Did I suddenly turn 60 while I wasn’t looking? I’m telling you, for the last several weeks I’ve been completely pooped out in the evenings. As in, put the kid to bed about 8:30 or 9, pop “Metalocalpyse” into the DVD player while the wife works, wake up somewhere between 10 and 12 with the wife standing over me suggesting I go to bed.
I cut myself a little slack, as I get up at 5:30 every morning to get everybody else in the house up and running, so even if I crash out at 9:30 I’m still only getting 8 hours of sleep a night. But damn, this wasn’t the case just six months ago!
I’ve yet to re-kick the caffeine habit since my hell week. You’d think that would be a counter-effect, wouldn’t you? But nope. Likewise, you’d think a drink of alcohol would put me right out, huh? Nope. With a couple of drinks in me I’m happy and bouncing at 1 a.m. I also haven’t been able to exercise since before then (no time, then sick, then a slight nagging injury). I’m betting that has a lot to do with it.
But I gotta tell you, it’s weird as hell. And annoying to make it through an entire workday, and just when I have some time to do something that I want to do…ker-WHAM, Mr. Sandman clocks me upside the head with Mr. Sleepytime Hammer.
It’s official. Mr. Sandman is a prick.
May 10, 2008 at 7:48 am
I’m a devout 9-pm’er. Matt loves it because he can OD on Cardinals baseball easily after I go to bed.
I should be, but normally (at least normally except for the past two months) I’ve turned in sometime between 10:30 and 11.
May 10, 2008 at 9:50 am
Um yeah, I’m a 10-pm’er. I start to watch The Family Guy at 10 and before Stewie makes his first smart ass comment, I’m out like a light.
Yeah, but that’s 10 central, right? By that time I’m already sawing logs on a good day!
I enjoy Family Guy in small bursts. It’s really funny, but sometimes it jumps so much it makes me crave Ritalin or something.
May 10, 2008 at 12:40 pm
I had a couple of years like this. Not sure what broke me out of it again, except getting continuous sleep for at least 7 hours… and when it drops again, I drop again. I’ve also found that drinking more than 1 hard drink at night will make me snore and therefore make me do the wake-up-every-15-minutes thing, which then makes me exhausted and a cranky bitch.
Getting older sucks sometimes.
If booze makes me snore, then it’s my wife that suffers from it, not me! I sleep like a brick when I’ve had a few.
May 12, 2008 at 10:36 am
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