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I think this guy looks like he is sleeping

Lately my sleep schedule has been out of control.  Staying up until 2 or 3 a.m.??  Sleeping in until 10 or 11 a.m.??!  That is ridiculous.  I’m supposed to be an adult.

To curb my indulgence, I set the alarm earlier, for 9 o’clock.  Naturally, I hit the snooze every 10 minutes for an hour and a half, defeating the purpose.  To overcome that habit, I put the alarm clock all the way across my bedroom, so I have to get out of bed to shut it off.  This sounds like a brilliant plan, because it is.  But I wasn’t counting on my body’s determination to sleep.  The first morning I did this, I got out of bed to turn off the alarm — and woke up two hours later, sprawled out on the floor next to the alarm.  I figured I would at least get back into bed.

After waking up before 8 a.m. the past two mornings, I think I’ve found the solution.  Each night when I go to bed I turn on the space heater in my bedroom.  By the time the sun comes up, my bedroom is hot.  I can’t sleep in heat.  Tossing off covers, hitting snooze, rationalizing an extra hour in bed — none of it works.  I have to get up.

I just hope that I get back in the swing of things naturally so that I don’t have to wake up on the brink of sweating every morning.  I think I’ll keep the heat treatment for a week, then see how I do without.

p.s. You may have noticed a preponderance of finger-drawn images accompanying my posts.  Back in August I used Google search a couple times to supply pictures for posts, but I don’t want to keep doing that.  If I don’t have an applicable photo in my reserves, I just have to draw one.  I don’t have a picture of myself sleeping, but I do have a picture of Brittany sleeping on vacation.

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