For a long time now I've been suffering from an internet overload and I'm beginning to wonder if so much exposure to my laptop and iPad has sent my sleep patterns haywire. It's come to the desperate stage where I'll try anything.
On Tuesday night I got only two hours' sleep but then slept all day, waking only to eat a delicious dinner of paella and passionfruit souffle made by Manami, before going back to bed and sleeping all night. The fitbit enables me to know just how much sleep I get, and, night after night, it's only between two and five hours. If I don't sleep the following day I'm like a zombie. It really makes getting things done quite difficult.
As well as less internet, I'm going to cut back on listening to the radio (except for classical music now and then) and stop reading bad news. What, I ask myself, is the point of knowing every evil thing going on in the world when I can't do a thing about it?
I'll allow myself to read books. The one above is from an online uni course of the same name I did last year - the best course I've ever done! The book hadn't been published in English then, so I made notes. But I'm really happy to have bought the book and reread the first chapter this morning. I thoroughly recommend it to you all. If you read nothing else, read this. (Winifred, ask your daughter-in-law if she's already read it.)
I wish some of the icy Norwegian winds you mention would blow this way. We're experiencing the hottest summer ever here in Sydney, with week after week of temps in the high 30s, as well as dreadful, unbearable humidity. I swim morning and night, in an effort to cool down. This insufferable weather could well have something to do with little sleep, though I have to admit the problem goes back further than this heatwave.
2 comments:
This is rather sad reading Diane, nothing is worse than feeling tired; I worked on night duties for 5 years and was the most embarrassing person to go out with as I could fall asleep on a clothes line (as my mother used to say). When I stopped night duties my sleep pattern was all over the place for a while but did eventually settle down again.
I think that period of my life might have helped me because I get up with Roy 2 or 3 times during the night but soon as I help him back to bed I fall into mine and bang - I'm back to sleep again, no problem.
We are having some lovely Spring weather; temps are about 1 degree first thing but grow to 11 or more and the sunshine is brilliant. I remember living with those high temps in Spain but seemed to be energized by the heat, it's the cold and icy winds that paralyze me - are we ever satisfied? How are you getting along with Emma's music???
i have just qualified as a guide at the Bishop's Palace here in Wells and start duties after Easter, they have accepted that I can only do a couple of tours per week because of my home circumstances but I do need to get out of the house and have an interest. Jonathan or Max and Georgina can always be relied upon to visit and chat to grandad for a couple of hours and it means I can bring Roy some news back as he has not been out of the flat since the begining of November. Hope you get yourself sorted out without having to resort to tablets. Take care my dear friend x
What is so famous about the book?
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