Can’t settle

Yes I am a bit. Hospital appointment this afternoon and I am doing all kinds of things that don't need doing.

Same here. Prefer to do things in the morning as I find hanging around waiting to go in the afternoon means I just waste time. I am always ready far too early.

I find this too. I also find that I wake up very early and can't get back to sleep if I have to go anywhere before lunch. All the years I had to get up every morning, including the years I had to get the DCs off to school and then get in to work, I never had this problem.

Yes, I suffer from this too and I end up exhausted by the end of the day. Never used to be a problem.

Yes! It didn’t used to bother me so much, but I always hated being late, now I’m ready and set to leave hours in advance, it’s driving me nuts!

Yes I'm the same and am what my DMiL called being previous
It's probably due to having too much time to worry.

I have always been like this.
Part of the reason I am a bit loathe to go out in the evenings. I just wouldnt get anything done!

I’m sure it’s since retirement there’s more time to fret

Absolutely. I was never like this but with less to fill my time now - as you say since retirement Cid24 - I find I get agitated even when it's something pleasurable like going out to lunch. Too much empty head space I think.

I also faff about when I know I have to go somewhere. If it’s in the morning I don’t sleep very well the night before, if it’s in the afternoon I do a lot of unnecessary housework that I can’t complete satisfactorily, and if it is in the evening the whole day is wasted.
I thought it was just me 🙄

Oh yes I’m like this too and DH even worse than me. We’ve been up since 5am just because we have to pick the DGC up from school at 3pm 😂

Story of my life! When I look back I don’t know how my late DH put up with me for thirty-five years!🤦‍♀️

Cid24

I’m sure it’s since retirement there’s more time to fret

When I was about to retire, I said to a colleague that once I left work, 90% of my worries would disappear.

Her reply?

“You’ll still find something to worry about, Calendar”.

How right she was!

Isn’t it odd! And VERY annoying!

fancythat

I have always been like this.
Part of the reason I am a bit loathe to go out in the evenings. I just wouldnt get anything done!

For me, it is energy.
I dont have a whole heap of it.
So if I am out in the evening, I need to "save" some energy during the day, to cope.

I had to be at an important appointment, one hour's drive away, yesterday.
I was an hour early!
I hate being late...

Grammaretto

Yes I'm the same and am what my DMiL called being previous
It's probably due to having too much time to worry.

Exactly. We had busy lives. Our brains were working on what we were doing that day.
If you were working and had a dental appointment in the afternoon you would still get on with your work. You wouldn’t be fidgeting and fretting.

I'm the same. Like today I am seeing a solicitor after lunch and know I won't get a thing done this morning for fretting over the appointment and if the bus arrives late for getting me there on time. So I'll be catching an early bus and killing time by still continually fretting in a cafe in town .

Now you mention it, I've been like that for a while, perhaps it's about living in the moment and no looking t far ahead. It's probably normal so don't worry.

I have a 81 year old sister-in-law like that. Thursday morning is her usual shopping day, driven by my brother. Yesterday, Thursday, she was having her usual home hairdresser visit at 4
pm so shopping had to be cancelled. My brotger tried on Wednesday to convince her they could still go to the supermarket as per usual but no, had to be changed to Friday a.m. Drives him mad!

Yep that's me too!

Thought it was just me, so glad it's not!
If I have to go anywhere on an afternoon or evening I spend all day deciding what to wear, what time to get ready and basically fretting about whatever/wherever. Never ever used to be like this and wonder like others if it's just because of too many empty hours with nothing else to think about. Feel better for knowing I'm not on my own.

Yes, me too, exactly the same. Annoying isn't it ? !

Yes l also am a bit like that and have got worse since l got older. I think it maybe mire common than people let on.

Sometimes, I think it may be rooted in some kind of deeply rooted, subconscious anxiety and annoyance about life.

Aspects we have little control over.

We would rather be doing something else more pleasurable