INSOMNIACS place to talk in the wee hours

grammaB

Happy New Year Owlettes!!  

35 more minutes here and the fireworks are already going off here too!

Going to drink a glass of champagne at midnight and then watch The New York Philharmonic Gala With Yo-Yo Ma on PBS.

Anonymous

2nd_time, it's 1:22 am here. I'm still awake. We thought DH was getting off at midnight, but he called at 12:20 and said, he's working until 2 am. I already had his food started. Just turned it off. I'll reheat it before he gets here.

I went to church tonight. We had some special singers, some scripture, a few laughs, and a potluck supper. I was home by 10:30.

Happy New Year

Paula

Anonymous

Hi Paula, sounds like you had a fun day surrounded by loving people. Sorry your DH will be running late, you can always set one clock back to 11:58 pm for your midnight kiss!

Happy New Year to you and anyone still awake at this hour!

Smaarty

SAS-did talk to WM, she was rec 600-650 but I'm not going to be that big.  I'll see how these feel over the next couple of days. 

You gals back east are probably in bed, but HAPPY NEW YEAR!  

4sewwhat- do you have a recliner? That's what I use for about 3 weeks until I can get back on my side. Hope you feel better. 

My New Years resolution is to read more. I have over 700 books on my iPad but probably only have read half of them. Got to get busy. 

Blessings2011

A little after 11 pm here in Cali, but we're done with New Years (except for the idiot neighbors who always set off firecrackers at midnight.)

Watched the ball drop in Times Square at 9 pm on CNN, toasted each other with banana-almond smoothies, and watched "Despicable Me 2".... Cute!

Now for a boatload of drugs, and beddy-bye!

Happy New Year to all the fabulous Owlettes out there!!!!!!!

Anonymous

DH is on his way home. I taped the Ball dropping in Times Square. So he can watch it and give me my New Years kiss when he gets here.

Paula

mostlymom

                      HAPPY NEW YEAR OWLETTES

Anonymous

happy New Year Owlettes! Wishing you all a very wonderful 2014!

Cool Paula, midnight at any time!

Thanks mostlymom, very cute!

sas-schatzi

HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWLETESS.........  back from neighborly  visitation.  I imbibed a we bit. BUT BUT have been sooo out of connection with the sauce... UGH....... Water..........

Little goats------ oh my----Your words "How the mind gets on something and will not let it go". What dear counselor describes to and for me is a characteristic of ADD/ADHD.  We get so focused on something to the EXCLUSION  of everything else. Also, if something doesn't interest us, we ignore it to the extreme.

I was trying to go for a different discussion last visit, but we got on the three recent falls. All were dog related , but different reasons. All were logical falls , until he keyed in. I'm distractable. Then we talked of other falls.  Exclude the plain accidents and the friggen weak ankle. BUT then we talked of the fall off the bow window, thankfully onto the bed. I was so concentrated on the decorating, I walked off into space.  Then the time when on the counter with DH & DS below and I was decorating the Knee Wall. I caught myself stepping into air. It was one of those OMG, I almost did that thingy's. I have never tried it again----I direct. But it was after that that I walked off the bow wall into thin air and landed on the bed. I also, don't do the bow windows any more.

What dear counselor describes as nurses, ADD/ADHD can be a benefit. This I already knew b/c there had been publications about not ADD/ADHD, and multitasking, but it was nice to hear from him. As nurses before the word multitasking was coined, we always had to handle so much. Nurses in a hospital setting are like ping pong balls. Everyone wanted a piece of us. Right now!.

One minute you were saving a life, the next contact someone was complaining about their water. Yet you couldn't say , I F***king just ran a cardiac arrest b/c the doc "hit the wall" and couldn't run it. AND I got a pulse back that statistically was less than 1%. That's a real story. I had to smile and say "so sorry , I will fix that". Yeah and then my boss wanted to bitch me out. I'd been ACLS certified since 1979. She just took her first course in 2007 and thought she knew it all on one course. She was clueless, but was her typical power hungry analpore belief in herself.

Whoa Nellie, methinks I'm going through a hx thingy.  Why now?

I have described in the past that stress is like a jelly sandwich. That the more you press on the top of the sandwich the jelly squishes out the sides. And that only so much jelly squishes out, then the sandwich is pressed dry. Once dry what is left?

gotta pee TMI , but reality

sas-schatzi

Ah Insomniacs thread the place to be , when no one else is up. In the old days, I would just talk to myself. So I will. That last missive, let out allot of anger. May have not seemed so, but I still hate that boss. I seldom use the words "hate and evil". They are words that have connotations that are so strong, that they are scary. At least for me. There have been people in my past life that have been evil. Right now, I'm happy to say that I feel nothing evil around me. I feel protected, I may be completely naïve, but such a relaxed feeling.

I do need to work on forgiveness.

gardengumby

Happy New Years dear friends.  It's 12:30 here (maybe a little later)...    No fireworks in my neighborhood - it's illegal here, and apparently we have very law abiding neighbors.  In our old house hubby and I used to lay in bed and watch all the fireworks playing out across the valley - something to miss now.  S'OK, though for everything that's old and gone, we have a new memory.  

My New Year's resolution is to make any grouch I come across smile.  At least once.    Bring a little merry into the new year.  

Hope I get to meet a few of you lovely ladies this year.  We are continuing our search for a truck camper, and in fact are leaving on Thursday to look at a couple of them in Oregon.  If either work out, we will continue on south for awhile before returning home to Washington.

sas-schatzi

Mostlymom what a hoot. Such a great owl. When we decided to become Owlettes. I looked over several hundred owl pics. The pic in the topic header is yours from pages ago. But this new pic is even better. It's saying to me "WTF and I question you" . I'll work on getting it in the header.  Love to see you here, come and visit more often

Gumby Hello missed you , Thanks for coming by, hope you come to visit more often

grammaB

mostlymom, I love that owl!  I had one visit me a couple years ago. He/she hung out in my yard for several weeks.  Aren't those eyes mesmorizing???

grammaB

sas, it is always good to get that carp out.  In the middle of the night is when it always seems to come to the surface.  I'm glad you were able to vocalize some of it.  I hope you feel better for it!

sas-schatzi

Gramma----somehow that owl is almost cat like. Beautiful. But the stare is so like a cat. BTW --HNY

grammaB

Back at you sas, hope the new year brings you all that you desire.

sas-schatzi

Gramma, oh yes, lifted a weight. much better. thank you.

Yoo- hoooooooooo Chrissy, Aussie Sheila--- you haven't been here-------where are you? Aly's been here. Are you gals still celebrating.

It's 4:47 am. So much for anything tomorrow. But a great thing -----------DBF Hates football. OMG I used to be subjected to hours and hours of football and being ignored by his family. From 1972 till we moved in 1992, I spent the day among people who worked there best to ignore my being. Yet, I made sure DH was there for the day, and every day of consequence.  Who knows what the story or reasoning was? It did get better when youngest brothers wife did take him away from all family gatherings as fast as she could. Odd.

sas-schatzi

Krips Gramma I wrote the abbreviation  HNY-----SPLAT big time, I looked at it and said WTH is that? Sheesh............maybe I should try sleep----------------Have a very Happy New Year ___HYN

Alyson

Our native Owl -Ruru I love owls.

Should be sleeping -its now almost 2nd Jan here but I am trying to relax because I have had so much pain. I am sure it's sciatica but really getting at me and I can barely walk. I hate complaining but i have so many medical problems that they all get muddled together but pain from RA and fibro just about do me in some days. 

DH is snoring and old cat is cross because I have the notebook  LOL

grammaB

LOL, sas, it took me a few minutes to figure out what that meant, but I did finally get it!! )

camillegal

OMG it's Happy New Year time, Joey and I kissed t midnite and cuddled and slept--I woke up and thought I slept all nite, but only a couple of hrs. I've been reading this fast paced thread, Sas I remember when it was 2 things a night on it. And like U I'd be talking to myself.

Paula I'm glad u taped the midnite special for u'r DH. Now u can relive it whenever u want to.

I see a big subject was weed, pot willie's whatever--Chev was it u who said u don't know anyone who has done it? Someone did.--Well I know more who do it than don't and I've tried it but for some reason I don't do it right--how could u do it wrong???I've never tried the roll up one, but just a bong thing, I think the roll up one would be better, or pipe maybe. Well the ones I know who do it a couple have had cancer, one lymphoma now, some bad bone thing--they said it helps them???? Personally I think it should be legal all over--it would take some crime off the street, the broke government would make the money, it's no worse than drinking, in fact there is no hangover or alcohol poisoning, and only over 21 should be able to buy it.

Oh My job, I thought u all knew===I just answer phones for a small Co. and send them emails, and file in the computer all the info. some days I'm actually busy others not so much, But the hrs are crazy anytime anyone calls it's at their convenience. so I'm home most of the time. Yes someone has trusted me with their entire business, how foolish people can be. This came to me, I didn't go looking. They were thinking of the years that I had a full functioning brain, they really don't know how much I've changed, but they are learning---so I don't know how long this will last. So far it's aout 2 months, but time is clicking down. LOL

Let's all hope this year is going to be wonderful for all of us.

camillegal

Wow I was bumping into everyone. I'm such a clod.

grammaB

Oh Alyson, I can so understand your sciatica pain. Last year (2013) I had such severe pain in Jan I could barely walk.  Have lots of problems with my back.  Had the steroid shots in my back, first round didn't work, but the second did and is still helping the pain a lot!!  I have osteo arthritis in both thumbs and in my back, so I know that pain too.  I hope 2014 brings you some relief from pain!

camillegal

grammaB

cami, I tried pot once way back in the 60's when I was in college. I had such an allergic reaction to it, I won't go anywhere near it again.  The funniest thing is when I tried it, I realized I recognized the smell.  Apparently my older brother and possibly parents had been smoking it for quite some time when I was small!!!

sas-schatzi

Aly, don't know if this will help, but the last few total body flares(3) have been brought to bay by a combo  of oxy 5mg, valium 10 mg, melatonin 5 mg.  It was just a try, I was surprised the first time . Then tried it again x'2 . But now up all night b/c of tooooooooo much chocolate and coffee yesterday late...............hmm where is that chocolate.................HNY

Aly, A flare in the past took much more medication, but I never tried this combo. Even as high as fentanyl patches which was the go to drug for me for a flare. This three together was a fluke try. You know how it is with RA, Fibro, Ai, and I think Post polio(?). Trying something different just b/c we can and we hope a new "something" change works.

Alyson

Never actually tried it but know the smell well. I was at university in the late 60s early 70s and many people did imbibe. I am sure I inhaled enough of it to have some benefit hehehe. People think I did smoke it because I have identified it several times; while teaching once walked into the main corridor and commented about the whacky backy and some of the senior staff where delighted I identified it. One day here we had friends for dinner and as they were leaving my friend - a church minister asked what plant was giving off the lovely smell - she took awhile to understand when i said it was a herbal sustance coming from the house behind us - a student party. I am sure it would save funds if it was made legal- you can have a small amount for personal use here.

Some days when the pain from RA and fibro etc gets really bad I do wonder if it would work.

Alyson

Thanks Sas - have to talk to GP.just so tired of the pain.

Sure a lot of the pain and dragging of my leg is post polio as well as the sciatica. I feel like saying some really rude words about things at present.

Anonymous

GG, store this in your memory: let us know if you make it down PCH to SoCal, we'll have a get-together to meet you

Fireworks are definitely illegal here, everything is so dry it won't take much for the area to go up in flames. We've had bad fires in this area (was on a cruise thru Panama Canal in 1999 and one of the big stories was a huge fire in the hills close to my house, parents were babysitting my kids and didn't want us to know the fire engines were racing up our street) but we also have lots of stupid people who just don't get it. At least they're really cracking down on people who shoot guns straight up into the air at midnight.

Sassy, do you ever sleep?

camillegal

Gramma I think that's funny realizing it's been going on in u'r own house.

Aly and Sas I'm sorry this awful pain is attacking u, unfortunately it's all u can do is what u are doing. It would be wonderful to feel better. (((HUGS)))