Sleeping Habits!

So, good news! I am no longer taking the awful medicine that was reacting so horribly with my body. The only (somewhat) downside to this is that I was so used to being extremely drowsy by 9pm, that my body is no longer tired until much later than is really reasonable for me to go to sleep. I've found myself searching facebook and other sites just for something to entertain myself with until I was sleepy enough to call it a night.

Tonight I decided to look at this time a bit differently. It's nice to have some time after a very long and crazy day to unwind and catch up on some homework and writing/reflection. I'm finding I am more productive in this hour and a half than I have been all day. My parents are asleep and if anyone is awake it is my brother who is up doing the same thing as me -- school work. I've always said I work better at night, and here it is ... proof! Haha.

I just wonder when it's all going to catch up to me. I remember my first year of college. I was away at school and somehow I had gotten into the habit of not starting homework until about 11pm. I would shack up in the student union starting around 8 or 9 (whenever my commitment for that evening was over) and I would socialize for an hour or two and then go at it. I am a procrastinator through and through (but a planner as well ... explain that one to me!). I wouldn't get back to my dorm until about 3am each night. I would be up bright and early the next morning for class and do it all over again ... second semester got a bit better ... but it was probably due to the fact that I was so physically active that I literally could not stay awake that late on a regular basis.

I tell you all this to say that I would work myself into the ground during the week and then I would TOTALLY crash on weekends and breaks. No wonder my body is so screwed up. I think it is important, especially at the young adult age to establish a schedule for your body to adjust to. I know it's so much fun to run around at all hours of the night ... believe me, I LOVE it! but really, without some sort of regularity, my body just doesn't work like it's supposed to.

So, for now, I'm listening to my body and adjusting to my new schedule ... for now. I will probably spend most of my weekend napping or watching movies. Each day, it's a matter of looking to God for my strength, no matter how much sleep I get the night before! =]