early-ish

i'm not a person who needs a lot of sleep. despite my tendency to fall asleep at any seated opportunity, i can function pretty capably on a steady six hours per night. but something is definitely amiss since school started.

i've got a throbbing pain behind my eyes telling me to close them through the day. i'm falling asleep with overhead lights on, mid conversation. i'm waking with a headache at 6:30. in and out of the bed until i take todd to school at 8:30. and then some days, when i can squeeze it in, i crawl back into bed at 8:45 and try to replace what is clearly missing.

yesterday was one of those mornings. i don't work on mondays generally, so after i dropped off todd i snuggled back up next to haley. some time later we woke up and haley said she thought to herself, 'please don't let it be 10,' as she pulled her wrist out from around me to check her watch. we both focused our fuzzy eyes on the dial and read: 11:23. 'holy shit!'

and still last night at 11:15pm we were both foggy and sleepy and wondering what's happened to us. we hadn't even been up twelve hours.

i don't have it all figured out yet. but i have some ideas. i think we're going to get a white noise machine for our bedroom to help with the mornings. at least haley should be able to sleep through the breakfast, bus, and business of school. afternoon naps are going to a mandatory part of my day. thirty minutes of power napping should carry me through the evening. and once again i'm going to break my caffeine cycle. (how'd that creep back in there? i have no idea.)

it's amazing really how many things happen when we're sleeping. human growth hormone.. leptin.. digestion.. serotonin.. in short: sanity and thinness. and when i'm not rested? irritable fatness.

so, in the interest of reducing my crabby bloat, i'm heading to bed early. well, early-ish.

d: satiating sleep.
b: i have the most comfortable bed in the world.
g: clean sheets and haley's getting off work early.