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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Oct 22, 2016 12:02:34 GMT
I used to be a very happy person. I sincerely was happy down to my core. Since my daughter got sick and then passed away I literally think in my head, "I hate my life," multiple times a day. I love my son and love that he is growing into a great young man (high school has been a good transition for him) but am just so unbearably sad about the joy that is missing in our lives. (((hugs))) to you.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Oct 22, 2016 12:04:54 GMT
Usually, yes. If for no other reason, I've woken up. As a patient with terminal cancer it doesn't get better than that.lol I also have family and friends that love me. I know that no matter how bad things may be in my life that someone else somewhere else has it worse. However I'm not a rainbow-farting Pollyanna robot. :-) There are days I wake up sad, in pain, depressed and not wanting to face the day. It's normal. I just try to keep things in perspective. And some days I just give in, say screw it and throw the most awesome pity party you'll ever see. :-) You have an amazing outlook on life, and are a pillar of strength. I always smile when I see your posts.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Oct 22, 2016 12:14:28 GMT
Almost before I'm fully conscious I have a summary of the day ahead flash through my mind so I guess that influences my mood. That happens to me too. Sometimes I need to tell my brain to slow it down, and let me get a cup of coffee first. I've been trying to unburden myself by writing my next day's and long term to do list down before I go to bed, and I think it helps a bit because then I've acknowledged what I have to do. And of course, she *never* gets up like that on school days when she NEEDS to get up, but on no school days when I could maybe sleep in? Nope. Not a chance. That kid is up like a lark, happily chirping in my ear before the sun is even up. This is my younger kids. Always sound asleep and need to be awakened on school mornings. Saturday morning comes? Up before the sun, and knocking on my door, telling me about this or that. I also get very little sleep, maybe a few hours a night. This is me too. I usually get about four hours a night. Six hours is a total luxury and sleeping in. That's because I have work hours that are all over the map, plus I'm still responsible for getting my kids to school, etc. So, I wake up at 5am to make sure I can get all the kids to school, but I may not have gotten home until 1 am. Occasionally I've had the luxury of all three boys stay at my mom's overnight, and someone will ask if I feel refreshed. I think they either must be joking, or they don't get how hard it is on the body to go a year or more without good sleep. My dad asks me if I feel refreshed if i get more than five hours sleep. And he's serious. I haven't had a decent nights sleep in more years than I can count.
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Post by gailoh on Oct 22, 2016 13:55:54 GMT
i just wake up feeling tired most days
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Post by peasapie on Oct 22, 2016 14:03:24 GMT
Yes, I am one of those annoying 'happy happy joy joy' morning kind of people. According to my mother, I was like that even as a baby-she says that she would go to get me out of my crib and I would be laughing and giggling at the world. I pop out of bed ready to go. A shower and a cup of coffee takes me to the point that I pretty much have to sequester myself from the rest of the non-morning people of the world lest I incite a riot. I'm kinda like this as well. I think it's a habit from when I was a kid - I couldn't wait to jump into clothes and go out to play in my fort in the woods. I need my coffee now, and I don't like to talk to anyone for the first hour, but I still wake up excited about the day (on most days, anyway). SaveSave
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Post by sawwhet on Oct 22, 2016 14:20:54 GMT
No. I can barely function when I get out of bed. I usually set the alarm for 45 minutes before everyone else so I can be human after a cup of coffee or two. This week my dh was working on a special project at work and was leaving by 6 am. He made extra coffee for me. Later he called and said that he made the extra coffee because I looked so rough that morning LOL. No, I look like that every morning but everyone else is usually sleeping. After a couple of coffees and my breakfast, I become a much happier person
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Post by justkat on Oct 22, 2016 14:30:03 GMT
Usually, yes. If for no other reason, I've woken up. As a patient with terminal cancer it doesn't get better than that.lol I also have family and friends that love me. I know that no matter how bad things may be in my life that someone else somewhere else has it worse. However I'm not a rainbow-farting Pollyanna robot. :-) There are days I wake up sad, in pain, depressed and not wanting to face the day. It's normal. I just try to keep things in perspective. And some days I just give in, say screw it and throw the most awesome pity party you'll ever see. :-) You have an amazing outlook on life, and are a pillar of strength. I always smile when I see your posts. Thank you. That made my day knowing I'm making someone smile. :-)
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Post by justkat on Oct 22, 2016 14:37:07 GMT
Usually, yes. If for no other reason, I've woken up. As a patient with terminal cancer it doesn't get better than that.lol I also have family and friends that love me. I know that no matter how bad things may be in my life that someone else somewhere else has it worse. However I'm not a rainbow-farting Pollyanna robot. :-) There are days I wake up sad, in pain, depressed and not wanting to face the day. It's normal. I just try to keep things in perspective. And some days I just give in, say screw it and throw the most awesome pity party you'll ever see. :-) Huge hugs to you. May the Lord grant you many great days. You have an amazing outlook. Hugs, and I will be praying for you! And cyndijane , I LOVE that--a morning person but not a pop tart. I have to remember that one. That is GREAT! Thanks for putting a smile on my face. Patter, Thank you. I am always thankful for prayers as I believe they make a huge difference.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Oct 22, 2016 14:44:10 GMT
My dad asks me if I feel refreshed if i get more than five hours sleep. And he's serious. I haven't had a decent nights sleep in more years than I can count. I can relate. I can't remember the last time I woke up actually felling completely rested.
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Post by katybee on Oct 22, 2016 15:12:02 GMT
I don't get enough sleep. I have to get up a little after 5, and I usually don't get to bed until 11. And I go, go, go all day. So I'm tired. I wake up tired.
But I wake up focused. I know what I have to get done and I do it. Like a robot.
I am a morning person as far as productivity goes. If it's late and I still have something to do, I'll go to bed and get up early to do it.
I love waking up on the weekends and in summer. Relaxing, eating a leisurely breakfast, taking a long, not completely rushed walk with my dog, planning my day....
Only 16 years until retirement!
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Post by KB on Oct 22, 2016 15:45:53 GMT
I love to wake up. I'm super happy to see what is going to happen next. My mom and dad always joke about how happy I am upon awakening. I go to bed pretty early though Randomly curious, but how early is early? I usually go to bed by 9pm. Occasionally, I don't sleep at all. I don't know why, I'll just lay there and not sleep. It is weird, but doesn't happen a lot.
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Post by scrapaddict702 on Oct 22, 2016 17:20:04 GMT
It depends. Not even on when I go to bed or how much sleep I get, either. I feel like I go to bed at night and my brain plays roulette on how I'm going to wake up the next day. I'm a fairly anxious and panicky person, so I tend to think about 150 steps ahead...I don't take changes to my routine lightly (be it as small as being about to walk out the door and suddenly needing to change a diaper...or looking forward to my free time after the kids go to bed and then receive a text from my niece asking me to watch her kids with almost no notice that ends up spoiling my downtime or changing my entire day) as a result, but some days I can go with the flow and others it seems like the end of the world. No one, not even me, knows which version of me you're going to get on any given day, haha. Sometimes, the responsibilities (rarely changing from day to day) seem daunting and other days, I can't wait to get the day started. Some days, I wake up and am immediately moody, other days I wake up and I am optimistic and then 10 minutes later, something happens that puts me in meltdown mode and my mood for the day is shot and then on my best days, the world can be crumbling around me and it's no big deal.
Ironically enough, I woke up one morning several months ago trying to look forward to whatever the day would bring. I wasn't in a particularly good mood so I chanted in my head that today was going to be a good day, I was going to do anything I could to make sure the day turned out well. Then we walked outside so I could take my son to pre-school and he goes to get into his seat in our van and runs back out telling me there was glass everywhere. As it would turn out, our next door neighbor's landscapers had caught a rock in their equipment and it flew out and into the back window of our van and he took off with NO NOTE OR ANYTHING...neighbor across the street witnessed the whole thing and came outside to tell me when he saw that I had come outside and was in the middle of losing my mind about it (I mean, I had just unknowingly sent my son to sit in a pile of GLASS since his seat was covered in it...we STILL find pieces hiding in places even now, like 7 months later)...it was a flip property on top of it, so I wasn't able to just knock on someone's door. Husband had to rush home from work to take oldest to school and then take the youngers to work with him (lots of car seat moving) so I could drive clear across town and sit for 2 hours to get the window fixed the same day. The van was too big to fit in the garage and I wasn't about to park it anywhere with a busted window...we live in a safe area, but you never know (and the husband ended up forgetting to lock our other car a couple of months ago and had his MP3 player stolen, so my need to address the broken window the same day was validated with that). What a day to try and have a positive outlook, right?
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Post by tincin on Oct 22, 2016 23:39:47 GMT
I used to be a very happy person. I sincerely was happy down to my core. Since my daughter got sick and then passed away I literally think in my head, "I hate my life," multiple times a day. I love my son and love that he is growing into a great young man (high school has been a good transition for him) but am just so unbearably sad about the joy that is missing in our lives. I can't imagine your pain. I am so sorry. Save
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Post by dillydally on Oct 22, 2016 23:46:03 GMT
Now that I have my daughter I wake up happy and excited to see her. Shes almost 3 months Aw, I remember that feeling! Going in to get the little one from their crib and seeing their sweet face is just amazing! But now (kids are 18 &15). Nope! I HATE getting out of bed with a passion, so I wake up grouchy. Once I'm out of bed I'm ok though.
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Post by scrappintoee on Oct 23, 2016 11:11:22 GMT
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