@MaJ1@weirdfolks@actuallyautistic Good morning to you too. Still in a bit of a sleepy haze here after a naff night, thank you insomnia. Still, the sun is trying to find gaps in the clouds and there are lots of lovely flowers in the lanes; mostly little white ones that makes the lane smell of onion but lovely all the same.
Hoping you, and anyone reading this of course, have a wonderful Thursday xx
@MaJ1@weirdfolks@actuallyautistic It's strange, it doesn't matter what time I go to bed, almost exactly 4 hours later I'll be wide awake for almost exactly 3 hours. No over thinking, just staring at the inside if my eyelids, or on here. Those 3 hours awake sometimes cross over with almost time to get up though.
Thank you, I did train as a proof reader and editor, mix that with partial sight (descriptive alt texts are essential) and it may explain something.
@MaJ1@weirdfolks@actuallyautistic Awww, thank you good squirreley Knight. Lol. I love language but tend to struggle with anything other than Glaswegisn so concentrate on getting it as correct as I can.
Certainly feel the depression side of this. Just can't be arsed to eat/sleep/do anything. And the last 9 or 10 months of rain really hasn't helped at all. Depression aside, running on fumes is a killer.
@skyfire747@MaJ1@weirdfolks@actuallyautistic Not easy is it? I can almost set a watch by the 4 hours and awake. In fairness, I do get back to sleep sometimes, it can take a hot drink to do it and a hot toddy doesn't always seem appropriate at 5am. No, seriously, mint or lemon and ginger tea help me now and then.
You are totally right, sleep deprivation is horrible.
Someone told me hemorrhoid cream gets rid of the bags under your eyes but I'm not brave enough to try that.
@filmfreak75@skyfire747@MaJ1@weirdfolks@actuallyautistic Great that it works for you. I'm not sure I could afford the price tag personally. I have been known to have hot milk with a shot of honey which sometimes helps but it's not a consistent help.
@MaJ1@skyfire747@weirdfolks@actuallyautistic Yeah but its the WIDE AWAKE time that coincides with what should be breakfast. Never really been into games, sorry, give me a book every time.
@RosePuckey@skyfire747@weirdfolks@actuallyautistic Books work. If I’m actively re-reading HHGTTG then you’ll know I’m a fairly poorly bunny , I tend to resurface via Discworld as I start to recover.
If I’m not reading at all then it’s a very bad sign!
I’m currently on the way back up & have , today, started Andy Weirs’ ‘Hail Mary Project’. This is very positive as I only move on to new books when I’m well enough.
@MaJ1@skyfire747@weirdfolks@actuallyautistic In that case, you would almost certainly become a character in a book. I actually had no idea who he was the first couple of times, just some bloke in a big hat.
@RosePuckey@skyfire747@MaJ1@weirdfolks@actuallyautistic I, too am quite often up for two hours in the middle of the night. With my bladder issues, tea is right out for me in that situation, so I often opt for the Benadryl. A whole pill would leave me groggy for 24 hours, so 1/5 to 1/6 of a pill plus a slice of bread to chase it down does the trick for me. Sometimes bread by itself is enough. Wishing you well from California.
@stevenray@skyfire747@MaJ1@weirdfolks@actuallyautistic Bread always works but again, with good honey. Maybe it's just the honey! I try to make my own bready so it sort of fights back. There's nothing quite like a freshly cooked wholemeal loaf with home made soup. Made a focaccia today.
@skyfire747@RosePuckey@weirdfolks@actuallyautistic I have, it sucks, thankfully I’m currently in a better place sleep wise, now if I could only drive my mood and motivation up we’d be cooking with gas !
@RosePuckey@skyfire747@weirdfolks@actuallyautistic Works for me, we have a little group here that acts daft & also supports one another, if you can cope with the fact that you share a TL with a 56 yo Squirrel in armour with a Scouse sense of humour then anything is possible 🤗🥰 😆
@RosePuckey@weirdfolks@actuallyautistic Depression sucks big time, I have suffered from it (as it relates to ASD it turns out) since I was a kid. SAD off the back of the dark skies just makes it worse !
You gotta try & find a little chink of light somewhere, for me it’s gaming, Discworld & Hitchhikers.
I sleep by pushing myself to exhaustion, but I get that doesn’t work for everyone.
I hope you manage to get some decent rest soon 🤗🥰
@harriettmb@MaJ1@weirdfolks@actuallyautistic Chad! Love it. Apparently during ww2 and the rationed years that followed, a wee character appeared as chalked graffiti called Chad. He was the top of a head with eyes, a nose that hung over a wall and fingers, he was accompanied by the words Wot No... insert something you couldn't get instead of the ...'s
Thank you, I just had a rare nice memory from my childhood of listening to my aunt and uncle by a coal fire in the back room by the kitchen.
@RosePuckey@MaJ1@weirdfolks@actuallyautistic I didn’t know anything about Chad, as I grew up in rural Ireland, and we didn’t have the war, the way folk in the UK did. It was just a meme in my list. I’m delighted it means something for you and has given you some fond family memories.
@harriettmb@MaJ1@weirdfolks@actuallyautistic Chad was wayyyyyyy before my time, it was all recalled from the mind of my old uncle in a cluttered wee room with an open fire, laundry dryer that pulled up on ropes to the ceiling, lots of strong tea and amazing home made cakes. My cousin who stopped by regularly, was a real outdoors type, looked after a couple of lochs. Just remembering the smells of that room now. What a lovely place to escape.
It’s good that it takes you to such a lovely place, it takes me back to prefab classrooms , wooden desks & notes passed in secret when the teacher wasn’t looking 😆
@RosePuckey@harriettmb@weirdfolks@actuallyautistic We doodled Chads a lot at my senior school! We had childishly humorous items as the target, generally items of underwear or equally less than salubrious things. 😆
@harriettmb@MaJ1@weirdfolks@actuallyautistic I seem to remember watching Morecombe and Wise or something on a Christmas re-run and them doing a who is Kilroy or something. Could be wrong, you know what memories are like.
@RosePuckey@harriettmb@MaJ1@weirdfolks@actuallyautistic well that's bloody weird happened to switch to bbc4 to get away from news and there was a drama about m & w, made me feel old as full of childhood stuff.
Later just by accident I see your post, this really is the matrix isn't it
@MaJ1@weirdfolks@actuallyautistic
Your day isn't so bad? Wanna trade places for a day? I have to identify an alternator, that is an exact match to fit my truck engine, but higher output than stock (not enough output to run things when driving) Teddy and I have been watching installation videos for 2 hours now. If I can do it myself, I'll save $600. It cost me $1000 yesterday.
Nah you can keep your day , I’m not sure I have the energy to research if I want tea or coffee next, let alone track down a none standard alternator ! $600 is a lot to save, I hope you can sort it yourself !
@DoubleTreble@weirdfolks@actuallyautistic Morning Dee, my very favourite tall Peep (😊 )
So far so good , I’ve only contemplated diplomacy by extreme means twice today.
So you would have me believe that the fact the DNS server is now making up site names based on random lyrics from #Dgar tracks is nothing to do with you ???