INSOMNIACS place to talk in the wee hours

Ooh I need the Clear Brain product! The other day DD2 found the yogurt I left in the pantry right next to the cereals. It was in there overnight. I put it back in the fridge and ate it after a few hours. Tasted fine. I haven’t burned anything the last few weeks, but did manage to baptize the cabinet near the sink because I walked away to do something and left the filtered water running pass the cup brim for a several minutes! Oy!

Welcome Runor! I don’t have insomnia. Just like to stay up late and can’t get up in the morning. This place is my escape in a way.

Blue, I picture you as a deep thinker. A special, but eccentric ( I meant it as a compliment) lady. Who keeps skunks as pets????

Ok, my friend just texted me. Got to go. Hello my other friends.

Thanks for the update on recalls, Shepkitty. I buy USA and organic in hopes of problems but still have to watch.

MOMMYOF2 - Post the picture!! What book?

Mulberry trees - Hubby thinks of them as crap trees and wants to whack them off and nail copper nails in the trunk base to kill them. To no avail. They are bird food and make for lovely purple poop though. I made a mulberry tart when I was 12. Of interest is the tomato worms caterpillars will eat tomato plants but they will also eat mulberry leaves. So this is where we take our tomato worms to flourish and become these pretty moths. Hawk or sphinx moth. Otherwise known as hummingbird moth. They are prolific nighttime pollinators. Moral of the story - tomato worms are good - take them to the mulberry trees. Or plant an extra tomato section for them to eat there. I'll shut up now. : )

I am glad you started this thread.

Today I had lunch with a dear dear friend. We have both been so ill for the last year we have only spoken on the phone. Missed her so much! She and I have been through a lot together in so many ways. I remembered today that my real time friends in life where we sit and talk are capable of deep conversations with me of nothing surface. It's not so much how are you doing and what did the doctor say. It is how do you feel about dying? Do you care if you survive? When and where will we meet again if we can? They will say something like I believe my soul will go on. What do you think, how do you feel. And not ask in order to change my beliefs butto understand. I love deep love and conflict. I have a few other friends I want to re-connect with that I lost when I got too sick to even talk and now I am ready again, soon.

Runor - you will be gentle with your expectations of yourself, okay? You got through one haul w this and then had another to face headon. It is alive and well in the forefront of your mind now just like before when this started.

LoverofLife - Deep thinker? Yes. I wrote a novel that was just that. A woman who did not want to be a deep thinker but was and she was touched with gifts she would not deliver to the world too. Somewhere in there is me, the all of me, buried in my denial and avoidance. There were skunks and Newfoundlands and gatherings of friends and magic worlds. Very deep. I loaned the book to a friend who I think never took time to read it and I never got it back. hmmm. I miss it. Think I will order it. If I ask for it back and find out she tossed or lost it I may not forgive that action. Don't need the stress.

Today is the day I give up stress. One hour at a time?

Blue- I first looked at that pic and thought that it was a hummingbird, but realized there was no beak. I didn't know that the worms on tomato plants turn into this. Interesting.

I signed up for emails from a group that sends out notices on pet food recalls and there was a recall earlier last week for a brand of Bully Sticks that are manufactured in Long Beach, CA. for Salmonella Bacteria.

Loverly - You are brave to eat a yogurt that has been sitting unrefrigerated for so long. So glad you didn't experience any bad effects. By the way I did buy a piece of Ginger yesterday, plus I found a box of the Raspberry/Hibiscus tea I told you about too.

Well, the steroid has calmed down the spinal nerve coming from my lumbar spine, but I know once I stop it the pain will return. I'm still waiting to hear from the neurosurgeon. Along with the fractured vertebrae, etc. I came down with a respiratory infection, but the antibiotics are working on that. So this morning I feel ready to get Kirby back home. I am so grateful I have someone I can call to care for him when needed.

It is 48 degrees here today and overcast/drizzily etc. A good day to possibly do some sewing. We'll see.

Ok, off to make breakfast. Catch you all later.

Will get a picture of it up in the next few days. Been fighting a nasty stomach bug the last couple of days, today was the first day I could eat normal food.

Once again awake all night despite sleepers etc. it’s 7 am and I just took a Xanax and finally am starting to go to sleep. I want to sleep when the world is sleeping and be awake during the day. It really irritates me

Wren, I've had daffodils in bloom and bud during snow season. Mine did well. The last time it happened if I remember correctly, the snow covered about half way up the plants. I noticed, in general, the blooms prefer cooler temps over hot one.

Edited to add: If there is considerable snow and the sun is harsh afterward, the reflection off the snow and the sun itself might cause a problem. I’ve taken sunburns when I was out shoving snow fro the sun reflecting off of it.

Poor you Mommyof2, hope you are feeling better soon.

Blue - The fracture is in L3, so my coughing doesn't seem to be affecting that. However, the longer I am on my feet the pressure of my upper spine pushing down really flares the nerve that is getting pinched and increases the pain/weakness in my right leg.

Since it is a holiday today the local buses are not running, so I am stuck at home. I had planned on seeing the movie "Black Panther" with a friend today until we remembered the holiday. Blah!

jaymeb - My scenario was not precisely like yours, but I had my mastectomy at age 31 and a tissue expander was placed immediately after the mastectomy, so all in one surgery. I had the expander in for 2 years, then my body rejected it and I ended up needing it removed, so I had a TRAM Flap done. The up side of my situation was that when the PS did the TRAM there was already enough skin for the pocket and he didn't have to do a skin graft. So now 25 years later, the reconstruction is still doing well.

Ms. Wren, the ginkgo nuts are soft (not starchy) and a bit chewy, not quite as chewy as gummy bears. They are not stink at all. Thank goodness! I didn't know the fruits smell bad. Can't imagine harvesting them. I do love how the ginkgo tree looks in the fall.

Kath, you actually shook the fruits off the trees? Hah! Can't picture a 7or 8 year old child that determined to get rid of the fruits.

Blue, how many tomatoes did you put in the cabbage soup to make it so sour that it wasn't edible? I like tomato soup with grilled cheese sandwich, but too much tomatoes give me heartburns. Canned fruits is soothing when I get a sore throat. Did you mean to say you had a 100 degree temperature? “Sick" or cancer acting up? I hope “sick".

Jaymeb, just talk away and let it out.

I had delayed recon. Unilateral mx and a small implant on the right side to match. I didn't get a lift as there was nothing there to lift. Hah! I had little pain with the exchange. Didn't have to take Norco, just Motrin. Much easier recovery compared to mastectomy or expander placement. Best wishes on your surgery. Ms. Wren is right. I am always looking over my shoulder for the ruthless “Mafia". I hope that I lost them for good and I wish the same for you too! Btw, my younger daughter will be 15 in April. Also an independent kid.

Lover, when I was seven/eight, the city sent crews out to shake the trees to get the fruit out. I was returning home from having my tonsils out. We still have a few of the older trees on the block as well as the newer ones that were planted to take the place of the females they cut down. The trees on my side of the block have electrical lines so there has been some creative pruning done to them. I'll have to take a picture of the trees when the leaves come out.

Junie, ❤️ the pictures of Kirby. We had an inch of snow on the weekend. Going to get to the 70's here the next few days.

Oops, need to send a text to DS. Just saw a report on NHK that a fighter jet had an engine fire shortly after take off from Misawa Airbase where he works. It did makeit back to base safely.