Loch Nest's Slip
This is where Loch Nest will be all Summer!
And there's Wil (who turns 69 today) checking out the scene.
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That is still the all-time best name for a boat.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Susan! It works especially well for a boat on a lake (and, after all, I am half Scottish). 😊
DeleteOh, that was me - Susan. Had a wicked blast of insomnia last night which totally ruined my planned schedule for today, and will have a domino effect on plans for the following days. Aaaarrgh! -Susan
ReplyDeleteOhhh, that is my life too. I had one night a few weeks ago when all I got was 2 hours of sleep. I'm at the point where I am just going to go ahead and take naps sometimes, as needed. The doctors and experts all say not to nap so you'll sleep better at night. But I'm pretty sure they're not yet as old as I am. I want to hear from doctors and experts who are in their 80's and 90's and who are women.
DeleteSis' former psychiatrist (now retired) who is in his early eighties always told her that if she was tired, she should nap or go to bed early. He was of the opinion - that makes a lot of sense to me - that there's no reason to stay up if you don't have to.
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Got a scam call on my cell phone (a number I guard zealously) inviting me to complete my application for a job at Home Depot! -Susan
ReplyDeleteOh goodie. Lucky you. :P
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Delete(Susan) my comments keep getting disappeared before they are published. Still think it might be my Keychron keyboard's fault. I nap most days. When my body is exhausted and I can feel it I give myself a break. I try to get naps before 5 p.m. and it usually doesn't keep me from sleeping. Don't know what went wrong last night. .
ReplyDeleteI read somewhere, some years ago, that one should not nap after 4PM. To be able to sleep well at night.
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That's what they say. My own experience is that forcing yourself to stay awake throughout the day and evening in order to be able to sleep at night does not work. No matter how exhausted I am, getting into bed seems to flip some switch that turns my brain to ON. Sometimes I'm so exhausted I actually get sick to the stomach, but still I just can't go to sleep. Often I don't drift off till after daylight. Thank God I don't have to get up and go to work! As it is, I'm tired all the time and pretty woolly-minded, headachey and depressed. Have a hard time getting anything done. It's lousy.
DeleteThe thing with my sleep, which I never see experts address, is that I have to get up around four times a night. Sometimes I fall back asleep quickly, other times I will half-doze fitfully for an hour or two. It's probably 10 hours before I get up for breakfast and then I nap in the afternoon. But I'm generally rested when I need to be.
DeleteMy urology PA informs me that getting up three or four times a night is considered normal in her practice, the implication being that I shouldn't bitch about it. It doesn't seem all that normal to me. As you say, Bill, the problem isn't so much the getting up per se as the chancy matter of getting back to sleep.
DeleteThanks for all the comments, folks! I think it's interesting that the doctors and experts whose focus is psychology find napping to be normal and helpful. It seems so much that it's the docs whose focus is primarily longevity, to keep our bodies alive as long as possible, don't always factor in mental health sufficiently.
DeleteOne of the seekers i sit with is a retired psychologist who often gets up during the night and can't get back to sleep, so has made a practice of going to the guest room and reading for an hour or so before going back to bed.
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