Awake and up all night

Night night sweetie and sleep well. We'll natter on again tomorrow unless someone tells us to shut up! Hugs my lovely xxx

You. Invisible?? I cannot believe that it is possible for such a determined lady to merge into the crowd .  Wise words in your earlier posts regarding self image which causes some people to over compensate. It seems to be an increasingly common and rather sad feature of modern life.  Ray xxx    

Morning Ray  

A prime example is Katie Price - once a natural beauty, she now looks like nothing on earth after all the 'work' and has gone past the stage of no return. It's such a shame when self-esteem goes down the pan.

Hey, it's a known truth that people do become invisible once the glitter wears off and I'm no exception. The difference is I don't care - I've got a very like it or lump it attitude but some haven't liked it in the past. Hey ho.

How are you doing Ray? Well, I hope xxx

Good morning Gill. I have a similarly resilient attitude to my appearance. Even unkind nicknames that were shouted out by pupils at school when I was a prefect weeding them out of buildings during break times did not unduly affect me. They could not detect the unprintable words I was shouting back in my thoughts. With moving to new schools every 2-3 years (RAF dad), I simply had to find a way to deal with being uprooted and pushed into a different crowd. It helped me a lot in later life. 

I'm ok, thanks. Just being a late shift night owl because my recent catheter is behaving in the typical attention seeking way. Seems to be settling down again now.

I saw that Dingg dropped by a day or two ago. What a marathon they are going through! 

I hope you and OH are managing ok after recent wobbles. With luck, the advice and guidance OH will receive should help. 

My reply kept disappearing, hence the slow reply.  Ray xxx

Mine keeps doing the same but I've been blaming my phone.

Aw that's good that things are settling with your catheter, but you've had a dodgy time with it recently. I hope you didn't get a novice nurse that mucked up the procedure hon.

Yes, I was very relieved to hear from Dingg but outraged at what had happened at the hospital! That could have crushed a lesser person and thank goodness Dingg's got such reserves of strength in her tank. She really is an amazing girl and still comes out with the funniest remarks. If her fortitude could be bottled it'd be worth a fortune.

Ray, I used to do what you did - swear crudely at someone in my mind if I couldn't say it to their face, employer, teacher, etc and it worked a treat till they detected the smirk, then I'd get blasted again. Lol. It must have been difficult though, moving schools a lot, and especially leaving friends behind, but also character building when rooting out a new peer group. People are usually drawn to those who display a strong sense of humour and confidence.

Am I keeping you up hon, cos say so if I am as I don't do the offence lark xxx

Unfortunately, I do not yet feel tired. Probably something to do with falling asleep mid afternoon.

Speaking of being kept up, when I was about 14 I had a scary nightmare in which the earth had been pulled out of its orbit by a passing massive asteroid. In the dream, the effect on the earth was that day time had been knocked several hours earlier. It woke me up in a sweat. Then I saw that it was light outside. It was 5am. Teenagers simply do not know that 5am exists, let alone whether it is light at that time in the summer. I was terrified. Thinking it was not a dream after all, I got up and dashed towards my parents bedroom. Before I burst their door open, my mum said 'Oh God, Oh God - in a peculiar, stressed voice. I burst in. Shouted out 'it's true, isn't it!!'  Mum caught her breath and said 'WHAT is true??  I explained. Dad just had his eyes peeping from the bed clothes. This further confirmed to me that the times had been messed up by the out of orbit earth. Many years later, it dawned on me that I'd by coincidence burst in on what adults get up to behind closed doors. Mum laughed when I told her many years later.  xxx

I think I'd better go to bed very soon. I've put off going shopping for the last couple of days, so need to get up before closing time tomorrow to restock my lunchtime food supplies .  xxx 

I love that story Ray! I honestly thought you were going to confirm you'd experienced a glitch in the matrix - not barging in on your parents up to some rumpy pumpy! Classic  

Now I didn't have an afternoon nap, even though I was suppine on the bed. I'd got that fed up with OH's sports viewing marathon that I went upstairs with the intention of having a snooze, so put some music on. It invigorated me instead and also inspired me to sing along with the tunes. Luckily, OH quite likes my voice but he probably didn't hear my warbling, being so engrossed in the rugby or football or cricket or whatever the hummer was on at the time.

So, dawn's breaking now and I've been awake since around 5.15 this morning - or was that yesterday morning? Confusion reigns in my crackpot head most of the time. Maybe I should try for some sleep.

Thanks so much for the chat Ray, and I'll try to be sensible and enter the land of nod. Night night hon, and sleep well when you settle down xxx

Koo! I was exhausted yesterday evening lay down and fell asleep  Day before had helped Stressy pull furniture about to dust, de-dog hair and hoover as dig had developed an itch not like fleas n not cured with a bath.

I had more of a fibromyalgia flat battery type tired though. I had taken self to beach as there is a festival on but after a quick mooch had to leave.

Didn't help that as it was overcast I had a fleece jacket on and if course the sun came out and fried me alive

Today's excitement is off to club for bingo n cup of tea n Stressy wants to pop down to festival if not raining. He will be on mobility scooter and I will have to bus n walk.

Off for cuppa, cheers for now

Morning Shimmer  

Sorry to hear you were floored with your fibromyalgia yesterday and I hope it's not too bad today hon  I'm assuming Stressy put his two pennorth into cleaning up his abode as you've got injuries on the mend? You're the kind of friend most folk wish for.

I suffered a very sharp twinge of envy when I read the word 'beach' in your post my lovely. We long for the seaside but it may as well be a million miles away in our current situation. However, my eldest has arranged a superb mini holiday and it's only a couple of months away to wait now - we're excited! Well I am, but I'm working on drumming some of that into OH and I'm busy chipping away - I'll put an announcement out when I succeed.

Anyway hon, enjoy yourselves if you go to the festival and fingers crossed the weather will turn out good for you. Hugs are in the post xxx