40 Days of Lent: A Spirtual Journey -- Day Twenty

Day Twenty: Go to bed an hour early tonight. Give up being over-tired and possibly cranky. Your family and co-workers will thank you.

9pm Thursday evening,

Me?  Cranky?  LOL.  Ridiculous!  Never happens.  Nope, not me.  Never happens.  I am always well rested, calm and patient. 

Well, maybe on occasion....

Well, maybe more than once in a while.

Well, okay, I admit it.  I get cranky now and then.  Hush, you who know me.  Yes, I do get cranky.  I guess sometimes it is due to lack of sleep.  So tonight I will go to bed an hour early.  I will post this in the morning and let you know the results.  In the meantime, I have to share that my crankiness usually means I haven't eaten.  I'm hungry.  My blood sugar has dropped.  I am out of sorts.

So let's do this.  Off to bed now.

Friday morning.  11:30ish.

Okay, I went to bed early last night.  I slept well I think.  I did have vivid dreams.  I don't usually remember them.  I do this morning.  I woke up at 5:30, then 6:30, then finally got out of bed at 7:30.  Of course it helped me get out of bed when the cars started racing down my street because they closed the left turn lane from Jurupa Avenue onto Riverside Avenue (again!) to repair (again!) a leak beneath the pavement.  And cars racing down my quiet residential street are hard to ignore.

Yawns may be an early warning sign of the crankies.

So cranky?  I suppose.  I went to bed at 9:30.  Got up at 7:30.  Ten hours.  Who needs that much sleep?  Got up, fed the dogs and cat, had some oatmeal and coffee, went for our morning walk and then, instead of diving into work, I read the paper and had another cup of coffee.  Then I did a special announcement for my church newsletter.  And now I am reporting to you.

Cranky?  Not really.  I think I just got TOO MUCH SLEEP!  LOL.  I think we can sleep too much.  I know if I take a long nap in the afternoon, I get a "sleep hangover".

Bottom line:  just take care of yourself, get plenty of rest, and be mindful of your interactions with others and yourself.  Staying conscious of your own needs is the best remedy to being cranky.

Oh, ya, I suppose you can remind me of all this next time I get cranky.  But please forgive me if I bark or grumble.  I really don't mean it.  Really.