Of Sleep and other topics of mental health
Posted By Warren on June 2, 2010
I have not been sleeping well lately. I don’t know if it is the 3 years I worked graveyard shift, or the house is usually way to hot for me, or the mental/emotional stuff I have been going through lately. Or the lack of exercise and sitting on my butt for 2 and a half years. Or maybe that my blood stream is more caffeine then blood.. It seems like I get about four hours of sleep and end up waking up. That isn’t enough, of course. I seem to be in this half asleep state all the time, forcing myself to live but not really living.
I think exercising will help that. I’ve started; in a small way. I can’t believe how out of shape I am. It is really embarrassing, seeing as I used to be able to walk 3 miles with no problem and lift weights on a daily basis. Now I get winded and hurting just by weeding the yard… I can’t believe I let myself sink to this level, physically. Ah well, all I can do is start to *do* things again and get my body used to…you know…moving.
I am also going to keep to my daily writing schedule. Gotta keep my mind sharp…ish. Exercise, writing…that should help in the other areas of my life. Probably should stop drinking sodas again… I stopped for months and months, but I started again a little bit ago when things were going south in my just now in the past relationship.
So. Exercise. Writing. Stop drinking sodas. Maybe work in yellowstone for a couple of months… Give my life a jump start. There is so much I want to do, I need to start doing it and stop making excuses.
Yah…sounds like a plan.
The following picture is the Norris Geyser basin at night. It has a high concentration of geyers and is a very cool place to visit at 2 am. I went there in the middle of the night during a thunder and lightening storm… it was truly epic. To bad I don’t have a picture, but I will incorporate the experience in to written form at some point.
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