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When sleep doesn't happen

Normally I train quite a bit every day, after putting in a full days work as a project manager.  Ill define quite a bit as 3-4 hours every night at the gym and at least that on Saturdays.  Usually I can squeeze in 90 minutes of heated yoga on the weekend with my girlfriend also.  Add that to getting a new business off the ground and my sleep is scheduled in so that I get 7 hours every night.  It rarely happens because I seem to always find something else to occupy myself with and don't get to bed on time.  So I average about 5-6 a night.  Yes I know how bad this is for me.  So needless to say, when I lay down, I pass out like a dead person.  Except Sunday night.  Because on Sundays I prepare for the week with laundry, cooking, cleaning, business stuff, phone call to dad and pretty much anything else I can cram in.  Except those 3 hours in the gym.  And I just don't get tired. I kind of feel like the girl I saw on Intervention, except she does crack.  And I'm sober as can be.  So sometime between 12:30 and 1:30 I'm usually in bed, wide awake.  Even my cat knows I'm not tired.  He just sits on my chest waiting for me to pet him.  Eventually I get to sleep but it wrecks me for the rest of the week.  I wake up late Monday and am already tired for my week of little sleep.  Ive tried all my usual tricks, even a cocktail but I'm just not tired and ready for bed.  So this post is actually to find out what you do to get to sleep on those other days?

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  1. FoLoMeDecember 12, 2011 at 9:14 PM

    As much as I hate taking something, Excedrin PM works great on the nights when I just can't get to sleep.

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  2. Alexander7000December 14, 2011 at 3:48 PM

    Hmm, nothing like O's

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