Well, this is only the second day of the week, the second day
of the work week after Christmas vacation and I am already looking forward to
Friday – or at the least, the weekend.
I am tired, soooo tired.
Yesterday, Monday, was find. I wasn’t tired
during the day, but a couple of hours before I went to Bible study; I had to
lie down for a bit. I ended up falling
asleep for about 40 minutes. Had set the alarm so I could sleep for a little over
an hour, but I woke up about half an hour before the alarm went off. I felt better, and was confident I wouldn’t be
yawning or almost falling asleep during Bible study. And, I was also able to get to bed around
midnight (I could have gone before, but I wanted to read a little before bed –
and I also had to read my Bible for the day as well), which allowed me about
five hours of sleep (pretty typical for me).
I made it through work today and didn’t do any
yawning or feeling tired, which is good.
But, once I got home and sitting down, relaxing, etc. I soon began to
feel my eyes drooping, and that general “I’m so
tired I want to go to bed” feeling.
Unfortunately, it’s too
early for that. If I go to bed now (or a
littler earlier like I wanted to), I would either do one of two things: end up
sleeping for 30-60 minutes and then not be able to get to sleep until 2:00 in
the morning, or I’d sleep until 3:00 and be awake
for the rest of the night.
So, I’m pushing on, trying to stay
awake for another hour or so.
Another reason I had for staying awake longer, was the fact I
needed to do my 500 words for today. I’m seven
days into this, and I didn’t want to miss a day of
it. I knew I wouldn’t be
writing anything spectacular (not that anything else I’ve
written has been that great), but I still needed, and wanted, to do this. If it will help build a habit of doing daily
writing (or at least a decent amount of words each day), and even help me blog
more frequently – like I used to a few years ago – then I can’t be
missing days here and there. I know for
me, it’s far too
easy to just dismiss it because I’m tired,
or I just don’t feel like it. But if I do that one day, it
will lead to another, and pretty soon I’m not
getting anything written for great amounts of time. So, to develop that kind of behaviour this
early on into the challenge would just spell disaster for me.
As I pause at this particular moment to check my word count
and think of something else to say to bring me closer to my minimum challenge
requirement, I am realizing that I seem to have developed a bit of a second
wind. Hopefully I will be able to keep
this up for at least another hour or two, and then I’ll head
to bed at a decent time. Hopefully.
And with that, I’ve now
exceeded the 500 words – not that many, but still. I made it. And, hopefully I’ll be
more creative with future posts, rather than just rambling on about the day to
day boring things like this one.
