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Night Shift

MazaritaSenior Contributor

Night Shift

Since I am awake at 4am I thought I'd start this thread for those of us who have trouble sleeping and might find it helpful to have a place to go to chat. Whatever gets you through the night is alright.

To get the ball rolling, I'll just say that I enjoyed being part of the Topic Tuesday discussion tonight. I wish it was possible for these events to be weekly rather than monthly. Either way, thanks SANE and all the people I've met on here over recent months.

Edited June 2016 and February 2017: Night Shift is now open 24 hours a day. To join in, just click through to the last page of the thread at the top right of this post to get to the latest message.

Edited April 2017 and June 2017: For the sake of better communications between members here, I am adding that this thread is meant to be a caring, kind and gentle place of sharing. Humour is welcome, as long as its not unkindly directed towards other members. Hope your time in this chat thread is rewarding.

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TABSenior Contributor

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DecadianSenior Contributor

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AW @Former-Member - that is not okay

We are here if you need to let it out - we care about you

Oh dear - there is always something

And no - you didn't upset me last night - but I did write something that I thought about over night and deleted - perhaps it's something I would like to write but we know to only do this if it is okay with ourselves

Take care of yourself and make sure you ring Life Line or something else if the news was so bad - mmmm - I think everyone is thinking of you

Decadian

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Hi @Decadian, @TAB, @Faith-and-Hope, @Former-Member, @Former-Member @Former-Member , @Former-Member and anyone else around. Had to do the hour drive to pick up my son, then a bit of shopping, then tea and catch up with family.

@Decadian Thanks for your responses. I think there is a lot about first born children but mostly swings and roundabouts. I guess that goes for most birth orders in families. You can some things by birth order and lose in others. It's a pity your mum made things harder for you. I hope tomorrow is the day for your computer and for another glorious day of good weather to lift your spirits. 💜😊

@Former-Member Sounds like a fabulous week lined up except maybe the tests. I'm glad all went well with your brother and that you got a walk in today and a massage. 💜😊

@Faith-and-Hope glad you found a peaceful moment for yourself. 💜😊

@TAB how was your day?💜😊

@Former-Member I'm so sorry to hear you've had bad news. I'm sure if you wanted to it would be OK to share or if you wanted to get it off your chest you could put it on your other thread BUT if you just want to leave it at that then that's fine too and you have our empathy. Thinking of you 💜😊

@Former-Member I hope your bathroom didn't end up looking like the seal pond at the zoo. My boys used to do that when they were kids. I have fond memories of it now but it used to drive me crazy back then. Glad you got into your psychologist. I really hope it helps. I hope you get some sleep tonight 💜😊

@Former-Member I did love all those old programs. My parents were pretty strict on TV and we grew up watching the ABC mostly but I do remember Gilligans Island, Lost in Space, MASH and I guess others. Also The Goodies and Dr Who and pretty much any Brittish comedy on the ABC. It is nice to go down some of the good parts of memory lane. It sounds like today was ok for you. Hopefully tonight will be more peaceful for you. Take care💜😊

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Unknown userMember

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Hi everyone,
@Former-Member, some news is such a shock that its hard to process enough to put into words, and other times you just have to sit with something a while before you can handle other peoples take on it, no matter how well intended. Take all the time you need.
Group hugs ((((@))))

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TABSenior Contributor

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Hi @Former-Member .. yes, didn;t even HAVE a tv til was 12 think lol, then was supposed to be rationed at an hour a day .. and mum even used to dob us in ..what the.. haha , yeah was a treat visiting friends and rels who acatually had a 'box' used to role play tv shows in primary school .. I did it from memory haha

..seriously tho .. I was lucky .. used to to sit in kitchen and listen to Deep Purple, Black Sabbath etc on AM radio.., heaps better reception at nite, and hooked aerial up to trellis outside kitchen window seemed to help lol when not doing that we'd all sit in silence in lounge room reading books. Am thankful for that.Seriously.

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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor

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didn;t even HAVE a tv til was 12 think lol, then was supposed to be rationed at an hour a day .. and mum even used to dob us in ..what the.. haha , yeah was a treat visiting friends and rels who acatually had a 'box' used to role play tv shows in primary school .. I did it from memory

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This was us growing up too @TAB ....

Watching at someone else's house was something special ....

We were the only kids we knew who didn't have one .... and when colour TV came in and everyone else started buying one .... guess what ? ..... my Dad bought a black and white .... 😆

We had cousins coming to visit who were older than us, city kids coming to stay in a mining town. My Mum knew they were in for a real culture shock .... talked Dad into buying a small TV ..... think the real culture shock for everybody was the fact that it was black and white ❣

First thing that came on was Countdown .... remember that ?

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Yeah I don't remember a lot of listening to the radio @TAB. I can't remember how old I as when we got TV. For my kids the nostalgia was when PlayStation first came in. It's funny how it goes. You obviously have very fond memories of that era. My family listened to classical music only so I was a bit late coming to modern music and didn't embrace classical music either. Neil Diamond was the only popular record my mum owned lol.

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TABSenior Contributor

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sanp re colour and bw yeah got bw when everyone else was getting colour haha .. may have been part of reason left home haha joke.. re no colour tv..

think countdown started 76, prob saw first show, used to watch it. also love goodies, dr who etc, well they got under radar cos ABC re other comments on abc only ok it was owlypoos lol

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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor

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Love Neil Diamond ❣

I was raised on a wide range of music .... classical, country, pop, easy listening, disco, rock, gospel, jazz ....

Love it all .... music is a go-to mood lifter for me ... love the poetry in lyrics .... love beat ....

Arts in general make my head spin.

Boho flower child .... huh .... 😏

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TABSenior Contributor

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.. @Former-Member poor mum got into trouble for buying a radio/cassette from Readers Digest of all places.. then she found herself getting own part time work, so own money.. yeah that sorta crap went on for years and yes never realised how much we and that poor lovely woman put up with ..funny tho, other kids coped ok, well older brother went of rails well badly but briefly, in context of a 'life' and now is about where he would have been had it never have happened career wise, if not life ..yeah ah's got issues..soz lol

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