A thread for the 3 am crew

Yes it is a punishment and maybe accepting it as such makes it a little bit easier. And of course the other person may have taken what happened, or didnt happen, in a completely different way.

If you could ask your grandad now Bluebelle did you remember my forgetting your birthday, he could very well say Did you? I don't remember that. I just remember you as a dear granddaughter. I remember you laughing and chatting.

When I inwardly grown about things I have done or said to, for example, work colleagues, I have to give myself a shake and think they have probably forgotten me completely I was so unimportant in their lives. That helps sometimes.

Right a cup of coffee I think. I will brave the chilly kitchen.

I can totally relate to your second paragraph Helterskelter I lie and go over and over all the difficulties, all the mistakes, the wrongs that can’t be put right. The things, now with hindsight, I should have done this way or that way. Rarely remember the good things I did or the nice things that happened.
Don’t mention names they disappear faster than the rate of naughts
I loved my maternal grandad so much but one year just before he died I was about 15 I forgot to buy him a birthday present
I never have any memories of anything I did buy him or anything nice we did for his birthday, none at all, all I remember is the birthday I forgot .
It’s real punishment isn’t it

I m on the games Youngerthan…

I have just woken up so a good chunk of sleep maybe 6 hours from 10.00 till now. Actually that is very good. But no rhyme nor reason why.
It's quiet, although tinnitus is hissing away, and I am warm.

For the last few years my brain has been turning over people, jobs and happenings from the past. Things I have done wrong and have no hope now of making amends. Names eventually are remembered, but sometimes not.
Current worries weigh heavily at night as well.

I watch hardly any live tv now, but tend to go through the schedule the following day on my tablet and watch in bed on iplayer before I go to sleep or in the afternoon these grey days. Yesterday I rewatched A Question of Attribution, which I found on iplayer, with Prunella Scales as the late queen. Brilliant. I like watching in close up and catch expressions I have missed on the tv.
Nice to know others are awake and it is so common. I expect more of this 3.00 am crew are amd are must reading. I dont think I will get back to sleep now...I shall write a to do list as today is a "normal" day.

Just found this thread!
Thought I was the only person that woke after a few hours
Not so bad in summer but cold nights I hate. Just switched my electric blanket on and took a cocodamol for arthritic pain in my neck and shoulder. Trying not to resort to word games!
Sometimes I do Word games but I think that keeps me awake
Will be happy if I get a couple of hours more.sleep.

Well I ve just woken up, ten to four, who knows I might go off again I came to bed early as there was nothing at all to watch on TV What a bland old tv we ve had this year and I d really had enough of yesterday it was cold I saw not a soul nothing to go out for it was pretty dire

It’s quiet here….hopefully that means you’re all peacefully asleep.
I’ve been awake for nearly two hours, my mind won’t stop thinking about some people I used to work with and trying to remember their names, why on earth would that be popping into my brain? I haven’t worked with, or thought about, them for well over 30 years!
Perhaps that’s what happens if I eat cheese for supper 🤷🏼‍♀️
Anyway, it’s given me a headache.

So much for my proposed walk yesterday .
It didn't happen !
Instead I felt chilly ,sick and completely off .
But I have slept perhaps not as badly as usual .
I think that my lifelong habit of drinking lots of tea is the main reason why I don't sleep well at night .
So I sipped water after supper instead.
I'm going to try to go for a walk today .
The great incentive is thinly sliced smoked salmon from Sainsburys .
I've got such a craving !

Another good night BlueBelle? Maybe you've reset your sleep pattern? I hope so.
Meanwhile I was up twice for loo visits but fell asleep quickly it seems. My Fitbit is pleased and gave me a sleep score of 89. The highest I've ever had. I feel so proud!

Went to bed 11.30 and muc t my surprise didn’t wake till 6 very very unheard of for me
Shopping yesterday was not good too many people and too much overpriced crap in the shops Iwas pleased to get home and hunker down by my gas fire Glass of Stones ginger wine in one hand and some Korean crackers and Christmas cake in the other
Dreadful night for me for tv so ended up watching one of the hospital A and E programmes

I went to bed really early and woke at 12:30, thinking it was morning !!! I read for awhile and then went back to sleep. Woke at 5:12 and have dozed for a bit and gone over my writing… putting sentences in order. Just waiting now for DH to wake and make tea.

The trouble with being an “extreme lark” is that one is out of synch with the rest of the world.
Me too, I’ve been awake for an hour, but have refused to put the light on and start the day…

Wide awake for almost an hour now. It will be back to a book soon, first a cuppa I think. Hope you’re all asleep or at least relaxed and comfortable.

Pleased it was 3 I woke up this morning,,,, last few days have been bunged up with cold and couldn’t breathe through my nose, hate sleeping with mouth open 😂…vic helped a bit …
Have a good day all….

Hi HelterSkelter - thank you .
I've decided to take a walk and will pick up my meds .
More meds !
My neighbour had a crisis over Christnas with her mother in law and had to spend it with her at her house.
It could be the poor lady's last Christmas so I certainly understand .
Two other friends invited me , but as both have health problems - I backed off .

I think that I caught this from another friend ,who didn't tell me that she was sick and wanted to come out for lunch and spend the afternoon with me.
All very flattering!

Esmay. Sorry you are poorly and hope you are better soon.
Did you avoid the day with the neighbours?

Another rough night as I kept on waking up coughing.
I am sleeping a lot inbetween.

Three chunks of sleep of 2 hours or maybe more...so that's OK. DD2 goes home today having stayed from Christmas Eve afternoon. She doesn't go to bed till middnight but then sleeps in. So an owl to my lark.
It is quiet in the house and outside. And feels not too icy cold downstairs. Upstairs is cosy warm.
Today will be a vegetable soup day with leftover gammon sandwiches. And this coming week a good fridge clear out and clean. All those little leftovers in tiny Lakeland boxes discovered and used up. The vegetable soup will be a large pan for several meals.
I like this quiet time between post Christmas and January. And I don't mind January as long as it's not toooo cold.

Good night here too asleep for 10. Briefly woke when DH went to the loo but went quickly back to sleep until 5.30. Long May it last.

A good night here too BlueBelle. Enjoy your shopping trip.

The unimaginable happened for me I went to sleep around 11.30 and woke to the alarm at 6, unheard of, and I hadn’t done a lot in the day been out to a meal but nothing at all to make me sleepy !!!
Anyway have a good day everyone I m going to the city with my daughter for a look around the shops, I don’t need anything, but it’s a trip out

9 hours with two brief loo visits.

I’m so sorry harrigran, I hope the pain goes away soon.
I’ve been awake for about an hour, but managed good quality sleep in the few hours I got.
After sleeping a couple of nights at DD’s, I was very tired. I had over an hour’s nap in the afternoon as well.

Awake since 3.30 with stomach pain. Walking round the house, made a cup of green tea.

Morning! It seems like you have all worn yourselves out and are fast asleep. I have woken for the loo and then heard DGS open his door. New to a big boy bed, he can get out! He’s gone into his M&D. Phew.
Can I get back to sleep?