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Post by desireelafleur on Nov 20, 2014 17:04:00 GMT -5
I am the human alarm clock. I am up M-F no later than 5:45am to wake up DS for school. He leaves and I have to stay awake til 7am to wake hubby. Usually the little guy is up by then but sometimes I can sleep for an hour after hubby wakes up. I find it difficult to do anything around the house until AFTER hubby leaves for work and if he takes a day off NOTHING gets done. I am always in bed by 9:30pm MAX. (I hear Tom Brady goes to bed at 9 and he's pretty successful and productive. Right? )
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Post by wynken on Nov 20, 2014 17:44:30 GMT -5
I'm glad you have your body clock worked out well @desireelafeur, and that it works for you.
I so did not take my own advice last night. Didn't do things when I ort early. Or do them at all. Then just left everything to rush to bed / lights out at 11.45. Of course - didn't sleep without doing the normal wind down and routines. Lights out take 2 at 1am. Maybe 4 hours or so asleep. Rose at 8, but at least I'd been horizontal 8 hrs.
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Post by larataylor on Nov 21, 2014 9:32:41 GMT -5
I got to bed later than I should have last night. I was exhausted … kind of all day, from the day before. Got takeout for dinner, watched some shows with DH, and then played on the computer for a while. Went around putting the house to bed, and then did a bit more mopping in the basement. DH had tried to pay the water bill online, and couldn't do it. Since there was some uncertainty about whether we'd have water today, I ran the dishwasher and a load of clothes. And wondered where I'd put that big water jug that I just decided we didn't need … Finally got myself to bed and read my book … which is getting exciting, unfortunately! This morning, DH took DD to school and I slept until 8:30. Not too bad. He paid the water bill and got a bit of diesel to keep the house warm for a few days. Last winter, I arranged with a new oil company to get the tank filled up. DH was away during the worst of that awful winter--down south, the jerk . There was a little $40 charge left over … the company asked for it many times, and he still can't remember if he paid it. So I may have to make arrangements with *another* company this winter … or tote diesel five gallons at a time through the snow, and pour it into the tank … not a task I really want to do ever, ever again. Oh, dear … writing a novel again. Cliff Notes: slept about 1:00 to 8:30. Woke up to warmth and water.
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Post by angela on Nov 21, 2014 15:32:07 GMT -5
larataylor sleep, warmth and water, you've got the essentials! desireelafleur, oh how I wish I had your internal alarm clock. Nice to hear you're so dialed in. wynken, that wind-down is so important for me too. Hope you can get your routine done tonight. I laid down at 10:30 and flopped around for a little while looking for just the right podcast. Ended up turning on my prayer podcast and promptly falling asleep. A bit restless through the night, it has warmed up here and I was overdressed and hormonal so sweaty and tangled. And the kitties were packing me in. Woke at 6:30 on my own, fell asleep again briefly and rose at 7:30.
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Post by Dit on Nov 21, 2014 16:50:40 GMT -5
woke up late .. lost the day to making lasagna and soup. Mind you the house smells really really good....
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Post by angela on Nov 22, 2014 0:54:28 GMT -5
9:53 pm, finishing watching Gilligan's Island. Shut off the lights, lay down flat , prayer podcast perhaps and sleep.
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Post by lostchild on Nov 22, 2014 2:56:24 GMT -5
11:55 worked on cleaning paperwork area to be able to start fresh tomorrow. In bed reading.
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Post by larataylor on Nov 22, 2014 10:25:26 GMT -5
OK, last night I didn't have the normal Friday night teens hanging out till all hours. It's finally really getting too cold for them in our unheated addition. It felt very lonely to me, and I got really bummed out. I really need that dose of positive, happy social contact, even though I don't really hang out with them … they just come down here looking for food, and asking me to take them to stores, etc. Being left alone with DH just feels like a drag by contrast.
However, this is an opportunity to get my sleep pattern back where I want it … if I'm not going to have them keeping me up on weekend nights.
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Post by oust on Nov 22, 2014 14:31:03 GMT -5
I took a nap then got the swifter put lemon polish on it and went behind everything in the bedroom using the flashlight. All walls cornors and un reachable places dusted.
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Post by Dit on Nov 22, 2014 20:38:49 GMT -5
Sorry to here the weather has changed your the amount of teen laughter in your house, your right it nice to hear. Up at 9 out the door to taekwondoe with Ds
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Post by larataylor on Nov 23, 2014 4:59:37 GMT -5
Came back from visiting the old folks. I'm very sad for my uncle, who is now in a wheelchair, and having a lot of trouble finding the words he wants to say, and feeling sick all the time. These two have always been so healthy and active and independent, insisting on living out in the country. But we had a very nice visit, and I was grateful that DD was willing to come along.
I got to bed shortly after we got home, about 10:00. Went right to sleep, and woke up 4:30. I may go back and sleep a little more, though, or read in bed. The house is cold. This is part of the problem in the winter … sometimes bed is the only place I can feel warm.
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Post by lostchild on Nov 23, 2014 6:14:39 GMT -5
It is now 3:12. A.m. I took son midnight bowling with him and his friends and daughter. Just getting to bed. Last act ...I put up the pizza,straightened the living room,cleared dining room table and scooped litter and fed cats. Wake in few hours,homework and get ready for work.
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Post by wynken on Nov 23, 2014 7:12:27 GMT -5
I've been away from home 2 nights. First night, maybe dozed a little at some stage. But stayed horizontal for less than 6? hrs. Got up before 6 for 6am yoga class - that was way too advanced for me. I often just did my own practice down the back corner. Next night - after a dance - me moving as I could with odd hips and feet. Bed at 10.30. I switched my head end, hung spare blanket and towel as curtains at my head, read a little by torch lantern, light out at 11, sleep just took a little while and I woke maybe about/ just after 5am. rose at 6.45. yes - arm pump about that.
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Post by Dit on Nov 23, 2014 8:26:28 GMT -5
I woke up at 7:45 this morning and was in bed by 1 am ... YES Larataylor , I too am prone to feel cold in the winter, its gets worse as we age something to do with female hormones. I have two options for you, A niacin will make your whole body flush with warmth if you take a 500mg dose. I take half ( 250 ) when i am cold. I found for me the 500 was too much , I turned beat red I was so warm. This article explains flushing. www.foodmatters.tv/articles-1/how-to-take-niacin-vitamin-b3-for-depression-and-anxiety Or something to heat the room your in so you can work I been looking at the Delonghi Radiant oil heater for me , for if I get cold nothing gets done. I get cold when the house is at 70 F in the winter. I dont want to raise the temperture of the whole house. So, I completely understand your dilemma.
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Post by larataylor on Nov 23, 2014 10:04:07 GMT -5
Dit - I've never heard of anyone *using* niacin for the heat flush - That's a side effect that people complain about! I'm actually not a cold person now … when I was very thin in my 20s I got cold so easily, I wouldn't even eat ice cream. But now I'm often warmer than other people. No hot flashes, thank goodness … just overall warmer than I used to be. Mostly the problem is that it's really cold out, and there's no money to do various things I'd like to do about it. There are a few things I could do, though. DD has the electric heater in her room. I want to bubble wrap the big windows (cheap) and hang blankets over them with nails. We could bring in the kerosene heaters and use them to warm up one room at a time. I could hang blankets in doorways … the LR/DR area is the hardest/biggest to heat … it has the big windows. My bedroom is easiest to keep warm, but I'll get depressed if I hang out there all the time. I brought some blankets out to the LR, for when I'm sitting at the computer. Also, heat from the dryer is now going into the basement instead of outside … we have pantyhose over the pipe inside, but I need to seal up the hole in the wall better. When I use the oven, I leave it open afterwards to let that heat into the house. Anyway, maybe the cold will get me into bed earlier at night.
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