Thursday, March 5, 2015

Slice of Life Day 5: The Pressure of Sleeping In

We have yet another snow day today, though I must say I'm grateful because I have things to do around the house.

With a snow day comes the prospect of sleeping in. Last night I was telling Tim how tired I was and his response was "you can sleep as late as you want tomorrow."

NOPE! Clearly that did not happen, because here I am wide awake at 6:30. Now granted I do usually wake up at about 5:30 so that is a whole extra hour of sleep, but still not exactly the 9 or 10 o'clock wake up I was hoping for.

I think the pressure of sleeping in is getting to me with all these snow days.

I go to sleep with all this excitement because I know as you turn off my alarm, "Haha alarm I don't need you tomorrow I'm going to sleep ALL day!" I even stay up a little later watching TV (House of Cards!!) or reading because I know, "Psh I can make up for it tomorrow because I can sleep 'till NOON!"

And of course after making that proclamation of sleeping 'till noon my internal alarm clock has a little laugh of it's own, "HAHA, yeah right! Noon?!? Nope not gonna happen, I'll give you an extra hour of sleep then I'll kick in. Muahaha! You've been messing with my schedule with all these snow days so I'm going to get you back!!" (Apparently, my internal alarm clock is quite vindictive)

Then when I wake up early I of course have the internal battle of do I get up and start being productive, OR do I lay here wiling myself to go back to sleep? While I love being productive, I do also LOVE my bed so usually the later wins. So I lay here, and lay here, and lay here, until finally.....I usually fall back asleep at like 730 or 8.

BUT that is the time the dog wants to get up, or my fiance is awake and making noise.

So here I am at now 6:41 on a snow day wide awake writing a blog post. At least I can be productive from bed (take that internal alarm clock).

Enjoy your day everyone, I'm going to go back to willing myself back to sleep!

6 comments:

  1. There is pressure to sleep in! I wrote about our snow day today, too. But I rarely ever see any side of 5 am!

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  2. You shared a common experience for those of us who normally rise early for work. Sleeping in is an unattainable goal it seems. I loved the internal conversation you included in your piece. A shared experience like this puts the pressure of sleeping into perspective for your fellow struggling sleepers.

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  3. You shared a common experience for those of us who normally rise early for work. Sleeping in is an unattainable goal it seems. I loved the internal conversation you included in your piece. A shared experience like this puts the pressure of sleeping into perspective for your fellow struggling sleepers.

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  4. Don't you just hate that! I do the same thing when I have to wake up earlier than normal too - I can't go to sleep thinking I will oversleep! Now, how ridiculous is that.

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  5. Sleeping in on snow days never really works for me either. By the time it's declared, I am already up and around. I'll take a no plans have been made Saturday morning sleep in any day!

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  6. I love the voice of this piece with the dialogue between you and your internal clock. I hope that you enjoyed the rest of your snow day!

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