Tag: sleep

And on Wednesday night, she slept…

…and it was good!

I bought some Zzz-Quil and was quite excited to try it. It made me very sleepy and within about 20ish minutes of taking it I was out like a light.

It was that easy. Falling asleep is NEVER that easy for me. It was fantastic.

I feel so much better today! However, this week has been crap for my running. I’ve literally only done 2 miles. 1 mile on Monday with sprint repeats, and the same last night. It’s fine. I’m fine. The world hasn’t ended because I haven’t run more. (what a concept!) After reading some of your posts, I like this week has been crap for your sleep and run schedules too. Must be something in the water.

Tonight I’m heading to Omaha for a Staff Appreciate Night with Corky Canvas Co-workers. There is sushi and surprises involved. The boss says we’ll head home at 8:30 so I plan on heading to bed right afterwards. I’m very excited to sleep.

My life is so exciting.

Happy Thursday Friends!

“To sleep: Perchance to dream” -Shakespeare

I don’t need a Fitbit to tell me much quality sleep I get. I can tell you right now.

When I finally fall asleep, I sleep hard. I dream a lot. I usually have at least 2 to 3 REM cycles a night. I wake up around 11:30 or midnight to use the restroom (TMI? Sorry) and I’ve already been dreaming. I sleep until about 3am then I wake up again (bathroom break, I’m very well hydrated!) and I’ve had another dream. By the time I get up at 6am I’m dreaming something else entirely. I sleep well.

But the trick is, I have to actually FALL asleep! I have the worst time shutting off my brain and falling asleep. I take melatonin at night to help speed things along, but I usually take around 45 minutes to an hour to fall asleep once I’m in bed. It sucks and I don’t understand why. I exercise in the morning. I don’t drink any caffeine, ever! I don’t watch TV in bed and I try to quit using my phone at least 30 minutes before I go to bed.

Imagine my horror when last night, after that awful migraine I COULDN’T FALL ASLEEP! I was in bed at 8:45pm. My eyes were burning and I was tired and ready for sleep. But sleep evaded me. I took my melatonin. An hour later I added a benedryl. An hour after that I was crying from lack of sleep and the migraine, so I downed some Nyquil and hoped for the best.

And finally, I slept.

That cocktail of drugs did the trick and when my morning producer called at 4am I felt like my brain was foggy. Our morning meteorologist had car troubles and couldn’t make it in. So they needed to call someone in. Neither of our fill-in’s answered so I stumbled downstairs and woke up the roomie and she headed into work. It took my about 30ish minutes to fall back asleep.

I got about 6 hours of sleep last night. That is not enough for me. I’ve gotten that many hours each of the last 3 nights. No wonder I got a migraine! I need sleep.

Fingers crossed for good sleep tonight! I need it.

Good Intentions

Sometimes, your body just needs sleep.

Lesson learned.

I hit snooze so many times today that I finally gave in and reset the alarm. A run is not going to happen today. But that’s ok. I’ve done 5 miles each of the past 3 mornings and I went on a 7 mile bike ride last night. Between that, the 100 day pushup challenge (I’m on day 25) and planking (I’m up to 1:55!) My body was tired. So I gave it some sleep…and I feel so much better!

On the plus side? No work calls overnight! Score! However, I do have to do vacation schedules for the newsroom today…I’ve been avoiding those. First world problems!

Happy Friday friends!

The one day I can sleep in….

I’m awake at 8:15am.

Sigh. However, I actually feel refreshed. Maybe my body got the sleep it needed? I was out by 11:30 so I suppose so.

Just checked the radar…thunderstorms are on their way around 11:30 this morning. So if I want to run long before the rain and the birthday AND the wedding I better get moving now!

I GUESS I’m glad my body woke me up early… 🙂

Have a great Saturday friends!

These Dreams…

Oh Tumblr, you’ve invaded my dreams now!

I can only remember parts of last night’s dream, but I do know that David was in it.

I’m pausing to let that sink in, and for David to come up with some sort of dirty reply before I tell you that I can’t remember the gist of the dream. I do recall something about making this super long list of places that I had to go/run to and David was there and he (and some other people who I can’t remember anymore) and I were going to go to these places. It was a strange dream. I woke up in the middle of the night and thought, ‘I need to remember this dream so I can blog about it.’

Clearly that didn’t work.

In other news, I ran outside after work last night. It was warmish (about 70 degrees) and very humid. (We got Thunderstorms overnight.) I was a hot, sweaty mess. But it felt good, you know? That feeling when you know you’ve worked out hard and pushed your body? That’s how I felt last night. In exchange I slept hard last night, and dreamt about David. 🙂

Happy Tuesday Friends!

I love sleep. My life has a tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

Ernest Hemingway.

In the past 48 hours I have slept 23 of them. And I am more than fine with that. I feel so much better than I did Thursday during the day, its not even funny. It is true-your body will make you get the sleep you need some way or another.