because
-I had such a low self-image I didn't think, at 18, that anyone else would ever ask me. Goddess dropped me a question, and then She used songs about jealous lovers until I got the message and called it off.
-I felt guilty for not loving him, and felt I was obliged to say yes because he claimed to love me. My sister told me later how many other women he'd been seen with, and that he tried to hit her up, too.
what's a Boccia team? Might be a UK term with which I'm unacquainted: must correct that lapse in my UK vocabulary.
That's pretty much why I said yes to my ex. She has MS too so it kind of made life a bit easier because she understood what I was going through, well I thought she did but she had NO idea! No matter how sore I was, she was worse. If my legs felt dodgy, hers were worse. If I was feeling down, her depression was worse. I really couldn't win! Looking back, I see it was a very destructive relationship but at the time I thought I was happy but everyone around me knew I wasn't but never said anything because I was good at hiding it! Looking at photos from the time I was with her, I can now see that I was miserable, my eyes were always dark and sunken but now I actually have smiling eyes again!! YAY!!
Boccia is a paralympic sport for disabled people. Kind of like bowls but sitting down. I had never heard of it before I went to volunteer centre and found out about the team in Dundee! I do their newsletter, I used to referee but it got too much and was in too much pain to bend down and measure etc. Here's a link that might explain it better
'yamerias' wrote on '01:It is a real shame that people see the disability, and it can be even worse if the disability is hidden…not just things like epilepsy (which people sometimes think you are makin up or playing on get sympathy…which I know some people would do that, but it's not my style) or problems with back shoulder knees. I look like a perfectly fit individual, but on a bus I cannot stand for long periods of time….yet everyone looks at me as if I'm a piece of crud because I won't give up my seat when there is someone elderly…I will if it comes to the crunch…but at a proce for me, usually suffering with my back and my knees for a few days. The worst part is most of the people who treat me that way are fine themselves, so why don't they give up thier seat??
Sorry, I'll get off my soapbox now…
I totally agree with you! Just because it's an invisible disability doesn't mean it's not there!! People on buses really annoy me! I've got a car through the Motability charity in the UK and I am so grateful for it because I no longer need to rely on buses and have to put up with people's looks when I sit in a elderly or disabled seat!! Stay on your soapbox 🙂 xxx
'MarinaFournier' wrote on '01:Great to hear! I gather no-one in your family or friends had any problem with that?
All of my friends and family have been great since I came out! None of them liked my ex though. Get embarrassed now when they tell me the amount of personal stuff she would tell them when I wasn't in the room! She was, in hindsight, a very weird messed up girl but at the time I thought I was happy! Just goes to show love is blind! Although I don't actually think I ever really loved her but was too soft to stand up for myself and tell her to leave! I'm getting there with the standing up for myself thing though. Everyone that's met my new girlfriend, Lillias, love her! My best mates have all told me they like her and she's fab so that's a better start than the last time round! Lol. Definite happy ending!!! Now to get on with my happily ever after! 😀
Oh and the invisibility thing is very weird! I have never been disrespectful to anyone in my life, whether they sitting in a wheelchair or walking, and it annoys me now that other people are really rude to disabled people!! Just because our bodies might not be as mobile or able as other people's doesn't mean we deserve to be ignored! I volunteer at a Boccia team and the people there all have disabilities of varying degrees from autism to cerebal palsy (not sure if that how you spell it). One guy can't talk but he is amazing! He drives, lives with his partner and has been to 3 paralympics in his life! He uses a sheet with words and phrases written on it to communicate and he's got wicked sense of humour! A real inspiration but most people will never know because they are too ignorant to even take the time to try and talk to him, they see his illness before him!
Thought I'd play along…
1. I'm sometimes too nice for my own good and let people walk all over me
2. I eventually came out the closet 2 years ago, to which none of my friends or family seemed surprised, maybe it's pretty obvious. since doing it though, I've never been happier.
3. I always wanted to be invisibe when I was younger and seem to have got my wish because now that I am registered disabled with unstable MS, nobody seems to listen to me (except my awesome friends!)
4. I always seem to be the loudest person in a group of friends but I am really quite quiet and shy, just good at hiding it. I suffer with a form of agoraphobia which makes me panic in crowds so it's a great way of getting out of meeting lots of new people at once!
5. I love my new girlfriend and am quite thankful to my ex for leaving me because I would never have found out what it feels like to be in love properly and not just be the easy option for someone!!
This is an awesome discussion idea!! I have been giving this a lot of thought recently!
I always wanted to be a primary school teacher when I was growing up! Loved teaching people how to do something themselves instead of giving them the answers. All the way through school I got top grades. Would like to say I studied hard like you are supposed to but I never studied hard for anything in my life! I was very lucky to have been blessed with a clever brain!
When I was 18 I got rejected from uni to train to be a teacher. I felt like a complete failure and just plodded along in the job I had through school and then moved on to work in a bank, hated the sales side of that though and my manager started to pick on me because of it. I felt like I was back at school! So I decided to give the teaching thing another go. I applied for Psychology course at uni as I knew this could lead to teaching. I was accepted and could not have been happier!
1st year went well and I got top grades again. It was awesome! Decided to move out of home and live in same town as uni. Had an epic summer and, just as uni was about to start again, I collapsed. Turns out I have MS! Felt like a total failure but kept going. Taught myself to walk again and got myself back to living in my flat.
I have learnt a LOT about my body in the last 5 years but have also learnt a LOT in my life academically and just never realised it. Instead of dreaming of big things like I used to, I now just have the ambition not to end up in a wheelchair and make it to old age in one piece!
I would like to write a book about my life but it will take me a while, my body now dictates to my head how much I can actually do in a day!!
Generally, when I can't sleep, I do the same things as you. I sometimes manage to doze off with music on really low but not often. My health psychologist recommended writing stuff down that was playing on my mind. This really helped! It cleared my head a little and helped my head relax which is most of the battle with insomnia in my case.
I'm 'lucky' because I don't have to work or have kids to run after so I can sleep during the day if I am going through bad spell with insomnia. It doesn't really help in the long run though, such a vicious circle!
Maria
