1) Camomile tea
2) Turkey sandwich maybe an helpful an hour before bedtime
3) no afternoon caffiene
4) a cup of yogurt half an hour before sleep time
5) do physically exhausting work all day and collaspe into bed
Long painful night at Hotel Hospital. Wishing for sleep, too.
I got to the cafeteria just in time as the line formed quickly behind me. I had a wondetful omelette with cheese and veggies. I thought of Mumsee’s breakfast concoctions.😃
Morning. The owl is just above the living room window hooting loudly!! Some have roosters…well we have Oscar!🦉
I toss and turn for a couple hours before falling to sleep. Last night I gave up , stumbling to my reading chair. After an hour or so of reading my eyes grew heavy…sleep had finally found me!!! 📚 😴 the struggle is real!!
Tricks for falling asleep:
I go to bed and am generally asleep within fifteen seconds, or so says my husband who struggles to find sleep. He is correct.
Some things I do:
Regular bedtime (between 8:30 and nine)
Regular rising by five thirty
No caffeine other than excedrin.
No eating, especially sugar, after three.
Realizing that God has all my fears and concerns and my fretting won’t fix anything.
Doing what is before me and trusting that God gives to His beloved, sleep.
Praising Him as I climb into bed.
On the rare times I am still awake twenty seconds in, I remember that game somebody brought up (maybe Cheryl?) about the word and the letter but I never get past thinking of the word.
All that said, I am expecting a rough day today as my dad was up sometime before two when husband saw him. I heard him at three thirty, wandering around the living room. A raccoon came by at four so I was outside with my gun, looking for it (it ignored the seven traps set for it). Dad was still wandering when I got up at five thirty for the day but during my shower, he went back to bed and is sleeping.
I recite scripture I have previously memorized or pray. I find waking up is so common among older people, in general. Health issues bring some of that, too. I try to never get up, however, until it is a somewhat decent time of the morning. It can be a challenge. I do give myself the privilege of a nap when it is possible, and I am exhausted. However, I limit the time and never nap too late in the afternoon.
I generally have no trouble sleeping, thankfully, and get 7-8 hours every night for the most part. I go to bed kind of late — usually around 11 p.m. — and am up by 6:30-7:30 a.m. typically (closer to 7:30).
Working from home has helped so much; not being a morning person, just the whole rush of getting ready, feeding animals, packing a lunch, getting on the road made mornings hectic.
Now my morning time is my own after I get up and we don’t start work (not ‘on the clock’) until 9 a.m. (though this morning I have an 8:30 a.m. phone interview).
I feed Abby in the late afternoon and love having time to do quick tasks or chores around the house during the day, throwing in a load of laundry, washing up the dishes. Some days I still need to head out for in-person assignments, I’m covering a speech tomorrow and there are often port things I need to go to; but the commission and other meetings are all live-streamed now, one of the working-person’s benefits from the pandemic.
I usually drink some water in the night and get up a few times but easily go back to sleep. I once heard of someone who had awful back pain in the night relieved by getting hydration in the night to keep up joint lubrication. I do feel better, though sleep is slightly disrupted, by having water sips in the night.
Do you think it odd that my son in law is living here with us rather than our daughter in this rather discordant divorce? Son in law says he keeps getting odd responses when people realize his living situation. I thought it was common sense but perhaps not.
Nope, initially, she said she was staying with her brother and sis in law for a while, while her husband was working in North Dakota.
He called to say she was divorcing him and what should he do? (What do you want to do?) save my family! (Then move here, of course!)
He did. She said good because we could keep an eye on him while he had the children.
Then she got mad at me for harboring an abuser and not supporting her, after her brother kicked her out. I do not believe it would have worked with her here as she would not have kept her children out of great grandpa’s space as son in law has done.nor would we have allowed her to vape or entertain the men she entertains or leave the children alone.
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What tricks do you have for falling asleep? Still waiting, sigh . . .
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Xanax.
Real small dosage, works when nothing else will. Dr. prescribed for just such issues, of course.
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1) Camomile tea
2) Turkey sandwich maybe an helpful an hour before bedtime
3) no afternoon caffiene
4) a cup of yogurt half an hour before sleep time
5) do physically exhausting work all day and collaspe into bed
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Long painful night at Hotel Hospital. Wishing for sleep, too.
I got to the cafeteria just in time as the line formed quickly behind me. I had a wondetful omelette with cheese and veggies. I thought of Mumsee’s breakfast concoctions.😃
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Morning. The owl is just above the living room window hooting loudly!! Some have roosters…well we have Oscar!🦉
I toss and turn for a couple hours before falling to sleep. Last night I gave up , stumbling to my reading chair. After an hour or so of reading my eyes grew heavy…sleep had finally found me!!! 📚 😴 the struggle is real!!
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Tricks for falling asleep:
I go to bed and am generally asleep within fifteen seconds, or so says my husband who struggles to find sleep. He is correct.
Some things I do:
Regular bedtime (between 8:30 and nine)
Regular rising by five thirty
No caffeine other than excedrin.
No eating, especially sugar, after three.
Realizing that God has all my fears and concerns and my fretting won’t fix anything.
Doing what is before me and trusting that God gives to His beloved, sleep.
Praising Him as I climb into bed.
On the rare times I am still awake twenty seconds in, I remember that game somebody brought up (maybe Cheryl?) about the word and the letter but I never get past thinking of the word.
All that said, I am expecting a rough day today as my dad was up sometime before two when husband saw him. I heard him at three thirty, wandering around the living room. A raccoon came by at four so I was outside with my gun, looking for it (it ignored the seven traps set for it). Dad was still wandering when I got up at five thirty for the day but during my shower, he went back to bed and is sleeping.
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I recite scripture I have previously memorized or pray. I find waking up is so common among older people, in general. Health issues bring some of that, too. I try to never get up, however, until it is a somewhat decent time of the morning. It can be a challenge. I do give myself the privilege of a nap when it is possible, and I am exhausted. However, I limit the time and never nap too late in the afternoon.
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I generally have no trouble sleeping, thankfully, and get 7-8 hours every night for the most part. I go to bed kind of late — usually around 11 p.m. — and am up by 6:30-7:30 a.m. typically (closer to 7:30).
Working from home has helped so much; not being a morning person, just the whole rush of getting ready, feeding animals, packing a lunch, getting on the road made mornings hectic.
Now my morning time is my own after I get up and we don’t start work (not ‘on the clock’) until 9 a.m. (though this morning I have an 8:30 a.m. phone interview).
I feed Abby in the late afternoon and love having time to do quick tasks or chores around the house during the day, throwing in a load of laundry, washing up the dishes. Some days I still need to head out for in-person assignments, I’m covering a speech tomorrow and there are often port things I need to go to; but the commission and other meetings are all live-streamed now, one of the working-person’s benefits from the pandemic.
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It’s all a big savings on gas, too — prices out here are through the roof.
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If I need help sleeping at all, a 1/2 (one pill dose, not 2) of the OTC Tylenol PM usually does the trick.
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I usually drink some water in the night and get up a few times but easily go back to sleep. I once heard of someone who had awful back pain in the night relieved by getting hydration in the night to keep up joint lubrication. I do feel better, though sleep is slightly disrupted, by having water sips in the night.
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Do you think it odd that my son in law is living here with us rather than our daughter in this rather discordant divorce? Son in law says he keeps getting odd responses when people realize his living situation. I thought it was common sense but perhaps not.
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mumsee, you all are perfectly normal.
Shooting raccoons before dawn … Yep, it’s like Ozzie and Harriet there.
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I have never shot a raccoon! Never even shot at one. They don’t seem to wait around for me.
But I am glad to hear we are normal!
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Oh, perfectly (normal).
You had your firearm and were stalking a raccoon last I heard early this morning … wearing a coonskin cap?
I’ve been hearing owls here and hearing/seeing them in more recent years. We didn’t used to have them in this neighborhood, but such a pleasant sound!
It is good to have more urban wildlife these days.
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Did your daughter want to live with you?
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Nope, initially, she said she was staying with her brother and sis in law for a while, while her husband was working in North Dakota.
He called to say she was divorcing him and what should he do? (What do you want to do?) save my family! (Then move here, of course!)
He did. She said good because we could keep an eye on him while he had the children.
Then she got mad at me for harboring an abuser and not supporting her, after her brother kicked her out. I do not believe it would have worked with her here as she would not have kept her children out of great grandpa’s space as son in law has done.nor would we have allowed her to vape or entertain the men she entertains or leave the children alone.
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We have owls, too. I heard some unusual sounds from them recently before dawn. I wondered if a lady owl was disturbed by a male owl.
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I heard coyotes last night.
Hoot owls, too.
All sorts of things when you stay up all night. 😦
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The deer and turkeys here are quiet at night
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