Hi all!

How is everyone doing and what's on your agenda for the weekend?

Saturday I plan to wash clothes, and clean. Sunday I will be having lunch with a friend and then scrabble. Then Sunday night I'll go to church with another friend.

It's cold and rainy here by me and it appears it'll be a rainy weekend.

Tonight I am just hanging out... watching television...

Tomorrow.... hmmmm.... probably laundry, maybe a little reading, and just resting...

Sunday.... Meeting with a friend for some casual conversation....

I hope someone has a more exciting weekend than I have planned...


Abbie

Yesterday and Today I did trainings for new volunteers with two of
my co-workers. I've finally gotten through it without coughing or
having bad times. I'm so excited.

Tomorrow I plan to do some laundry and Spend the day with Derrick
and his friend Chris. And we need to go birthday present shopping
for my sister's foster daughter.

Then Sunday we go to a birthday party in Kokomo and help get
Derrick ready for school on Monday after this last week off.

Its been a fun week.

Donna

Hello, All,

I had a difficult week:
Depression caused by Not Sleeping caused by Anxiety.


Anxiety eased up a bit today, so now I hope to sleep.

M.

Abbie, your weekend sounds pretty good to me. Enjoy.

Donna, it is nice you had a fun week.

Mari, I hope the anxiety gets better.

barbara

Hi, Befuddled,
I hope that you enjoy your weekend.
M.

Thank you Mari.

One of my neighbors called me early this morning and woke me up. She's been calling me early in the morning and waking me up for the past week or so. Today I had words with her as I'm tired of her disrespecting my wish not to be called in the morning. She was arguing with me like she was in the right. I can not go back to sleep in the morning once woke up so I am operating on not enough sleep today.

barbara

Barbara,

'Sorry that you have someone inconsiderate in your life like that.
I can usually go back to sleep -- but not always and sleep is soooooo precious and important -- so I understand how put out you might feel.

We sleep with no phone in the bed room and the bedroom door complete closed. I also have a "white" noise maker on in the bedroom.
We never hear any phone when we are sleeping.


When I lived in a different apt with a different set up I used to turn off the ringer on the phone every night. It was ok for me to make phone calls, but no one could get me after a certain time or unless I was a awake and had remembered to turn the ringer back on.

Ever since I can remember, I have had electronic voice mail at home -- I can't hear the other person's voice. So the phone rings four times and goes to voice mail -- like a cell phone. I love it. (So even if the ringer was turned off, I still got the phone message of course.)

I learned these things from my tdoc who taught me a lot about Cognitive behavior Therapy.
He thought that I should make sure that my environment supported me and that I should not
make ANY accommodations to the environment or even to other people.

(I wonder if he has mellowed and changed a little since I knew him.) Anyway, he was good because when I first met him I was in my 20s and putting up with lots of garbage from other people -- and suffering tremendously because of it.

M.

I was going to say I turned the ringer off the phone in our bedroom. When
my husband first started working afternoon's because he usually
needed to sleep later. So I made sure he got the chance.

So I've left it off its much nicer not getting woke up at all hours.
And I can sleep through it most of the time. I just have to be careful
because of Derrick and his seizures.


I am having a good Saturday, hope everyone else is.

Donna

I'm mellow this weekend.

I got to cook TWICE tonight was impromptu... mom went, arrgh i've gotta do this that and ... oh you're going out? i was... but i just said why and found out a veggie-cooking person was needed - SHE * NEVER * ASKS so she really was time-bound i figure and i really like cooking (especially veggies). so i changed back again from outdoor clothes (yep, i was at the grabbing the keys point already) and hopped to it. they were good. dad prefers them cut differently but phooey. i did cut them differently - that's the point. he likes them cut one particular way, and that way only and sorry but i figured howabout something DIFFERENT is all... anyway. they came out nice.

tonight.... we (FINALLY) spring forward. i have already changed all our "common" clocks as well as my personal ones. i'd rather spring sooner than hit 2 am and go grooooaaannn... oh yeah, it's 3. lol. so that's the end of my "ahead of time" postings. heheh. probably this will be the last one since i am off to IM with a friend in a bit here.

i hear ya on the phone ringers and i always turned phones off when the environment was in my control. now i can only control my cell, but when i'm not up for it ... it's off. so i'm totally on board with that!

Abbie, would i be off base to say that you are sounding a little calmer? (LOL could be projecting - i am calmer than i was... BIG TIME! )
Mari i'm sorry to hear about the anxious insomnia that is nasty i hope that resolves and you get some good, DEEP sleep. i find that when anxious even if i sleep i get lighter, lower quality sleep. i am sending you soothing thoughts...

extend that too everyone. for some reason, i feel like soothing thoughts are the thing for all of us tonight.

aha! here is my friend pinging me... off i go now...

much calmer ~ waves ~ off Zyprexa too