Year 2 - Day 151 - Sleep Deprived

[shadowkat]

I discovered today - while playing around with my health app on my phone - that I'm sleep deprived, and this is most likely the root cause of the irritability, apathy, brain fogginess, and feeling ever so slightly off.

I figured this out, when I put in that I go to bed at around roughly 11-11:30pm and wake up roughly between 5:45 and 6:30 am during the week resulting in between 5-6:30 hrs of sleep as opposed to the recommended 7-8 hours of sleep. This has got to stop. So tonight's goal is to go to bed at around 10 pm, and get up at around 6 AM. That should give me close to 7, at least.

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I entertained myself today by watching this happening outside my living room/office window:



[For anyone who can't see the photo - it's two guys hanging siding on a house.]

And I took a brief walk of sorts. Tortured myself by looking at folks vacation and socializing pics on Instagram. Which make me cringe. One guy was in very close proximity with a bunch of kids (not his own) on a ferry filled with people from an island religious retreat. I wonder sometimes if I'm living in bizzaro world. Is it just me or has the world become increasingly surreal? It's as if one group knows that a pandemic is still going on, and the other group has forgotten about it completely.

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Anyhow, I'm sleep deprived and tired and irritable.

Worked from home today - a good thing, since my digestive system decided to have a conniption fit.

Good night.

Random picture for tonight.

Comments

[wendelah1]

Sleep well.

[trepkos]

I find it very hard to sleep if I go to bed earlier than usual.

[mefisto]

Yep. Changing to an earlier bed time might require doing it in stages (say, 15 minutes earlier each night).

[shadowkat]

Which is actually what I decided to do last night. Although it was thirty minutes earlier. 11 instead of 11:30.