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Daisy,
Another sleep trick. Do alphabet letters and make words that are alike but mean different things and are spelled differently.
Awl-all, bee-be, cain-cane, dew-do-due.
You will be asleep in no time. Would be extra challenge for you! And either fun or drive you nuts, right?
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Llama, it really does help, and the more you practice the easier it is.
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Daisy: True - sleep breatheing.
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Thanks Alva, I have heard this is a common issue, also for 10 years, I worked in a hotel cooking breakfast for 200 plus people at 5 am. So I accept that I'm just gonna be a morning person.

About April I started waking up at 4 AM, in a complete panic attack, that's because things were just not right with hubs. I'm trying to get in a better sleep pattern. Learning to breath myself back to sleep, much of the time.
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Daisy, It you look up sleep patterns one very very common one is the waking at 4 a.m. one. Who knows, perhaps we are still farmer/hunter/gatherers in our heads. Many famous people (Martha Stewart, too) get up at that hour and do the productive work that included writing, letters, bill paying and etc. I myself often will put on a podcast if that happens, which quickly puts me back to sleep with gruesome true crime stories. My partner has the 4 a.m. worries, and is often up at that hour with his mind, particularly when a young and struggling Dad alone raising two girls, going in hystericalizing spins of all the awful things that "could happen" to his girls if he failed to keep them safe and cared for. So not unusual this. I am afraid we have to dub you completely normal. Look up sleep patterns and you will see!
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Why is it if I wake up at 4 am , feeling wide awake, like I could jog around the block, then if I get myself back to sleep and wake up at 6ish It takes me forever to wake up

Makes zero sense.. 😖

BOJ so so happy for you!!
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just want to say,
someone said to me they hope i get my man and that he would be blessed to have me.

that’s so sweet, thanks!

he’s awesome. we laugh like crazy together. we’re both shy, and neither of us has confessed our feelings…

we shall see.
🥰🥰🥰⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Well done you Margaret!
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Margaret, moving even down the street is a pain in the butt. I realized I have so much junk even when trying to not collect it! Moving is a great way to downsize and have garage sales although not as many people are into them with the economy being rough.
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Margaret: Good to see you.
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Margaret, Good to have you back after what has to be one challenging move.
Tell us why you moved, and what you love about where you are, what you miss about what you were. And good luck in all the downsizing. I have loved downsizing my life and am still at it.
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Oh my, Margaret. That's a lot of work!!!

I did a lot of tossing donating etc before I moved to the condo and am still finding things I want to get rid of.
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Holy smoke that's a big move Margaret, are you somewhere closer to civilization now?
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We’ve moved into a new house, 1500kms from the farm. DH couldn’t do a good sort at the move time, it was all packed into containers, now being unpacked. The sort now is almost the same. “Treasure stuff, keep, throw, move on.."
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Overwhelmed, drowning,
Treasure stuff, keep, throw, move on..
To new begininings

🪆🎻📚🪑🪏🍽
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PLOT TWIST!!!!
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dear venting,

when something goes wrong in your life, just yell out, "PLOT TWIST!" and move on.
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Thanks!
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Ventingisback, sounds like you are under a horrible amount of stress. Hang in there and breathe, don't forget to breathe!

My neighbors PTSD dog, taught me that.
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THANKS!
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you’re doing great!! keep up the great work!!
🥰🥰🥰🌸🌸🌸
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Thanks, Bundle of Joy!
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hang in there, venting!!!

here are 2 quotes to cheer you up!!!

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When everything feels like an uphill struggle just think of the view from the top.

and
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The things that bury you may also be the soil where you bloom.
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I’m a woman.

I just woke up from an awful nightmare.

In my nightmare, I was a woman but with a beard. I was so unhappy with it. I tried to shave it off but it came back even thicker.

Suddenly I woke up and happily realized it was just a dream.

I’m going through a lot of stress these days. A lot of things are out of my control. I’m trying to work on the things that are in my control. It’s tough.
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Thanks Alva, yes, I have been hearing cases of both in the north east also. Mom is not quiet on board of that. Will see how she is tomorrow, I might bring her to urgent care, tomorrow, I don't think she will be happy until she goes. I suspect I got it from the hospital and brought it to her. I thought it was just from not eating right. I have heard of a few cases of covid around me too, with the sore throat.
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There's a nasty norovirus out there right now, very bad in the Pacific NW.
I hear the new covid strain has such sore throats that it is called "RazorBlade throat" as a nickname. Though none seem to be dying of either. During radiation I took great care to not get anything, and was fully masked when out and about to try not to delay treatments. I still mask on public transit these days. I see all manner of taking care and not and again, all comes down to our attempting to stay well best we can. Good luck to all.
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Beatty, I realized there is a stomach bug out there, when huds was in the hospital, the day he got out, I had stomach cramps like crazy. I just had so much else going on I tried to ignore them the best I could, and assumed I ate something that didn't agree with me. Now moms, confessed she has stomach cramps, and an upset stomach, then a friend at boccie told me last night, she went to urgent care with same thing. So seems to be a strange stomach bug going around here.

I've heard of a few covid cases in are area also.
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Ahh.. quality of life.. How to define it?

DH unwell tonight, went to bed at 7pm. Hopefully just a temporary chill. Mother face-planted out of her wheelchair last week. Had hip pain for 1 day - now pain free. Other LO fell again, ambo again. I stayed home & out of that.

Acceptance is my new thing.
I breath in, hold, breathe out.
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Daisy - it's fine. You are being realistic. Your mom is declining and you are accepting that. It's good to be at peace about it. I think especially those of us from dysfunctional families have already grieved a lot over losses and are ready for this stage. Mother lived to 106 and I was more than ready. Her last 5 years weren't easy for either of us and I honestly wish she had gone sooner - for her sake. She had little quality of life.
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Thanks Way, and hothouse, it is just an odd feeling, healthy but odd.
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