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No offence taken . . . You could have been right and were only pointing important parts of the article out.
I have never found anything you have posted rude so keep em coming, just as they are, or as they come to mind
I did get the bit about the suction etc and that they were probably not available. My theory on the standard pacifier is that at least it would keep my mouth shut and there are not many things that can do that. Keeping my mouth shut should at least help with the volume of the snores !
That did make me laugh and I can see them now . . . Can't wait to hear how they hold up when loaded up !
So much for icing the cake . . . I am lazily lolled on the settee only a few mins after announcing I was awake and I don't fancy my eyes chances of staying open !
Thanks for the article . . . Interesting reading . . . I may try an ordinary dummy first, rather than lay out £70 as it should do a similar thing – how attractive will I look with my rollers and dummy in for bed time !
How are your shelves going . . . Did you finish them, or have a snooze after your back stretches ?
I haven't had a snooze yet . . . I had just settled and was about to drop off when the phone rang and I am all awake again now. The way things are going I should sleep well tonight as I will be really tired . . . Well here's hoping anyway !
My man was telling me over our meal how he wakes up every morning c 3 am like I didnt know what waking up at that time every day was like ! I did ask him how he was spelling INSOMNIA, just to make sure he knows what it is. I must be very contagious as he has now got the MANopaws and insomnia . . . He is so loving and caring and likes sharing . . . but there is only room for one insomniac in this house !
I will close now as I am considering putting the icing on my cake while I feel awake so that I am ready for my first phase of decoration when I get up tomorrow.
Ciao for Now
Tired Teddy x
Us manic . . . NOOOOOOO . . . I'm schizophrenic . . . SO AM I !!!!!!
well done you and what a great strategy on the naps. Mine is I have changed the bedding and will not get back in until I have crisply ironed the sheets before putting them back on and I have the meal in the oven so bedding ( and sleep ) will have to wait !
I have decided to save putting the icing on until tomorrow, or if I I am up in the wee small hours so that the marzipan sets more.
We are getting married on 17 March 2013 . . . 12 years to the day we met. It is a very small ceremony for 7 people, including the insomniac bride and groom.
Just asked grumpy draws which paper and he can't remember . . . He has got MANopawsal memory loss . . . It was one day earlier this week when he mentioned it, if that helps
Keep up the good work and post soon.
TT x
Oh we will never go out of business because insomnia brought us together and will not tear us apart . . . Plus we will be the brains of the enterprise and remenber we will be supporting lots of new insomniacs along the way who can do all the work for us while they are looking for something to do in the wee small hours ! – Double D'oh !!
I will try to fathom how to do photos when I have more time as I have started to ice my cake and am just waiting for the marzipan to set a bit before I put the icing on. I am then going to pin out my pattern and then put the hundreds of silver beads on. I am going to do this is phases so that I don't lose focus and make a blob . . . Or fall asleep on my cake before it is finished ! I will put a photo on here when it is completed if I ever learn how to do it.
I have got our logo and tag for each product all ready to post when I can . . .
Take care and post soon
Tired Teddy x
Well have you started something Grogz . . . . . I have been in over drive with our new multi-million enterprise and have started our product catalogue as below.
Feel free to add your own product designs and just think . . . This time next year . . . we could be millionaires !!
The Snoozer [ Latin Name : The Sleep Pacifier / Stress Extractor ]
This soft and fluffy wool cloud has been lovingly stuffed with the softest of fillings, designed to take any insomnia induced frustration away, as you gently ( or aggressively, if you prefer ! ) squeeze it as you try to sleep. If this fails you can always hurl it at the wall in frustration, safe in the knowledge that you will not wake any non-insomniac members of the household, thanks to is sympathetic soft design.
The Snoozer is available in 2 variants :
White . . . for nights when you are just short of getting to sleep . . . Product Code : ZZZ
50 Shades of Grey . . . for those dark nights when you just know that sleep is going to escape you . . . Product Code : 666.
Insomnia Dough [ Latin Name : Get Out of the Bread Bin Fatty Hatty ! ]
This cute and squidgy Dough Doll ( inspired by Pilsbury Dough ) is designed to keep those insomniacs with the munchies of out the bread bin / biscuit barrel et al because, lets face it . . . all you really need is something to do with your hands / whirling mind ! When you feel the need to munch . . . just reach for Insomnia Dough and squeeeeeeeeze ( or pull if you prefer ! ) . . . Product Code : 888
This product range is currently under development and we will shortly be launching other insomnia inspired weight monitoring products such as Insomnia Dough Scales and the Little Book of Healthy Recipes that can be safely made in the wee small hours, when your eyes just won’t open !
Tired Teddy x Creative Director ( and sleeping partner ) of Insomnia Productions Inc !
PS My mister read in his high brow newspaper that dummies / baby pacifiers are good for people who snore so perhaps we could do insomnia inspired pacifiers as well . . . individually designed to suit the name each insomniacs give their insomnia !!
I wanted to put a few little Keep Calm posters I created in the wee small hours one Insomnia Night on here but can't find a way of doing it.
I have tried cutting and pasting and attaching a file but got ” Upload Skipped (This file was too big to upload) “
How did you do it Groggy?
Good to know my Insomnia Nights are not wasted !
Love our new motto and yes . . . great idea . . . let's get some little wood gnomes in to do all the work while we rake in the profits and snooze . . . Now that is what I call Enterprise !
Here's another idea . . . We could open a Sleep School . . . At least we would make use of our sleepless nights by observing our clients and we could then ” officially ” sleep during the day because we work nights . . . Result !
Works for me . . . Shall we call our new enterprise Insomia Inc !
I really want to ice my cake but want to sleep more so it will have to wait – ROUND 2 to me INSOMNIA ! I would have been asleep by now were it not for email / Facebook and Insomnia Land . . . Not complaining as they are really valuable lifelines and it is nice to spend a couple of hours catching up with friends.
At least it is Saturday and I can snooze if I want to . . . and let me tell you I will be having a very decadent, guilt free snooze mid afternoon . . . as is my usual treat on a weekend !
Over and out . . . Sleep is calling . . . Keep working . . . Remember we have millions to make . . . I have nominated myself as a sleeping partner in our new enterprise !!!!!
WELL DONE YOU . . . That is at least 2 big steps today . . . Add them to the list and celebrate.
What a great idea making a purse, don't worry about how long it takes, just enjoy it and you will have to load some pics of it when you have finished.
CONGRATULATIONS on being so positive about not sleeping and getting up to do something, rather than get frustrated and toss and turn for hours. Dont be mad with yourself if you have to snooze tomorrow . . . You have to get sleep somewhere and for the moment lets concentrate on getting enough sleep for our bodies to function and then try to get our sleep up in the right part of the day, once our bodies are topped up with sleep, or rest.
Ciao for now x
Hi Groggy
Well that post was positive and if you reread it when you are fully awake ( I know . . . when is an insomniac ever fully awake ! ) I think you will see how well you are doing. You said you feel like one baby step forward, or 2 babysteps forward and one back . . . That still equals at least 1 baby step forward each time in my book so celebrate your success and WELL DONE !
I do totally agree with your theory of getting it out off your head and on paper, or cyber-space as at least you can sort of forget about it then. I waste loads of trees typing notes and printing them out and I then file them under Forget About It and it is always there if I need to reread it. This file is in a difficult draw to get in so I have to really want to read it, to go to the hassle of getting in the draw !
I think you are analysing sleep and lack of it too much ( a comment . . . not a critism ) and this is stopping you getting the restful sleep you need. How about instead of being frustrated, or embarrassed when you snooze during the day you just think OOOPS ! and I will start my new regime again tomorrow. I have dieted without success all my life, as my body will testify ! and the main reason I have so little success with it is because I get angry when I fall off the wagon and wait until Monday to start again. I then spend every day until Monday over eating to compensate / cheer me up !!!!! This year,rather than starting a radical diet on 1 Jan ( as usual ! )I have just tried to eat sensibly this week and then start the diet proper this coming Monday. Now all that said I have to say I have failed miserably but that is because of the stress of going back to work when they have treated me so badly and the added anxiety of a MH assessment today, plus the insomnia induced munchies of course but I am not embarrassed about it, or angry. It has happened, I understand why and I will get back on the bike Monday . . . Hopefully !
I will have to do something as I go for my first wedding dress fitting a week today and I did say I was trying to lose weight when I was measured, which is very embarrassing but there is a reason for it and all the feeling embarrassed / angry in the world won't change the fact that I have put weight on, rather than taken it off as projected !!! Think I will use the Ovarian Entrapment Syndrome card to say my tummy and boobs have swollen as well as my fingers / hands and ankles because of the hormone injections . . . I will never get to heaven will I !
I am going to close now as I am disappointed that I have over stimulated myself and am not as tired as I was when I first woke up and could have rolled over and back to sleep – SILLY TIRED TEDDY ! I think the alcohol ( forgot to mention I had also 2 INDUSTRIAL SIZE G&T's ) and stress of today are also adding to my sleep problem tonight so that's it compartmentalised and filed under Not Tonight Josephine ! Think I will see if there is a sleeper car available on the Orient Express and hope I get to Venice !
Before I go I will leave you with a really funny story . . . Well it made me laugh anyway ! I have told you previously that my man and I take shifts in the COMFTY bye bo's and it is ONE IN . . . ONE OUT but early this morning was soooo funny. We were like one of those Swiss Clocks where the lady comes out and the man goes in because we were both soooo sleepy and the doors to our rooms are quite close together !
Hope you have a reasonable nights sleep and just file it under Oh Dear and start again tomorrow if not, anything else will just make you mad with yourself, which will stop you sleeping . . . Vicious, very familiar circle, me thinks !
Yours from Virtual Slumberland . . .
Flipping Awake Tired Teddy uuuuummmmmmm
PS One tip I picked up from the doc was that years ago ( just short of the dark ages I think ! ) people didn't sleep through the night like Normal people do today and they used to get up in the night and do things, then go to sleep when they were tired . . . So we are NORMAL . . . just 12 million years ago normal – slight exageration here but that is me all over Rover !
Don't ever be embarrassed by sleep . . . Sleep is sleep, whenever and wherever.
Just been for a fantastic meal with my special man . . . to our favourite Italian and we had the best lamb EVER !
We had 2 bottles of wine so my post may not be quite as lucid as my usual !
My mental health assessment seemed to go okay but I will reserve my judgement until the report comes in ! Think I passed the test but who knows . . . Th e main thin I know I have been done wrong and I have the Equality Act to back me up.
My man and I are currently debating on whose turn it is for the bye bo's and I seem to be losing !
Think I will bob off on the settee and report better later !
Really,really Tired Teddy x
Please don't ever apologise for saying how you feel . . . Better out than in and that is why we join a forum like this . . . Let's face it if a non-insomniac is reading our posts their life must be sadder than ours ! Someone out there may get great comfort from the fact that they are not the only one whose mind goes at 100 miles an hour through a very dark and lonely night.
Dont worry what others think about your posts as you are worrying about more than enough already.
I will give you 2 options – who turned me into Martin ?
Number 1 : remember that people will only read what they want to read and people on here are looking for help, or reassurance that they are not going crazy . . . Not sure that your posts will help with that ( only joking Grogz ! )
Number 2 : rather than post formally for the world to see . . . send me private messages and we can drivel away in private, which will at least save 2 men with white coats a job this week ! We can still be part of the wider community and formally post any hints / tips and wise words to the world, should any come to us !
Can't remember which email it was ( could be the one you get today ) but Martin will advise you to get up if you are not able to sleep – apols for letting the cat out of the bag Martin but I do think it will help Groggy.
The best advice I can give is ' Heigh Ho . . . Go With The Flow ' . . . Do what your body tells you ( for now ) and don't worry how long it takes, or what part of the day it is.
On a positive note ( starting to feel like Mother Teresa now ! ) if something takes an hour, instead of 10 minutes that is an hour out of insomnia land . . . The nightmare that is lack of sleep, not this wonderful life line of course !
Why don't you try my plan of having a project or activity planned for whenever you can't sleep and have to get up – I do appreciate that thinking of 365 activities is not easy but isnt that why the internet was invented ! I am very proud to say that I didn't get to ice my cake in the early hours because I was doing what I should be doing in the bedroom ! – ROUND 1 to me insomnia ! We could spin the frustration of not sleeping on its head and count it in terms of projects which did not get started or completed early doors ?
That said I was disappointed ( not angry, or frustrated ) with my night and I felt it was disturbed at the time but I was surprised when it was 5 am so it wasn't as disturbed as I thought then !
I decided to listen to a relaxing app at some dark unearthly hour . . . The downside of no clock but as Martin said . . . What does it matter if your alarm clock is set. I was in that awful insomnoquap ( my own diagnosis ) where my eyes were too awake to keep closed but not awake enough to open and I struggled to get my earphones in and keep them in. I got a wee bit vexed but then gave up fighting and next thing there was silence so I was obviously so relaxed I bobed off – YEAH !
Right . . . I am getting up now as I have an awful day ahead as I am being assessed by my workplace Physcian to see if I have a mental health problem which can be treated ! Extremely disappointed with work for this, given the tottering time I have had getting a diagnosis and treatment plan . . . Not to mention the pain and insomnia.
Note – no anger . . . as anger will upset me . . . I have therefore bounced it back to the nincompoop who referred me for the assessment as let's face it, nobody likes to think someone else is disappointed in them. Wey Hey . . . My glass isnt half full . . . it is overflowing !
Better close now as I have a sneaky feeling the man with my white coat has just set off to come and get me and I need to be sane today, well as sane as an insomniac can be anyway !
Take care, be kind to yourself and remember small steps . . . with the encouragement of your Pal Teddy.
TT x
Keep going girl . . . We can do it . . . Not quite sure what ' IT ' is and I am not prepared to formalise ' IT ' so that I don't get disappointed if I don't make it . . . Flipping heck . . . Think I need sleep as I am rambling away . . . but nothing new there !
Please don't get angry et al with yourself as you have done so well today . . . Easy to say when I am in a positive phase ( well at the moment anyway ) but remember . . . You only need a few small steps to make a big change and it takes at least a month for your body ( and mind ) to get used to a new routine and we are almost going cold turkey as we are still in the very early stages remember.
Let's make a pact to not berate ourselves if we can't get to sleep and celebrate when things go well . . . Just like today did for you.
I am now talking to insomnia ( OMG! ) and making plans for when I can't sleep each night. My theory ( it is really hope, but don't tell insomnia that ) is that if I have a plan of attack for when insomnia kicks in, getting up won't bother me and insomnia will get fed up of keeping me awake before I do !
Chin up . . . Eyes closed ( but only if they want to ) . . . This is Tired Ted over and out for tonight ( ooops, didn't realise it was morning already ) as the big COMFTY bye bo's has just been vacated by a very special man for his really Tired Teddy x
