It’s been a busy last week.

I literally had some kind of plans or obligation every day over the last week. In addition to long, busy days at work, there were Mavs watch parties, Rangers game, catching up with friends. I am exhausted. My left eye is twitching. I need a serious good night’s sleep, which I plan to get tonight thanks to some Advil PM.

Pictures and maybe a random video coming soon.

Sleep.

When I was in high school/college I had a lot of sleeping problems. I would find myself sitting up in bed in the middle of the night. I never remembered tossing and turning or waking up, I would just sort of come-to and be sitting up in bed.

The last few months I have been having some sleeping problems again. I wake up at 2am almost every morning. I think the exception to waking up at 2am is when I come home at 2am. I have been sleeping so much on the weekends, when it comes Sunday night, I have slept so much that I can’t fall asleep at a reasonable time.

Take last night for example…this weekend I had a late and sort of crazy Friday night. I did nothing on Saturday during the day. I went to dinner and hung out with some friends on Saturday night, but was home and in bed by about 10pm. On Sunday, I slept until about 8:30am, worked out, ran errands, read some magazines, etc. and then last night, I was awake, in bed until about 1am. And then awake around 2am. Then  my alarm went off at 6:40am. And I snoozed until 7am. Today I had three caffeinated beverages and at 3pm I could have leaned over on my desk and passed out.

I am not really sure what to do, but I sort of feel like one of those people in the Ambien commercials - “Need help falling asleep and staying asleep?” YES! That is me. Maybe I should see a doctor…it’s only been…YEARS since I have been to a doctor for a normal check up/physical. I don’t even have a general practitioner in Dallas. I have every other type of doctor, but not a regular, old doctor.

Great, now I am going to be worrying about not being able to sleep and finding a doctor that I won’t be able to sleep tonight.

Out of it.

I have been feeling so out of it lately. During my long vacation over the holidays, I got used to staying up late, sleeping in and even taking a nap in the afternoon. Then immediately following my time off, I was back to work for one day and then off to Las Vegas for six days.

The combination of too much food, too much alcohol, lack of sleep and long days over the trip has just taken its toll on me. This week I haven’t been able to fall asleep at my usual 10pm-ish time (pre-holidays) and I wake up feeling like a zombie, which lasts most of the morning at work.

I’d like to say I can’t wait for the weekend so I can sleep, but Friday and Saturday are already shaping up to be busy. It will be nice to wake up Saturday and Sunday morning without an alarm clock though.

Time for some more caffeine…