Insomnia update: (1) Ooops, I crossed the streams with my last post — I had been posting about my brother's relapse in Bitches, not here. But most of us read both threads, right? And (2) When I went to bed at 11:00 (9:00 Colorado time), there was no further update from my brother's friends, other than to say that Friend 1, who had been there most of the day, was going home but her partner (Friend 2) was staying with my brother overnight and was going to keep trying to get my brother to go to the hospital. Friend 1 gave me her partner's cell number and gave him mine, but I haven't gotten any further updates.

I don't know how much they've been able to communicate with my SiL (phone or text), because she's been in Costa Rica ( t edit and also Colombia?) for work. She does get home this evening (Saturday). What a shitshow to come home to. God.

Back to bed with me.

What good friends he has. That is a good sign. I totally get why you can't sleep though, becsudr I often cant sleep.

I always read both Bitches and Natter, but mostly post in Natter and lurk in Bitches, Weird of me, I guess.

I've been up since 5am on a Saturday. Such is the life of a figure skating fan. I'd go back to bed for the ice dance competition, but I've coffeed already this morning.

I have my Thanksgiving weekend schedule. 3:0 PM to 1 am Thanksgiving. 1 PM to 10:30 Friday and fucking 9:30 am to whatever on Sat. I live about 25 minutes from work. I am going to see if there is anyway that can be changed especially since it's my 2nd Friday night/Sat morning in a row.

I am willing to work nearly 10 hours each of those days just not close and then open.

Please I am begging all of you if anyone you are spending Thanksgiving with talksabout going shopping please try to talk them out of it.

Remind them that there are people working 10 or more hours ON Thanksgiving and many at minimum wage or just above it. Some will only get a half hour break that during their shifts. Also to be nice to anyone working that weekend and stand up for employees if other customers are bullying them/berating them. Often retail employees can't do anything or say anything and some store managers will just side with the customer no matter what.

If this Black Friday weekend is like last year at my store there will be customers who cuss out employees, throw merchandise AT employees, insult us or deliberately try to make our job harder.

That is terrible. It sound like things have changed since I worked retail. The customers were still sometimes terrible, but Black Friday was sort of joyous. I made time and a half, so I liked the extra hours. Thanksgiving was a paid holiday.

When I worked grocery, it was the day before Thanksgiving that was nutty.

I get Thanksgiving OFF! My first paid holiday in... I'm not sure. But a lot.

I had a terrible night of intermittent insomnia, and concomitant fretting over a bad situation of at least 14 years ago that I kept up thinking of things that I could have done and didn't think of at the time.

I screwed up and now it's going to be a terrible weekend. I can't wait until Monday. I'm such a fucking waste of a person and I feel so goddam miserable physically and mentally right now. I just wish it could all stop.

That sucks Theo. I just dreamt the locksmith came back and painted my bathroom and charged me a huge amount!

I won't lie that the paid holiday helped And there were a few years where I got paid holidays at both jobs, plus time and a half for working at Penney's. It was good Christmas money.

I am a little at loose ends today, but have decided to clean out my closet so Aidan can take things to the curb again.

Gudanov. Do you have an employee assistance program at work where you can talk to someone? Mine really rescued me when I felt like the biggest screw up in the last few weeks. I think you should try. It is terrible to feel like this, and they are usually free. It was so hard to call, but they got me a counselor on the phone right away and then someone gave up their lunch hour to fit me in.

Timelies all!

Mr. S is having a meltdown because Gary won't let him watch something on Gary's tablet. Mr. S has been watching tv since early this morning, so he needs a break. Of course he doesn't see it that way. sigh...