dirtylibrarian

I always think of myself as a good sleeper. I generally fall asleep pretty easily (often on the couch watching a DVD), and sleep soundly with good dreams. I've believed for a while that 5 or 6 hours was plenty of sleep for me. When things changed, I could not say. Lately I've been waking up after 4 or so hours. It used to be this was a time when I would quickly use the bathroom, then fall back asleep for another 2 or 3 hours. Now it often involves laying in bed trying to fall back asleep for another hour. Then finally, after laying in the dark, waking up again in another hour. Repeat a few more times. And my dream recall is WAY down.  I'm hoping getting back into exercising will help.

Last night, or rather this morning, I slept for 4 hours. I went for my mile swim yesterday, then capn_jil came over and I fell asleep watching on of my all time favorite movies, which she had not seen: M.  After she took off, I decided to finish downloading a backlog of photos off my camera and up onto flickr.  I also did a bit of research on plumbers.  There is nothing like waking up in the dark and thinking about how much it is going to cost you to be able to get back to normal laundry, shower, and consistent flushing, for not falling back to sleep.  But this is a bullet that must be bitten...putting it off will only kill future sleep.

In an hour I am going snowshoeing.  Hopefully that will exhaust me enough for a full 8 hours tonight.  Wish me luck.