Tired

I think there is a good tired and a bad tired. Good tired is the tired that you get from having a busy but productive day. It's when you lay your head on the pillow and can sleep soundly because you feel good about what you got done. Tomorrow will be a fresh day where you can tackle new tasks. Bad tired is where you just pass out at the end of the day. Where you know that you may only get several hours (3-4) before you have to get up and do it all over again.



I just finished my last class this semester and I am tired. Exhausted really. I thought it would feel better than it did to be done, but I am just so worn out. This semester beat and battered me. It took al ot from me. I'm too tired to feel excited to be done. I don't feel like I have anything else to give, and alas we have to holiday season.



While I am thrilled to have some time off, thinking about the busyness of the holidays makes me more tired. I pray that time with family and friends will renew and refresh me. I pray that in three weeks I am able to pull my battered self together and start the spring semester

Sleeping Patterns

I feel like I should justify where and what I've been doing all this time. But I'm not going to, at least not at this point.

What I want to share with everyone now is sleeping patterns and behaviors. I have always been interested by sleeping. How people sleep. Do they sprawl out? Sleep with fans on? Snore? Sleep walk? Talk in their sleep? All sorts of things. Today I am going to share some of my sleep patterns. Some of them may be bizarre, some of them not.

• I like to sleep (even in warm weather) with heavy blankets on. The weight is comforting.
• I have been told that I talk in my sleep about everything from dead fruit bats in the pantry, to inquiring what someones name is.
• I have on occasion been told that I snore, although I choose not to believe it.
• Sometimes I am a wild sleeper and will wake up with blankets completely turned around, or pillowcases off the pillow.
• I wear this heart ring with the point facing me. Every now and then I will wake up and the heart arches will be facing me. Which means that in the middle of the night I am taking my ring off, turning it around and putting it back on. Pretty weird, hun?
• Last semester during finals I was waking up and my hands and fingers were so sore. After some time I figured out that I was clenching my fists while sleeping. I had to make an effort to lay my hands flat when going to sleep. I think this fist clenching had something to do with stress.
• Most recently the balls of my feet have been hurting upon waking up. I think this is because I have been curling my toes while sleeping. So now I am making and effort to not do this. Very strange

Now that I just shared some personal sleep habits and oddities, what are some of yours?