Sleep

​Sleep
This drowsiness thing is hard to get a handle on.  I remember at work saying there always comes a time in the afternoon when drowsiness sets in.  At that point I would know I had a choice.  Give into it or fight it.  At work I always fought it.  It never ceased to amaze me how quickly it went away.  What had seemed overwhelming now seemed underwhelming.
Not working now has made a difference.  I know I get up early and would be able to sleep during the day any time but these days I often give into it.  I have a nap.  Not always but mostly.  I do enjoy it.
A little voice says to me “why get up early.  You are retired.  You can sleep in.”  Honestly I find it harder to lay in bed awake than it is to get up.  It is my body clock.  I am a morning person.  Some people can sleep and sleep and sleep of a morning.  I am not one of them.
There are those though that can stay awake all hours of the night.  It is not something I can do.  Often seemingly unreasonable early I head off to bed.  I did near someone say every hour before midnight is worth two after it.  I do not know if that is true or not, but it works for me.
So I find myself often sleeping of an afternoon.  Yet it does not seem to matter that I have slept in the afternoon.  I do not go to bed any later or wake up any earlier.  Generally between 3 and 5 I rise.
It gets light just before 6am but it is getting earlier.  Sometimes I go without food.  The health benefits of doing so are being promoted these days.  I do it a middle eastern way.  At sun set, eating is on again.  So I have been keeping a close eye on when sunset is in Burpengary.  It is getting later.  5.01 was the best.  Now sunset is 5.33.  Still not late.  Especially if I have a sleep in the afternoon which kills a bit of time.
But this going to sleep now in front of the tv is real.  That has really only come on since I have gotten older.  Once upon a time if I wanted to see a show there was no way I would go to sleep.  That is not guaranteed now.
I try to look like I am awake but that can be really hard.  Especially when I snore.  It is great how in this day and age I can record a program.  I just need to stay awake and remember to do it.