Perpetual Ruminations

Friday

I did a little better today, getting logged in here by late afternoon. Even so, I still won't have time for much again. Time just is not cooperating very well. But, it's getting better, or at least it seems to be. Now, if I could just get some decent sleep at night, I think I'd have this about beat.

I was a couple hours late getting to bed last night, but that's still better than the norm, or at least what has been normal in the past. I was getting about three to four hours of sleep a night on work nights, but now I'm up to five to six hours. I've even managed to get to bed early enough to get seven and close to eight a few times. Of course, I do better when I don't have to be up around three, or three thirty in the morning.

The biggest problem lately hasn't been getting to bed on time; I've been shooting for seven hours. It's getting to sleep on time. I just can't get to sleep it seems, and when I do, I'm awake right away again. I usually don't have a lot of trouble getting to sleep, but if I go to bed early, then I do. Also, I've been waking up a lot during the night.

I'm talking about being asleep, and just waking up for no apparent reason. I wake up, but have no idea what has disturbed my sleep, and once awake, find I need to use the bathroom before going back to sleep. Not that I have to go bad, but I have enough of a desire to go that it keeps me from going back to sleep right away. It's kind of like a thought slips into my mind that if I don't go now, I'll wake up in another hour and need to go then. So, as long as I'm awake, I should just go and get it over with. Only, this happens a half dozen times a night, and with only about five or six hours of sleep time, it's a big problem.

But, I'm working on some alternatives, other than sleep aids, and hopefully I will overcome this obstacle, soon.