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Mario Chavez (X) 
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| Hats' off to you! | Apr 29, 2014 |
Angelique Blommaert wrote:
As a mother of 5 and having a partner with PTSD, I somehow have to organize my work around them. My toddlers are tough, as is my partner. I love the serenity of the night, no phonecalls, hardly any emails. I sleep as soon the 8 o'clock movie starts and around eleven I get up to work. I take naps during the night and during the day I am that cake baking mom, and the hard worker with her own business. In the military I worked the exact same way.
What can I say? You organize your time very well. Yay for naps!
| | | | | It used to happen more often | Apr 29, 2014 |
due to unforeseen circumstances. Even when I had everything under control, a sudden call from school that one of my daughters had done something that required a trip to the ER, or I had forgot to mark a teacher's conference on my calendar, or a stomach bug that hit the whole family, would inevitably set me back quite a few hours. Sometimes even a couple of days. In those cases pulling an all-nighter would be the only way to meet my deadline.
Nowadays with almost adult kids (and onl... See more due to unforeseen circumstances. Even when I had everything under control, a sudden call from school that one of my daughters had done something that required a trip to the ER, or I had forgot to mark a teacher's conference on my calendar, or a stomach bug that hit the whole family, would inevitably set me back quite a few hours. Sometimes even a couple of days. In those cases pulling an all-nighter would be the only way to meet my deadline.
Nowadays with almost adult kids (and only one one living at home) it happens rarely, and usually as a result of computer trouble.
However, if I see the need arise, I'll make sure to sleep an hour at least, in the afternoon, to make sure my brain keeps working until I'm done. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Emma Williams
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| More often than I'd like.... | Apr 29, 2014 |
I am a mum to two young kids and so I have no choice but to work around them - there also doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to do everything (school run, nappies, food, housework, etc) so I have to do what I can overnight (laptop in bed).
I look forward to when my youngest is in nursery and I can work during the day again and sleep during the night - just 16 months to go!!
| | | | Ty Kendall
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Mario Chavez (X)
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I thought Hypnos was the god of trance music.
[Edited at 2014-04-30 01:26 GMT]
| | | | Ty Kendall
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:40
Hebrew to English
| Trance Music | Apr 30, 2014 |
Mario Chavez wrote: I thought Hypnos was the god of trance music. [Edited at 2014-04-30 01:26 GMT]
He might have shared those duties with his wife:
Pasithea, as wife of Hypnos,the god of sleep and dreams, may have been regarded as a goddess of hallucinations and hallucinogenic drugs.
http://www.theoi.com/Ouranios/KharisPasithea.html
[Edited at 2014-04-30 09:57 GMT]
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