Bring your worries over here, the Night Shift are still here to mind them

[2018SoFarSoGreat]

New thread here, since the Last Thread has ever so slowly filled up. Isn't it amazing how little our worries crept up in the night when the world was actually one big worry?

Pandemic or not, this is the place to just park your worries. We don't ask questions, or try to solve your problems. We just hold them, tenderly, carefully, until you are strong enough to take them back. If they choose not to come back, all the better.

Signing in for the Night Shift, V3!

I'm always good for a random fact thanks to a long time of not sleeping well!

If anyone needs their worries minded tonight me and the crew are here. Even if I fall asleep they are on duty 🦜🐶🐕

I need things minded, I'm sorry for being useless at minding for others. I keep meaning to come back and help someone else but keep forgetting.

Today I got a threatening letter re not paying my elec bill. I must rely on a charity which is fine but there's no one around to get me the money, I did tell company this but they've ignored me. I've been removed from their vulnerable register and they're threatening courts and sheriffs and bailiffs and breaking in and forcing me to have pay as you go electric which will mean eviction as landlord won't allow it. Tomorrow is my friends funeral (I can't go) and I so did not need thus right now.

I'd missed the bill because every day for weeks they sent me threatening letters about not sending a meter reading - I can't do one, my machine isn't accessible, I'm very vulnerable to covid, it's not safe fir me to medically have vaccine and they knots turning up hammering on my door to be let in (I've a tiny bedroom so it's unsafe covid wise, plus I'm terrfied of men, my PTSD being out of control with all the masks around) and the bill was in exactly the same envelope. It took me hours to open the letters as so frightened by them.

Couldn't get through so now no money on phone at all. And Internet pay as you go really low too.

Am exhausted and terrified.

I don't understand why companies can did thus whilst having answerphone messages going on about tough times and covid and being patient with them. Where's the patience for me? I've medical equipment that needs 24/7 electric and now I'm off vulnerable list can be cut off.

I was going to do a thread but my last one I just got lectures about "big girl pants" and other patronising shit from people who know nothing about living in a place with zero facilities and money. No library access, no photocopier, no printer, no council buildings open, no help or support..

@Becca19962014

We’ll take those worries for you, and mind them while you rest. They might be somewhat nibbled on, but that will help reduce them in size and importance.

I do know how you feel CAB may be very helpful, but that’s for tomorrow.

For tonight rest and leave your worries here.

Thankyou!!

No CAB here, that's part of the problem. Just me and I can't cope - sat here in tears because of your offer of help!

@Becca19962014

Thankyou!!

No CAB here, that's part of the problem. Just me and I can't cope - sat here in tears because of your offer of help!

Oh bless you where are you, there might be someone who can advise you?

I’ve been there, and I’ll take your tears and worries and keep them for as long as you need.

@Becca19962014 please just try to let your worries go for tonight, we’ll take them for you. If I fall asleep they’ll be minded by my furry and feathered friends. There are MIL’s 4 cats and multiple fish as back up.

Thankyou!!

@Becca19962014

Thankyou!!

You’re very, very welcome, sleep well

Currently in the maternity ward, been admitted for an overnight stay as baby had reduced movements today and this is about my 6th episode in as many weeks 😩 feeling stressed out worrying about baby and if she's okay, and to be honest I just want my own bed.

@SinkingSwim I’m so sorry, that must be incredibly hard

Park your worries with us for as long as you need to. And me and all my cohorts are sending love and strength

[quote OnceUponAMidnightBeery]@SinkingSwim I’m so sorry, that must be incredibly hard

Park your worries with us for as long as you need to. And me and all my cohorts are sending love and strength [/quote]
Thank you 💗 baby is giving me some wriggles now so I feel slightly more at ease. It just seems like every week I'm in the maternity unit for something or other, it's horrible to be worrying so much. I'm also exhausted tonight as I haven't slept well the past two nights so really needed some sleep, doesn't look like I'll be getting it any time soon!

ah @SinkingSwim seen as there are two of you to take care of tonight, may I booksie baby minding? Your worries are in excellent hands already, so you just cuddle up and get some sleep. Just shut the world out, and sleep.

I'll just manage the wriggler for the rest of tonight

This is very minor, but my DS is going back to uni in a week for his last year and he already has a job in Boston when he graduates next spring. We are New Yorkers. So we will be empty nesters and he will probably never live with us again. He's such a lovely young man and we will miss him so much.

DD is about to start her second year at uni but has been on campus all summer doing an internship, so she hasn't been home since January.

They are both great kids. I just feel like I am losing them somehow.

Aww what a lovely warm thread :)

Just a little one if I may… Mum waiting for first born’s a level results in a few hours. He’s panicking and I’m reeling off all the cliches I can Google 🤣

ah, @MissConductUS I know of what you speak. Life will be very different. But he will always be your boy, no matter how far he roams. Same as DD will always be your girl. Mine are long grown and still my babies. That never changes.

Anyway, for now let me hold that sadness, fear and worry. It will be safe with me. I promise to be tender and gentle, but to hold it all safe, so that you can rest. Go do just that. Rest. I've got this.

@mofro welcome! Little or large, we've got your worries. You don't need to hold that for now; leave it right here and get some good rest.

All shall be well, you just rest.

My beautiful friend has gone into a hospice today. It's all happened too fast and I can't stop thinking about her and what her little girl is going through. Not sure I'll get much sleep tonight.

I have 2 job interviews tomorrow, both come with wage increases and as a lone parent with no financial help, they really could help me and DS out a lot, as fuel and living expenses are rising.

But

I can't sleep, for the first time in years I'm so nervous about the job interviews 🤦🏻‍♀️

@WineInTheBlood I'm sorry. What sad news. I lost my best friend, and it is a pain quite unlike any other. Sending you [flowers[ and gentle hugs, if you will permit.

For tonight, let us hold that pain and sorry. We'll be tender and gentle and hold it in a comforting embrace. Your job is just to get some rest. Let your body and your soul rest, so that you can do what you must over the coming days/weeks/months. We'll be here whenever you need us. We're here for you.

@TheSkatesOfCoachBombay well you need to leave that worry (and excitement) right here, cozy in, shut your eyes, and sleep. Two interviews - that is so exciting and I hope you smash them both, then have to come here with worry about which to accept.

Go on, just sleep. We've got you.

@WineInTheBlood so many typos. Your post made me a bit misty eyed. Sorry.

We'll hold the sorrow. And I was sending

@2018SoFarSoGreat Thank you, that's lovely. I'm so sorry you lost your friend too. I can't think about what's coming too much, it's just incomprehensible.

@MissConductUS

The news you are supposed to be overjoyed about can be so terribly hard to process. Lay it all down here; the sweet and the bitter and we will manage it for now.