My wonderful hubs works at Starbucks. Sometimes he opens, which requires him to be there at 5 a.m. Now my sweet hubs is almost always willing to walk to work (it's a 7-minute walk from our apartment, or so he tells me), but I feel like a terrible person whenever he walks. Especially when there's any sort of inclement (read: not perfect) weather.
BUT (and, like mine, that is a big but) -- if I take him to work, I usually can't get back to sleep. And if I am actually able to get back to sleep, it's usually not until an hour or an hour and a half later. So if I take him to work at 5 a.m., that means that I can generally fall back asleep at around 6:30 a.m. On a weekday, that's when I'm getting up for work. So on a weekday, there's no point in even trying to go back to sleep... and that means I've gotten 1.5 hours less sleep than normal... and if you know me at all, you know that I require sleep. Lots of good, quality sleep makes me a normal person. Similarly, little sleep = little ability to function. If it's on a weekend, it's not that big of a deal... except it kind of is, exemplified by instances like this morning:
This morning I took Wes to work at 5, and I went back to sleep at around 6:30. I got up at 9 to pick him up from work (he usually walks home, as it's a lot lighter outside when he gets off as opposed to when he starts, but it was raining this morning). I was supposed to stay up, get a shower, and then we were supposed to go to church. Instead, I came back and tried to go back to sleep because I was still exhausted. But I couldn't fall back to sleep, so now it's 3:00, I just showered an hour ago, my whole day is thrown off, and I have no energy to do anything.
I got 6 hours of sleep the first time (11 p.m. - 5 a.m.) and 2.5 the second (6:30 - 9), but somehow that didn't add up to 8.5 hours. Thus my title. For some reason, interrupted sleep isn't the same as non-interrupted sleep. It adds up to not just a little less, but a lot less. Is this true for everyone (not just me)??
(Now hubs, if you're reading this, don't feel bad. You work hard at Starbucks and I certainly don't want you to have to walk to or from work in the dark or in the rain. But I do wish you didn't open so often!)
In other news, and with no transition whatsoever, I really like these shoes:
I would get them in black, as I've worn my black heels down to the metal stubs and can barely walk in them. But (big but!) they are $79, and I think that is a lot of money for a pair of heels! How much would you pay for them?
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I wouldn't buy them till I had tried them on... but if they were comfortable, I'd probably buy them. Shoes are something that I can justify spending a bit of money on, because your feet/hips/back/neck can be affected by lousy shoes. Then again, I only have a few pairs of shoes, so it isn't something I consider often..
Sleep consolidation is far more important than the actual hours slept. 4 hours of non-interrupted sleep is always better than 8 hours of interrupted sleep, because of the complex neurological and chemical changes your body undergoes while sleeping.
I love the sweet things I learn in med school. :-)
Oh they're gorgeous! I'd pay the money.
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