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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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arteeSenior Contributor

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@Appleblossom that's the method I've used to change covers for years, sans the teeth 🙂

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arteeSenior Contributor

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I'm having a meltdown moment if there's anyone out there just now.

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Unknown userMember

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I'm OK @Kurra thanks, still trying to 'get a life' (lonely) but the new meds are helping a bit I think, & spring is nearly here.

@artee, what's happening with you today, you OK?

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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor

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Hey @artee
I've just come on ... what's happened to set you off into a meltdown ?

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arteeSenior Contributor

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Hi @Former-Member I went off to have dinner, which was a flop too. I cooked chicken satay to discover the chicken was off 😞

Not so good. I'm getting an old house moved onto a block of land we bought a couple of months ago. I thought it was the most affordable option to get us back into a house, instead of wandering aimlessly around the countryside and having no support. Hubby loves it, because he can misbehave and nobody sees anything because we're always moving. And he can keep me under full control because I can't have friends that way, or any life that isn't him as the centre of the universe.

So it's a project nightmare. We were in mediation yesterday over the neighbour and the fence and he's gone and put in another request for mediation (don't know when) and we have another hearing on the same matter. So I spent over an hour today doing paperwork to say no, we don't want to do this again.

Tonight an email comes through from the house company to say council wants pretty much double the money in bond and won't approve until its paid - in cash. And everything has blown out so far that I just can't think where to get an extra few thousand to cover this - I'm already borrowing enormous sums from my parents (and that's another long depressing story) and I'm just in overwhelm. Hubby's of course not supportive and is abusive of everyone and everything and it's all got me down. And to top it all off, I'm worried about my little 14 mo great niece in SA who has pneumonia... Just too many things in one afternoon.

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arteeSenior Contributor

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hi @Faith-and-Hope I was writing as you were posting.

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AppleblossomSenior Contributor

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Hi @artee its been ages.

Good to see you join the night shift chat line.

You must be incredible strong to have survived all this time in the van and in shifting circumstances.

The house is a fabulous idea ... if you can make it viable ... pity about the mediation ... I cant advise ..

tho I know some neighbours can be a pain ... one guy admitted when we bought one house ... that he kept poisoning the plants on the fence cos he hated the people before us !! I dont get that attitude .. but it exists and sometimes it is becasue of what went before .. and the newcomers inherit it.

Take care. @artee You have a lot on your plate. I have to go but keep posting.

regards Apple

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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor

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read your post @artee ....

commisserations in this moment ... ❤️

have to run off to something else just now but I'm processing what you just said ❣

back in a little while.

I know others are here too ....

breathe ❣

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arteeSenior Contributor

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The fence is really just a major pain. The guy is eastern European and doesn't seem to understand English properly. Hubby has gone on all day about the fact that I 'beat' the neighbour (it was dismissed) and how angry the neighbour would be to have to deal with a woman and then not get what he wants - hubby hates every ethnicity, every colour, all politicians, bankers, all authority and there's probably some I've overlooked. That wears me down.

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Shaz51Senior Contributor

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Thank you @Appleblossom xxx

Hello @Mazarita, @artee, @Faith-and-Hope, @Former-Member

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