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New vacuum for christmas! I’ve filled up the canister twice and so far I’ve just been in the living room. :)

It was probably just a matter of time since I haven’t been sleeping, eating well, and cold season is here. I got sick. The up side is that I got 11 hours of sleep and woke up feeling better than I have in some time!

Something’s wrong when I have to get sick to rest! But the next night I felt recovered and stayed up later than I should have, then we spent the next evening in the ER with a son’s broken bone… so I’m having a relapse of my sore throat. I have to be disciplined and stay rested this season.

I thought I would catch up on some sleep while dh is on this long business trip. I tend to go to bed earlier when he’s out of town. But my stress level has been so high that I’ve been laying there thinking, with my heart pounding, taking forever to fall asleep. Then I wake up a lot, and wake up super early and stay up.

I have a whole night time routine including warm milk and shower. I’ve been taking some prescription medicine at bedtime when I can’t relax, but it wears off after 4 hours and I start waking up every 30-60 minutes, not getting enough deep sleep. So then I tried an actual sleep med, which helped even less and gave me an unsettling can’t-keep-my-balance side effect when I stand up in the morning. The first night it helped me fall asleep and I slept for a few hours. But the second night I woke up all the way, thinking it was morning and it was just after midnight! This is ridiculous. I can’t function well, I feel terrible, and am so stressed and tired.

The waking up started getting really bad when my alarm didn’t go off one day, and I got paranoid it would happen again. I set a backup alarm on my phone and I’m going to turn my clock so I can’t see it, get out my soft comforter, and see if I can break this cycle.