My Dear Hard Drive

A few months back my husband attended a business productivity seminar of some sort, and was inspired by a speaker who talked about healthy living habits, including sleeping with the Sun. We agreed that we’ll try out all of that healthy bullshit, even though we’ve never had terrible habits, there was clearly room for improvement. We made complete overhaul to our diet based on Donna Aston’s books (lots of real food, very limited processed foods.) We started drinking water, and to go to bed at 11 the latest and get up early. We introduced each change at a different time, and while I could clearly see the advantage of the water drinking as well as eating well, (I lost all my excess fat and no muscle!) I cannot say the same about the sleeping thing.

We lost the sleeping rhythm for a few weeks and yesterday my husband, for whom the sleeping thing works like magic, announced that we’re going to bed early  again as he needs the extra energy for the week that he’s alone at work while his brother is away. So we went to bed around 11 and got up earlier, I don’t know when he got up, but I got up after 9, which should be more than enough sleep. At noon, I’m like death warmed up. I can’t think, my brain feels like it was full of fizzy water, I’m cold, and my face is tired. I don’t know if you identify, it’s like the whole thinking part of the brain would be grasped in this tiredness that radiates into the face. On Saturday night I went to bed at 2 am and got up around 10. 8 hours. In the afternoon, I felt pleasantly snoozy, but nowhere near as tired as I feel now. The snooziness, I believe, was because I hadn’t drank enough water too, not for the lack of sleep. This is the way I felt the last time we tried this, while my husband was clearly invigorated and looked about 10 years younger than normal.

Now, I’m going to test this sleeping thing for the week. I’m going to stop doing anything exciting an hour before bed time (at ten that is) and maybe have a glass of warm milk – I’ll have to mix it with chocolate, as I can’t stand the thought of warm milk alone – and do the whole bed time thing by the book.  I’ll see once and for all if this has any effect, and if, in fact, I can get up after 8 hours feeling as if I’d slept enough. Although, some say women need 9 hours instead of 8 hours… Oh well, I’m going to write down my exact hours too, and report to you later. Damned, I do need a half an hour snooze today or I won’t survive. I HATE being tired!!