It is lovely and sunny here although this picuture does not do justic to it.
Happy Belated Earth Day!
Little Miss Coco has an appointment with her Doctor’s tomorrow for her annual check up and booster injections! She will love being out with Daddy but not so happy after her injections!!!
I am out at Eldest’s work tomorrow, I have been doing Home jobs here today, as well as our work and then at the weekend we are going to get some of our Spring cleaning done and Saturday evening we have friends coming for dinner. Sunday will be another day for Spring cleaning! The weather over the next few days is going to be lovely and sunny and warm during the day but cold at night, so much so that we will be scraping the truck windows in the morning and no doubt have the heating on in the evening! It is just that time of year!!!!!
The only bit of social media I take part in, besdies my Blog, is Instagram and I am very mindful of who I follow. However one account is about health and they had a post the other day about people waking up between 2.0am and 4.00am every night. For anyone who has followed me for a while knows that I go through periods of this and then it stops for no reason. I do the same things most days so have never understood why I go through these periods and put it down to Menopause etc. Anyway they said it was because the brain should be resting and repairing itself during the night but people who wake up, their brain is in threat-scanning mode, replaying what has happened during the day, what is going on tomorrow etc.
They came up with a technique. If you wake up, lie there and think about random numbers not in order so : 34, 98 2, 54, 12 etc. Doesn’t matter what numbers they are so long as they are random and you think them do not same them. You can also think of random things; Train, chair, suitcase etc. What this does is interrupt the brain’s default mode, by focusing on random meaningless input, you give your brain nothing to analyse or worry about. It therefore calms down, feels safe and sleep occurs.
Over the last few days I have tried this when I have woken up. I have not looked at my clock or my phone and just lay there with my eyes closed and did the number count and do you know? It worked! So I am going to do this every time now. The only thing I have noticed over the last two days is that I have worken up in the morning when our alarm has gone off feeling tired, but I have put this down to catching up on sleep!!!! I will let you know how it goes!
Happy Thursday you Lovely Lot. Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xx
I need to give this exercise a try. Duke and I go out for business around 1am and sometimes, it’s hard getting back to sleep because I start planning my day. Our weather is the same – the heat is off in the daytime and we need it back on in the morning as it’s coolish at night – still.
We had a hard freeze last week and I was so glad I waited to turn on my sprinkler system!! Grass is brown with clumps of green. Need to mow it! Your garden looks lovely and green. Sage went for his rabies shot and he was so excited to meet new people that he didn’t notice the shot! It was lovely. Coco is looking glam as always! xo FQ
I need to give this exercise a try. Duke and I go out for business around 1am and sometimes, it’s hard getting back to sleep because I start planning my day. Our weather is the same – the heat is off in the daytime and we need it back on in the morning as it’s coolish at night – still.
We had a hard freeze last week and I was so glad I waited to turn on my sprinkler system!! Grass is brown with clumps of green. Need to mow it! Your garden looks lovely and green. Sage went for his rabies shot and he was so excited to meet new people that he didn’t notice the shot! It was lovely. Coco is looking glam as always! xo FQ