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Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Sweet Dreams









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I have a bazillion ("No," my son Austen, who is very proper about his numbers, would insist, "there's no such thing as a bazillion!"  Fine then, a gajillion?) things I want to get out of my head and onto this virtual paper, but I spent my writing time today sleeping. (Now you may ask how I'm writing this, and the answer is, "Do you really want to know?  Ok, my husband is feeding the kids while I pretend to be using the bathroom.  When you are a mom sometimes you have to type leaning over a laptop perched on the bathroom sink.")

So, lesson number one, five days into the Year of Health, is that I don't get enough sleep.  I knew that.  But what I didn't realize until yesterday was that nothing else (eating right, exercising, flossing my teeth, showering daily) is going to get done unless I get enough (or closer to enough) rest.  So after (once again) staying up too late last night, I took a nap today with the promise that I will. not. stay. up. tonight. writing!  You know, the way I usually do.  Napping is my sleep version of using one credit card to pay off another, while still remaining in debt overall.  (Not that I know anything about that kind of behavior with credit cards.  Nope.  Not at all.)

So, to kick start the Year of Health, I will be giving the Week of Sleep a try.  I'm just hoping I can do it without too much harm to my writing time.  I'm planning to let the dishes suffer instead!
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6 comments:

  1. I really need to do this too. In fact, I may well join you in the Week of Sleep. Let's see, it's 10:30pm now, may as well start straight away, lights out by 11pm it is. Then do the same for another 6 nights. I can do that surely?
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  2. I fight sleep! The other night I got in bed at 11pm and it freaked me out--I had not done that since I was a child.
    However, I am enjoying the clarity and natural energy I feel the next day!
    Viva La Sleep! And Health!
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  3. I like to stay up late and then have to get up early--by week's end I'm ready to sleep in until 8 AM and maybe take a nap in the afternoon.
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  4. [...] I announced (to myself, my family and my little corner of the blogosphere) that I would be starting The Week of Sleep to kick of my Year of Health. I was going to be in bed by 10 p.m. each night, and I was going to [...]
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  5. Did it work? Because I always INTEND to try it but find myself reading frenetically at 2:00 am instead.
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  6. Nope, Sarahlynn. Totally didn't work. The rest of the family got sick (somehow I didn't) and I was up all hours taking care of people for a week, so sleep went out the window and then I just gave up. I have to try to get back on the (sleep?) horse this week!
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