I’m back with the weather report. It seems like spring is actually here (at least during the day). It’s currently 69 (nice), and it’s supposed to be in the high sixties to high seventies for the next week,, with it going back to the high forties/low fifties during the night. Dare I say that winter is finally done for the year?
*Hastily checks the weather again*
Yes. I am calling it done on winter this yaer. Three months after it would normally end, but that’s Minnesota, especially in the years of our dastardly climate change. I don’t have much to say about that because that’s a war we’ve lost (among others). We could ‘win’ the climate change war if we wanted, but it would take much more effort than anyone is willing to give.
I’m on day two of going to bed at a reasonable-ish time (three-thirty a.m.), and I got almost eight hours. Well, seven-plus. Which is a big feat for me these days. And I only woke up once. Which is also unusual for me these days.
Big thanks to my friend who suggested that I just set a hard limit for myself in getting off my computer. I modified it by getting off my desktop to go to my laptop (which is by where I sleep) in order to do the last thing I need to do before going to bed.
I realized that part of my problem was that I was literally propping myself up (at my desk) when I should be going to bed. It was especially bad yesterday because I kept snoozing off, but I stubbornly refused to go to bed. I’m so like a toddler in that way. I will fight off all attempts to make me go to bed. As I’ve said several times, I’ve been doing this since I was seven, and I have the hardest time stopping.
With the same friend I mentioned above, I was talking about how some flaws can just be accepted while others need to be dealt with. This one needs to be dealt with, yes, but I can accept a 3 a.m. to 11 a.m. as my sleep schedule if I can do it regularly. I’m a bit bemused at how easily I made the hard switch because thats’ not something I’m usually able to do. I think it’s a few things.
One, making the physical change to the other room at a much earlier time makes it easy just to naturally fall asleep. Two, my sleep has been so shitty in the last few weeks that just moving to the location of sleep signified to my brain that it was time to sleep. So when I actually wanted to sleep, it was much easier just to let go and let sleep take over. Three, my body was just at that point. It had to sleep whether I wanted it to or not. Four, I do believe that my attempt to stay awake for 72 hours (stopping just shy of 48) jumpstarted the change.