What time do you go to bed and wake up currently?
The important thing about going to bed tonight is that it’s in my own bedroom, where I can wind down in comfort. Yes, the parts (mostly) arrived and the upstairs air conditioning unit is fixed. I hated to complain, since downstairs was fine and we are very fortunate to have the motorhome to sleep in (made challenging by the malfunctioning slide—those things are a lot of trouble). I’m happy to be upstairs doing my evening things.
To answer the question, these days I head upstairs at around 9 pm unless there’s something interesting on television (rare). I get ready for bed, but then I stay up blogging (as I am now), adding observations to iNaturalist, and reading. It’s nice and quiet and comfy, so I go to sleep when I feel like it, usually 10:30-11.
Like in the olden days, I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night and read some more. They say using your phone wakes you up, but I select pretty boring articles. That helps when I wake up concerned about out someone or something.
I’m usually up around 7 am, except for Thursdays, when I’m up at 6:15 to do open office hours at 7, for the Europeans who might need help with Planview apps. Few do. On the other hand, lots of folks needed help today! It evens out. I’ll really miss all the interesting people I meet once this job ends!
You may note that I sleep a lot. I always have needed more sleep than many people. I expected to need sleep as I got older, especially since my thyroid medication has bumped up my metabolism a bit. But I sure enjoy 9 hours. Lee sleeps more than me!
I do fine on less sleep, but I don’t want to keep Lee up. If I could, I’d stay up so I could watch Colbert or the Daily Show. I miss them, but avoiding too much gnashing of teeth over news is healthy for me.
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Was just watching a history program about the Middle Ages where the narrator talked about 2 part, as opposed to compact, sleep that only came about after the Industrial Revolution. In the 2 part sleep, people went to sleep when it got dark, slept til around midnight, then stayed up for a few hours doing things that they wanted or needed to do. After, they would sleep til daylight.
I think, if I could, I’d sleep like that. As it is, after 22 yrs on shift work, I’m pretty much on permanent graveyards. Being up for daytime appointments or activities is a real struggle.
I tell myself over and over, ‘Sleep is a neurological function, Sleep is a neurological function Much like when Amelia was a baby 🙄😉
Sleep well!
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I love that line! I’ll tell myself that when I have sleep troubles.
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