tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3321084510373631678.post7824761650535858588..comments2024-03-27T12:02:15.675-05:00Comments on PRACTICAL PARSIMONY: Mostly Frugal FridayLindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14991571309786149363noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3321084510373631678.post-10860669714282075972018-11-26T18:35:24.472-06:002018-11-26T18:35:24.472-06:00I believe that either my thyroid problem or the me...I believe that either my thyroid problem or the medicine I take for it is the culprit behind my insomnia, but I cannot stop taking it without creating major health problems for myself.<br /><br />My sleep patterns have been completely messed up since May when I had total knee replacement surgery on one knee. I took myself off of the prescript pain med because it kept me miserably awake and made me feel shaky. I never heard of that medicine doing that to anyone else. Still, all of these months later, I am constantly falling asleep when I want to be awake or awake when I would like to be asleep. I tried Melatonin in the past, and it didn't help with the sleep, but gave me scary dreams. About a week ago,when I was just getting a bit of a sleep pattern going we were needed to watch our grandson while his parents worked. He arrived early in the morning, just at the time I had started a pattern of falling asleep. Just one day of being kept awake, and I haven't been able to get the pattern back yet. It wasn't a bad pattern, a few hours of sleep early in the morning, then awake in the afternoon until mid evening, when I would sleep again for a few hours and then up all late night. <br /><br />To me insomnia seems so much worse in the fall and winter than it does in the summer. Today the sun never really came out, it was bleak all day, and I have been awake to see it, I wonder how much of this dark, cold, windy night I will be awake to experience. Tomorrow will be the second day that we <br />won't even get above freezing.<br /><br />Does winter seem like a worse time to have insomnia than summer and spring to anyone else but me?<br /><br />I have dropped uncooked eggs several time through the years and they are aggravating to clean up, but nothing like as bad as your miracle whip was. That whip would have been a lot more miraculous if the lid wouldn't have shattered everywhere.<br /><br />I hope we all start getting some regular and restful sleep.susie @ persimmon moon cottagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01653330247272673990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3321084510373631678.post-84218646296341838892017-08-06T13:51:15.494-05:002017-08-06T13:51:15.494-05:00Urspo,
Plus, I was afraid I had left a bit and wou...Urspo,<br />Plus, I was afraid I had left a bit and would slip and fall.Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14991571309786149363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3321084510373631678.post-3615197584479126162017-08-06T08:24:30.621-05:002017-08-06T08:24:30.621-05:00Ouch to the drop; oh what a mess! Ouch to the drop; oh what a mess! Ur-spohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04237644452200889946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3321084510373631678.post-58186805799324138162017-08-05T10:41:37.849-05:002017-08-05T10:41:37.849-05:00Bellen,
It seems like the sleepless nights are get...Bellen,<br />It seems like the sleepless nights are getting to be more the normal for me. But, I am embracing naps as a habit.<br /><br />OMG, what a disaster. My stomach clenches thinking of that mess. That was sad. Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14991571309786149363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3321084510373631678.post-75522131083475130172017-08-05T10:36:08.849-05:002017-08-05T10:36:08.849-05:00T'Pol,
My sleep is never consistent either. Me...T'Pol,<br />My sleep is never consistent either. Melatonin helps. I can understand the devastation of smashing the mug. But, putting things in perspective is healthy and certainly helps get over the loss. Thanks for that example.Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14991571309786149363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3321084510373631678.post-70745077371861706172017-08-05T05:01:58.327-05:002017-08-05T05:01:58.327-05:00About once a month I have a night where I only get...About once a month I have a night where I only get about 3-4 hours sleep. Can't figure out a reason, just take a short nap that day and I recover.<br /><br />Most spectacular drop - a quart of white gloss enamel paint on the newly laid floor of the newly painted entryway. The paint wss for the trim. Literally took hours to clean it up. May have taken longer as it was hard to see thru the tears. This happened about 20 years ago but my stomach still clenches when I think about it.Bellenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17249001827113998376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3321084510373631678.post-22154153432070722962017-08-05T04:28:13.936-05:002017-08-05T04:28:13.936-05:00I have some sleep issues too. It might be due to s...I have some sleep issues too. It might be due to stress, heat, or going into menopause. Usually, I sleep good one night and the other night, I am mostly awake. And, the most devastating rather than spectacular drop happened about a year ago when I smashed my favorite mug of 26 years that I had bought from an artist at a New England fair to the kitchen door. Pieces flew all over the kitchen and I was about to cry after my one of a kind mug, I so loved but then, I came to my senses. That very day a group of our soldiers were killed in action while fighting with terrorists on the southern border and I just could not cry after a mug.T'Polhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16207033510057896918noreply@blogger.com