An "off" day

 Yesterday we were up and off to our Doctor's 6:15 appointment.  I had great difficulty sleeping Tuesday night and was running on about 3 1/2 hours sleep, and this really affected my driving.  Once home, I went straight to bed, slept for almost 3 hours.  The same was true in the afternoon, up for a bit over lunch and back to bed until about 4:00. Then an evening vegging out watching tv.  This was very scary, but I think that I was really exhausted, perhaps something that had crept up on me over time.  I missed my meeting out in Lorette, which I regret, but Gail phoned about 4:45 and bought me up to speed with what happened.  It was early to bed, so, of course, I'm now up and have had breakfast before 6:30am.

This has scared me enough that I'm looking at my lifestyle, and acknowledging the need to cut back in some form. I can't do it all.  But I'm darned if I'm going to give up my studio time.  Yet that appears to be the most easily expendable activity in the schedule.  What I'm actually looking at is starting my day earlier so as to be ready for bed before 11:00.  This may help with my difficulty sleeping, and make me a little more productive.  After all, I was up at 6:00am all my working life.  Of course, that means I'm accepting of the need to nap, and it might also mean me napping more frequently.  A vicious circle.  We'll see.

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