The Perfect Foam

Sleep, Please

If there is one thing in my life that I wish I could get more of but wouldn’t have to give up any additional time to get, it would be SLEEP!  Now of course this wouldn’t be possible, but it sure would be nice.  No matter the effort, it’s a tremendous struggle to get to bed earlier.  Every day I tell myself that I need to be in bed before 11, but every night I find myself with things to do or things I want to do.  If only it were possible to go to bed at midnight, wake up at 7 in the morning, and somehow get 8-9 hours of sleep!

And though one of my favorite weekly activities is sleeping in on the weekend, two problems have developed as I have gotten older.  The first is that I simply cannot sleep as long and as late as I used to.  Gone are the days of 12-13 hours of uninterrupted, amazing, blissful, relaxing sleep!  I can’t even get 9 hours of sleep in a row anymore.  Whether it’s sensitivity to light or noise, or having to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night/morning (which I HATE!), a night of uninterrupted sleep is a miracle for me.

The second problem is that I don’t like getting up late on the weekends because I want to get outside and get my day going. A friend of mine said it best when he pointed out that in San Francisco brunch starts at like 9 instead of 11 or 12 because it’s such an active city.  So of course I feel guilty about getting up past 10.

There is nothing worse than the following two scenarios, which I have experienced far too often over the course of the last few years.  The first: going to bed late and dead tired, and knowing you are going to be dead tired when you wake up the next morning.  The second: waking up tired in the morning and thinking to yourself that you can’t wait until you get to go to sleep that night.

But of course, as night comes ever closer and the time that I promised myself I would be in bed by is long gone, I have failed yet again to get to bed “early”.  For the most part, no matter how tired I was during the day a few hours earlier, I always seem to wake up when it gets dark.  Suddenly the tiredness is gone.  Such is the curse of being a night owl.

If you have any advice for me I’ll be up late tonight and early tomorrow morning.  It’s a Saturday morning and I can’t go wasting the day away in bed.