3am Club - chats for reluctant night owls

[WinWinnieTheWay]

Here it is. A thread for those of us find ourselves awake for a couple of hours in the middle of the night. It might be stress, grief, illness, menopause or just the way you are.

A place to chat and get to know one another and share tips (no mention of camomile tea or hot baths though).

See you all in about 5 hours...

@Thack
Oooh, exciting, Congrats :)

Im in bed but freezing.
and hungry, iv had half a bowl of cereal all day

So hungry and cold at nearly 4am...
Fun times 😀

@Thack I think it helps sometimes, but others it's just because im bored and eating is something to do. I eat enough crap during the day without eating it at night too!
Having said that, I've run out so need to creep downstairs to the biscuit cupboard dodging the alarm thingies as I can't be arsed to walk all the way across the house to reset it . Getting past the sleeping cat will be hardest as once she's awake, she'll start banging on the doors.

@HardJustGotHarder Thank you! Why haven't you eaten? (if not rude to ask?) I find thin socks in bed help me to warm up- ankle socks are easy to kick off in the night too.

@catfeets have you made it downstairs yet? There's an active thread on biscuits here tonight - I now fancy some malted milk!

@Thack yes, I made it. I'm already half way through the pack of Maryland cookies . They're so difficult to leave alone.

I love Maryland cookies...

We try not to have snacks in the house, cause i will eat them all :)

Havent eaten much today, for no reason really, just feeling abit off and couldnt be bothered to make anything...

Socks are a good idea.... Off to raid the clean laundry basket

hullo. Just signing in for chronic insomniacs of the world. I may try putting a podcast on, but little DS is in here becuz big DS upset him at midnight. Hope little DS doesn't get woken by podcast...

I repeatedly (last 10 yrs or so) catch inside of my thumb nails far below the end & have them peel off, particularly bad one right now. I am googling but no condition fits the bill... except maybe fungal infection, which sounds plausible. I wish I could learn how to stop this happening.

Room for one more?
I am having insomnia more than I used to, am peri-menopausal. But also as a teen I'd sometimes go weeks without a night's kip so also it's just how I am.
Slept well for 4 hours but woke in a tizz because I feel really eggy about my work. They spent all year congratulating us for working at home (and we really did all work our arses off, and took a pay cut which is still in place ). Now for no good reason I can see we are being ordered back to our central London office.
Lucky to still be in a job, I do have perspective. But the boss' u-turn has really annoyed me.plus I hate the office and am genuinely more productive at home!
Rant over.
Maybe I should hit the cookie tin also!

Morning all!
Really not sure why I’m awake. DD has just come in too and snuggled up ... and snoring away with DH ...!
Also hungry.... but will fight through until breakfast! I’m lucky I’m not working tomorrow. But have a mountain of housework I need to tackle ... 😕

This is turning into midnight snack club I used to live Club buscuits. What was your fave? I'm split between mint, orange and fruit.

Ive had a glass of orange juice for a bit of sugar. I'm OK so far but I'm usually hate gaining weight so I'm trying to keep a balance during pregnancy (I'm probably still eating a little bit more)

Ladies up with menopause : what is it that disrupts your sleep? I don't know much about it, I am curious to learn (if anyone is happy to share)

Orange club.....

Yum !!!

@Thack I got socks on and am warmer...
Thank you

@thack got another hour or so now we are up drinking black coffee and watching cobra Kai lol

The start of another long night

Currently at A&E with DS (again). When we were told that there is a 5-6 hour wait, half the people there went home/to other A&Es so the queue has shortened somewhat.

It's not helped that tomorrow we have lots of people viewing our house as we want to move.

Desperately want sparkling water/carbonated drink!

Alas tap water will have to do.

It's really not worth walking 20 minutes to local garage for a can of coke

@ Frownette

I would for chocolate

@Kpo58 I hope everything is OK. Hopefully it's a shorter queue for kids, I've heard of my local a&e doing that in the daytime at least.

@Cheesewine I managed a little bit of sleep from 5am ish. Alas, no coffee for me. Insomnia & work & pregnancy sucks! Do you have a favourite brew?

I've just stood outside for a few mins with the dog. The stars are beautiful tonight.

Song tonight is one by Aerosmith that I heard on the radio, I think it's called Blue, they sing about colours in the chorus. V odd having an earworm without knowing the lyrics.

Protect and survive by running has been my ear worm for a couple of days 🙄

Hi everybody
Glad I found this post .

Evening. I'm up as DD has covid and has developed increased breathlessness. She's been waiting 2 1/2 hours for a call from a doctor. That's after waiting 2 hours for a call from a nurse. We're abroad and feel a long way from her right now. Plus it's nearly morning here.

I’m a mum to a 10 year old girl so had to drop her to school this morning before i could call my GP , well that’s what I thought .
How wrong I was .
Continued

I hate my bladder (the two large glasses of wine between 8-10.30 pm when I got home from work probably didn’t help).

I also hate my ‘oh, I’ll most check online’ habit (but then I wouldn’t know you guys!)).

Currently thinking about what I’m going to have for dinner (to accompany more wine).