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shadowkatGot a little more sleep last night - in that I got to sleep by 11:30, woke up at 1, then at 3, then at 5:45 with alarm.
Part of this is menopause folks. It's par for the course. Also, I've always had issues with sleep. I didn't sleep well as a kid. And when I first started work in '08 - I had one or two weeks in July in which I wasn't sleeping at all.
And I've done everything. It's actually better now. At least I can fall asleep within moments of settling down - time was, I lay there for hours and hours tossing and turning. What finally helped with that? 1) Weighted Blanket. 2) pillow between legs, and two beneath head. 3) air purifier, and air conditioner on at 69 degrees. I also have layers - a sheet, and a thin linen quilt.
I've done meditation - headspace. I have all the tricks. You can't force yourself to sleep. You have to surrender to it.
I take Melatonin. I've taken CBD with melatonin. I'm currently taking lemon balm, L-Thenine, Melatonin, and a Beta Blocker, also high blood pressure meds.
I've done Healthy Sleep apps. I have no electronics in the bedroom - well except the phone (which is in sleep mode and has to be there for the diabetic sensor on my arm - that it tracks) - it wakes me up with alarms of when the glucose goes too low. I have the room dark and at 69 degrees F.
My bedroom is dark with blinds drawn to keep out light. (Since they light up the courtyard that my bedroom looks out on - it's not an attractive courtyard - so blinds drawn all day long.)
I limit caffeine almost entirely. I eat before 8, sometimes before 7. And It's my body lately, digestive system, hot flashes, night sweats, leg cramps, and bladder that wake me up. Also allergies - although, I've gotten those under control for the most part - I used to cough in the night and that kept me up.
Some people have no issues sleeping. Others like myself do. I've had issues with insomnia my entire life. Since practically everyone in my immediate family struggles with sleep - I'm thinking this is genetic. My brother used to sleep walk, and as a teen he'd walk the streets at night and want to sleep during the day. My parents get up and read. My grandmother used to be up until well past midnight, and she'd get up at five or six each morning.
We're not sleepers in my family. Don't know why.
I'm going to try to go to bed earlier tonight. See if that helps?
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Found on Twitter and tempting.. In Celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Album 69 LOVE SONGS - The Magnetic Fields are performing in NYC at Town Hall in April 2024, with the former and current band members (Except for the one who died in 2020).
The Magnetic Fields' awesome triple CD opus 69 Love Songs turns 25 next year, and to celebrate they've announced a series of shows featuring the album's original players, happening in NYC, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and North Adams, MA.
Claudia Gonson, John Woo, Sam Davol, Shirley Simms and Stephin Merritt will all be there, along with current Magnetic Fields members Chris Ewen and Anthony Kaczynski. (LD Beghtol, who sang on the album, died in 2020.) 69 Love Songs will be played in full over two nights in each city, with NYC getting two full performances of the album across four days at Town Hall on April 3 & 4 and April 5 & 6.
They write quirky songs. Which I either love to pieces, or hate. But there isn't any in 69 Love Songs that I don't enjoy.
Absolutely Cuckoo...and other songs from the album on youtube
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Book Meme
Romance plot or sub plot - I suppose I can't do the book that I'm currently reading twice? Poses a problem. Ponders.
Well, I haven't read this one yet - and it's in my queue...Much Ado about Nada by Uzma Jalaluddin It's a contemporary retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion, which is among my favorite Austen's.
Nada Syed is stuck. On the cusp of thirty, she's still living at home with her brothers and parents in the Golden Crescent neighbourhood of Toronto, resolutely ignoring her mother's unsubtle pleas to get married already. While Nada has a good job as an engineer, it's a far cry from realizing her start-up dreams for her tech baby, Ask Apa, the app that launched with a whimper instead of a bang because of a double-crossing business partner. Nothing in her life has turned out the way it was supposed to, and Nada feels like a failure. Something needs to change, but the past is holding on too tightly to let her move forward.
Nada's best friend Haleema is determined to pry her from her shell...and what better place than at the giant annual Muslim conference held downtown, where Nada can finally meet Haleema's fiancé, Zayn. And did Haleema mention Zayn's brother Baz will be there?
What Haleema doesn't know is that Nada and Baz have a past--some of it good, some of it bad and all of it secret. At the conference, that past all comes hurtling at Nada, bringing new complications and a moment of reckoning. Can Nada truly say goodbye to once was or should she hold tight to her dreams and find their new beginnings?
Looks interesting. Also kind of jumps in the face of romance naysayers who state that you can't gain knowledge or anything interesting from a romance. Please. You've clearly not read enough of the genre.
Actually I believe you can obtain something memorable or be changed or get a new perspective from any work of art, regardless of its acclaim. Art like humor and beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Part of this is menopause folks. It's par for the course. Also, I've always had issues with sleep. I didn't sleep well as a kid. And when I first started work in '08 - I had one or two weeks in July in which I wasn't sleeping at all.
And I've done everything. It's actually better now. At least I can fall asleep within moments of settling down - time was, I lay there for hours and hours tossing and turning. What finally helped with that? 1) Weighted Blanket. 2) pillow between legs, and two beneath head. 3) air purifier, and air conditioner on at 69 degrees. I also have layers - a sheet, and a thin linen quilt.
I've done meditation - headspace. I have all the tricks. You can't force yourself to sleep. You have to surrender to it.
I take Melatonin. I've taken CBD with melatonin. I'm currently taking lemon balm, L-Thenine, Melatonin, and a Beta Blocker, also high blood pressure meds.
I've done Healthy Sleep apps. I have no electronics in the bedroom - well except the phone (which is in sleep mode and has to be there for the diabetic sensor on my arm - that it tracks) - it wakes me up with alarms of when the glucose goes too low. I have the room dark and at 69 degrees F.
My bedroom is dark with blinds drawn to keep out light. (Since they light up the courtyard that my bedroom looks out on - it's not an attractive courtyard - so blinds drawn all day long.)
I limit caffeine almost entirely. I eat before 8, sometimes before 7. And It's my body lately, digestive system, hot flashes, night sweats, leg cramps, and bladder that wake me up. Also allergies - although, I've gotten those under control for the most part - I used to cough in the night and that kept me up.
Some people have no issues sleeping. Others like myself do. I've had issues with insomnia my entire life. Since practically everyone in my immediate family struggles with sleep - I'm thinking this is genetic. My brother used to sleep walk, and as a teen he'd walk the streets at night and want to sleep during the day. My parents get up and read. My grandmother used to be up until well past midnight, and she'd get up at five or six each morning.
We're not sleepers in my family. Don't know why.
I'm going to try to go to bed earlier tonight. See if that helps?
***
Found on Twitter and tempting.. In Celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Album 69 LOVE SONGS - The Magnetic Fields are performing in NYC at Town Hall in April 2024, with the former and current band members (Except for the one who died in 2020).
The Magnetic Fields' awesome triple CD opus 69 Love Songs turns 25 next year, and to celebrate they've announced a series of shows featuring the album's original players, happening in NYC, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and North Adams, MA.
Claudia Gonson, John Woo, Sam Davol, Shirley Simms and Stephin Merritt will all be there, along with current Magnetic Fields members Chris Ewen and Anthony Kaczynski. (LD Beghtol, who sang on the album, died in 2020.) 69 Love Songs will be played in full over two nights in each city, with NYC getting two full performances of the album across four days at Town Hall on April 3 & 4 and April 5 & 6.
They write quirky songs. Which I either love to pieces, or hate. But there isn't any in 69 Love Songs that I don't enjoy.
Absolutely Cuckoo...and other songs from the album on youtube
****
Book Meme
Romance plot or sub plot - I suppose I can't do the book that I'm currently reading twice? Poses a problem. Ponders.
Well, I haven't read this one yet - and it's in my queue...Much Ado about Nada by Uzma Jalaluddin It's a contemporary retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion, which is among my favorite Austen's.
Nada Syed is stuck. On the cusp of thirty, she's still living at home with her brothers and parents in the Golden Crescent neighbourhood of Toronto, resolutely ignoring her mother's unsubtle pleas to get married already. While Nada has a good job as an engineer, it's a far cry from realizing her start-up dreams for her tech baby, Ask Apa, the app that launched with a whimper instead of a bang because of a double-crossing business partner. Nothing in her life has turned out the way it was supposed to, and Nada feels like a failure. Something needs to change, but the past is holding on too tightly to let her move forward.
Nada's best friend Haleema is determined to pry her from her shell...and what better place than at the giant annual Muslim conference held downtown, where Nada can finally meet Haleema's fiancé, Zayn. And did Haleema mention Zayn's brother Baz will be there?
What Haleema doesn't know is that Nada and Baz have a past--some of it good, some of it bad and all of it secret. At the conference, that past all comes hurtling at Nada, bringing new complications and a moment of reckoning. Can Nada truly say goodbye to once was or should she hold tight to her dreams and find their new beginnings?
Looks interesting. Also kind of jumps in the face of romance naysayers who state that you can't gain knowledge or anything interesting from a romance. Please. You've clearly not read enough of the genre.
Actually I believe you can obtain something memorable or be changed or get a new perspective from any work of art, regardless of its acclaim. Art like humor and beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Date: 2023-07-14 03:25 am (UTC)I could never remember which way was supposed to be better - googling it now, it's still not clear. Some sites say that it's better to orient your bed north/south, and sleep with your head facing south, and feet facing north, in alignment with the magnetic fields, rather than having your bed oriented east-west so that the magnetic field is 'cutting' you - leads to better sleep.
It was always something that I found interesting - and I remember when I would change up how my room was set up I always tried to figure out if I was sleeping better/worse if I reoriented my bed. Of course, the first night, I didn't sleep well, because it was all different - and by the second night, I had forgotten that I was trying to keep track at all :D
Anyway - your post about a)sleeping issues and b)The Magnetic Fields - reminded me of this :D
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Date: 2023-07-14 10:12 pm (UTC)The Magnetic Tapes is a funky band. I'm not quite sure they can actually sing?
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Date: 2023-07-14 11:07 pm (UTC)Yeah - you're right - I don't think they can particularly sing, LOL