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Night Shift

MazaritaSenior Contributor23 Sept 2015, 4:13 am AEST

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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MazaritaSenior Contributor01 July 2016, 6:38 pm AEST

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@Former-Member, I like how we can develop a relationship with the Phams worker over time as we get to see them as often or sometimes more often than friends. I was a bit nervous of how it was going to work out at first with my Phams worker but I have come to appreciate her enormously, as a person, as well as a support worker. Hope it works out really great for you with yours too.

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ethSenior Contributor01 July 2016, 6:43 pm AEST

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@Mazarita spent time catching up with messages and talking to the kids, with a bit of TV too. Just cooking dinner now and opened what turns out to be a lovely wine. @Former-Member As soon as it was 6pm the noise outside cranked it up. But it won't be really full-on until nightfall, another half hour or so.

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Unknown userMember01 July 2016, 6:45 pm AEST

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@Mazarita My last one became like a friend, she was the same age as me and we clicked. This one is much younger, more like my kids ages but I feel like that's an ok thing. I think I'm more goal focused this time so it will be interesting to see how it goes but I'm optimistic, she seems like someone who will put in the time to learn about me and my issues. I didn't mention the big one, I'll wait and see how I go. Thanks so much for your support over the last few days😊💜 best if I have this shower now I think. I hope your night is ok😊💜

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MazaritaSenior Contributor01 July 2016, 6:50 pm AEST

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Ciao for now, @Former-Member. Enjoy washing the week's dust off. Hopefully I'll follow suit before too long! Ah, that fresh and clean feeling. Hope you have a great night with friend. 🙂

@eth, I'm drinking some wine at the moment too. Friday night indulgence. 🙂

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DecadianSenior Contributor01 July 2016, 7:11 pm AEST

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Yes @Former-Member - you have had a tough week - right - I get it

So now you have a tidy room - you had a choice and tidied some space -

But - you are going out into the really real tonight

I wish you all the best - I wouldn't mind some Friday night really real

Ah - but I am over the hill

Decadian

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MazaritaSenior Contributor01 July 2016, 7:17 pm AEST

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Are you okay tonight, @Decadian. Perhaps you'd like to join in to the Friday Night Feast that's going now?

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Unknown userMember01 July 2016, 7:46 pm AEST

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@Decadian. You are only over the hill once they dig the hole there. Thanks for your kind thoughts. I'm exaggerating the really real too, just going to her house, imagine going out out😜 I hope you join the Friday feast and enjoy your night. 😊💜

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plasmoSenior Contributor01 July 2016, 10:16 pm AEST

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hoot hoot

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plasmoSenior Contributor01 July 2016, 10:48 pm AEST

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@Mazarita i had a crazy dream last night that i was driving around, then started climbing up a hill,. then climbing up a huge ladder. there was a guy smoking some kind of a pipe or he had some kind of spear. i decided oh, i must be in french guyana now or wait maybe i'm in french polynesia..

so i climb uo this huge ladder, someone ahead of me is being annoying, stripping off bark and foliage

i eventually get to the top and there is anlther indigenous figure who seems kind of bored with my appearance and i realise the climbing infrastructure kind of disappears and it's not worth continuing.

so i turn around and there are people coming the other way, and they're not happy that i'm obstructing them somehow.

they're like what are you doing? and i say something like well you're doing it too!
so mature

don't ask me what it means

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Unknown userMember01 July 2016, 10:58 pm AEST

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Hey @plasmo. Cool dream. No idea of the meaning though. How are you?

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