Step Away From the Cake

 I have always been a good sleeper. For as long as I can remember, I have known that I sleep in 90 minute cycles and I need between 7 and 7.5 hours of sleep a night to be my best. Well this past week things have gone off the rails with my sleep and I'm not sure what is going on.  Before I go too far I should point out that Hubby still has the cough from his cold and he generally wakes up in the middle of the night with a coughing fit. That also wakes me up. So his coughing is definitely part of the problem. But not all of it.  This week I have been physically and mentally exhausted. I went back to school after a 2 week break and it has been an adjustment. Physically it's been hard because my knee is still bothering me, though it is a whole lot better yesterday and today, and mentally it's been hard because I wasn't as prepared as I thought I was. Having to figure out what to do and how to do it on the fly is mentally exhausting. So I would come home at night just wiped ...

 It's not really whining, I just need to get these things out of my head so that I can have a good day.  I'm freaking tired. Really. Really. Freaking tired.  My legs have been hurting me all week and I figured out it's probably because I used them so little over the two week break that they completely got out of the habit of walking. Over break there were days where I got 2,000 or 3,000 steps in only. That is a few trips to the bathroom and that's about it. Now I'm on my feet for most of 5ish hours. Yeah, my feet and legs hurt. A. Lot. So last night I had the brilliant idea of getting in the hot tub before bed. I really think it helped because my legs felt pretty good last night and feel pretty good this morning.  I did not get good sleep last night because Hubby was coughing a lot. I woke about 10:30 to him coughing and then he started again at around 2 am and that's the one that really messed me up. I was awake from about 2 - 3:30 am and then I finally drifted...

 Got nothing to really write about this morning, so I'm doing a bit of a brain dump.  In spite of all my preparing for the last 2 weeks, I literally do not know what I'm doing today. Awesome!! I personally love scrambling during first period to figure out what I'm doing in class that day. Yay!!! Tired, so, so, so tired. I realized yesterday that part of the reason I was so tired is my complete lack of activity for the last 2 weeks. I don't know what my average daily step count was but it was low. Very, very low. I know that one day I only got around 2,000 steps. I now see the problems with that and I'm going to fix it no matter how much it hurts. And trust me, it hurts. Yesterday my feet and legs were killing me. Killing!!!! Me!!!!! Which really brings home the importance of working out and doing things. I've used the fact that 'I don't feel like it' for long enough. I may not feel like working out in the moment but I definitely don't want to fee...

 The f*&^*&)) knee. On Sunday I thought I hit on something. I wore my Uggs and had my big insoles in them and my knee felt great. Yesterday I wore my big insoles in my tennis shoes and the knee felt really good most of the day. When I walked Mavy last night it started to act up again and it bothered me while I slept. But now that I think about it, it's not really pain like before, it's more of a weakness. It would make sense that the muscles around it are weak, I've been babying it for 6 weeks. So I think it's time to start building those muscles up.  And talk about tired. After 2 weeks of being sick and sitting or laying around, I was on my feet all day yesterday and I was wiped out when I came home. I walked Mavy and then laid on the couch playing Animal Crossing. Just before bed time, I got inspired and felt like playing Beat Saber so I did. I also did a really short workout on Supernatural (those are all on the oculus). It was fun and I went to bed, read for...