I'm sleepy...

[chrisvenus]

Right now I'm very tired. I've not been sleeping well unfortuantely. Well, actually I've been sleeping fine, I've just been waking up ridiculously early. :( I'm not sure what it is causing this. I went for an early night last night and I just woke up an hour earlier than I have been usually. Its like my body has stopped being able to work out how much sleep it should be getting.

The upshot of all this though is that I've been feeling a bit crappy and very lazy recently. I've not been getting a s much done as I should be which is bad. I have set myself targets of things that I wanted to do this week (I need to sort through more of my stuff that is in boxes so I can work out what furniture I need to buy, where it will fit and all that kind of thing. Sadly I am being too apathetic to do it right now.

Anybdoy got any suggestions for things to motivate me to do stuff? Useful stuff that is? I think I need to work out some micro prizes for myself. I've promised myself Rock Band or Guitar Hero world tour - or one of those full band games - when I get my living room finally sorted but I think that seems so far away that it doesn't seem to be encouraging me enough. Maybe I should ban myself from TV or computer games or something until such I've done a certain amount of productive stuff in an evening...


P.S. Yes, I know I'm currently on a NaBloPoMo fail after three days. Epic fail...

Comments

[neoanjou.livejournal.com]

re: Sleeping.

Recently New Scientist did an article on whether modern culture causes humanity to build up a sleep debt. The conclusion was pretty much that humans can get used to sleeping for a variety of different lengths of time, from 14 hours to 4 hours a day. So if you are not having trouble getting to sleep, naturally waking up, and it isn't directly causing you any other problems then perhaps you shouldn't worry about it?

Do you suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder at all? I've been a bit bummed since the hour change, and the crappy weather hasn't been helping. Maybe investing in some more light (more powerful bulbs, lamps, etc) would make you more active in the evenings?

[mrkgnao.livejournal.com]

Irrumator told me about your valiant NaBloPoMo Effort so I came to wave flags, lead cheers and generally support you. Except since you've *failed* I think I might as well just go away again...

(actually I've been meaning to friend you for ages - since you have always been one of those people I've wanted to get to know but although we have a group of friends in common we only ever meet each other at their weddings - would you mind?)

Seriously though, it's not a *fail* - lots of people doing Nano (I understand) sometimes don't hit their daily wordcount. The terms of failure in these endeavours are always entirely flexible so do not be demoralised!

Also if your life has been anything like ours recently it's no wonder you want to sleep all the time so it's probably an entirely bodily response to, y'know, stuff

(it's Kyra btw)

[chrisvenus]

You are more than welcome to friend me. I might even manage to keep associating your username with the real you (I think I keep having to work it out every time I think about it).

And yeah, I am going to keep hitting the post button as much as I can. I'm going to salvage what I can from the fail but the difference between this and the nano not hitting word count is that nano only has an end of month target whereas I have daily hard targets. As you say, not the end of the world and I was more amused than anything else that with these grand plans that I didn't even manage to get 10% through. :)

And to be honest I know why I want to sleep all the time. Its because far too often I find myself waking up and wondering why the hell I'm awake at 5 in the morning. And six in the morning. And so on...

I seem to basically get about 5 hours of uninterrupted sleep... oh, wait, I've just realised I remember waking up at 1:something too... so 4 hours uninterrupted sleep last night...

My plan for tonight since I have nothing else on is to get an unfeasibly early night. Go to the gynm after work, get home about 8ish, have food and do some washing up and then go to bed ridiculously early to try to play catchup. Trouble is I suspect I just won't sleep anyway... Thinking about it I might be feeling stress at the moment... That is almost good news though...

Anyway, ramble mode off now. Welcome to my journal, I hope you enjoy your stay. :)