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[Lavande]

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Wednesday greetings Nesters,

We had sun today but it’s still very windy with a wind chill that just makes you want to stay home, haha!

NS, i think we will be better off in the long run having more daylight. Going to bed at 7 pm is for babies & old people LOL

Battle, sorry to hear about the problems tolerating your pain med. can you get back in touch with the doctor & request a replacement? I sure would!
Hang in there :hug:

Wags, greta being your own boss, don’t you think?

Hello to all & wishing a safe night in the nest for everyone.

Lav

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Battle, making it to 4 weeks with all you have going is really impressive! You have proved to yourself that you don't need drugs or booze to handle the downs of life. Keep doing what you're doing!!

Lav, the whole country is 10 degrees chillier than normal. I'm ready for spring! The longer days are great but when it stays light past 6, I forget to start dinner. In winter I'd be happy to eat at 5:30 and go to bed at 7!!

[wagmor]

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Wow great to see so many posts here in the nest!

NS - The ability to control my schedule (for the most part) is one of the biggest perks of being self-employed. I will definitely be grateful when the weather is nice in a couple of months that I can work about half-time. I can totally relate to your comment about TV during the day.

Lav - Spring can arrive any time it wants!

Steady - so good to see you

Ava - glad to hear Carl is healing up so well. Hope Bindi's procedure tomorrow goes smoothly and the diabetes becomes less of an issue. Your puppers (and YOU) will probably be so glad when these rough times are behind you all.


Hump day is here again and I hope you all have great ones!

[Battle_for_the_sun]

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Hi all, another quick in, busy day, my anxiety/ocd has decided my asthma isn't compatible with my pain meds so that's a new challenge, the one thing I can take and now I can't take it. Just keeps getting better.

Day 28 today.

[Lavande]

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Good evening Nesters,

So we got very little rain but we did get a whole ton of wind, geez. The wind chill feels like single digits, ugh. Today is PI day so I made a cabbage pie to celebrate haha!!

Ava, glad everyone is coming along OK. Give Carl a hug for me
I love my pressure cooker, quick to cook & simple to clean up afterwards. I’m enjoying the slightly longer days already, tired of the darkness.

Steady, sorry your post went missing, it happens. Good to see you!

Wags, hope your day went well.

Mulburry, I have a small TV in my kitchen just for background noise mostly while I’m cooking. We live in an area where I can’t get good radio stations so the TV helps me feel like there are people around.

Battle, glad your research is going well.
Sometimes you get better relief when you take the pain meds on a regular schedule instead of waiting until the pain is so severe. I used to encourage my postop patients to take their meds before going to PT &V it usually helped them a lot. I hope you can figure something out for better, more consistent pain relief.

Hello to all & wishing everyone a safe night in the nest!

Lav

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Evening nesters

Glad to see everyone is doing well.

I love DLS but i think its ending this Sunday, more darkness, not a fan, i could live with it 12 months of the year. We have one State in Australia that doesnt have DLS which is a stupid state ha ha.

Carl is getting better each day, he is weight bearing more now so that is good, still very quiet which isnt a bad thing. Bindi gets her desexing tomorrow so another big day and hopefully her diabetes will become more controlled. Thankfully i have enough crates in the house to put all of these dogs.

NS i feel guilty watching tv during the day, feel as if i should be doing something and never feel as if i have done enough during the day. Stupid really as i am sure i do enough.

Lav, send us some rain, it is so dry here atm.

Went and gave blood today so have done my good deed. I bought a slow cooker/pressure cooker and a great investment, cooks a casserole and soup in 30 minutes. My life is complete!

take care xx

[STEADFAST]

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I just posted but it all vanished when I hit "post"! :cuss:

An abridged version:

Hello everyone, been reading back, happy to see people strong in their quits. Special mention to [MENTION=24768]Battle_for_the_sun[/MENTION] on staying the course despite challenges on many fronts - well done!

Keep on it, folks.

Steady
x

[wagmor]

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Mulburry - I totally agree, I love having it light later and it would be especially beneficial during winter. I'm in one of those western US states so I know what you mean about the stalling on the plans to switch to permanent DST. Sigh...

Battle - thanks for sharing all of that. It all sounds fascinating even as a person who does not identify with most of those. Glad you're finding it to be therapeutic.


Hellos and waves to everyone. Hope your weeks are all off to great starts!

[Mulburry]

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I always feel weird when I watch TV in the daytime - it kind of makes me feel like I'm sick because normally that is the only time I would do it.

I don't watch TV in the daytime too much but when I do, I watch something educational (nature, documentary etc.), makes it feel like I'm not wasting the day, haha.

Re; OCD - they say its a spectrum. I've journeyed back and forth on it - at my worst 9 months indoors, couldn't leave the house, cleaning everything, hours and hours a day. Now it's mostly checking things, doors, lights, I have counting routines to make sure it's done - good day you'd hardly notice, bad day? I show up late because I can't stop checking my door, checking everything's switched off, checking I packed everything.

I'm not bad with double checking (maybe a tiny bit), or cleaning (if anything the opposite, haha), the compulsive things for me a really minor, like things being in a certain place (sometimes symetrical), keeping volume numbers even... nothing that really has much negative impact on my life, luckily (but I do recognize the elements). Obsessive thoughts can be an issue sometimes though, when things go around and round in your head and it's hard to shut them down.

[Battle_for_the_sun]

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Evening

Another day of good research, still in pain, taking pills as little as i can manage but today I maxed out what I can have, seems nothing works for it, resting, exercising, everything in between. Nothing to be done.

Re; OCD - they say its a spectrum. I've journeyed back and forth on it - at my worst 9 months indoors, couldn't leave the house, cleaning everything, hours and hours a day. Now it's mostly checking things, doors, lights, I have counting routines to make sure it's done - good day you'd hardly notice, bad day? I show up late because I can't stop checking my door, checking everything's switched off, checking I packed everything.

[Lavande]

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Good Monday evening Nesters,

More rain in the forecast so i’m starting to think about some actual spring cleaning Lol. Not much else to do anyway.

Wags, after all these winter storms I’m sure you’re thinking about spring & nicer weather too. Hang in there, spring is right around the corner

Battle, we live in a farming community & most of the farmers are Amish. They don’t believe in daylight savings time so they don’t change their clocks. They take lanterns out in their fields to get an early start every day, so strange. Hope you’re comfortable so you can focus on your work.

Hi Mulburry!

NS, a little OCD isn’t a bad thing. Better than having to worry if you left the stove on or something, right?

Hello to all & wishing everyone a safe night in the nest!

Lav

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I'm a fan of DST and would like to stay here all year! Despite liking the change, I was a total slug all day yesterday until I finally dragged my sorry self to bed at 9pm. It didn't help that our weather is chilly and gray and I had no desire to get out. Spent the afternoon binging Call of Duty. I always feel weird when I watch TV in the daytime - it kind of makes me feel like I'm sick because normally that is the only time I would do it. Glad I have some commitments today to get me out and about!!

I bet you will thank yourself for the free time you'll have this summer, Wags. It is nice to have a career over which you have some control.

Good to see you, Ava! Those pups are so lucky to have you.

Interesting research, Mulberry. I've got a touch of OCD which my family teases me about but I think it is good to need to dee-double-check some things! Leaving the house for a prolonged absence is the main trigger for the behavior but needing to verify that the garage door is down after I've driven about a block is a common one. I realize all of that is very trivial in terms of the condition but it gives me a glimpse into the thinking of people who truly struggle with it. I hope what you are learning for your research is helpful to you.

Let's have a good week, Nesters!

[Mulburry]

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Today was a good day, even though an hour shorter due to daylight saving time starting. I wonder if we will ever get off the teeter-totter of switching back and forth. Does the rest of the world even use daylight saving time anymore? I know it probably depends on the country (and even here some states don't do it).

People tend to rail against DST, but IMO it's the time change that's the problem not DST; it's very nice to have an extra hour of daylight I find, and would be nice in the winter too when the sun goes down at 4pm. BC was actually all ready to switch to DST year-round but they wanted to stay in sync with the western US states, and the stupid US has stalled on their plans to do the same for years now.

Wags - the main thing I'm finding interesting on a personal, non-project level, is the connections between OCD and other conditions - its apparently very common in autism (which I have) is often comorbid with eating disorders (me again) and both OCD and autism may be more common in children of people with biploar and schizophrenia (which I also am). It's also helping me evaluate other behaviours and memories and realise things which were early signs that I hadn't realised. Both great for the project and very therapeutic.

Ya that would be an interesting topic. I have some OCD and I also believe I'm somewhere on the mild end of the bi-polar spectrum (never diagnosed), and I can definitely see some connection there especially as relates to anxiety and mood swings. I'm more on the obsessive, than compulsive end of OCD and I can see how obsessive thought patterns especially can exacerbate these other issues.

[Battle_for_the_sun]

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Evening all,

Still using daylight savings in the uk, our hellish clock change is coming up at the end of the month (last sunday of march) and I am dreading it, I'm already not a morning person.

Wags - the main thing I'm finding interesting on a personal, non-project level, is the connections between OCD and other conditions - its apparently very common in autism (which I have) is often comorbid with eating disorders (me again) and both OCD and autism may be more common in children of people with biploar and schizophrenia (which I also am). It's also helping me evaluate other behaviours and memories and realise things which were early signs that I hadn't realised. Both great for the project and very therapeutic.

[wagmor]

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Lav - glad you enjoyed your quiet rainy Sunday. I agree about one day to rest/play not being enough. I just keep reminding myself that I'm working hard now so I can have a lighter schedule June-Aug when the weather is best. Might even be able to extend that to a May start and/or Sept end if I keep up the pace I've been at so far this year.


Today was a good day, even though an hour shorter due to daylight saving time starting. I wonder if we will ever get off the teeter-totter of switching back and forth. Does the rest of the world even use daylight saving time anymore? I know it probably depends on the country (and even here some states don't do it).

Hope everyone had good weekends and that this coming week starts off well for all.