I don't post much but I read a lot and have found most of you go to bed at night! Not much new stuff to read at this hour. Insomnia is another blessing from the FTD that lives in our home :) Sweet dreams to you all.
I am in WA so am on PDT. I am usually online until midnight, often later. I am a night person. I agree - there is not much new to read at those hours. Oh well.
I usually take some meds and a sleep aid at night and am curled up around some pillows and my pussy-cat by 8 or 9 pm EST. Sometimes I'll wake up around 3 or 4am. Instead of turning the television on again and setting the sleep timer on it, maybe I should come down here to my office and see who's here?
I often (usually) fall asleep in my recliner waiting for the 11 o'clock news on TV, and then suddenly wake up to discover that it's 2 or 3 a.m. already and I'm not sleepy anymore, so I try to "clean up" all the yellow threads still unread on this forum before giving up and going to bed. Sleep is mostly a waste of time as far as I'm concerned. I can get by pretty well with six hours, although with nothing to look forward to other than another boring day, I now find myself sleeping longer than that most of the time.
When I wake up at night I have to have the tv on. Otherwise, my mind races on "issues" and I can't get back to sleep. I get panicky over finances, etc. If it does get bad enough ( my anxiety) then I do get up and check the forums...just like Gourdchipper says. I look at the yellow threads. But often either I have nothing to write, or my eyes are just too tired. So I just try to fall back to sleep with the TV on.
Sounds like me too, New Realm. My bed is my desk, with me laptop, 2 books, telephone, note pad. Usually I don't do the TV unless because it might wake up dh in the room across the hall.
Why is it that between 2 and 3 in the morning, finances appear in your dreams to wake you up and worry you??????? It doesn't panic me at any other time of the day, but that one hour....and it takes me a while to reason through everything and settle back down!
I hope you get to the top of the chain of executives of the life insurance company and let them have it!!! He changed the beneficiary and it is not YOUR fault that they lost it!!!!! - sorry, off topic...
Same here. It is 3:30 and I am wide awake. Course one reason could be Topsy just entered my bed and started walking up my body. She usually seeps at the foot of husbands bed but night before last she was accidently locked in the detached garage and since I rescued her the next morning, she has seemed unduly grateful and came back to my bed. I endured laying quiet as long as I could stand it and then pulled up my computer. She soon left for a quieter place to snooze.
Yoooo-hoooo, anybody out there? It's almost midnight in Central Tx and my eyes are wide open. Hoping little kit Noche is home by now. All critters here are present and accounted for.
Hi weejun, I'm here.... I was wondering if you had heard anything about Noche? Apparently not. I had to watch a late night rerun of Army Wives...a series on Lifetime TV. Too many interruptions earlier in the evening.
Do you ever watch the Food Network? I watch it late at night....gad! some of the things they cook.. yukkee
It's midnight here in Eureka Springs, AR, otherwise known as "Mayberry on Acid" and I'm definitely awake and Nancy, just about to watch a DVR'd The Next Food Network Star - was out when it was on earlier. Top Chef (well I know it's on Bravo) is my favorite show. I also like Chopped which my son and daughter-in-law told me about a few weeks ago. My son in Richmond, VA is a food blogger and we're all foodies here.
As for insomnia, one of my biggest problems I think is that I have trouble making myself go to sleep before 3AM. This is my time. DH is asleep, I feel almost normal, the dogs are seldom barking and usually at least one of them is lying in bed with me. I can watch mindless television, read the message boards, surf the net, and wham it's 3 in the morning. I really want to start getting more sleep but I so hate to give up this time. It's so hot here now that I want to be up early to do some gardening. Maybe tonight after Food Network Star I'll squeeze my eyes shut and count ticks and chiggers until I drift off. yeah right...
Terry! I am also a 3 o'clocker!! I watch as many Food Network Shows as I can.. Currently, the American Chefs are sharing the most delicious food they ever ate. Bobby Flay showed a place in NYC that makes the most ncredible french fries. They look like the Pomme Frites we would get in Paris. They use fresh Idaho Russet potatoes, peel and cut into fries..then soak then overnight in water to remove much of the starch. After they are well drained.. they blanch them (cook until soft inside but not browned..in peanut oil) then remove, drain and set aside. Later, when making the fries, they use these blanced potatoes strips, (cut thin - but much bigger than matchsticks) and they take on a blistered look. Crispy and brown on the outside, soft and fluffy on the inside. I thought they looked good enough to go to New York just to try them. It helps to have those deep fryers that can drain the potatoes so well. mmmmmm. .
I want french fries!! Son just left -- it's 1:20 am. Our "ranch" is a gated community and wouldn't you know the outbound gate (pressure sensitive) would not open so I had to drive up and use my gate opener to open the inbound side for him to leave from. Took forever to make the short 1 mile drive -- tons of deer out everywhere.
If I try to get to go to bed at a reasonable hour I just lay there and my mind starts racing. For the past several weeks it's been 3-4 am before I've fallen asleep and then I can't drag myself out of bed before 11 - noon. That wasn't too bad as DH can fix his own light breakfast, but last weekend he drove to the bank and donut shop before I woke up and I cannot have that. I'm taking his ignition key off his keychain -- hopefully tomorrow I can get my hands on his keys while he takes a shower in preparation for an eye doctor appt we have.
3 a.m. here in WV. Been asleep but woke up with anxiety. Do that a lot and have trouble getting back to sleep/ I was up every so often trying to entice Topsy in (I think she was waiting for Noche) and finally at 1 she was on the back porch. Every trip I made I grabbed a macadame nut cookie. Bad.
I guess I'm joining the insomniacs tonight. For some reason I just can't make myself go to bed. I got DH off to bed about 9:30 and am enjoying getting caught up on all the postings. It was a good day. DH was in a good mood all day. It's kind of a shock the first time he talked to himself in the mirror. He was sitting so I could shave him and he started to talk to the fellow and joked and teased with him. At one point he asked the woman standing in the mirror beside him (me) to slap him because he was being a smart aleck. Even if he doesn't know who the guy in the mirror is, at least he likes him and "they" get along.
5:30 a.m. here in WV. I was sleeping away with half a sleepin pill until dh needed help getting out of bed. Time I helped him up, got him a pain pill and settled in my bed I am wide awake. Read all the new posts here, facebook and e-mail.
Looks to be another beautiful 80's day here in WV. I have a Dr. apointment for myself this afternoon.
5:47 am here in WA state. I get up by 5:00 am to get ready for work everyday so I can't stay on late at night. Even though I don't post all the time, I do read the posts.
I am also one of those people who are up late. It's the only time I feel free and I call it "ME" time. DH sleeps until 9 or 10 so I do to. Gmaewok, my DH also talks to that man in the mirror but he does not like him at all. He doesn't trust him and doesn't like his looks. Hides his dental floss and toothbrush and certainly doesn't want to drink out of the same glass. He worries about that man approaching me at night and says if he was stronger he'd stomp the s..t out of him. The mirrors are way to large to cover up.
Lois, besides, if you break the cookie in half before you eat it, all the calories escape. Bama, The mirror thing would be terribly funny if it weren't potentially explosive. (Can't help but laugh)