Chasing ZZZZZZZZ's....

Last week I was chasing sleep all week long. I’d get up every morning vowing to be in bed early that night, but sleep kept eluding me for one reason or another. You know it’s bad when your first waking thought is “I can’t wait until tonight to get back in bed”.

Do you find when you don’t get enough sleep for more than a few days, things undoubtably go wrong? For instance, one day last week, I woke up at 2:30 AM never to fall back asleep, once at work I thought I had a scheduled meeting in conference room Q, only to find another meeting in progress. I tried to kick them out in a friendly manner, only to learn I was a week early, and in fact I was scheduled to be in another meeting on the other side of the building, that now I was late for……gotta run.

I also realized I left my already prepared lunch in the fridge at home and bought yogurt and a slice of cheese out of the vending machine (who knows how long they were sitting) from the cafe along with eating an apple that had been sitting on my desk for probably the last five days (which had already started the shriveling process, but was motivated by hunger to eat most of it). I must report, I’ve had tastier lunches…HA!

Once home, I had a conference call scheduled and struggled through the entire hour and six minutes….ARGH! What a day! I just want to go to bed, but oh, you have laundry to do, dinner dishes to clean, and thirty minutes of exercise you commited to your girlfriend! YAWN!

I felt my days were on repeat, again and again. Unfortunately, I don’t have a moral to this story because I need more sleep and want to lay down. So if you’re chasing zzzzzs, my advice is…..clear your calendar and run for the bed….oh how happy I’d be.

Sweet dreams

xoxox…..Sheryl