Many, many years ago I worked in the food service business (restaurant) and I was the closer. I rarely got home before midnight. I hated trying to go to bed then. Just because I was off work didn't mean that my body was ready to sleep. It generally took several hours after a shower to finally get the mind and body to work together to finally sleep.

Here I am many, many years later and it is 3:00 a.m. and I am UP! This is so discouraging.

I have been a night person my entire life. 1:00 am here. I will be up for another couple hours hoping the house cools down a bit more. The heat wave has ended but the humidity shot sky high today.

Apparently I can't seek relief outside or I would be sleeping out there. I thought it was mosquitoes. On further research it appears my right hand and arm has been attacked by noseeums. Wasn't even aware they were around here. Guess it's the humidity bringing them out. I look like I am suffering from some horrid skin condition.

Ah Marilyn I have been thinking about you hoping things would improve a bit day by day. You can't be superwoman all the time. I hope you and Jody reach out and take any help that becomes available. You've done so much for others. Take your turn.

I finally got up about 5:45. Been awake for a while. Charlotte gets up at 7, and leaves for work at 7:30. I try to be quiet till 7. I almost made it by now. ;)

Sort of hate telling I am getting a new to me washing machine, after reading about Marilyn's. Mine came with the house, but is sooo annoying.. it doesn't take enough water on, to make all the laundry wet. I always have to add buckets of water. Mel's wife got all new appliances, and I bought the old washing machine from them. I get it today.

Then a load of laundry, work in the yard, finally bake a big batch of cookies I need to the bike event on the weekend... and it's my turn the cook.

No, I am not baking today, I am just making the dough.

Moni

Oklamoni, I remember you talking about getting a roommate. How is it working out?

I was up early too. Yesterday I made homemade noodles and cooked some chicken. Today I out it together to take out to my BFF family for when they come back to the farm. Now I am doing housework.

Marilyn, I hope it's not your appendix. Please get checked out if the pain doesn't improve. I'm sorry you have to stay with such a difficult person, with whom you've been very generous. Sorry too that the both of you are having such pain. I guess there's not much to be done for Jody's... Does he take one of the nerve-pain drugs? Though it seems to me they can have some unpleasant side-effects.

Moni, I'm so glad your roommate is working out very well!

I have always been a night owl, from my preteen years. I love the feeling of getting up in the early morning but I don't usually do it unless I have to for work. My old nursing job was dayshift, which meant getting up a 5 am. That was hard. Usually on my days off I still managed to stay up till 2 or 3 am. Not very smart. My new job I go in on weekends at 8:30 am so don't having to get up till 6:30 or so...still hard for me.

Marilyn, I used to get chest pain and abdominal pain at work, at my other job. I'm pretty sure it was stress related. Being a nurse, though, I would tell YOU to go to the doctor just to be sure it wasn't heart related. Women have different symptoms than men do when they have heart attacks, the pain isn't always in their chest and they will have other, non-pain symptoms. ME, I usually just ignored it and hoped it went away. I've only been to the ER once for chest pain.

Moni, I don't like my new washer for that reason too, it's a water saving/power saving one. If you wash bedding or towels sometimes the top stuff is still dry?!!!! I try and build up the stuff on the sides because it is supposed to sense whatever you're washing and only fill up that much water. Not water/power saving if you have to rewash the load. Then it takes forever to wash. Drives me nuts.

I've worked so many late hour jobs or even 12 hour night-shifts! I "was" sooooooooo sleep deprived back then. I "love" going to bed early!

I did my 8 miles. Ate a can of soup. Have to dump the truck load of branches I cut down yesterday, so I can start landscaping the yard of one of my rentals tomorrow.

Charlotte and I have not run in to a snag, but we haven't lived here together for long.

Kath, I ALWAYS put at the very least two buckets of water in that darn machine. I hope, whoever ends up buying it will be ok with it. I advertised it on craigslist as a extreme water saving mode. :)

Moni

Kathsgardn - I've only had Maytag in my lifetime and bought a new energy efficient model when we bought this house, bout 4 years ago. I'd almost kill to have the one I left in the house we sold ;0) Given the neighborhood and proximity to school and park, I was trying to attract a young start-up family with my listing and everything needed already in the house. It sold immediately to a downsizing couple almost my age ;0( I should have taken my freezer, washer, dryer.

I never use the normal cycle, there's no water in it. Bulky has water, so does Hand Wash. The Whites cycle does a great job, but I've got a laundry sink right next to the washer and I add about 4 half gal pitchers of hot water to dry clothes before starting the machine, I assume like Moni does. The machine 'senses' a much heavier bigger load and adds its own hot water accordingly.

Adding to the washing machine dying thread today but here: My BIL tired of his new Maytag too. He gave it to his church and bought a GE Deep Fill, not expensive. Stainless tub, a real agitator, and it has an optional button that overrides the energy efficient settings and fills the tub to the brim. Understanding though for the price, it's probably not going to last forever.

I'm sorry for everyone finding themselves nightowls when they don't wish to be.

Marilyn, I hope you feel better soon and this is just stress....you've got good reason to be stressed for sure. On top of everything else, I don't think I'd do well in someone else's home. Too set in my ways, and I need to be left alone first thing in the morning, I don't want people around, phone, anything to interrupt my beginning to the day. Do you have a Fema appointment. They've got to be jammed, any idea when they might be coming?