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Sleeping too much
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
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I am just going to paint the rim and the base. They have a bit of mildew which I didnt manage to shift with vinegar. I have a bit of oil based brown paint which should seal it and stop it from spreading. The rest of it looks lovely. Then I did all my other cane bits and pieces. I have never done it before it was just the old laundry basket in son's bathroom. I like old things and making things last .. my relationships didn't but maybe it wasnt for lack of me trying ...
I am catching up on reading the forum and seeing how people are.
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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor
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Hey @Former-Member .... sounds great .... the frame, the pen, the grad teddy (did that for mine 😏) and the choccies .... wonderful mum you are ❣
I agree with @Appleblossom. Wear something that feels like it's you, and makes you feel good.
Try not to worry about the "getting lost in the street" bit .... I was under a higher level of stress last year and found things like that happening to me .... once the stress level reduced, the incidences of feeling a bit lost in my surroundings did too .... and you have been under a lot of emotional stress lately.
Just in the last two months I have replaced two bank cards which I had lost ... in both cases they turned up within my home within a week ... but I have been inundated with extenuating circumstances and distractions .... of course things are going to feel a little undone at times .... nobody is perfect.
Will be thinking of you, into and out of the weekend. I hope you get to enjoy yourself in the middle of looking out for everyone else's interests ....
BTW - your mum is like my MIL .... I wasn't born with one like that .... I inherited one .... 😏
Here's little story .... MIL used to rap on the glass door of my (then) kitchen with her car keys, to "page" me to come and open it to let her in. I tried everything .... asked her to ring the front doorbell instead .... ignored the rapping of the keys and made her wait .... asked her outright not to do it because I didn't like the sound of the keys on the glass ....
Instead of stopping it, she took to rapping at the height of my face as I was walking towards the door to open it, only stopping as the door opened. My blood was boiling by this stage. Next time I knew she was coming over, I left my keys by that door. As she rapped her keys on the door, in my face, I picked up my keys and rapped back on the door right in front of her face, then opened the door.
She never did it again ....
If you can put the phone down on speaker and make your tea @Former-Member, you do that without any ounce of guilt. It serves the relationship as it is. You are delightfully real ❣
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
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There was a couple of years when I lost the car most times I went to the supermarket ... it drove me nuts and was embarrassing and annoying ... but after I reduced my stress levels . .. it returned to an average lose the car once a year which is acceptable 
... just read it as a barometer of stress ... and go gently
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Unknown userMember
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Thanks for your outfit advice guys. And the tip that I'm probably more stressed than I realise re the unusual memory thing. Thought i was doing ok but have been very teary.
faith-and-hope, sounds like you inherited the MIL from hell. The key story did give me a good laugh thanks.
My mother use to sit in her car under my kitchen window tooting the horn until I opened the door. So embarrassing! Once she let herself in at 5am & stood at the end of the bed hands on hips, fiancée asleep - she said "i just wanted to see it for myself" and stormed off. I could tell you some stories.
Oh, have to tell you this one: My poor younger 2 brothers, now with paranoid schizophrenia, they tell me mum use to take her glass eye out and put it on the piano when she needed to leave them unsupervised, she told them to behave because she can still see everything through the eyeball."Scared the shit out of me" they say.. Terrible
I'm tired. So glad you guys talked to me tonight. . Hope to catch you tomorrow.
faith-and-hope, sounds like you inherited the MIL from hell. The key story did give me a good laugh thanks.
My mother use to sit in her car under my kitchen window tooting the horn until I opened the door. So embarrassing! Once she let herself in at 5am & stood at the end of the bed hands on hips, fiancée asleep - she said "i just wanted to see it for myself" and stormed off. I could tell you some stories.
Oh, have to tell you this one: My poor younger 2 brothers, now with paranoid schizophrenia, they tell me mum use to take her glass eye out and put it on the piano when she needed to leave them unsupervised, she told them to behave because she can still see everything through the eyeball."Scared the shit out of me" they say.. Terrible
I'm tired. So glad you guys talked to me tonight. . Hope to catch you tomorrow.
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Unknown userMember
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Haven't slept all night. Had nasty flashback. And got a post removed for no reason and i'm blocked from contributing there for no reason. Think I was 'red lighted' something about privileges (but didn't catch it fully) I just don't understand. Its upsetting. But thats not why i can't sleep. Had flash back - my girl dying - hate it. Anyway. Just needed to say.
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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor
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Hey, @Faith-and-Hope, you're quiet this morning. Hope ya ok. I got 4hrs sleep eventually, helps. Was reading the EDV post conversation - helps me understand better. You're such a good wife & mum. Did you say 'big dragon' was home from his last now? Is that going ok?
Just read todays Joni Erickson-Tada devotion about the faithful wife. "Daughters of Sarah" I always thought of faithfulness being a sexual thing but Joni reminded me its being 'faithful in loving' your husband, i thought of you.
"For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful. They were submissive to their own husbands, like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her master. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear."
1 Peter 3:5-6"
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Just read todays Joni Erickson-Tada devotion about the faithful wife. "Daughters of Sarah" I always thought of faithfulness being a sexual thing but Joni reminded me its being 'faithful in loving' your husband, i thought of you.
"For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful. They were submissive to their own husbands, like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her master. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear."
1 Peter 3:5-6"
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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor
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Hey @Former-Member .....
Thanks for that. Yeah, that's my walk in the Lord at the moment ..... right there .....
Dropped you a line on Hot Chocolare before I went out this morning.
Big dragon is not back yet .... maybe this week .... maybe .....
You pulled up okay ? Four hours is not much sleep ... hope you get to rest up a little today .... maybe that's what you're doing now with meditations.
Thinking of you
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Unknown userMember
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Hello, just resting the back & saying hi
Nice to see everyone exchanging on nightshift, e'
Nice to see everyone exchanging on nightshift, e'
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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor
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Hey @Former-Member 😊
Wondered whether you were listening in over there .... It's definitely been busy tonight .... not surprised you're not piping up.
How was your day ?
