Get back on a "normal" sleep schedule. Wake up when Stephen wakes up!

Doing better and better at this. Now that I have something to wake up for. Since I started working on my NaNo novel I have a reason to get up every day. Plus working out. I feel so great. I’m getting a lot more rest and feeling a lot better. More energetic. So that’s good. I’m still not getting up as early as I want to, but now I’ve gotten to where it doesn’t matter what time I go to bed, I always wake up at the same time.

I’m doing a little better. I’m going to bed earlier, but not really waking up earlier. I toss and turn all night so I end up sleeping for more hours to get all the rest I need.

UUUGGGHHHH! ITS SO FRUSTRATING!

I was wrong. I have tried everything. My sleep schedule is still way too wacky.

I might have done this! I am not marking it off yet because my sleep pattern may change again, but last night I was able to go to sleep when Stephen did and I did wake up around 2:45 but I fell back to sleep after 3:30 and stayed asleep until Stephen left for work, which was just after 5:00. Now I’m up and I’m not really tired. Hopefully I’ll be able to stay awake all day.

Totally botched this. Now its even worse than before!! I think my period is making me sleep more…

Still not quite on it. I am close though. I got up just as Stephen was leaving today and stayed up until around noon, and then I took a nap and woke up a couple of hours later. Maybe when I start taking my birth control I’ll schedule it so I have to take it when Stephen wakes up, and if I don’t wake up and take it I might get preggers, which will motivate me to wake up. Right?

So after I wrote the last entry I stayed awake a little longer, and then I started drifting. Eventually it became unbearable so I went to lay down, but I set my alarm this time. I went to sleep around 4:00am, and set my alarm for 10:00am. I eventually got up around 11:15am, but I still have some time to get things done, and I will still be tired enough to sleep through the night when I go to bed this evening. So yay!

I woke up with Stephen and stayed awake all day. Then I went to bed early with him. I slept the whole night, and Stephen decided that it would be cruel to wake me. I ended up sleeping until 1:30 pm when for some reason my cell phone alarm went off. Did I need that much sleep? No. But I am one of those people who will sleep until the end of time if a noise, a person, or my bladder didn’t wake me up first. So basically if I was isolated away from all people and all noises and left to sleep in a room forever and ever, it would be totally possible if I never had to pee. BUT I have been known to be so sleepy that I woke up, went to the bathroom, and laid back down and went right back to sleep without remembering a thing.

So I am up right now at 3:17 and nowhere near tired enough to go to bed. So I am now going to attempt to stay up ALL DAY without sleeping (or maybe a light nap right before Stephen comes home) and then going to volunteer tonight and then go to bed. Maybe I will nap. If I take a nap about two hours before Stephen comes home then when he gets home he will wake me up so we can get ready to go volunteer. That way I can get things done today, still get to sleep, and still get to volunteer, but I’ll be sleepy enough to sleep the whole night through when its time to go to bed.

Maybe this will work…

I try sooo hard to sleep normally. I love waking up early, watching the news and eating breakfast. Then doing my workout, then maybe going grocery shopping or something and getting housework done. Making phone calls. Getting some writing done or research…. But when I wake up late I feel so bad that I don’t do anything. I feel groggy and in pain, plus I feel like I’ve wasted the whole day and it depresses me. I know that even if I wake up late I can still get some things done, but I feel so bad and lazy that I get too down in the dumps to do anything. I feel like I made a failure of my day. I know that hardly makes any sense but I can’t help it!

Right now I am going to sleep when Stephen does, around 10 or 11pm, and then waking up around 1:30 – 2:00am. Then I usually stay awake until 5:00am and then get sleepy again. I go to sleep until anywhere between 1:00 – 3:00 pm. By that time its too late to get anything done! Stephen wakes up at 4:00am and comes home from work around 4:30-5:00pm. While he’s at work I’d like to be doing things. And while he’s sleeping I’d like to be sleeping as well!!!