My Journey With Health And Fitness – I Need Sleep

I have mentioned many times my fear of Canada Geese. Well the other day when I was on my run I went by a park that is nearby us and all of a sudden 2 geese came running out of the park being chased by a cat (it was quite the funny sight). I thought this was odd because I have never seen geese in this area before. Then today driving uptown I saw 2 geese (probably the same ones) crossing the road in a neighbourhood where I have never seen geese before. My immediate thought, oh no, they are taking over the city.

I woke up this morning and I was exhausted. It was so bad that I was seriously considering just rolling over and going back to sleep. After a few minutes I remembered my sister was putting in the effort to make me oatmeal for breakfast so I really needed to get up. I had breakfast and convinced myself to hit the treadmill where I did a 5k walk. I do admit to feeling a bit better after that but it could also be the fact that I had 2 cups of tea and the caffeine had kicked in.

So why am I tired? Since I came home from the trailer last Sunday I have not been sleeping well. It would appear I am back to my normal manic cycle of insomnia. Looking at my Fitbit most nights this week I’m barely making a ‘fair’ sleep score and one was even at the poor level. I know that usually once I hit around night number 4 of this cycle I usually fall into a deep sleep and can go forward. That should have been Thursday night but things happened to prevent that.

My neighbour has dubbed Thursday night (really it was early Friday morning) as a USO – unidentified sound object. The night had started with me not being able to get to sleep for several hours but I think I finally dozed off around midnight. I woke suddenly at around 2am to what sounded like a heavy duty saw running. Seriously, it sounded like someone was in our garage running a saw. I know it was bad because about an hour later it woke up my husband who is a very deep sleeper. I lay there wide awake until about 4am which was great since I am normally up by 5am. All in all I might have gotten in 3 hours of sleep.

You would think that after last night exhaustion would definitely have caught up to me but no, because of a complicated project I am working on for a recent client my mind was too busy drafting up responses to emails that would not make a very delicate situation even worse. Having said that I did come up with some pretty good language for the responses but not until well into the night.

I’ve only got 2 weeks until I head to Mexico for a month. I am even more resolved than ever that if I am not sleeping down there where I should be fully relaxed then it is time to get back on the sleeping pills.

Here’s hoping that tonight I finally get the rest that I need.