Did you wake up tired today?

I wake up tired almost every day

Yes, and if I don't get off this damn computer and go to bed, I'm going to be tired again tomorrow. I have no self control!

I don't know what happened. I was doing really well for awhile getting to bed at a decent hour, and I woke up feeling rested. It was great, but I guess it was just another one of my phases. They never last long, especially if it's something good.

Nightnight Happy Dreams!

I had to take my allergy medicine last night. The grass pollen count is extremely high.

Exausted!

5 times I wake up! 5 times I want to sleep again more! I don't understand. I got to ride bike more!

Which time? I woke up at 5:30 and felt good but did not need to be awake for an hour so I went back to sleep and woke up again at 6:30 and hit the snooze button 3 times and was very tired when I woke up.

You sound like me. Were you rested the first time you woke?

Not really. I was woken up by my dad slamming the front doors as he was going away.

I was tired but I had to get up to revise. I have two politics exams tomorrow! The day after the blooming election I wanted to stop up tonight to watch the results come in but I'm going to have to get a good night's sleep!

British SCers, *go and vote* Turnout could be as low as 55% Don't be one of the apathetic!

Very tired!!

No. I've been getting so much sleep lately, waking up was no problem.

Though, I could use a nap right about now.

This was one of those mornings where I stay half asleep trying to choose a form of consciousness, much like trying to pick out what to wear on a bad day. It's easier to access these different modes when half asleep. There was a time years ago when I never wanted to get out of bed until I could figure out my ultimate form of consciousness while I had a chance. I understand the process is the ultimate form now.

In the future you might find it more efficient to just check in with a local election results web page, though not nearly as exciting.

Very tired. I've been getting more sleep than usual, and I'm eating well, but I am still really tired all the time.

No, I slept in. Finally!

Actually, the first time was when my ex-girlfriend called me to ask me if she could borrow my sowing machine. I was pretty tiered.

when I woke up at 5.30am (Sydney Australia time), I was a little bit tired, but now, (6.40am Sydney Australia time), I feel ok. Hare Krishna!

How freaking weird!! Everyone is exhausted!! I fell asleep during my lunch break today!!

A little. I just took a nap. I was up a little later than usual last night.

No, but I usually do.

I woke up weird today. Yesterday I started oral medication for my diabetes. It sucks. It makes me feel funny. I woke up at about 5:30 am and couldn't get back to sleep. I was shaky and dizzy and queasy. I hate having diabetes. I wish I were dead!

yes very tired, and now i have to get up the next 3 days to work....yuck!!!! i am tired even now!! off to bed!

Don't say things like that sometimes when you wish for things they come true and I don't think you really mean it. You have a wonderful relationship and a great child. One happy family Plus everyone at SC would miss you

I'm just soooooooooooooooooooo frustrated. I'm sorry

I'm sorry you're feeling bad. But I'm glad you're not dead! I'd miss you tremendously... how selfish of me...

yes, at 4:45 to get ready for work. and i'll do it again tommorrow dammit! on the upside, it only takes me about one minute to fall alseep when i lay down.

Forgive me. I'm a naughty monkey for even saying it.

just for you:

oh and this too (all Too Much Coffee Man)

That is so fantastic. I love it. Thanks much.

Thanks! That was so sweet!

& romkey - Thanks for cheering up my sweetie. She gets sorta bummed out sometimes and I know your kind words help a lot!

I get frustrated by low voter turnout, too. If people want to keep their right to vote, they better keep doing it!

Are you pleased with the election results?

Not sleeping well?? Ahhh... what was it, a big night on the town?

England beat Greece 2-0 in a World Cup qualifying match so decided to celebrate. How come you're tired every time you wake up?

I work really late... until about 3am, so i'm not in bed until about 5 or 6.

Where do you work!?

Things will get better you just have to be more optimistic Just look on the bright side....You take the dumb medicine and do what the Dr. says and you don't have to have body parts amputated. My uncle died of diabetes because he refused to be treated he had to have limbs amputated and he was a sickly person. Doctors are our friends

No problem we all need cheering up every once in a while

I suppose that would make sense I looked on teletext just before I went out for my exam and tried to absorb as much as I could so I could stick it into answers! I didn't get to see any of it last night, I revised for ages then I just went to bed. Hardly an exciting election though - everything was just as expected! (Except the turnout with was *low*

Exactly! It's the people who don't vote who seem to spend the most time whinging about who got in! I practically had to push my brother out of the door yesterday half an hour before the polls closed at 10pm He's a first time voter and I can't wait until I can vote - it's like the mark of citizenship (except we're "royal-subjects" not citizens - bleugh! )

The results were pretty much as expected. Labour won another landslide (looking like 6 less seats right now), the Conservatives stayed about the same and the Liberal Democrats gained 5 I think. I'm pleased that the Lib. Dems. gained some seats - I don't think they're anything like able to govern yet but I would like to see them continue to become more powerful and possibly become the official opposition.

Best bit is that William Hague (leader of the opposition) resigned this morning Actually, he was very good for Labour's campaign - every time he opened his mouth he gave votes away! He's wanted to be PM since he was a little kid and even gave a speech at the Tory Party conference when he was 16 - now he's going to have to go back to being a member of the Shadow Cabinet (probably - I can't see him being a backbencher again).

The worst thing is the number of votes the British National Party got. In Oldham (where there have just been some race riots) they got 16.7% of the vote. Not enough to win it but much higher than anyone ever expected. The BNP are pretty much the most right-wing party in the UK - they're basically fascists and it's worrying that everywhere they stood they did quite well.

And the turnout was down from last time. 59%!!! That's the lowest since 1918 - 1997's was low at 71%. 41% of people couldn't be bothered to vote - it's hard to understand!

very much so. I hate getting out of bed in the morning. Around 11 or 12 is more my style, but if I want to keep my job, I have to get up

*clapping*

I bookmarked the site!!!! Thank you

You are so right. My sugars are slowly coming down. It's been two days on the medicine and I'm seeing results. Being chronically ill sucks so bad. I wish I could just be normal and not have to stop and prick my fingers a couple of times a day and worry about side effects from the pills and I want to eat what I want and drink copious amounts of beer....sadly those days are over. I've snapped out of my diabetes denial and decided to do the right thing. It is so hard. I know I shouldn't complain, there are so many people in the world sicker than me who don't even have a little pill to take that could help them live a long and healthy life...so I should be happy. I'll adjust. I just need to grumble about it for a few days. I'm like that.


Thanx for your words of wisdom. My father lost his leg to diabetes in his 60's. It had gone undiagnosed because, like me, he hated going to the doctor's. It went downhill from there as he developed colon and lung cancer and passed away last year. My mother was just diagnosed with mild diabetes last week and put on medication. She has already had a stroke, open heart surgery to replace a heart valve and a pacemaker and she takes so many pills every day she rattles when she walks. I guess I should consider myself lucky I only have diabetes.

I woke up with the "woman on a mission" attitude!

See it could be worse

You should consider yourself lucky you're mandy (We're all glad you aren't someone else )

I work at a local night club as a bartender.

The BNP does sound rather scary. I think the Liberal Democrats need to put a lot of effort into reaching the people who haven't been voting (if there's any chance those folks could be convinced to vote for them) and then maybe they can really make some progress. They'd better get to them before the BNP does!

LOL Those are great!

I never wake up tired, but I wake up still dreaming.

Sailboats... pretty little sailboats... do you dream of riding the wind on the sea in a sailboat? I dream of a time when I go for a ride... I set sail and the wind is my guide... feelin and flowin along with the tide in a sailboat... a pretty little sailboat...

Perhaps instead of playing catch up to your bodies demands, you would feel more in control by surpassing them. Changing your diet can change your perception, for instance drinking water all day instead of coffee (like I do ) When I had my awakening (I think I mentioned this) I gave up most of my coffee, sugar, tobacco, alcohol, meat and felt quite refreshed. Before that I would eat a whole german chocolate cake, given the chance. Now, I enjoy those things on special occasions (well I'm still a coffee and cig addict) but I don't have cravings for anything and can put anything away without a second thought. I found varieties of rice to have the same degree of variety and sumptuousness as the exotic junk food I had before. Now I cook exotically, but I cook to eat, and am not a slave to my desire. It opens your mind up to other awareness. When you leave alcohol alone for a year or two, you'll probably wonder what it's appeal was when you take it up again. I'm not saying 'be like me', I'm just suggesting you can get far more out of this ordeal than merely 'doing as you have to' to survive. Everything can be looked upon as adventurous.

If the Lib Dems can keep building on their successes they could go far. We weren't too sure about Charles Kennedy at first because he had such a different leadership style to the others and we didn't think it would work. He's come across as a sweet, honest guy though and I think that got him a lot of votes - he's not like most politicians!

I didn't vote because none of the parties represent my beliefs sufficiently for me to be able to support them. I couldn't vote Conservative because I don't think they're anywhere near being competent to govern at the moment, I couldn't vote LibDem because I strongly disagree with some of their key policies and I couldn't vote Labour because they're far too anti-libertarian. I'm not whining about Labour getting back in - I think they're probably the best option, in the sense of being the least worst, but there's no way that I could give them any positive support.

Just don't complain when they try to take over the world!

Seriously though, I think that at the moment there is so much dissatisfaction with the political parties that most voters voted for the least bad rather than the best. That could well increase depending on who takes over as leader of the Conservative Party - Anne Widdecombe has already said she's considering it - talk about a way to completely destruct the party.

Wow, I'd love to go there and suprise you!!

I understand that there are rarely politicians who we think are really going to do a great job, or whose beliefs we really agree with, but given only so many choices, wouldn't you rather have the lesser of the evils governing you than the ones whom you disagree with the most?

I would love to be surprised!

Well, in this case the result was pretty much a foregone conclusion, and even if by some miracle it had gone the other way and the Conservatives had won I wouldn't really have minded too much, so in this case I really didn't care. I think a lot of people felt the same way - the turnout was the lowest since 1918!

Now, of course, politicians are bleating about the low turnout, and making suggestions on things to encourage more people to vote, such as having polling booths in supermarkets and making the voting period longer. All of which is completely missing the point - I could have voted if I wanted to, I chose not to vote as a protest against the current state of British politics. If they'd put a polling booth in my local supermarket I would have just walked past it.

However, it doesn't look like I will be going to Florida this year

I hate Mondays.

Don't ya just hate that. Worse, when chatting on the computer takes away from "adult entertainment".

My wife says I have missed many opportunities, because I wouldn't shut off the darn computer .

I tried to get her to go "on-line", but she said cybersex only works for her if she uses her body as a mouse pad.

Sure, they always say that after it's too late.

LOL Do you have a vibrating mouse?

!!!! I beg your pardon?
My love life is just like my computer.
Someone has to double click the ol' mouse to get the program started.

Very tired. Got to bed at 1am, woke up at 4am, its now 6.30am & I've still not been able to get back to sleep.

I didn't sleep after 3am. I couldn't get up this morning. I have had some bad nights recently. Bad dreemz and stuff.

might be that simultaneous solstice, new moon, total solar eclipse, mercury retrograde, and mars at it's closest, almost all with four hours of each other. Did you look in the sky at mars?; very intense. I've had immense sleepiness, irritability, & weird dreams this week too; so has heyzeus (the sleep at least). That was (solstice) at 7:38am PST 6/21/01. I felt like I was burning up at 3 in the morning.

My friend emailed me today and he was all talking of slumps and bottomless pits. First email from him in a week and he's feeling it too. The last email from him he was begging me to look at Mars. I refused to...I knew what Mars was up to. I am very depressed. It all feels like it's caving in around me. Horrid!

....and I'm bleeeeeeeding too! UG!

I just had a dentist take a perfectly good feeling mouth and make it feel like I have a permanent raw nerve (I think a day later I'm adapting though). My neighbor just beat up all her grand kids.
Bleeding?
Hey Ug, how's it going Ug? Make any good bone art lately, Ug?
Mars was intense. Amber and buzzing. I'd never seen that before.

((((HUG))))
Poor babygurl. Hope you feel better soon.

Bleeding. Menstruating.

Bone art...nope...Haven't had a bone in over 8 years!

((((HUG))))
me too!

I was thinking to send you some ancient writings of mine from back when I was undergoing disattachment to food and other vices. I'd forgotten that was indeed a whole phase. In one passage I describe how at the college snack bar, I decided that it would be more responsible to not order my usual coffee or hot cocoa, and instead order a steamed milk. One of the lovely ladies asked if I wanted cocoa in that, another pointe out the honey and nutmeg. I was on a sparkly cloud with what otherwise would have been a drab sugar experience taken for granted. I realize you have more crucial reasons to break your attachments, but I still encourage you to find the freedom and sweetness that comes with spiritually motivated discipline.
Tonight would be a good night to cook a sugar free bananna/yam/date bread loaded in high iron like raisins and dates, and maybe some cranberries served with cream cheese, and restricted to a slice eaten in ritual meditation, not while snacking on the internet. You don't have to forego enjoying scrumptious food, but rather forego consuming it at times when you can't make every bite mystical and delectable (in other words, no chips or soda, even diet versions). Work on enjoying air and water inbetween. You have a cave-water consciousness that wants to nurture you in womb sweetness. You'll have more energy to explore and relish the rest of the world when you break out of that pattern. I need to do that again myself.

Thank you!
U R loved