Time for Bed

@p1kef1sh (45681)
January 4, 2009 4:41pm CST
It's my bed time and as I am attending a course tomorrow I need to get off on time. Do you get to bed early enough the night before a big event in your life? Night Night.
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@Rosekitty (19368)
• San Marcos, Texas
4 Jan 09
Depending what it is and if it involves a wedding..lol..then i never get any sleep since i'm usually doing last minute things for others.. Have fun at your course tomorrow and be safe..Hope you are having sweet dreams of me..lol.. xoxoxo
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
5 Jan 09
Are we getting married Rosie? When? Where? I don't want to oversleep!
• United States
5 Jan 09
I was going to retaliate for the ice cubes, Brownie Lady, but I thought the best retaliation would be to (((((((((Rosekitty))))))))
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@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
4 Jan 09
Yes I do as I need all the strength and sleep I can get specially when I travel So you have a good Night and sleep tight Hugs xxxx
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@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
5 Jan 09
Oh no I hope you will be ok I guess it was nerves or are you not feeling well? I am so sorry and I really hope you will be ok xxx
@p1kef1sh (45681)
5 Jan 09
Thank you Gabs. I had a poor night. No doubt I'll be OK though.
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@Rosekitty (19368)
• San Marcos, Texas
4 Jan 09
Hope you had a wonderful New year Gabs with Gissi!
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@vicki2876 (5636)
• Canada
4 Jan 09
I try to do that but usually find that I am restless and it is difficult to fall asleep. But once in a routine of it then I can get to bed fine. I do try to get to sleep at a good time for work the next day and getting the kids off to school. We had the Christmas break and our sleeping pattern got a little messed up but the last couple days we have been trying to go to bed earlier so that it won't be so difficult getting to be earlier today. However I still think many of the students and staff will be a bit tired tomorrow.
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@vicki2876 (5636)
• Canada
5 Jan 09
It was really hard to get to sleep last night. Not till after midnight and I was up at 5 LOL OH well enjoy the snow. Muhahahaha
@p1kef1sh (45681)
5 Jan 09
I got to bed OK, but I slept very badly. Such is life and we have our first snow here today too.
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@sweetie1026 (1718)
• Philippines
4 Jan 09
Yes, i do go to bed early before a big event, to get me started early and be fully energized. By the way, congratulations on the short story, i haven't read it yet but that is a big accomplishment my friend. I will read it when i have enough time to savor and enjoy it.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
5 Jan 09
Thank you Sweetie. I didn't sleep well I am afraid.
• Philippines
5 Jan 09
I think you don't have to be afraid. good luck my friend, wish you all the best! Good luck!
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
5 Jan 09
Hey P1ke! I guess you are sleeping by now! I hope that you are having wonderful dreams! I also hope that you enjoy your course tomorrow too! I get more stressed when I know that I have to do something important and I have to force myself to get to sleep. Then I really can't fall asleep! I envy anyone who can just get into bed and drift off into a nice slumber! That is something that I have never been able to do! It is one of my greatest wishes that someday I will be able to fall asleep like normal people! But, then again I would first have to be a normal person!
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@sharra1 (6340)
• Australia
5 Jan 09
I am like that as well. I get really stressed by important meetings and when I get stressed I cannot sleep. I wish I could just fall asleep like some people can. I have to stay up until I am exhausted these days and I have naps during the day to make up for my inability to sleep in bed properly. Who wants to be normal? It can be awfully boring depending on who sets the boundaries of normality. lol
@p1kef1sh (45681)
5 Jan 09
I didn't sleep at all well Opal. I woke and then started to churn stuff over and over. The silly thing is that I know that it will all be fine!
• United States
5 Jan 09
I am usually too wound up knowing I have to get up early to get to bed early.*L* I just go to bed at my usual time, or later, and wake up early anyway. Have fun with your course tomorrow. *S*
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
5 Jan 09
Thank you Bo. I didn't sleep too well, but all will be fine I am sure.
@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
9 Jan 09
I try to but I generally am either unable to sleep or else I wake up in an hour or two and cannot go back to sleep. Hope you were able to get off ok and that your 'big event' went smoothly...
@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
12 Jan 09
I know exactly what you mean my friend...it can be a worry.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
9 Jan 09
I woke early, couldn't get back to sleep. Worried about the course and needn't have! But isn't that always the way?
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@toddsarm (766)
• Canada
5 Jan 09
Have a good night
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
5 Jan 09
Thank you. I didn't!! LOL.
@sharra1 (6340)
• Australia
5 Jan 09
When I was healthy I used to always go to bed early before a big event. Now my sleep patterns are just plain weird that I never know how it will work out. At the moment my pain levels are so high that I rarely go to bed before midnight and I wake every couple of hours. At the moment I am often getting up at 6 or 7 as the pain from being in bed for 6 hours is so bad that I have to get up and try to treat it, usually with a hot bag. Some mornings I have had trouble getting out of bed without help. I have never been this bad before. I have a big day coming up quite soon but I doubt it will affect my sleep patterns as they seem to be solely dictated by pain and fatigue these days. What course are you doing? I hope you have a great day.
@sharra1 (6340)
• Australia
5 Jan 09
A cathedral course sounds interesting. What does it teach you? I have never heard of this sort of course before. As to my pain it is starting to ease very slowly. I wish I knew how to avoid straining that muscle as it makes life difficult. lol.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
5 Jan 09
It's a cathedral course Sharra. I am sorry that things are getting worse for you. It must almost be like you don't want to go to bed because you know how you will fell when you wake. I hope that you can get/do something to ease it all before too long.
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
5 Jan 09
Just in general I need a minimum of 7 hours sleep, preferably 9.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
5 Jan 09
Me too Dawn. 8 is my ideal.
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
5 Jan 09
Depends on how sleep deprived I am. I can do a good 12 hours on the weekend to catch up!
@DonnaLawson (4032)
• United States
5 Jan 09
Good night p1ke, hope you sleep well.. I don't go to bed early no matter how early I have to get up.. I stay up as long as I can, reading, watching the cooking channel, that may be why I snack so much late at night, playing games on the computer or a watching a Hallmark movie.. I wake up early anyway and I do occasionally catch a nap to make up for the loss of sleep.. Good luck tomorrow..
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
5 Jan 09
Thank you Donna. I used to be like that but it did me no good. Now I have a friend who sends me to bed every night at 10.30. If she can't, others help out. It works, bizarre though that sounds.
@guybrush (4658)
• Australia
5 Jan 09
I hope you had a good night's kip and woke refreshed and perky for your course, P1key. (Perky P1key ... I like it!) Much as I try, if I'm excited or worried about something the next day, I can't get to sleep at all.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
5 Jan 09
Well what should I say? LOL. Anyway, maybe I did "get off"!! In my dreams only I am afraid.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
5 Jan 09
I went up when I was sent as usual Guy. But I woke up about 2 and couldn't get off again properly. I was more than ready to come home at 4 this afternoon. The course wasn't bad. I've only another 5 mondays to go!
@guybrush (4658)
• Australia
5 Jan 09
Hahahaaha - P1key, you're going to have to stop saying 'getting off' ... the American and Aussie members are probably having apoplectic fits at your enthusiasm! Never has someone managed to get off quite so often in one discussion!
4 Jan 09
Hi p1key, Good luck with your course, tomorrow, no I never go to bed early, I am a night bird and I can't sleep early even if I tried, so I can go to bed late and still get up early if I had to go somewhere. Hugs. Tamara
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
5 Jan 09
I reach a point at night where I just conk out, but ti is too late. That's why I get sent to bed at 10.30 Tamara. It works too. XXX
@ds6413 (2070)
• United States
4 Jan 09
Hi, I try to get to bed early enough but some times I am still wide awake counting the minutes. I try to stay awake until I have a hard time keeping my eyes open.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
5 Jan 09
I slept badly waking about 2 and turning today over and over in my mind!
@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
5 Jan 09
Well, it is three hours later you are probably well into snooze mode..lol and I hope you got well rested for your course. I have tried but sometimes it doesn't work out where I am such a night owl. When I get fibernet hopefully that will change and I will be able to get online during the day instead of having to wait till after 9 at night so my husband won't miss a work call. Nowdays they are few and far between but i still have ot stay off till then just incase. Well, hope you had sweet dreams and that everything goes smoothly for you at your course.
@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
5 Jan 09
Shh...Hubby went to work today so I felt it safe to sneak on for a few hours while he is working..even if it is only going to be for 4 hours part time is better then none..I am sorry to hear tht your dreams weren't sweet and that you didn't sleep well. I can rarely sleep when I know I am going to be going somewhere my mind is to abuzz at gettng out and is excited about it..lol Well I hope you don't feel to tired today..
@p1kef1sh (45681)
5 Jan 09
I didn't sleep too well Becky. I hope that you get on earlier too.
@dorypanda (1601)
6 Jan 09
Generally, yes I do, because I'm good. :D Usually I need at least eight hours sleep in order for my little brain to work slightly, lots more sleep if I need it to work a lot. I normally go to bed around 10-10:30pm (ish) when it's a college night, but can be anything up to midnight if I don't have to be up in the morning.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
6 Jan 09
I go by 10.30 every night unless I have permission to stay up late - ask your Mum! It really works, but I do need to be told to go otherwise I would stay up half the night.
@vanities (11395)
• Davao, Philippines
5 Jan 09
hi p1kefish!! happy new year...sleeping early is a must for me since i have to wake up early enough to prepare breakfast for the family...but sometimes i sleep late also if i watch dvd's or maybe some visitor at home ....big event or an early appointment? yeah i sleep early to be on time ..
@vanities (11395)
• Davao, Philippines
5 Jan 09
you're excited i guess...
@p1kef1sh (45681)
5 Jan 09
I didn't sleep too well in the end Vanities. Silly really. LOL.
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@checapricorn (16060)
• United States
6 Jan 09
H[i]i p1, ohhh..How's your appointment yesterday? I am like that also, I will be sleeping early and prepare what I need to bring ahead of time and there are even times I will cook for my breakfast during the night so that I will be in the venue of my appointment very early![/i]
@p1kef1sh (45681)
6 Jan 09
The course was very good. But I was tired because I did not sleep very well. Going to bed earlier was a waste of time.
@SheliaLee (2736)
• United States
7 Jan 09
Hi There! If I have to get up early the next day to go somewhere I will try my best to get in bed early to get enough sleep. I don't always get to do it but I sure try. A few weeks ago I took my daughter to Mississippi to see her boyfriend to attend his work Christmas dinner. I thought that since her boyfriend has his lunch break each day from 10:30 to 11:30, and she didn't tell me any different, that that was when the party would be. So I told her we would need to leave by 7:00 at the latest because it takes about two hours to get to the place where he works from our house and we had also never been there and had to have time to find it. I had some work to do for the hospital I work for so I got up at 3:00 a.m. to make sure I would have time to finish the work before we left and we left at 6:30 instead of 7:00 a.m. because the weather was rainy and foggy. As we were getting fairly close to the town where her boyfriend works she informed me that the dinner wasn't going to start until 12:00!! I nearly blew a gasket!! I told her "Why didn't you tell me??? We wouldn't have had to leave so early!!" She told me she had not found out until the night before. I said "You still could have told me before you went to bed!!" Oh well, at least we got her there on time LOL!!! SheliaLee
@p1kef1sh (45681)
9 Jan 09
Don't you just love children! At least she didn't say he was having a late lunch 2-3! LOL.
@Humbug25 (12540)
11 Jan 09
Hello P1kef1sh I am the opposite actually, I usually stay up later because I find it hard to chill out and relax and not think about the next day's events. Normally because I have got so much to prepare and little time to do it!!
@p1kef1sh (45681)
11 Jan 09
I went to bed early and then woke early unable to sleep. Of course the day was fine! It's so awful when you can't sleep.