Weekend Musings

Sleep

Do you ever have difficulty getting to sleep at night?

Sometimes, when I'm worrying a bit about something. Usually that's not my prime insomnia time, however.

Do you have a routine that helps you to get to sleep at night?

Yes, I read or do a crossword in bed until I'm cross-eyed with sleep and then roll over quick and drop off.

When you can't sleep, do you get up and do something or just lay there and hope you'll get drowsy enough to fall asleep?

I hate lying in bed doing nothing! That's my prime time for all the worries to join forces and attack. Typically, I don't do this at bedtime, but if I wake up at all in the night, I'm likely to have trouble getting back to sleep.

I usually get up and go in another room with book or crossword and try to do the bedtime routine again. Mostly it works.

Do you sleep all the way through the night or do you occasionally wake up during the night?

I'm better at sleeping all night now than I used to be. In my 20s, I don't think I slept all night more than once or twice a week. I had not discovered earplugs, and since noise is what wakes me--not light--everytime Beast snored, or a car backfired, or a thunderstorm started up...yeah, I was done for the night.

Nowadays, I occasionally have to get up and use the bathroom at night, but I rarely wake up all the way (intentionally!).

Do you ever wake up early and then can't get back to sleep?

Yup. All the time. If it's a lazy morning, I just doze till I have to get up. If it's a work morning, and the worries have attacked, I just bail and start the day early.

FDA: E. coli linked to Natural Selection Foods: I've bought bagged spinach before to make salads. Did you have any that you had to throw away after the original warnings by the FBI about bagged spinach? Will you buy any in the future or go for the unbagged variety?

Luckily, I haven't been to the store recently enough to have any bagged veggies (or, actually, any fresh veggies at all). I never trusted the bagged stuff anyway; it always seemed more prudent to at least rinse it off.

I will undoubtedly buy the bagged stuff again in the future, but I will be more careful about rinsing before using. Normally, however, I just buy the unwrapped stuff (and rinse it too). A lot of it goes to the guinea pig, so this is just really encouragement for me buy the really fresh, unprocessed greens.