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- Go to A bathroom break in the 'middle' of the night? I'll take it!
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Well, again, shamasehar, that would be only if I had trouble falling back to sleep, which I almost never do. My whole point of contention is trying to get through the night without having to wake up in the first place! But, when ya gotta, ya gotta! And not looking at my clock is next to impossible. I just have to know what time it is! It's almost reactionary. Sometimes discouraging, but reactionary . . . 
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JimmyA
on June 20, 2014 at 5:45 AM
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Believe it or not, jean, there are times when all of us need to sit in order to 'visit nature,' and yes, I can see your eyelids slowly creeping closed while in that position. But as long as you complete what you're there to do, taking a quick 'cat nap' while doing it never hurt anybody . . .
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JimmyA
on June 20, 2014 at 5:41 AM
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Well, for us, Kabu, it was 4 boys and 2 girls, a nice balance I guess. But even if it was 6 boys or 6 girls, or any combination thereof, I still can't fathom how my parents did it . . . 
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JimmyA
on June 20, 2014 at 5:37 AM
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Perhaps, chuck, but it would be difficult for me to say whether or not any of that writing would be worth a damn when I reviewed it later after 'fully' waking up. Not sure of anyone's best work being done at 6:00 in the morning . . .
posted by
JimmyA
on June 20, 2014 at 5:35 AM
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Well yes at times you curse the PeePee Gods for being so ruthless but I too have perfected the art of going back to sleep(don't look at the watch 😜)Maybe you could borrow a book or two from Nautikos.....😊
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shamasehar
on June 19, 2014 at 11:52 PM
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lol jimmy
i am lucky i sit to pee, and have actually dosed off while sitting.
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jeansaw
on June 19, 2014 at 8:13 PM
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LOL, neither do I...I always wanted 7 boys until I had one...and then two...and ouch!! that was enough!!!
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Kabu
on June 19, 2014 at 7:30 PM
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You can take advantage of the situation by use the time for writing.
posted by
Chuck_E_Ibrahim
on June 19, 2014 at 5:25 PM
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Your method is probably sound, Naut, but falling back to sleep was never really the issue. If, at the beginning of my night's slumber I have difficulty falling asleep, then yes, I might pick up a relatively boring book and knock myself out. But at 4:30 in the morning, I wouldn't want to put a light on, even a small one, to read anything! I just softly curse the Pee Pee Gods for waking me in the first place, put my head back on that pillow, and the rest, as they say, is history . . . 
ZZZZZ
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JimmyA
on June 19, 2014 at 1:02 PM
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Jimmy
It happens to me on occasion, but I have a method for rapidly nodding off again: among the books by my bed I have one or two that are so boring that they make me fall asleep anytime I read them - it never fails...
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Nautikos
on June 19, 2014 at 7:47 AM
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No, C C T, I don't plan on actually studying this phenomenon, nor do I need exact numbers. Let me put it this way: once during the night is probably too much! And those gussunders may have saved people a trip to a bathroom ( or an outhouse ) but I personally would find it very difficult to fall back to sleep while the odors of a 'full' gussunder wafted just under my nose! Seven pints? Just one would be more than enough to put me over the edge! I guess a full night's sleep is overrated anyway . . .
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JimmyA
on June 19, 2014 at 7:09 AM
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That I can do, Sir Wiley, that I can do. I don't suppose it's going to get any better. I'm just thankful that our bathroom is literally right across the hall from our bed. I can roll out, take that 10 foot trek, do what I have to do, and return in less than two minutes! The trick will soon be, remembering to get out of bed . . . !
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JimmyA
on June 19, 2014 at 7:05 AM
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I can understand her angst, Bill, especially if it's 4:30 in the morning! When the Pee Pee Gods call in the middle of the night, you not only have to be 'precise,' you have to sometimes be quiet too . . .
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JimmyA
on June 19, 2014 at 7:02 AM
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I believe I can understand that, Kabu, although I don't have any children. Moms ( and dads ) are sometimes called upon to sleep with one eye and one ear open during the night, just in case. To this day, I still don't know how my parents did it raising six of us! God bless 'em . . .
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JimmyA
on June 19, 2014 at 7:01 AM
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It is kinda cruel, isn't it, FSI? I mean, wake me up at 4:30 if you have to, but let me get some more sleep afterward! I don't know if those times are random or not, just inconvenient . . . 
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JimmyA
on June 19, 2014 at 6:58 AM
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Well it did not seem to be a problem in the olden days Jimmy when everyone had a gussunder. I mean if you have seven pints before you settle down, it is bound to form a cascade of needed relief eventually. I will begin counting if you are going to study this subject.
posted by
C_C_T
on June 18, 2014 at 10:48 PM
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JimmyA
Wait for when you're my age JimmyA
posted by
WileyJohn
on June 18, 2014 at 8:32 PM
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JimmyA
I have to knock on the kitchen door entryway to the bathroom in the house I rent a few rooms downstairs, and the landlord's particuklar about yelling her name or knocking too much.
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BC-A
on June 18, 2014 at 3:49 PM
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Oh some nights I am up and down like a set of steps...but as I have no intention of starting my day until I am ready I just go back to La la land...Actually... having small children then Grandchildren, I learned how to get out of bed and tend to the needs of the child, then go straight back to sleep.
posted by
Kabu
on June 18, 2014 at 1:51 PM
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I feel like the Pee Pee Gods are pulling random times out of a hat. They can wake me up any time from an hour after falling asleep to one hour before it is time to get up...I feel the exact same way when the Pee Pee Gods wake me up so close to the time I am supposed to get out of bed.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on June 18, 2014 at 11:41 AM
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