I’ve finally figured out a crucial part of my sleeping habits. It’s actually rather silly that I haven’t realized it earlier. Over the past week or so I’ve been falling asleep on the couch in the living room. I’ve just been really exhausted lately, and really as soon as I’ve been achieving a horizontal position I’ve been out like a light, despite having the bright beams of the ceiling lamp blasting my eyes. It seems that often I fell asleep blogging, or tweeting, or checking Facebook. All computer related, right? Well, in my quest to make use of my bed again (God, if it’s there I might as well use the damn thing) I decided to bring my laptop back to the bedroom. Behold, I started sleeping in my bed again. Somehow, in my addled head I’ve come to associate typing on my laptop with falling asleep. Here I am blogging and generally feeling more and more groggy. Brilliant!
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Couch is not a bed
The couch is not a bed.
The couch is not a bed.
The couch is not a bed.
The couch is not a bed.
If I keep saying that, I’ll stop sleeping here. Seriously.
Out like a light
Lately, as soon as I’ve hit my bed and turned on the pillar fan I’ve been out like a light. Doesn’t matter if the lights are on, or if I’m still in my running gear. Doesn’t matter if my wallet is digging into my back, or if there are computer cables pressing into my skin. There could be a lightning storm going on and I wouldn’t notice. I might be lying on my watch for all I know. My computer could be playing music but it wouldn’t keep mw awake especially with the white noise hum of the fan lying on top of it all. I don’t think the bed is the key. If I ever find myself horizontal on the coach I’ll end up passed out until 3 or 4 in the morning. All of this points to one key thing: I’m so very tired.
Sleepy heads
Yeah…I know exactly how this dog feels.
Fell asleep on the couch again with the patio door open and the lights on. Too tired to walk to bed.
Time to dig deep
I’m not really sure how I’ve been managing to get all of my Sunday activities done over the past few months. Somehow, I managed to get a run in during the morning, then head off to improv through the afternoon, then get home only to leave again to make it for evening mass. It sounds like a draining day, doesn’t it? Still, I seemed to have enough energy to handle it all. Fast forward to today. This morning I joined my half marathon group for their long slow distance run. I ran in the middle of the pack with the faster people. The pace was about 30-45 seconds master per kilometres than I would normally run. I kept it up because I wanted to run with people in my group that I hadn’t yet run with in the past weeks. I was huffing and puffing ever so slightly, but I managed to keep pace and converse with them. I got home at about 11 or so. With no improv class today, I was determined to take advantage and go grocery shopping. Oh, but I wanted to take a short nap before heading out. I figured I could use an hour of down time to recover. That’s all well and good except the one hour extended to five hours. See, I know I have a right to be tired and to rest but that’s just ridiculous. I’m promising to myself that I’ll manage my energy levels better over the next few Sundays. Last thing I want is to be zonked out mid-class. Time to dig deep.
Jason’s 2010
I actually started writing this post out a few days before tonight. There’s a lot to cover in a year and I wanted to make sure that I spent more than a bit of time getting my thoughts together. Yeah, without thinking about it too much, my first response is to call 2010 a banner year. Yes, there were hardships along the way, and a lot of hard work was needed just to continue moving forward. All the same, I wouldn’t take any of it back. There’s so much that I wouldn’t have even dreamt of in 2009. It was that kind of year.
This is a big post, so the remainder will come after the jump.
Dead asleep
Maybe it’s a result of living next to some busy routes, but I seem to be the type that can sleep through conditions that many people would have issues with. I have no problem sleeping through thunderstorms, or the sound of cars rushing on wet roads after a heavy rain. Unless I set my radio to be really loud, using it as an alarm is pretty much ineffective. I usually just end up sleeping through the music. I sleep through my own snoring if only because the sound doesn’t knock me out of sleep.
Light doesn’t seem to be an issue either. Every single day this week, I’ve somehow ended up sleeping with the lights on in my room. You’d think it’d be an issue, but no. I’ve woken up normally as if there weren’t any issues. I guess it’s expected since I’ve been dead tired ever since last weekend.
Aaaand…as I was writing this I fell asleep for 20 minutes listening to music. My patio door was open, and the sound of a loud car managed to wake me.
Anyway, all of this is probably telling me a few things. First, my body seems to be consciously blocking the world out in an attempt to ensure that my sleep is uninterrupted. Secondly, it’s quite possible that I’m not allowing my body enough time to sleep properly and recover. Falling dead asleep prior to doing something as simple as turning off the light is proof of that.
And on that note, I’m out.
A requested rhythm correction
Somewhere along the way this week, it seems like I’ve fallen behind in terms of my rest schedule. Perhaps this is going to make me seem neurotic, but I’ve been blogging at 5 in the morning because I’ve been far too zonked out to cram stuff in at 11:45 at night. God, it’s not even like I’ve been staying out late every night. I’ve been doing my activities in their regular slots but my body just seems to be running a few hours ahead…or is it behind? If I were to head to Hawaii, would my Circadian rhythms be correct? As I see it, there’s only one solution: y’all need to send me to Honolulu. I need to correct my system! By next week I would like to wake up without feeling like a damn zombie. The only solution is to banish me 5 time zones west for, I’d say, a week. You can send funding directly to me. Help a guy out!
(The alternative, I guess, is just to catch up on sleep properly this weekend, but where’s the fun in that?)
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