The Blogtastic Blogfest That Is Getmeoutofthis.net!

Because you are an avid reader (??) of my blog, you’ve probably been noticing that my blog posts have been going up later than they used to. I mean, you still get one incredibly stupid blog post a day, but it’s not up at like 1 AM! Crazy. How can this be?

This is due to Project Since I Wake Up Early Now I Should Sleep Like A Sane Person.

When Aesa visited, he was flipping to a day schedule from a sort of heavily nocturnal one. He made the transition to my schedule without much problem, but it also made him tired pretty early in the evening. We turned in at quasi-decent hours every night he was here. It wasn’t until after he left that I realized something.
I felt so much better having gone to sleep early than I normally did.
Thus, I decided I should probably continue that. I don’t hate my body anymore, and life is pretty great. No reason to feel like shit every day, especially without caffeine to power me through as I used to have. I kept going to bed at around like 8:30 or 9 when I could. My body instantly jumped onto this routine in an “Oh thank god” kind of reaction, and started making me feel real drowsy at that time as a cue. I also started going straight to bed after work instead of getting on the computer for an hour. Once again, my body thankfully obliged to make that a viable strategy.

The only way this whole Project Sleep Some More So Days Go Better would work, though, is if I was willing not to write a blog every night, but let it transfer over to early the next morning. So often, why I stayed up so late after work was because I still had a blog I needed to bang out, and that would get me all woken back up, you know? By letting go of that pressure, still making myself do a blog a day but not requiring it to update right when the day flipped over, I was able to get to bed faster, and get some sleep. I thought that would bother me, but it didn’t end up bothering me near as much as I thought it would. Writing a blog just transferred to a “just got out of bed” routine, which was a nice thing. I’m down with that.

Anyway, if things are late on here, that’s why. I don’t think that’s going to upset anyone too much? I mean, I’ll try to write things ahead of time when I can. Like this one! But overall, I am getting old or something, and I really have started seeing the value of actually getting enough rest. I think I’m going to keep up with it.