Not enough sleep
1 week ago
this past week for a variety of reasons. Well, nothing to do about it other than try to recover on this weekend and hope for better sleep next week.
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How to get enough sleep
It made me
 "More energy, more focus. So glad."
How I did it: Manage my time more, sleeping early getting in to the habit of sleeping at the same time, and waking up at the same time.
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Almost no sleep last night
1 week ago
as I had my first bad ear ringing episode since last fall. It’s much better by now. I hope this was a one-time occurrence.
Zzzzzzz.
3 weeks ago
This is going pretty well, I think that cutting back on caffeine and alcohol probably helped the most. I’m sleeping pretty good, but for some crazy reason, keep waking up at 4:30 a.m. (almost exactly the same time every night) for about an hour. Then I fall into the deepest best sleep just as it’s time to wake up.
Door bell
3 weeks ago
Lately it had happened several times that my door bell rang early in the morning, waking me. By the time I was able to answer it, no one was there.
Since I usually can’t get back to sleep then, this ends up disrupting much of my day, for what I assume is somebody trying to sell me something.
So I now experimented with my door bell’s many buttons (for which I was given no manual of course…) and was happy to find out that an unlikely combination actually lets me turn the sound on and off :)
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This past week
4 weeks ago
I had considerable trouble falling asleep – I hope I can make up for that on the weekend.
Doing better
1 month ago
cutting back caffeine and drinking less vino really did help. I am also trying to be more conscious of it. You don’t get more done when you neglect yourself and your sleep. I am one of those people that actually needs quite a bit of sleep, and I feel tons better when I do.
Balancing act
1 month ago
I’m currently trying very hard to balance the need for sleep with trying to get a little time for myself and too much work.
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I was insanely sleepy all day today. I had to take a nap in the evening and feel better now. Hope this doesn’t affect my night’s sleep too much, as Monday nights are usually my most difficult night anyway…
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8.5 Hours
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A nice big sleep. Just need to keep going. The key is to get this much sleep on nights where I have to get up early for work in the morning.
