This weekend I came down with a head cold. On Saturday morning I was awake at 3:30am with sinus pressure. I took a two-ish hour nap. On Sunday morning I was awake at 3:30am again, this time because I couldn't get comfortable temperature-wise. I took a four-ish hour nap. Last night was the worst. I was asleep by 10:30ish...and wide awake at 12:30am. I tried to just stay in bed, but also know from reading about good sleep that if you can't sleep in bed, to get up so that your body recognizes bed is for sleep only. So that's what I did about 2am...I warmed up some milk, prayed one more rosary on the couch, and did the following reading: finished Letters to a Young Bride (THANK YOU Every Day is a Gift...I will be passing on the book soon/getting a copy for a friend getting married...I seriously loved the book.), read one more chapter of Mary's Song: Living Her Timeless Prayer (This is one of the first books I read that helped me develop my relationship with Mary, and it has been such a gift to revisit it...highly recommend it :-) ), and a couple more sections of From the Angel's Blackboard: The Best of Fulton J. Sheen (another reread, just love his insights). And I journaled. And now it's a quarter till five, and I am STILL wide awake. At least I got some good reflective prayer time in.
My conundrum is the rest of the day. Should I get coffee this morning? I really don't want to keep messing up my sleep schedule, and if I get tired and take another long nap then I feel like I would continue the vicious cycle. And I don't want to be a cranky pants with the babies this morning. But coffee has always been more of a treat for me than anything, and I don't want to be dependent on it, and I'm also taking some meds right now that I need to stay hydrated with, and caffeine obviously works against that. Blurg.
Just. Drink. Coffee.
ReplyDeleteSeriously. I sometimes think they put crack in it but I really don't care. Drink it. Just do it. Thank me later.
I jest. Sort of.
Thanks for the shout out. I still revisit that book now and then and am amazed at how it applies to so many situations etc.
Have you read any Sheed (theology)? Or Dubay (spirituality/mystical prayer)? Those have been my two faves of late.
I did get coffee...I decided it was preferential option for the children 😉
DeleteAs for the two authors, I've not read them, though I've seen them cited often. I'm in a phase of rereading some books I haven't revisited in a while, but I'll have to keep them in mind for future reading.
Ooh that is such a tough situation!! I've definitely hit that problem lately, especially with the weather getting colder & me having occasions where I want to curl up and nap. It's great, but then at night, sometimes I'll have the worst time getting to sleep! I think it's interesting you found out that getting out of bed and moving around is good; I might just do that sometime if I run into this problem anymore this week (which I'm hoping not to, but who knows?). I think it's good you went the coffee route; I'm similar-I love coffee, but I do not want to become dependent on it for a caffeine jolt! Have you tried drinking water with lemon? Not only does it have tons of health benefits, but it's pretty invigorating!
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