Alert and up did not sleep

Sounds like you can also join the early AM group

No sleep 3:30 am

Welcome aboard! Donuts are off to the right of the quarterdeck.

I woke up at 8:30(early for me) and my room was pitch black. Power is out in the whole block for some reason. I had errands to run anyway

I hope that everyone got some sleep.... I'm just drinking coffee now..... I hope that you get your power back soon kisses!!

slept a couple hrs this afternoon rested my eyes for a while now up and starting some more pics

Power is now back on. It was only off a couple hours so I just ran errands. I’m thinking an early bedtime tonight

Kisses2016 - Sorry about the power outage. It reminds me of living overseas. Power was out all the time. Started to feel like living in the 1800s. You know you can us a mister coffee carafe on a BBQ to make coffee the old way. Bought me a percolator after that long blackout (about two weeks). Also, frozen pizzas can be cooked on there. The stores started to just give food away. We all had a huge party of cold and chill foods.

I hope you got your errands completed.

I am awake now - since 4AM EST...seems to be combo of hypomania and hormones for me that are messing with my sleep patterns. Before my diagnosis, I had no explanation for my sleep patterns: sometimes sleeping up to 15 hours in a day and then sometimes sleeping 4. At least now I can chalk it up to bipolar! I find that this quiet time is great for reading and praying (as long as I don't have corresponding agitation). These parts of my cycle are hard and I just wish that I was normal.

Sorry about the sleeping issues. This is sort of my life with most nights at 1-2 hours and up to about 4-5. My sleep is destroyed by the drugs that I take and a mind that refuses to STF and sleep. Most drugs designed to put me down work opposite and in fact, I've woken up during the middle of a surgical procedure. I'd seriously not recommend that. I take all these drugs and I know they don' work.

Trying to find the quiet to pray is a great thing. I find my quiet alone time my walking in the middle of the night. Alone and quiet is such a hard thing to come by.

Being normal is very hard to come by.

There is no such thing as "normal" everyone has there own definition of "normal."

For me "normal" is sleeping 4 and 1/2 hour pers night going to sleep at the exact same time and waking up at the exact same time.....every night. That's my normal.

For some sleeping 12 hours is normal...which would kill me.

We're all different, we're made that way. Fun fact, all you folks have tons of organs in your body....I don't. The only organ left in my body that can be removed and I could live is 1 lung...that's it, all the rest of my removable organs are gone...spleen, gallbladder, appendix, 1/2 of my bladder, part of my stomach, kidney, uterus and all her friends, etc.. I'm still pretty normal as far as I'm concerned, I just have a crapass body! lol

Don't focus on being "normal" Spencer...it's exhausting and only ever brings on stress and anxiety and all that stuff. We're just regular people doing what we do, how we do it.

Have a great Saturday!!!

I also have a converse reaction to most meds. Must have been horrific waking up during a procedure - nightmare time. Hope you get some rest over the weekend.

I think I would happily commit some crime to get 4 and half hours sleep consecutively every night. now that would be lovely. Even a half hour nap during the day would be something!