At the airport…flight leaves at 6 am…had to get up at 2:30. Not my best time of day!
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Hope you have a nice trip. That really is an early wake up! When we have to get up at 4am for early flights, I have a hard time sleeping with trip worry… so I know it makes for a long day.
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3 am and I’m up, but only because we have to issue drawings. I think we’re done, whoo hoo. It will be hard to sleep when we’re so wired, though.
So wired, so tired or both?
Can’t wind down. Already fell asleep once, but dh woke me up killing flies in the kitchen and here I am. Big weekend trip starting early in the morning, of course.
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Up 2-3. Gave in and took 1/4 Klonopin because I have a busy day. Lately I have been using Reiki on myself. Naturopath suggested small amount of CBD.
It’s 6 am. Been up for an hour.
Daughter came home from college and gave us all the last round of the campus head cold…I have been coughing all night for a week operating on little sleep while she has headed out of state for a research trip healthy and happy…
I just need to sleep. Steroids and Rx cough meds have not helped in the past day yet.
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Nightmare involving one of my cc friends. Woke up sweating with my heart pouding. That almost never happens. Glad I have the Spelling Bee for comfort.
ETA: Got to genius. Heart still pounding.
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Insomnia for the second time in a week due to swollen ankles, I think. Guess I’ll spend time tomorrow in support socks.
Anyway, taking the chance to post here and hoping for 
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I slept well last night, but two nights ago I didn’t fall asleep until 4 am. I went downstairs at 1 to watch a movie. Ugh, don’t know what that was about.
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Been up at 3 am every day in this trip!
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Have you been able to go back to sleep?
The 2 nights I finally did get briefly back to sleep (after being up for 2 hours or so) I had stress dreams and remember them. Happens when I try to go back to sleep in the early morning.
We are 6 hours away from our regular time zone. My body rarely adjusts to travel.
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I listen to talk radio or tv shows if I am awake at nights and it helps put me back to sleep. What things do you do to get back to sleep mode?
I know it’s not recommended. But sometimes if I’m hungry I get up and have a snack. (LOL - recalling I did that when I was up with babies… figured it would be an easy snack to give up once they started sleeping through the night.) Only end up doing it a few times a year.
3:24 and am working on synagogue stuff. Trying to resume my habit of sewing 30 minutes a day. Am doing embroidery, so it’s transportable. Found a group on FB that makes decorative fabric balls out of found bits and bobs, so am trying that out. I’m leaning into the meditative part as a stress buster from the total craziness of being the synagogue president when everything is going nuts.
Saw a million decorative balls made of natural materials and other stuff at antique malls in NC. I can do this, and heaven knows I have enough raw materials.
Going to try to catch some zzzzs. 3 am is my regular power hour lately. My sleep schedule has been like this since we returned from the west coast in January.
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What will you do with these fabric balls?
Can you post an example of how they look?
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I looked for “decorative fabric balls” on Pinterest and got a bunch of ideas. These are relatively simple patterns. I saw some decor balls at antique malls, some of which were made out of wood or other natural-looking items, which sort of intrigued me. Then I saw one basked that had balls with narrow strips of vintage fabric and said AHA!
The “Fabulous Stitched Scrappy Balls” group on FB has some incredibly talented fabric artists who do beading, used found items (old toys, wires, branches, pieces of broken jewelry), and make magnificent things. I was planning to put mine in a basket in our room. Some folks make ornaments.
We’ll see if I even finish this in the first place. Room is in blues (used SW Upward and Distance), using blush and plants for accents. will add some green in this ball, too.
For my first ball, I’m using a 1.5" styrofoam ball for a firm center and have cut strips of leftover quilt batting. I’m wrapping it around the ball a few inches at a time and stitching the batting to itself to form a layer. (You could glue it, too.) Balls can be made out of anything – old batting, socks, trashed tennis balls, etc. With the size of my fabric and craft stash, I’m going to use only stuff I already have. Not planning to use my sewing machine at all, just a needle and thread. Will wrap plain fabric (strips from an old sheet I used to make curtains in S1’s room in 1998) around the batting ball til I get it to the size I want, then add the colorful and embroidered stuff, then add beads.
Will anyone care 20 years from now about these little balls? Probably not, but they are small enough that a DIL or grandchild could stick one in a suitcase to take home and remember me.
Sorry. Feeling maudlin today.
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