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Two days vanished, there. Part of it is that my body insists on sleeping until 3 or 4 p.m., and part of it was that on the 13th, I got to the workbench and was too happy there to leave in time to post, and then I lost the notion of posting. Lost it in the fog. No, I don't have Long Covid; I have my own witch's brew of brain fog and related fun courtesy of fibromyalgia, ADHD, C-PTSD, and being a stroke survivor. Plus maybe the six decades of wear and tear on the organism has something to do with it too. In any case, I didn't write anything down here.

The time at the workbench on the 13th really was good. A piece that got inspired by a photograph of a flower got almost done, and I worked on selecting some opals for a Thing that Needs Doing.

Today, then, was a combo of silly body foolishness and continuing recuperation, plus repeatedly checking on whether a thing I need is going to work out. Plus more silly body foolishness. And now, which I am still counting as the 14th because I have not gone to bed yet, I am about to start an experiment.

For the rest of the month, I am going to sleep when I am sleepy and work when I am not sleepy. No more wrenching my sleep schedule around to try to get it to match some notion of ideal. I will have to set alarms for meetings and so forth. And I need to order that bedthumper alarm thing ASAP.
[fx: a cricket considers chirping. Time passes.]
OK, bedthumper alarm ordered. We shall see if it works on someone with my level of hearing. (I am moderately hearing impaired according to the audiology people who measured me. Haven't had it checked lately, but I mostly still can't hear the same stuff I usually can't hear.)

OK, where were we? So many things to do, and not enough good wake time and good sleep time, so we will see if this experiment is better or worse.

How's your sleep lately?

Date: 2023-08-15 10:10 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] pameladean
Fraught, is how my sleep is. I keep very carefully moving my bedtime back to the stunningly early hour of THREE A.M. This is much more convenient than five or six a.m. But I have a complex interconnected medication schedule that can overturn all that in a heartbeat. Also I can't go to bed until at least three hours after eating, so that all factors in too. Accordingly, after a good week of earlier bedtimes without much problem, I have to stay up until six-thirty this morning and it will all be to do over again.

The usual way to move one's schedule is to just accept sleep deprivation, getting up when one intends to regardless of bedtime. But I disapprove strongly of this approach, and in any case, sleep deprivation is a migraine trigger, so JUST NO. I am very fortunate that I do not have a day job. Well, I probably wouldn't have it by now, at this rate. But this is the season of outdoor gatherings that I sometimes feel it is safe to attend, and they often begin, oddly enough, before four or five p.m. It is vexatious.

The sleep itself is mostly okay, it just doesn't want to locate itself where I like it, or if it does consent, something in the medication schedule goes sideways.

I approve of your own plan and hope you get lots of very happy work in.

P.

Date: 2023-08-15 01:17 pm (UTC)
davidgillon: A pair of crutches, hanging from coat hooks, reflected in a mirror (Default)
From: [personal profile] davidgillon
This is much more convenient than five or six a.m.

Oh, hey, snap. Sigh.

Date: 2023-08-15 10:45 pm (UTC)
pameladean: (Default)
From: [personal profile] pameladean
Oh no, you too! *fistbump of annoyed solidarity* P.

Date: 2023-08-15 01:31 pm (UTC)
davidgillon: A pair of crutches, hanging from coat hooks, reflected in a mirror (Default)
From: [personal profile] davidgillon
Well on the positive side the sinus bug?/allergy? that's been wiping me out for the past month seems to have knocked my body out of its idea that the appropriate time to go to sleep is 6AM. It's just a pity it's settled on 6PM as the alternative.

I'd drag it out to something more reasonable, but I'm currently getting about 15 minutes warning of "This is your body, if you don't go to bed now, I'm going to fall asleep where you stand."

Date: 2023-08-15 03:06 pm (UTC)
yhlee: Alto clef and whole note (middle C). (Default)
From: [personal profile] yhlee
*support support*

I hear you on the sleep - mine has not been good either, alas.

Date: 2023-08-15 07:44 pm (UTC)
azurelunatic: Vivid pink Alaskan wild rose. (Default)
From: [personal profile] azurelunatic
I have been enjoying about seven months of largely wonderful sleep, due to fixing my nose so I'm not overwhelmed with snot every time I lie down. That said, I still am several hours off of my local timezone, as always.

Date: 2023-08-15 08:04 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] mrissa
I mostly don't answer questions about how my sleep is because it sounds like bragging, I go to bed at 10 p.m. and fall promptly to sleep. When I was 25 this made me No Fun. Now that I am 45 it makes me a superhero.

Date: 2023-08-16 11:37 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] anef
My sleep is OK provided that I follow a number of tedious rules. They include: no coffee at all, no chocolate after about 6 pm, drink minimal alcohol and none after about 6 pm (I don't always stick to this one), take at least an hour's exercise every day, no reading fiction before lights out (it is too exciting!) keep the bedroom as cool as possible and probably some others that I can't bring to mind at the moment. Oh and take magnesium and an anti-histamine before getting into bed. If all of these are followed religiously I can generally get around 7 hours of good sleep with sufficient REM for my fitness tracker to give me a good score.
Edited Date: 2023-08-16 11:37 am (UTC)

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