Make It A (10 o’ clock) Habit
sleeping sound
How can I make my sleeping time a habit when I know I am a confirmed night person. I’ve been trying to change my sleeping schedule but I always fail. Even when I plan to sleep on a centain time I would always find something to do before that and I would end up sleeping late again. It’s a struggle when I have to work the next day and feeling tired at work is the worst part of the problem. I wrote before that I didn’t have the symptoms of insomnia and I still believe I don’t have this kind of sleeping problem. It’s just that I am more active doing something at nights. I remember once I ironed clothes at about 11pm because I wasn’t sleepy to go to bed then. Even when I read a book in bed just to get myself sleepy, I end up even more later before the letters in the book turn illegible.
I found this article that describes a person like me as a “night owl” – a person having a problem sleeping at night and feeling tired and sleepy during the day. Sooo me. The article suggests treatments for this problem and I found some of them interesting and maybe would help me in the process of making my 10 o’ clock habit:
- Getting up at the same time every day no matter what time you go to sleep. On the weekends (or on days when you don’t have to get up) don’t let yourself sleep more than 1 hour longer than you do when you have to get up for work or school.
- Light therapy. In this case, light therapy means exposing yourself to bright light as soon as you wake up. You can use sunlight or a bright (10,000 lux) light box for 30 to 45 minutes each day.
I had done the first one on several occasions but I seemed to have not completely aware that it would help me get to sleep earlier at nights. But I must admit I don’t like lights early in the morning. I often nagged at hubby to turn off the lights when I’m still in bed and he’s dressing up for work. How can I survive this…
Dining In A Castle
Just an ordinary but a castle look-restaurant
The roof of the restaurant amazed me more than how it looks inside. The grass growing on the roof made it looked like a real castle from afar. It was when we drove to Stockholm that we found this restaurant for a breakfast. But I would love to have dinner there someday, although it would be a long drive back and forth. I’m just waiting for a chance to see this place again. We did plan to drive to Stockholm again last weekend, but we were both tired to get up as early as 6:00 am. It wouldn’t be much of a trip if we would start driving on a midday so we didn’t bother about the plan. I don’t think we could do it now as the season of fall has started to take over warm days with rains and cold winds in the air. Not an ideal time to drive for a pleasure trip. Too bad cos I’d really dreamed of seeing this castle like restaurant again. I wonder if the knight is still there, lol! Yes, there was a knight guarding the place day and night, hehee. Just a human size statue of a knight.
Our knight in shining armour
He Danced Like The Wind
I just can’t let go believing that one of my favorite actors passed away a few days ago. Patrick Swayze was the most versatile actor I’ve had ever known in terms of dancing, singing and acting. The first film of him I saw was the Ghost which he starred with Demi Moore. Darn, I watched that movie twice when I was in college. Although the Dirty Dancing was his breakthrough film with Jennifer Grey which was actually shown three years before the Ghost. I don’t remember if the Dirty Dancing was shown in Davao, but I saw it on tv a few years back here. It has become a classic film of all time and many would love to watch it over and over. As a matter of fact, the said film was again shown here last Friday in memory of Patrick Swayze. And I couldn’t help but watched it again. I had mixed emotions in front of the tv because this time the actor was gone forever. Hubby and I incidentally bought a dvd film of Rowan Atkinson titled Keeping Mum and Patrick played a golf trainer in the film.
The video above was one of the soundtrack of the film, Dirty Dancing, which he sang himself. I happened to hear the song on the radio when I had my morning alarm set to radio instead of the usual toot-toot signal. And a few days ago, I heard the dj’s mentioned his name just when I gained consciousness back from deep slumber. Then they played She’s Like The Wind. I had no idea that Patrick Swayze died the day before. It was only when I bloghopped and read Mr. Spiff mentioned the demise of the prominent actor after battling pancreatic cancer for more than a year. So sad indeed. He died young, but although he did, he had entertained us with his versatility and that’s enough memories to remember him forever. May he rest in peace…
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