Bring us your worries, big or small! The nightshift will hold them so you can sleep

[2018SoFarSoGreat]

Well, that LAST THREAD filled up much faster - so glad so many of us are finding this a place of comfort. How lucky we are to have so many of us on standby to hold our fears and worries, so that we can rest.

No questions asked, no solutions given, just the offer of a place to lay down our burdens. All are welcome.

For those who need an escape, solace, a memory, peace or just a big sleep then there is a bag of dreams for your needs. Just here. Help yourself.

From me to you. Some hope, some love, or whatever something you need.

🌻 ✨ x

And for the three. None of us will ever forget. Our hearts carry the scars but you come with us every day. Every day. Know a little corner of the world remembers. ✨ ✨ ✨

Thank you @SheldonesqueTheBstard. Your posts give me such comfort, even when I didn't know I needed it. Thank you ❤️

For the three: I don't know you, but I know how loved you are, and I will hold you in my heart tonight and whenever you need held ❤️

Love and light to all tonight. Sleep well, dream beautiful dreams.

Thank you dear 2018. May a dream gather you to a time and place where everything is as you wish. And may love and light follow you too.

Aye. They were loved and I ache for those who loved them more. Loved them best.

To dreams. x

For the faces old and new to this thread.
If you need to leave your problems with us, please rest assured that they will be tucked away in a warm and cozy place and guarded by the worry warriors while you sleep.
Also, Havelock has just celebrated his 3rd birthday and has requested that problems be thrown in his general direction, if you please, thank you very much!

Havelock looks ready! May I send him my worries about the work people in my house right now making many, many holes in walls and ceilings? They are installing air renewal units (who knew there was such a thing?) because apparently my new triple glazing means we are now pretty air-tight (!) but the boss failed to show and they are doing everything wrong. My blood pressure is through the roof, and DH is mortified and mad that I spoke up. I knew I should hide and let him deal with it, but I'm too mad. A big crooked vent in my living room ceiling - and the control panel at waist height in the middle of my hallway wall. :(

If you could just hold that for a couple of hours, dear Havelock and @GenuineKlatchianPottery, so that I can stop steam coming out of my ears, I'd be most grateful.

@2018SoFarSoGreat
Havelock has everything under control. He says don’t worry, these bastards will soon understand what it means to try and get one over on one of the OG worry warriors. We’ve got your back.
Pop those problems at the end of the bed and leave them with us. We’ll take good care of them for you, I promise.

I would hate to deprive Havelock:
Tomorrow I have to wake up and face the fact that it will be 6 months since I last said good bye to DH and he went out and never came home. On Wednesday it will be 6 months since the day he died. Wednesday will also be my first 13hr shift at work in over 6 months. I have no idea how I am going to get through that. I won’t be home until at least 9pm. DC2 has only slept in my bed with me sitting next to her for 6 months. My dad is going to put her to bed in her bed and he won’t sit by her. This isn’t going to work and I feel so guilty for putting DC through it.
And I dropped my phone yesterday and the screen cracked. It still works but I don’t know if it is just going to break slowly.
My dad broke my computer with all the saved passwords for stuff like DCs’ minecraft on and all the photos we have ever taken and not printed out since I met DH.

badlydrawnbear

I wish I could reach into the bag of dreams and pull out a magic wand to make it all better for you.

Havelock (the magnificence of him!) will deal with the worries. He has pretty much got it sorted I reckon.

But may I pass you and your dc some dreams? And a little bag of soothing too for your dc2? I’m sorry things are so very difficult for you at the moment. It isn’t the way things are meant to be.

Sending you strength for your shift and peace for tonight. And light to navigate your way through these times.

🌻 ✨ x

Hi &badlydrawnbear
Firstly, you are fucking awesome for getting through the last six months!
Night shifts suck, with bells and whistles! The human that is GenuineKlatchianPottery knows this, she has done many night shifts, recently, and her opinion is, they suck!
What helped my DD was having something that smells of me, (I popped a scarf under my arms the day before I did a night shift)
But to be honest , all I can say is that I’m in awe of you.
One day your children will look at you and they will realise just how much you did to make their lives as “normal” as you possibly could, but in the meantime, please know that you are a super woman

Thank you. The kindness of internet strangers and a cat made me cry. But that’s not entirely a bad thing.

@badlydrawnbear I want to reach out and give you a big cuddle. The rocking, patting, swaying kind. I'm sending it to you in my heart.

You are awesome, and your DD will be fine. You will get through it because you have some incredible strength - super human strength! Your computer will be fine too most likely. It will cost some pennies, but they can most often retrieve the hard drive. I'm so hoping that is the case here.

My worries have magically driven off in a convoy of big white trucks and vans and wagons disappeared for the day. I am calm, thank you all.

This is the best place. I so love that I can give and take and the bag is never empty.

Havelock says, look into my eyes, deep into my eyes
You can achieve anything you set out to.
You are all awesome, now send me those problems and I shall subdue them mightily!

Echoes. Silence. Patience. Grace.

💫

Hello @SheldonesqueTheBstard. It has been quiet, perhaps the enormity of the world problems has quieted the smaller worries. I am counting my blessings tonight,

Anybody want to send any worries for safekeeping, send them on over.

Here in A&E 7 hours in 3 to go

Oh no, @maeveiscurious I hope you don't have to wait that long. And that you are ok. That's no place to spend your weekend. I'll sit with you, and hold teh worry so you don't have to.

@2018SoFarSoGreat

Oh no, *@maeveiscurious* I hope you don't have to wait that long. And that you are ok. That's no place to spend your weekend. I'll sit with you, and hold teh worry so you don't have to.

It's dismal and sad. They are tremendously busy with serious road traffic accidents

It is too sad. I'm sorry you are there.

Hope you have been seen maeve

And may all those who felt pain through the night feel that there is a little bit of light today - just for them. 🌻 ✨

May you blessings be many and your troubles be few. (And may the van people bring you nowt but smiles 2018 x)

11 hours and 3-4 to go quickly confirmed they cannot increase my current medication so I have left. Leaving poor souls who have been there 15 hours

Seems silly to ask, but will you be ok maeve?

I wish you rest if you can manage it.

That was a long haul. And to the poor souls who were involved in the accidents? Staff as well.

Sending hope to you too. It must have been an awful night.

I’m signing in for the night shift, any worries or problems can be left here with me and the cat. We will take care of them for you while you sleep, and hopefully subdue them for when you pick them up.

I will happily sign in too. No dog to look after today.

Just me. And a moth.

Has covid turned me into a vampire? Since all this rubbish started I'm sleepy in the day and wide awake at night.

I do hope not pink as I don’t think there is a jab for that. 🥴

I am an absolute night owl - always have been. But thankfully I work shifts and I can make the most of nighttimes for half the month.

Switching to lark mode can only be done by staying up all day off a nightshift. It is a menace.

I also recommend hot chocolate. Seems obvious but it often lets me grab some sleep in the night.

If you have any worries let Havelock have at ‘em. I’ve not much faith in the moth.

I offer you a dream from the crumply bag of dreams. And a file for your teeth. ✨