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Night Shift

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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That's such a healthy perspective, @Former-Member. I had a similar situation late last year. All very sad, of course, but as you say, it's beyond our ability to control these things and it's not possible to giove more than you have.

I've had a pretty good weekend, thanks. 🙂 Actually got a few things done that had been bothering me in the background for a while. Now that I reflect, I'm wondering if it's something to do with the sense of Spring in the air. I've come to realise that my mood always seems to life by about September, even though I'm not conscious of it dropping over Winter.

Have you had a good Sunday?

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Hey, maybe??! lol 😄

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Hi @Former-Member yeah a few seem to have had a good Saturday night lol ..gawd knows. I was in bed at 12.good for me lately. just having lemon drink now , yeah he's still banging on about it, will drop it lol am still on first one, if you cut into quarters and squeeze 'pointy bits' together, a quarter at a time, get heaps more out of it, only 3rd cup from half a lemon lol

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Hi to anyone who's around today and a shout out back to you @Former-Member. How has your week been?

I've been off-line all week again and am just saying hi before I look at the recent posts.

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Hi @eth,

was thinking about you during the week when I heard a mention on the radio of the Darwin festival. How was it? I hope you got out to it. I'm ok, had a funny day swinging wildly in mood 😬 But I'm ok at the moment. Things going pretty well otherwise. How are you?

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Hi @TAB, @Former-Member and anyone else around. Just dropped in, sitting in sun at my sons footy finals game, they won so looks like another weekend of footy Saturday and Sunday next week. It's really quite warm here today which I'm sure has lifted my mood from out of control earlier to manageable thank goodness. How are you?

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I totally hear you, @TAB. That's about when Ive been getting in lately, too. You'd think all that practice in my 20's would have toughened me up for the late nights?? Chai teas and lemon juice don't seem to be quite as effective as a vodka cruiser or 2 used to be. lol (just jokes, moderators!)

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Hi @Former-Member I went to 3 events at the festival and it was ok but big crowds really don't work for me - I get pretty anxious. I'm having a weird day today too but it's lucky I came on-line and checked my emails. Discovered a bill was due tomorrow from an email reminder, which means the paper bill I usually get hadn't arrived - by this time my hands were shaking so badly I couldn't type but I rang up phone banking and got an operator to help me pay it. Took ages to calm down afterwards. What's going on for you?

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Hi @Former-Member! The weather's been gorgeous this weekend. It seduced me outside to potter in the garden (before I decided that lying in the hammock was far preferable). Certainly lifts the spirits! 😄 Good to hear your boy had a win!

Hi to @eth also!

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Hi to the newer people here I haven't 'met' @Former-Member @TAB I don't come on very often the last few weeks but still follow posts when I am on-line.

Nice to see the Night Shift continues. Shout out to @Mazarita - hope life is treating you well.

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