Update on The Sleep Issues

Well it's always the simple solutions that are the best.

It seems that my lack of sleep was tied up with a lack of activity. No surprises there but I just didn't see it.

I somehow forgot that I had let my normal exercise routine slide a bit - No, not just a bit, completely. Instead of doing a bit of yoga 4 or 5 times a week and walking at least 3 times (and usually more) I was being lazy and was doing nothing that involved any effort at all (unless you call ironing and wheeling a shopping cart around the store effort. (Unfortunately that effort doesn't count as exercise because it doesn't make you out of breath.)

That sentence I wrote in May "no point eating healthily and exercising if you look like the living dead" was ironinc as I was neither eating particularly healthily nor exercising at all - there wasn't any point in it I thought LOL

Of course, I knew the theory that exercise helps you sleep more soundly but I wasn't applying it.
Anyway I started exercising again, not to sleep better but because I noticed that I was starting to put on a few pounds. (Funny that a little vanity will do what a promise of better health will not).

And I'm sleeping well again at least 6 hours a night. I feel so much better I won't ever forget this lesson (until the next time of course) (Wry smile)

Counting Sheep

I am so tired today. It has been creeping up on me gradually for a while. Started with a cold I had a couple of weeks ago that made it difficult to sleep and then I seem to have got out of the habit of sleeping properly.

I have no trouble nodding off quickly at night (by then I'm dark tired and fall asleep as soon as my head touches the pillow) but then I wake up early in the morning, not fully rested but unable to get back to sleep.

One night is fine but this has been going on too long - I am looking so tired and every year of my age.

No good eating well and exercising if you still look like the living dead.

Not sure what to do about this. Any ideas?

Finishing Touches

A whole two years ago we remodeled the back of our house and the old kitchen became a utility room while we made a much larger kitchen in the old dining room. I loved my new kitchen and wanted it to be perfect but I never got around to getting kitchen curtains to complete the room decoration.

Now the kitchen windows are large and not overlooked (they just look out into the garden. They have beautiful plants on the window sill but I always thought curtains or blind would finish off the kitchen nicely.

However two years on, it isn't going to happen I can see. The room could do with repainting again already. It still looks good but I can see that a lick of paint would be good - all that greasy air and steam plays havoc with any kitchen decor and I can't see myself paying a lot for curtains or blinds and hanging them up there.

So if you redecorate a room, don't do what I did and be sure to finish it right away. Just don't get too used to how the room is without the finishing touches or you might never get them.