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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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ethSenior Contributor

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Hi to you too @PeppiPatty @Faith-and-Hope @Decadian. Sorry there's just so many of us here now I'm sure I've missed some. Thinking of you all. Peace, love and cookies.

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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor

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Hi @Jacques

I posted a red rose painting on Night Shift a couple of nights ago. That one was mine. I hope you like it. Thank you if you do 😊

The others are watercolour tattoo images I have found on line, and passed them through an app called Drawing Desk I have on my iPad. It puts different filters over them, the same sort of thing you can do on Instagram. While they were already drawings (on skin), the filter creates a slight variation, just to change them up a bit more. Can't take much credit for those, but I find them beautiful and just wanted to share to give someone else a buzz too.

Here's for you too.

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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor

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Hi @Former-Member

I haven't met you, but I hope this one cheers you up a bit -

I ❤️❤️❤️ cats !

So glad you have some for company.

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KurraSenior Contributor

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Hi everyone!
My apologies for not listing you all but I haven't quite got my head around all the names yet.
It seems quiet here tonight. I'd normally be asleep by now as my day starts at 4.30am.
However following this afternoon's disappointing news it appears I'm a bit more stirred up about it all than I realised earlier.

Is anyone else awake?

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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor

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Hi @Kurra .

I am.

My day has been a bit topsy-turvy and I haven't settled yet.

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KurraSenior Contributor

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R U OK @Faith-and-Hope?
Can I help in any way?

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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor

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Yeah, I'm okay Kurra, just a bit unsettled because we are in a waiting game, and it's going to be two steps forward and one step back for a while yet.

My husband has an undiagnosed MI in the form of an atypical eating disorder.

It's been a rough ride, but we had a serious break-through today in regard to my youngest daughter, who is struggling with it at the moment to the point where it is affecting her health. We have managed to put the school counsellor and our doctor into conversation with each other, which is the two steps forward. It is likely to have moved us a little closer to the diagnosis, but my husband is in blissful denial, so we are going to have to hurdle some sort of fallout as it all starts to come to light and that denial gets challenged. Not looking forward to that part at all !!

Its like pulling a bad tooth tho. It's gotta go before you can get on with life, cos everything is stuffed up by it till then.

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plasmoSenior Contributor

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why did i nap again, gonna be awake at 5am again

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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor

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Hi @plasmo

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plasmoSenior Contributor

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hi
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