Fun and Games

[przed]

In the past week:

I have started getting hot flashes (and I know my friend have told me they suck, but, man, they really suck; like they're-messing-up-my-sleep-big-time suck)

Had my far-too-old laptop finally die on me, taking two hours at an Apple genius bar and half a day of wiping and reinstalling and restoring to get it working again (I've now ordered the new machine I meant to get six months ago, lest it die on me again)

I've got my fingers crossed the universe doesn't have any other little surprises stored up for me.

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[msmoat]

Oh, dear. I'm afraid I laughed at the first bullet point. Yes, well, been there, done that, still doing that. *g* (Sleep is the worst. Not so bad when you're out on a run during the winter, though!)

Heh, and my MacBook Pro is now...6 years old. I keep backing it up, waiting for it to die, but it is still chugging along. Yay and boo all in one. *g* I hope you like your new machine!

[przed]

I got the first flash when I was in the middle of teaching, and in a room that's infamous for being like a refrigerator. That was a shocker. In the daytime, they're more inconvenient than anything, but they're really, seriously messing with my sleep. I was in this great routine of getting to bed early, and waking up at 5:30 (without an alarm!) to get an hour of writing in before anyone else in the house was up. It was wonderful! Now, I'm dragging my butt out of bed at the last minute to get to work sort of on time, and my writing is stalled. And I have a deadline! And I wanted to sign up for another BB if I got the current story done early! :(

My laptop will be 8 years old this fall, so it doesn't owe me anything. I'm hoping to keep it chugging along, too, since Ros is waiting in the wings to inherit it when I get the new one. I've ordered a new MacBook Pro 13". It looks like a nice little machine.

[ci5mates]

Yeah they suck alright but they don't last forever, you can hang onto that thought through those long sleepless nights :)

I hope you've backed up your old laptop, that would be another little surprise you could do with out, I nearly learn't the hard way!

[przed]

My mum didn't get them at all, so I was hoping I'd be spared. I wouldn't mind, except for the sleep issues.

I do back ups, (at work, I'm the one who reminds people to do that!) but it had been a while. Fortunately, I put all my writing on dropbox, and the Apple genius guy helped me recover the one file that would have changed (Marvel fan art!) so I didn't really lose anything. And have sworn to go back to a weekly backup sked.

[gwyn]

I feel you on the hot flashes (and, augh, the computer dying). At one point, I was only having migraines when the perimenopause hit, and so Sandy called me names and muttered darkly because I wasn't having hot flashes--I said I'd gladly trade her. Ha ha ha ha. I'm not so sure now that I would--they're so miserable and disruptive, aren't they?

[przed]

I've been getting migraines once a month for years, and that finally seems to be letting up, so that's one possible positive for this whole menopause thing. But the hot flashes are another thing.

I don't find the flashes themselves too horrible, but the sleep disruption is wretched. And just when I'd got into a sleep schedule that was working great for me doing creative work in the morning. Now, I'm a barely coherent mess in the morning.

At least the computer has been halted in its death throes with little to no loss of data, and its replacement should be winging its way to me soon.

[st_crispins]

Here is the cure for hot flashes:

https://www.amazon.com/Natrol-Complete-Balance-Formula-Menopause/dp/B001HCOFQU/ref=pd_sim_121_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B001HCOFQU&pd_rd_r=E6DH4FK758BRXF7ZA4Y3&pd_rd_w=fBNS5&pd_rd_wg=42sOK&psc=1&refRID=E6DH4FK758BRXF7ZA4Y3

Started taking 3 day formula in morning and 3 night formula before bed when I was just starting menopause [my period went nuts]

Been taking them ever since even though menopause is largely over.

No hot flashes ever.

[przed]

Thanks for the rec. Will definitely gives these a try. (My sleep is beginning to even out--I guess I'm getting used to the hot flashes--but who knows how long that will last.)

[halotolerant]

Ugh how annoying! Glad to read above that sleep is improving a bit, hope that continues *g*

[przed]

Very annoying. The sleep is gradually getting better, but I may try some natural supplements to hurry it along.