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!

😊 thank you! 💗

Give the hounds a cwtch/bosie from me midnight 🐾 🐾 🐾 🐾 x

Forgot the feathered one 🥴

How very dare I? 🦜 💜 sorry.

Cant cwtch you in case you do me cuticles - but little kisses come your way 😘 (safe distance from cuticles!)

I will do, thank you Love bosie, how do you pronounce it? Might just have to borrow that!

They’ll heal your heart too 💗 nothing dogs can’t do except stop peeing in inappropriate places apparently 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️😂

I’m also here to help with any worries.
I start my new job in the morning so they can keep me company tonight and then come with me. They may get lost on the way home though.

If anyone can hold my stress so that I might sleep tonight that would be great! DD who is already back at school is having a horrible time, lots of nastiness with friendship. I've given up the the advice to smile and go and talk to people and when she tried thar today she got the response "why are you talking to us you don't belong here". I could cry for her, in fact I have tonight but not in front of her! She has agreed that if this continues I can contact the school though so that's something. Thank you lovely people

@GenuineKlatchianPottery

I’m also here to help with any worries. I start my new job in the morning so they can keep me company tonight and then come with me. They may get lost on the way home though.

Good luck with your new job!

@SheldonesqueTheBstard aww he’s very affectionate really... when we let him out he walks around the bed, and comes scuttling over for treats, then we can stroke him... he’s come a long way (rescue bird) I’ll put your worries in a monkey nut 🥜 shell, you won’t be getting them back 😂

@GenuineKlatchianPottery congratulations on your new job throw your worries over here for the night, I have a 4foot stuffed toy Wile E. Coyote who can join in the minding in case we get overwhelmed, so kick them out for a while!

Bosie - trying to think how best to write a pronunciation- bow-zee

Bow like bow in your hair - not bow like bending in half

Glad to hear the wee feathery one 🦜 is friendly. My budgies were feathery sharks. All disabled/pet shop unwanted/half bald. I loved them dearly. (Before I went blackened and wizened 🖤)

@GenuineKlatchianPottery good luck to you tomorrow! Remember, they don't know you as much as you don't know them. Make sure you drop the fact that you are a Worry Warrior into every conversation. It will be very intriguing and make you appear quite mysterious and exotic.

beautifultulips

The hurt we hold for others is usually far more of a weight than one we hold for ourselves. More so if it is for someone you love more than life. Even more of it is for a child I imagine.

I have no magic wand. No magic potion. Just the biggest hope that things improve for her.

Let me take your burden - I need a mattress topper - so that you may rest to be strong enough for her again tomorrow. 🌻 x

@BeautifulTulips

If anyone can hold my stress so that I might sleep tonight that would be great! DD who is already back at school is having a horrible time, lots of nastiness with friendship. I've given up the the advice to smile and go and talk to people and when she tried thar today she got the response "why are you talking to us you don't belong here". I could cry for her, in fact I have tonight but not in front of her! She has agreed that if this continues I can contact the school though so that's something. Thank you lovely people

We’ll hold it for you @BeautifulTulips, and your daughters worries too. If needed I have a 4ft Christmas moose and a giant teddy to deploy as worry-watchers (don’t ask!) as well as the usual crew.

I remember being where your daughter is, but I never really told my parents, it’s fabulous that she feels comfortable to, you’ve got a great relationship there.

Your stresses are safe here for the night, let them go, and get some rest. There’s no hurry to reclaim them in the morning, we don’t get up early here, they’ll be minded as long as you need

@GenuineKlatchianPottery

Congratulations on your new job and may all go swimmingly for you 🌻 x

Think of the lovely welcome you will get from the puss on your return!

@SheldonesqueTheBstard

Bosie - trying to think how best to write a pronunciation- bow-zee

Bow like bow in your hair - not bow like bending in half

Glad to hear the wee feathery one 🦜 is friendly. My budgies were feathery sharks. All disabled/pet shop unwanted/half bald. I loved them dearly. (Before I went blackened and wizened 🖤)

Thank you! Definitely borrowing that!

‘Feathery sharks’ 😂😂 I snorted at that, wonderful description

I don’t believe your black and wizened 🖤 at all btw, you’re far too lovely to complete strangers on here for a start! Your ❤️ just has a little charred wall around it atm, every beat shakes that wall a little till it starts to crumble.

Um, that may not have been the most comforting of images but I hope you get the gist of what I meant 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

Gist got midnight 🤣

I’m sorry that school wasn’t fun for you. I hope it didn’t damage you too much - for me, you’ve come out the other side shining ✨

@SheldonesqueTheBstard

Gist got midnight 🤣

I’m sorry that school wasn’t fun for you. I hope it didn’t damage you too much - for me, you’ve come out the other side shining ✨

That’s one of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me @SheldonesqueTheBstard, thank you! And thank you again!

Now, why are you still up when your worries will be taken care of? Let them wander off and they’ll be rounded up by us lot

Boarding Border Collie is from working sheep dog stock, so will corall (erm, sorry can’t spell!) them as long as you need...

I’m trying!!!! Phone being put down now. Promise.

🛌 😴 💤😵‍💫. Waiting to be rounded up 🐾 🐾.

🐾🐾🐾 rounding up your worries and letting you sleep 🐾🐾🐾

They’re snoring on my feet right now, and BC’s legs are twitching...
your worries are safe for the night, she’ll keep them in check

If anyone has time to hold some worries while I try to sleep, I would be so grateful.
I just had to give a work presentation tonight, and I really let myself down. I hadn't realized this was to be a proper discussion and so I wasn't prepared and looked a real fool. It comes at the end of a few weeks (years?) of being always behind, never really doing my best, as I feel so utterly overwhelmed.
My husband has been really unwell (he is an alcoholic, we have been through hell recently), I have a small child, and I am making such a mess of everything, including my job. I used to be so good at my job, but I don't remember the last time I actually did something well.
I am so tired, so overwhelmed, and so disappointed with myself.

@Ruthietuthie

If anyone has time to hold some worries while I try to sleep, I would be so grateful. I just had to give a work presentation tonight, and I really let myself down. I hadn't realized this was to be a proper discussion and so I wasn't prepared and looked a real fool. It comes at the end of a few weeks (years?) of being always behind, never really doing my best, as I feel so utterly overwhelmed. My husband has been really unwell (he is an alcoholic, we have been through hell recently), I have a small child, and I am making such a mess of everything, including my job. I used to be so good at my job, but I don't remember the last time I actually did something well. I am so tired, so overwhelmed, and so disappointed with myself.

I'll take that one for you tonight Ruthietuthie, you get some rest.

You're going through so much and you're doing your absolute best with everything. I guarantee it's looking worse from your own view than the people you were presenting to.

Just relax, get some sleep and things will feel better in the morning

@Ruthietuthie

If anyone has time to hold some worries while I try to sleep, I would be so grateful. I just had to give a work presentation tonight, and I really let myself down. I hadn't realized this was to be a proper discussion and so I wasn't prepared and looked a real fool. It comes at the end of a few weeks (years?) of being always behind, never really doing my best, as I feel so utterly overwhelmed. My husband has been really unwell (he is an alcoholic, we have been through hell recently), I have a small child, and I am making such a mess of everything, including my job. I used to be so good at my job, but I don't remember the last time I actually did something well. I am so tired, so overwhelmed, and so disappointed with myself.

@Ruthietuthie that sounds so hard. Things may look different in the morning, I doubt you did as badly as you think, bless you.

You can’t pour from an empty vessel, so pass your worries over here, we’ll mind them and keep them occupied while you rest and get some much needed sleep.

Just let them go for now, happy to take them from you for as long as you need

@OnceUponAMidnightBeery and @gogogogo1 your kind words have me in tears here, thank you. They feel like a hug, which I needed so much.
I'm off to try and sleep. I think the presentation incident will look better in the morning. I wasn't bad - I didn't say something wrong, I was just too quiet, acting as if I didn't have much interesting to say, because I wasn't prepared. I felt that I had let myself down badly, and that this was just one of a long string of times I had failed to deliver, missed deadlines, or done "good enough" but not excellent work.

I am alone here tonight, as my husband has finally gone to rehab, which is great but it comes after months of a real roller-coaster, hospitalization, resistance, despair, you name it. And then, trying to manage my job on top of this, plus the toddler, it has been an awful lot.

I am so glad of your support tonight.

Thank you so much lovely people for your kind words last night. Just read them now and I'm overwhelmed that people are so kind. I was strong sending DD to school and put some sweets in her bag which I only text her about once she was on the bus- she loved that treat so hopefully puts her in a positive frame of mind for her day

@Ruthietuthie you poor thing. It sounds so hard all around. You are a warrior woman to carry all of that and even function, let alone shine at work. Don't be so hard on yourself. If one of us wrote that you would tell us to let it go. This is not the measure of you. You are so much more than that meeting. Today, just be the best you that you can be. That's all you can do.

Sending virtual cuddles and strong hands to hold you up if you need the support.