INSOMNIACS place to talk in the wee hours

Still feel him in the house every now and then. At least Jackson has accepted Princess without much fuss. Heck, he even lets Princess sleep on his dog bed!

You two must need glasses! You couldn't see her nose and eyes? The only black spots on her

Brag time! Tonight was Christmas concert. My DD, the music teacher. DS#1, in the tie. Yes, the liar. Was a cute show.

Sassy- Ha Sometimes I have done that! Our city does a choir day at the state capitol and all these kids from every school come and sing their hearts out under a huge gorgeous tree. They do hand bells and it's little folks right up through highschool. I loved it when my kids were in it and you are right I should go again. Cheer them on! We have great music in our town. It's free and it's wonderful. I adopted one kid at 35, had my daughter at 37 and adopted again at 43! I am tired.

Right now I am so tired I just feel exhausted and stupid. I absolutely can not sleep lately. I am wildly tired and even with percocet and 15mg of melatonin last night - nada. I was up until midnight. I drank a glass of wine... nothing. Finally went to sleep and woke up at 3AM!!! I laid there until 5am and said - f... it and mde coffee, let the dogs out, made breakfst... This is happening more times then not. The meds do nothing anymore everything is pointless... ugh. It's hard to fall asleep and impossible to stay asleep! I have tried benadryl... valarian.... ZIP! It's making me crazy. My onc's office prescribed trazadone and I didn't want to take it because of side effects.. no deal on 1/2 ambien.. sigh.. things only work for a while then they stop. sucks just sucks. Bahh humbug.

Hey Blondie you up too??

Sassy - You are sure right about Chevy's neighbor Eddie being very young when he was at Pearl Harbor. Looked up my FIL's age. He would be 99. He was also at Pearl Harbor as kinda was my MIL. Her dad was a civilian employee of the Navy - he was a watchmaker from backwoods KY. He worked on timing of torpedoes and bombs.

Everyone be aware of the flu onset even if you had the flu shot. And whooping cough. DH got a TDAP booster. I got Pneumovax, doc was out of TDAP when I was there. We each need to get the missing injections and get a shingles vac. January may be busy - eye surgery, mammo, vaccinations. But I have learned DO NOT use FSA dollars to pay for these since they are insurance eligible - was not a problem on vac. at PCP only at pharmacy. Need to get my gumption out and call DH's FSA provider and see how in the heck - if I can even do it - to get the FSA $70 dollars restored and get it billed out to insurance. Know FSA $ are pre-tax so for sure don't want that sent to me. DH says let it go - no not without a fight.

Spookie - nice hairdo. I need to give dog a bath. Not something I like to tackle. Don't think I can stand her until DH's day off on Friday. Agree with Sassy - I couldn't figure out what was curled toward front of sofa. Looked like part of another Spookie dog. Glad you enjoyed the Christmas concert.

Chevy - we were talking about you at the beauty shop. Sort of at least your profession. Shoes came up (4 of us me getting pedi other lady getting mani/pedi) and I said I had bought some new black shoes that looked like dancing shoes. Question - pole dancing? Hardy har har - no dancing like they wear in stage plays, strap, low-ish heel go with anything shoes.

Sassy - like your Chinese frog coat. Know nothing about Chinese clothing. Just tiniest bit about Japanese. Like the Teleflora vase. Almost looks like Lalique.

Rosie - I assume you've been thru all the can't sleep triggers - too hot (one of my prob - elec. blanket too high), too cold, too noisy. Write your problems on a notepad beside the bed. Maybe new special soft cozy sheets? Have you tried sleeping in a different place? Maybe on the couch. Don't know if it would even be comfortable. I used to fall asleep on couch on Fri. nights when I was working. Just couldn't make myself get up and go to bed. I have given Trazodone to hospice pts and for it's drowsiness properties. I thought it was usually well tolerated. Have you taken anti-dep. b4 and had a bad experience? I took Unisom when I worked nights. It did pretty good then for me. Wish I had some more wisdom to impart. What says the great sage Sassy?

I answer myself. Yes at the top is a box "all categories". It will narrow down search successively. Found both cookbooks (lots of stuff) and Raggedy Ann (not so much). Maybe tomorrow. Couch calling my name.

Sas- if you pm me a photo- i may be able to find some info. I have a friend that is a designer, and a few that are in theatre, so they may be able to give me a clue if i can't recognize it.

Teka is that your back yard? It's so lovely!

Was in a choir twice. Once in my Sophmore year of high school and then in my 2nd year of college. Didn't mind the singing but the music we did, some of it was boring. Did a concert with the local symphony and the first two pieces we performed was terribly difficult. The last part of that concert was selections out of Handel's Messiah. The second concert we did was our Christmas concert which we did a few selections from the musical "42nd Street" and the rest was Christmas music. We had various members of the choir doing parts of the songs that they had tried out for to do as solos or with other people. I was chosen to sing a part of The Cherry Tree Carol to do with two other gals. Wish we had done Coventry Carol which we had done in high school instead of Cherry Tree Carol, like Coventry Carol better.