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Sleeping on Super Charged Batteries.

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Whatever combination of sunshine, heat, fun, two or three two hour long swims a day, long walks about the resort village, or the current time change, that it was, it has left me unable to fall asleep at night until about 3:00am or later. I don’t know if being a boring lump whom suddenly Pumps Up the Jam for eight days straight, and then returns home to a quiet life of lumpishness is what’s doing it, or if I have insomnia about my MRI results again, i don’t know. But it is irritating. I’m going to need to find a very physical activity to do here in the cold that saps my strength in a similar way, because my 7:00am wake up for school is going to get ugly fast if i can’t fall asleep until 3:00am, instead of around 10:00pm for the foreseeable future. Can all that vitamin D from the southern Florida sun supe up your internal batteries? I don’t know. Feels like it can. I’m buzzing. Brrrt!

Maybe a vigorous walk around the farm will help temper all this pent up energy. It isn’t like I’m snacking on high sugar treats well into the evening, or pounding sodas to keep me wired awake at night.i don’t drink coffee, or tea, nor espressos or cappuccinos either. If anything I’m taking in more water here than while I was away. Hm. A real conundrum. A puzzle, if you will. I shouldn’t be worried about work projects. I have submitted samples and am waiting on a data sheet. I filed paperwork for the non-profit on time, and I’m in the process of getting my taxes sorted out ahead of April. So those shouldn’t be a factor, atleast not consciously anyway. I’m back in my own bed at night, which I prefer to where I was sleeping in the Keys. My room is a lot darker than the one I stayed in too, so it shouldn’t be a matter of light pollution. Our neighbourhood is pretty tame, so it isn’t a noise issue. I think it’s just energy. I was building up and expending lots of energy when we swam for 90-150 minutes two or three times a day. Plus walks, and beach combing with the kids. I was even riding a fixed gear bike around the resort grounds once or twice.

I absolutely detest the cold so I get pretty sedentary between December 1st, and April 15th, where our weather is just The Worst. I need to figure something out. I know that the heat itself down there does a lot to sap my strength and make me tired. Plus all that fresh sea salt air that can make me tired like it does on the lake at the cottage. Probably a collection of things.

I felt just like this when I had to do both courses of Steroids for my guts. I slept maybe three hours a day, and felt like I could punch a mountain. I got so much done during those eleven weeks. Was also pretty irritable, bordering on angry towards the end of those courses too. Now, I’m not mad, just annoyed at myself for not falling asleep at a reasonable time.

Feels like mid March outside right now.

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It’s currently raining, in late January, in Southern Ontario, Canada. That’s absurd. It should do only one of a few things at this point in the winter season; snow, freezing rain, icy cold wind, or dead calm and sunny but still be cold. Not get up into the positive temperatures and rain. I’d expect this leading into Mid March and April, but not now. Not that I cared for the polar vortex and those insane low temps, but this is just as bad. Need a sustained cold to kill off all those extra bugs we don’t want around here, and to keep snakes and shit away.

Friday is here, you’ve made it through yet another week. I have at least two more weeks with appointment shuffles to do for the kids, and myself included. By then it will be February, and the red/pink lead up to Valentine’s Day. Yes! Little more than two weeks away. Chocolates and stuffed toys, flowers and such to flood the market place. Great thing is all of that will be super cheap come the 15th. Wait a day and get 25-50% off face value. Love it.

Given that I can’t get a weeks groceries for less than $200.00 any more, I think those savings on the extras are worth my while to wait for. I spend about $1,000.00 on food for the month roughly, for us four, and my kids don’t eat all that much (according to their school lunches that come home 60% full each day). Milk, juice, juice boxes, and snacks run through our fingers like water. Laundry soap and toilet paper are an investment to make these days. Wowzers. Need vitamins? $20.00 or the better part there of, easily. We aren’t poor, and I’m not broke, but god damn I feel bad for folks whom were struggling before. This shit is crazy. Don’t get me started.

Had a good wander around the shops yesterday. My day was off anyway, with a sick wife, youngest who couldn’t sleep and woke me up at 4:00am, and kept me awake until just after 5:00am. Then we had a later start, doctor appointments, late school drop off, and a grocery shop. I took an extra 45 mins to just wander around looking at pajamas, tools, and movies still available as physical media. By the time I got home, un packed the shopping, made & ate lunch, did some paid work, it was time to go get the kids – again. Then off to night time sports with the oldest. It was calming to come home afterwards though. I ended up making grilled cheese sandwiches, and watching the animated Addams Family movie until I put the kids to bed. I was in bed asleep by 9:30pm last night. I could have gone to bed at 7 if I’d of had the chance. I have a huge capacity for sleep. Probably stems from years of dealing with fatigue. Though sleeping with fatigue doesn’t help all that much either. Nothing like waking up feeling more tired, and not feeling rested and utterly exhausted. Like going to bed with your body battery being on 3%, and waking up eight plus hours later feeling like you’re at 1% and falling. Don’t miss those days at all. Too tired to sleep. Awful. Just awful feeling. I spent my later teen years like that, for months on end at a time.

But enough about me, how are you all doing out there in Candy-Land? Moving your pieces strategically or just taking a roll of the dice and pushing forward, sideways, backwards as the roll dictates? Strange times. Yo, when do the masses rise up and eat the rich? I hear those 1% folks are building bunkers and safe havens. I guess they know something we don’t. Until next time.

Playing The Dangerous Game of “Just Five More Minutes”…

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Only to awaken in a panic to find that you have in fact only slept in for five more minutes, and not the dreaded thirty plus. After several hours of sleep, those five minutes feel as though they should really help, but for me, they don’t. It just prolongs that heavy brain fog fugue state I get first thing in the morning. At least until I’m up and have peed, and walked about for a few moments. Not a fan of the late night urgency to pee that seems to be creeping up on me. I can have pretty restless sleep to begin with, so having to get up once, if not twice is even more exhausting. Zero stars, do not reccomend. The sheets and mattress thank me, but my body says, “sleep through the night more often you dumb lug“. The joys of aging I suppose.

Now that we’ve got kids, the ability to just lie in and totally whiff on the wake up call has mostly vanished. Which is for the best. No amount of sleep, at any point in the day, seems to leave me feeling refreshed. At all. I know I snore, so I wonder if there is some other sleep issue I have, or if the constant fatigue is just Crohn’s related. Could very well be. Oh well. I try not to read in bed at night anymore, or use my phone in bed, so that I can just go to sleep, and not think about those kinds of distractions. Helped at first, but the benefits seem to be waning, or have plateaued. Hard to tell the difference there. We all seem to acclimate to better circumstances really easily, and then get upset with the new, slightly better, but now baseline circumstances we are in. I don’t feel as though it is bad enough to warrant a clinical visit or trial at a sleep clinic. So there is that.

The kids have an assembly today, and my oldest has a speaking part in it. Looking forward to how it all turns out. We spent some time going over the lines earlier this week, and it was down pat. So the kid will do great, I’m sure of it! I may be only one of a few in a mask, but from the whispers I hear, looks as though masking will make a come back (at least in schools) come early next week, possibly to be announced on Monday. My family has been masking inside the whole time, so no change there. But it’ll be helpful all around, given the number of absences I saw this morning at drop off, for more families to follow suit – again. We all know it works, but won’t do so unless they absolutely have too. Weird flex, but ok. I’m on board with it for as long as it takes.

Today is Friday, November 11th, 2022. This month is starting to pick up speed! Vroom vroom mutha fuqars! Take care out there! Ciao Bella!