What have you HAD TO DO late at night?

My DH works the evening shift, so we do almost everything we can do after midnight! I wish there were 24 hour nail salons and hair stylists! But in the vein of thinking for your thread, I've made at least one or two middle of the night drugstore runs for tampons, Midol, and chocolate, usually while on vacation.

May your blowouts aka colon cleansings not end up as paint on the walls. LOL

I don't go out much in the middle of the night, but I occasionally have dreams that solve a work problem. Then I HAVE to get up and work for a few hours before the idea goes flying out of my mind. Since I work for myself at home, it's fun to have billable hours before I even get up in the morning!

That's hilariously awesome!!  I swear, sometimes the best people work the night shift!!

I'm not one of them, I don't do jack after about 9, maybe 10

Not late at night, but I find that if I get my nails done Saturday evening the salon is empty and there is no wait. So whomever I'm going to dinner with I invite out for nails first.

I work the night shift and so does my SO so we do a lot of stuff at night. I’d die of happiness if I could get a pedi at 2am!

I try to not even leave the house after I get home from work, lol so I do as little as possible in the middle of the night. But I do occasionally have to clean up dog puke and use the Nature's Miracle on a dog or cat mess in the middle of the night. (it's always fun to be woken up from a sound sleep by the sound of a dog retching-- NOT!)

On the odd weekend that I'm crafting really late at night, I find that I am sometimes extra-creative at about 1:00 - 2:00 am... but then I hit the 'wall' and it all goes out the window.

How on earth were you able to leave the house during a prep? I'm in awe, I think.

A girl I went to high school with lives in New York (I'm in Ga). There are several of us here that still keep up on FB, although this girl and I were never close, just friendly. I found out through her cousin that lives here that she was in an abusive relationship, had been in the hospital as a result, and was literally staying in a homeless shelter bc she had nowhere else to go. Her cousin here was desperate to try and help her get home. Friend in NY had had her phone taken away by the SO, had only the clothes on her back and very little money. She was borrowing a phone from someone at the shelter to communicate via FB messenger, and it was spotty. A couple of us banded together and between us we shortly had enough money to buy her a plane ticket home - now we just had to find her and figure out how to make it all happen.

3 of us worked together communicating with shelters to find her, and we did. We have another school friend with a heart as big as gold who now lives about 2 hours away from where she was in the shelter in NY. She drove to the shelter and picked her up and took her to her house to stay couple of days, bought her a couple changes of clothes a prepaid cell phone and booked her flight home. Her flight was kind of late, like maybe 10pm so someone else booked her with Groome to get a ride to our town. That night I crawled in bed and popped open FB for a few minutes and had several messages from her waiting - one of her layovers had had a delay and she was not going to make it to ATL in time to get the last Groome shuttle and needed a ride. So I got out of bed and got dressed and went to get her. Dh was already asleep, so DS20 said he'd feel better if he rode with me, so off we went to get her. Didn't get home til like 2am on a work night. I was exhausted the next day but glad I did it!

Have my daughter Although it was quick I managed to hold on til past midnight so that her birthday wasn’t Friday 13th

I birthed a baby at 3:21 am. Other than that, I would say the most exciting thing is hearing that pre vomit heave from a dog and practically flying to get the door open.

slight hijack:


this sound can always wake me up from a perfectly sound sleep... I wonder why / how we've been conditioned to respond to certain noises?

On the night before Thanksgiving one year, I was baking pies and forgot to put a baking sheet on the rack under the pies in the oven..so naturally they bubbled over and made a nasty burned smelly mess in the oven. But pies were only round one of the baking/oven use, and the next round had to go in the oven first thing the next morning. So, I had to run out to the grocery store at something like midnight to buy oven cleaner and clean the oven right away to have it ready for round two (turkey & stuffing) so I could be ready in time for Thanksgiving dinner.

I took someone to the vet way out in the sticks one night when he cat was dying/died. We got home about 1 am. That was a weird adventure. I had to help her pick out an urn and stuff for said cat. (I had never had to do anything like that before). It was very upsetting for her as you can imagine. I arranged to get some of the cat's fur, a paw print and getting the cat cremated. I taught me what I had to do for my dogs when the time came so I guess it was a good learning experience.