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Insomniacs Inc.

betteb — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 05:35:08 GMT

Anybody else up all crazy hours of the night? This is a landing place. You can talk about anything here, nothing is off topic. Kids, pets, cooking, current events, whatever. If Q will let it stand, it's ok.

For me, tonight, I'm sick of summer. It's too durn hot and my electric bill is too durn high.

I'll take any other season, even winter. When it's cold, I can always put on more clothes, but i can only take off so much.

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nrm — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 05:42:44 GMT

Betteb, insomniac central! Took a nap earlier in the day so now I'm wide awake. It was 104 degrees here today! Thanks for the post.

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kittymomNC — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 05:46:06 GMT

Hi betteb! I'm up!

My son was here and stayed late...I got sleepy and then I got wide awake again, so decided to check out the boards. And I SO agree with you... I'm sick of hot weather (actually I'm always sick of hot weather by the end of May!).

I'd much rather have 6 inches of snow and 30 degrees!

And I still haven't cut my grass, and it's gonna be 94 tomorrow and then up to 98 on Monday or Tuesday. Ugh!!! Maybe I'll just let it get high enough so people can't see my house and they'll think it's just an empty lot with really high grass!

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betteb — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 05:47:02 GMT

It wasn't quite that hot here today. We had 100's+ for almost a week straight, caught some rain and a break for a couple of days and now, back up to the high 90's to low 100's.

One nice thing tonight. I watched the birth of 4 adorable kittens on Livestream

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betteb — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 05:52:00 GMT

Hi Kittymom

LOL about the grass. I finally gave up and have it cut. A guy who lives near cuts it every two weeks or so. It's a small lot and he onlt charges me $20.

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feline groovy — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 06:00:37 GMT

Hey, beebeee & y'all... is this you? LOL

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betteb — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 06:07:30 GMT

LOL Feline, The only thing I'm hatin' tonight is how I've gotten my days and nights mixed up, only I don't really sleep during the day, just doze.

Did you check in on the new litter yet?

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kittymomNC — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 06:08:44 GMT

I used to be able to cut mine in about an hour and a half... but that's when I was a "little" younger! Now I have to take too many breaks, especially in the heat. My son offers to do it, but he knows I'll turn him down because it's really my only heavy exercise.

It must have been exciting watching the kittens being born. Speaking of my DS, he found a stray dog (one of many) a number of years ago, and only after he'd had her for a few days and of course fallen in love with her, did he realize she was pregnant. I got a phone call at 6:00 a.m. one morning begging for help - she was "birthing the babies" on his couch! She had NINE puppies - she was a young dog and didn't really know what to do, so he was trying to help her. It was so sad that eventually she lost 7 of them and he was left with two - they looked like little Beagles, but she was larger and almost white with some ginger shading... so at least he knew what kind of dog the father was! Since she was the third large dog in his "family", he adopted those two out.

BTW, didn't you get your CPAP, etc.? I thought that was helping you to sleep...

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kittymomNC — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 06:12:17 GMT

Waving to feline groovy and nrm... more insomniacs!

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shoekitty — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 06:15:04 GMT

It is hot here too in California. More like Florida the last few days, hot and steamy wet outside, yuck! With the drought , it is hard! The ocean beeze disappeared the last 2 nights, so warm at night. Tonight it is cooler, hopefully it will help

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betteb — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 06:17:12 GMT

Kittymom my BIL is coming this weekend to help me move some furniture around a bit. I have to do that to get it in the right place.

Pssst(wisper) I'm secretly glad because I'm not looking forward to trying to sleep with it

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betteb — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 06:19:03 GMT

@shoekitty wrote:
It is hot here too in California. More like Florida the last few days, hot and steamy wet outside, yuck! With the drought , it is hard! The ocean beeze disappeared the last 2 nights, so warm at night. Tonight it is cooler, hopefully it will help

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Hi shoekitty

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kittymomNC — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 06:26:57 GMT

betteb wrote:
Kittymom my BIL is coming this weekend to help me move some furniture around a bit. I have to do that to get it in the right place.

Pssst(wisper) I'm secretly glad because I'm not looking forward to trying to sleep with it

I know exactly what you mean! I was diagnosed about five or six years ago, and fitted with the CPAP, but my nose gets so stuffed up at night, they wouldn't be able to turn the pressure up high enough for it to go through - it might blow my head off! So I only used it for a short while. Mine is actually more "hypopnea" than "apnea"... not sure if you're familiar with that. I don't completely stop breathing each time, most of the time they said I "wake up gasping for breath"... sometimes I want to tell them to show me the film of me doing that because it's hard for me to believe... it was in the severe range of over 30 times an hour for hypopnea.

It mostly happens if I'm on my back, so I keep a pillow at my back and it makes it harder for me to turn over. Some people use a tee shirt with a pocket and sew a tennis ball in the pocket, then sleep with it on backwards. If they turn over on their back, the tennis ball makes them get back on their side. I haven't tried that yet! I guess I really need another sleep study, but I'm wired enough these days without all those wires stuck on me! But from reading what all you girls have said, it sounds like there might be new apparatus that would be easier than the one I have.

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feline groovy — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 06:27:16 GMT

@betteb wrote:
LOL Feline, The only thing I'm hatin' tonight is how I've gotten my days and nights mixed up, only I don't really sleep during the day, just doze.

Did you check in on the new litter yet?

Yep... lotsa of teeny squee-iness, plus lotsa luv. 8)

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redhead65 — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 06:29:35 GMT

Well "hello" ladies,

I'm quite surprised but pleased that this thread is here now. I knew I couldn't be the only one, especially when lurking around here all night and at odd hours! I'm surprised but happy to see some very popular names here from consistent posters. Sorry you have to deal with many things that I do as well concerning sleep patterns.

This Forum has saved me many times when suffering from lack of sleep or the chronic side effects of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome and other serious health problems. I look forward to getting to know all of you better and posting here.

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kittymomNC — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 06:30:04 GMT

@shoekitty wrote:
It is hot here too in California. More like Florida the last few days, hot and steamy wet outside, yuck! With the drought , it is hard! The ocean beeze disappeared the last 2 nights, so warm at night. Tonight it is cooler, hopefully it will help

Hey shoekitty - I LOVE the picture of that sleeping baby!

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betteb — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 06:31:04 GMT

How old is it Kittymom? The one I got is brand new, I'ts about the size of a fairly large clock radio and it's very, very quiet.

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betteb — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 06:32:39 GMT

@feline groovy wrote:
@betteb wrote:
LOL Feline, The only thing I'm hatin' tonight is how I've gotten my days and nights mixed up, only I don't really sleep during the day, just doze.

Did you check in on the new litter yet?

Yep... lotsa of teeny squee-iness, plus lotsa luv. 8)

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Yes and poor Sisko, still lots and lots of waiting (sigh)

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feline groovy — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 06:33:35 GMT

@kittymomNC wrote:
Waving to feline groovy and nrm... more insomniacs!

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kittymomNC — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 06:37:05 GMT

Hi redhead87 - I'm so glad betteb started this thread too. We're gathering quite a little group of "insomniacs"!

I have a friend who has fibromyalgia, so I know that alone could really get you down even without anything else. I just posted the other day how fortunate I feel that I've reached the age I have without any major physical illness. I have my problems, but nothing like some others have posted about. I'm so lucky!