Finally I have a mortgage I can start to pay off!

QueenJess

I hope you are feeling better.  I've had a difficult couple of weeks too... something to do with the end of the year being close, more darkness, pregnancy tiredness and just general fatigue with life and work rubbish!  To be fair, I think I feel similar this time every year and given this year is much more tricky for almost everyone, it's not surprising.  I'm trying to concentrate on little things to be excited about and get me through at the moment (lots of them seem to include baking...).

Hang in there!

Busy_Mee

Another one here who could join the 3 am party. I get off to sleep OK but wake up in the middle of the night and promptly start working through my menu of worries. I then fall back to sleep for maybe an hour and then have to wake up feeling grotty. I had put this down to a habit that I had fallen into rather than connecting it to the time of year or SAD.

 I have even tried taking anti-histamines a couple of nights to see if I can break the habit. It worked  for that night but then started again when I didn't take them.
 
Very annoying and makes me very grumpy. I am having to be very conscious of my reactions to some of the idiots at work. Counting to 10 a lot or silently rolling my eyes 

greent

I'm another member of the not-sleeping-brilliantly- club at the moment- awake at 4.40 something this morning and didn't get back off so gave up and got up (and put heating on early as a result!)

Morning, Vix - I've been reading the whole of your diary for the last week or so and have finally just gor up to date, so thought I'd say hi x

newgirly

Hope you are doing ok Vix?  🙂

the_cross_rabbit

Hi Vix hope Christmas preparations are going well and your ok
CRx

Karmacat

Same from me, hope all is as well as it can be  

themadvix

Thanks lovely people. I'm OK, just busy and struggling a bit with the combination of time of year, Covid restrictions and other stuff. But this too shall pass and we will get through it, one way or another. I'd like to say I'm on top of things MS-wise, but at the moment it just seems to be spend, spend, spend (although Christmas presents, which are the majority of this, are largely budgeted for). Clicks are being done, and surveys. Need to get out and do some in-person shopping (the random gifty consumables etc.) but struggling to face the thought of inside, steamed up mask-itis. Just CBA with it!

Karmacat

Thanks for giving us an update, madvix.  I'm not surprised you hate the idea of masking up and doing Christmas shopping in presumably hottish shops.  All the best with it all - we're rooting for you  

Busy_Mee

Glad you are OK. I must admit that I have ordered everything on line and just decided to suck up the delivery charges this year. I just can't face the shops. I will probably do a couple of trips to the Supermarket for food, but that will be it.

CathT

Hi Vix, just catching up. It's a strange old end to the year isn't it. I can't believe the nights will start drawing out again next week. It's been such a strange year I feel like I don't quite know where I am in the year. Feels a bit surreal that the nights are going to tart getting lighter when it doesn't feel like we've had dark evenings for that long. (this concept makes much more sense in my head!)