Cally: yeah the new place is bigger...we worked out that it is 6 times bigger hahaha! we are so going to be rattling around in that place for a while lol.
O.M.G on your flight dramas! eewwww! what a horrid run of bad luck.
Arte: I am going to quote you next time you go on a caravan holiday...fun...hahahahaha! Nah, actually it does sound like my kind of holiday. hopefully with less offal next time though...i still giggle at the visual i got from reading about that lol.
AFM: so busy here right now. too many lawyers and too many bankers and way too many realestate agents in the last few days. i had a teary day today where selling this place and organising the move got all too much for me. but hopefully once the ball is rolling it will just get its own momentum. ATM i have just been putting all the pieces in place and that is frustrating as i just want it all done and know how much we sell this place for. although i am confident we will sell well, until you know, you dont know ITMS. and i *totally* hate the narky real estates slamming eachother when they come over and try to convince us to sign them up. basically i have chosen the RE agent that didnt complain about the others lol.
Miss L is feeling a bit weird about the move. on the one hand she is really excited but also a bit sad about leaving her friends. not helped by her stressed out parents. i better get on top of the freakout and start being more reassuring and get back to awesomely excited
Cally - it must be tough knowing FIL is going through that. Mental health day definitely a good call by the sounds of. I hope FIL has a smooth recovery & that there's positive news following.
Cally, rainbow theme sounds fantastic, you could do one of those layer cakes (haha I dare you). We've decided we're going to do owls for E's party this year but I am completely confused about what to do party wise. I have no idea who to invite/not invite & there is a group of friendly mummies whose kids are not necessarily the ones that e plays with, but I'm not sure I've got the wherewithal to have 25 kids running around at our place! We've always had much smsller groups for H, but E is a little miss popular so aaaaah I don't know.
Arte - when we were kids, my sister & I used to have parties in alternating years (eg you had a big party once every 2 years) so you could think about doing that? On our non-party years we always had a dinner & cake & games dfc but only with family.
Arte, W's skiing looks amazing! I'm not sure I can even ski that well haha. The flip side of the tiredness is that it will build endurance, all the kids will benefit.
Cally, how is FIL going now?
Well I'm back from my overnight/daytime sleep study - hope I don't have to do that again in a hurry. Sleeping on cue is a challenge!! But obviously not too hard for some of us because I slept in 3/4 naps (2 hours apart). I tried to pump them for info (eg, did I dream?), but the girl got very cagey and kept making allusions to "certain diagnoses" with "ramifications" so TBH I will be surprised if it comes back neg for narc. I tried timing the nap lengths to sneakily work it out (if you fall asleep they let you sleep for exactly 15 mins which the general public is not supposed to know) but I had to turn off my phone so it was all guesses in the end. But I didn't stay for a 5th nap which means I either dreamed at least twice or not at all. Criteria to get meds subsidised is fall asleep in under 10 mins (average) or dream twice.
Next week I find out if I'm the champion dreamer I always thought I was!! LOL
In other breaking news, I took my own advice and took The Little Girl with the Little Curl (ie, when she is bad she is HORRID) down to the drs. Apart from having the revoltingly named molluscum contagiosum (which is harmless & will go away by itself) she also has glue ear. The Dr was looking in her ear and told her to turn around and it was quite obvious in that moment that she didn't hear what the dr said at all. So, yeah, that probably goes a long way to explaining the general horridness lately. Sadly though, there are no treatments (although I have a few of my own theories including one that involves chewing gum) so we'll just have to keep riding this train until it returns to Pleasantville Station in a few weeks/months. The bonus in all this is that I now know which doctor at our regular practice is secretly a paediatrician (win!).
MD, so do you just sort of hang around and nap when you feel like it? And then they wait to see if you have early REM in your nap that you are rudely awakened from?
I think we are sleep opposites - I take ages to get to sleep and almost never nap or dream. In fact, now that I think about it, the last one I remember was 3 months ago when I woke with the fading remnants of a dream and one of those rare moments of clarity and serenity.
I hope the glue ear clears up quickly. At least you have found the reason for her grumpiness.
Cally, yes, the skiing is every Tuesday. He did really well - lasted the whole day with only one graze on his face from crashing into some guy lol. He wasn't even particularly cranky.
Any news yet on your FIL?
No, it's on a very strict schedule. First sleep has to start 2-3 hrs after you wake up & then every 2 hours they lie you down & calibrate the sensors, and then you have to keep your eyes open until the exact minute when the test starts and then they switch off the light & out they go. And then ??? mins later they reappear & haul your sorry ass out of bed juuuuust when you're getting all comfy & snoozy. LOL.
FWIW Arte, dream recall is not always a reliable indicator of whether you are dreaming or not. All the sleep techs think its hilarious because people will say they haven't slept at all when they've slept heaps AND dreamed, other people say they have dreamed who didn't even fall asleep, and one person even fell asleep while they were talking & had rem sleep & woke up again in the middle of saying they hadn't slept at all. LOL. Mind you for the purposes of this exercise a single sleep spindle counts as sleep, so if that's 3 seconds of stage 1, that's still "sleep" for the purposes of the test. So rest assured, you probably do dream, but you just don't wake up during REM.
ETA - if you're still in mummy sleep deprivation land, you probably have REM-rebound where you do MORE dreaming than normal, often earlier in the sleep period. It's like your brain is making up for it. Sometimes this means people remember more dreams but sometimes it means they remember fewer dreams. It's all about when/how you wake up.
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Yeah, I know that the recall isn't a good indicator, but you would think that considering I get woken at random times during the night that at least some of the wakings would interrupt a dream lol. It isn't too bad on the sleep front now. E still wakes most nights but she just brings herself to my bed now and I haul her in. She is a bit wriggly but it is a million times better than it was.
So glad to hear you're getting a bit more nod. Yay for E bringing herself to your cosy kingdom - much better than you getting out of bed and having the cold feet! LOL
Gah. No wait for results. Dr rang today. Turns out I FAILED . No REM sleep (even though I dreamed, only the vivid dreams count as REM). The overnight sleep was better than the last one they recorded & I slept a lot during the naps, BUT I was outside the medication approval zone by .9 of a minute . And I was wrong about the microsleeps. I was popping out microsleeps all over the joint. The diagnostic criteria is that you need to be asleep for a full 15 seconds in each 30 second interval for it to count as sleep so even though I slept all over the place it didn't count. But I told him how they bellowed at me to stay awake when I was drifting off prior to the first test (causing me to wake with a start and then not sleep) and he said there's often a first test effect where people don't sleep because they are unfamiliar with the process. All leading to a recommendation of doing another study because despite failing by a whisker there's plenty of evidence I've got something going on. I just want this to be done already!
0.9 of a minute lol. I hope you sleep those extra few seconds next time round. Sucks you have to do it over. How are your brain meds working for you now? Is there a noticeable improvement in thinking quality?
I am totally procrastinating on my current assignment. Which is dumb, because I am also stressing about how little time I have to do all the course work as well as the big essays this semester. Third year papers definitely take a lot more time and effort than the second year ones. Oh how I miss Chemistry, where a huge 3 page assignment would have included several graphs
FIL definitely has cancer. It was in lymph nodes as well as the main tumour. He is seeing surgeon and oncologist on Monday week. He and MIL were pretty shook up the day they found out, but were in a much better frame of mind when I saw them last night. DH seems to be OK with it, I think he had braced himself for that result last weekend.
MD - what a bummer you failed by such a small amount! Hope the next one goes better (or worse??)
I hardly ever remember dreams. I had one the other night where some guy attempted to attack me while walking home from a house next to DD's school. Woke up with a start then. Can't even remember the last time I dreamed before that. I know I shouldn't, but I'm starting to stress out about daylight savings starting again - last year my sleep wento to crap around that time.
I went and helped out at school again this week - I was in charge of listening to the readers. Is it wrong to be proud of DD being one of the ones that has to get a new one from the Yr 1 room rather than being a stock standard kindy level one??? And I somehow volunteered to be in charge of the rides for the school fete next year. Not sure about that one.....
Congrats trill on being a teacher! Great news.
Hello to everyone else! I am a bit like trill, reading but not posting. Do keep up on on fb though
Mp- are u still keen on ttc or having second thoughts?
Cass- little e is such a cutie! Love all her pics on fb.
TRILL!! Congratulations, awesome rainbow lady! Keep going, you're so close! Love hearing from you. xxx
Ginger, lovely to see you too! Have you recovered from Patrick's funeral etc yet? LOL. At least BB is serving up some entertainment for us now...
Arte - how's it going with E not napping now? Have you been able to reclaim your evenings at all?
Cass - such a relief re E's heart! I know it doesn't make the neuro stuff go away though but all good news is welcome!! You are totally amazing getting all that painting done!! So hope you get an awesome outcome (ie PRICE) lol.
I have no idea what clean eye thingys you are talking about Cass, but last time E had junkyeyetis the dr recommended using saline first off. Which is a change from not long ago when you had to do drops before your kid was allowed to go back to care/school.
BTW I'm all for outsourcing cakes but I'm also a tightarse. Which is why my kids have had shop bought/homemade cakes with plastic decorations artfully arranged on top. ROFL. It tastes the same going down!! I reckon a minion cake would be cool though. Good luck CAss with that ballerina fairy duck party theme!! LOL.
I love the Sylvania Family stuff but E doesn't seem too interested in it. Not sure what she's getting for her birthday yet but she's riffing on the pink lego right now so there will be some of that in there. I would *really* love to get her a kitten... but Puss is such a gracious old lady now I just don't think it would be fair to her.
if you get E a kitten for her birthday you are not allowed to ever tell my girls hahahahahahahaha! that totally wins all 'best ever presents' hands down hahahaha!
Trill: WAHOO!!!!!! that is super awesome awesome stuff! so so cool!
Arte: DH floats in and out on the pages of being in the bad books. today i was such a 90s child and told him to take a chill pill as i stormed off down the hallway lol.
The clean eyes thingo is from the same mob that make the fess saline stuff for noses...
G: aww thanks man! Hey tomorrow my house goes live on the interwebs...check out the magazine on the bed in the pics
AFM: totally spinning...no sleep. last night was my best sleep in months...got 4 hours all in a row. i have 'cured' my sleepiness by polishing off half a bottle of wine with a dear friend and eating tasty food and chatting 'til the cows came home (well, until Miss E woke up lol).
also busy planning Miss Ls birthday party. it is coming up much faster than i can deal with pmsl. must.get.invites.out. will be trying my hand at a rainbow cake and doing my famous and delicious rainbow jelly (thinking of doing small ones in little plastic cups...)
Trill, well done!! When do you finish up with the academic side of it?
Cass, go to auction!!! Please! You will get a better price. Auction frenzy is your friend.
I hear you on the lack of sleep. I had a very small handful of three hour blocks in 2012 and I know exactly how you feel atm. That level of tiredness and then E's health issues and selling/moving makes a very stressful combo. Make sure you look after yourself xx
I am having a night away! One of my best friends from high school is a playwright and has a show on in Wellington. I am going tonight and possibly will stay tomorrow night too should the kids be going alright. Bit concerned about E because I have never left her over night but I am sure DH will manage fine.
Haha, I was going to say Bummer! Cally at staying at work when 2 other people get to go to France! Lol not so bad now we know they are married & it's a holiday. Nice. I hope they send you a postcard at least.
Arte - so pleased you had such a great time. Reconnecting with people is just the very best thing there is! Glad the kidlets behaved themselves - it augurs well for future recreation!
AFM am having a night away from home ... In a luxuriously appointed (NOT) sleep clinic. Ha! Not exactly a weekend away lol. Still, had a great day today @ a writers workshop so that counts for me-time +++.
MD, I hope that you get some better answers this time round at the sleep clinic xx
Cass, how is E going on the seizure front now?
It is a stark contrast hanging out with singles in the city and then coming home to being a country house wife! The amount of time they have! Weekends just to do as they please, sleeping in, wandering into town… it is hard to remember what those days were like.
Cally - it must be tough knowing FIL is going through that. Mental health day definitely a good call by the sounds of. I hope FIL has a smooth recovery & that there's positive news following.
. No REM sleep (even though I dreamed, only the vivid dreams count as REM). The overnight sleep was better than the last one they recorded & I slept a lot during the naps, BUT I was outside the medication approval zone by .9 of a minute 
. And I was wrong about the microsleeps. I was popping out microsleeps all over the joint. The diagnostic criteria is that you need to be asleep for a full 15 seconds in each 30 second interval for it to count as sleep so even though I slept all over the place it didn't count. But I told him how they bellowed at me to stay awake when I was drifting off prior to the first test (causing me to wake with a start and then not sleep) and he said there's often a first test effect where people don't sleep because they are unfamiliar with the process. All leading to a recommendation of doing another study because despite failing by a whisker there's plenty of evidence I've got something going on. 
I just want this to be done already!
that is super awesome awesome stuff! so so cool!
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