Tired of Being Tired

It seems I can't sleep. Then, when I get to sleep, I'm awake a couple of hours later and can't get back to sleep right away. It's broken sleep. When I wake, I have to use the bathroom - no buts about it, get there. Or, I'm in pain, and then to get back to sleep I have to get up and go to the bathroom, not just adjust. My bladder demands it. I generally awaken within 25 minutes of the alarm going off, and just get up early.

Last night, I started with Zyrtec for my allergies. Since it makes one drowsy, I'm taking it at night instead of the morning, so I won't have to drive while drowsy. I didn't have my typical night. I awakened several times - like "stark-raving-awake" but didn't have to go to the bathroom, wasn't in pain, and no reason that I could figure out that I was awake. I was on my side. My nose/sinuses were filled when I got up to the alarm, and draining was going on.

I was able to go back to sleep, it seems. I woke to the alarm from a deeper state of sleep, very sleepy and groggy. It took a full cup of coffee to get me going, and I was seeing double and yawning.

What happens is that I don't sleep at night, and somewhere in the afternoon, I drift off, unable to keep my eyes open, and sleep anywhere from 20 minutes to 5 hours in my chair. It usually occurs after eating carbs, so I've thought my diet was to blame, and insulin resistance. Now, I see that it also has to do with my terrible sleeping issues at night.

My doctor said she was going to schedule a sleep study, but it hasn't been scheduled, yet.

I feel like a failure when I can't get anything done, but with being this tired all the time, it's no wonder nothing gets done. No matter how much B-12 I take, I can't over come lack of sleep without actually sleeping.

Networking Women, Early Morning Alarm

I went to my networking meeting last night...

http://www.meetup.com/Women-Creating-Wealth/

We learned how to become celebrities in our town! It was a lot of fun. I heartily suggest any entrepreneurial woman find a network and use it. Of course, I use LinkedIn, as well. But this group was personally recommended to me, and I'm finding all kinds of information in it. It's like a pressure-cooker environment, creating successful women entrepreneurs. Our leader, Rachel Young, is really great!

Then, this morning, I got up early and mowed the yard.

Have I told you this story? I've been woken up since I moved into my house - in October - at 4AM every weekday.

I thought it was the neighbor's alarm, set too close to the window. Then, I thought it might be a truck's backup alarm, at the yard down the street.

It turns out that when the house was built, someone left their watch, alarm set for 4AM on weekdays only (not Monday! The crews were off on Mondays) somewhere in the wall of my bedroom before the drywall was put up. It got sealed in the wall. There is no way to find it that will be successful, and not leave a mess.

I decided to make lemonade out of lemons - use that 4AM alarm for when I need to do the yard and it's scorching hot or high humidity or both (like right now!) and get out of bed early. Why not?

So - Never think that just because you have an obstacle, you can't find something positive about it!

I'm a complete night-owl! I like late-night TV. I don't sleep worth beans. I like to sleep late in the morning. So what! My sleep has been messed up for so long, it doesn't hurt me to get my butt out of bed in the early morning and do something instead of laying around until noon.

Besides, I take a nap most evenings anyway. They might as well serve a purpose besides after-dinner boredom!