I'm a big fan of sleep... but sometimes its not such a fan of me... I was brought up in a house where we went to bed on time, but the phone could ring at any moment because my dad was on call 24-7. By the time I was ten or eleven I had a phone in my room and so every time the phone would ring for dad, I would snap to attention and answer it as professionally as I could... The good thing about this is that I am fully awake and cognizant of my surroundings quickly when awakened by a phone or other noise...
The bad thing, is that I'm fully awake and cognizant of my surroundings quickly when awakened by a phone or other noise...and so I spend a lot of time surfing the web and reading in the wee hours of the morning until I am tired enough to sleep again - usually about 1/2 an hour before I'm supposed to get up..
It was all good, until my son moved out of his crib and started getting lonely at night ... now he crawls into bed with me most nights... sometimes quietly and sometimes not so.... its the not so times that are the most difficult to deal with...
and so I run on pure steam until I can crash again...
It doesn't catch up with me often... but I do appreciate a good nap - some of my best are to Nascar Races and PGA golf events... there's just something about both that makes me sleepy.
How do you handle sleep, waking up and getting enough?
