Up before midday on a Sunday...must be the first time in about 5 years. Went to see my doctor about the sleeping problems I've been having of late; which have had a huge knock-on effect for the rest of my day (4-5 hours sleep a night is not a good thing)...also led me to have marathon 12+ hours sleep sessions on the weekend. Anyway, long story short I'm trying Ambien for a couple of weeks (strictly short term only). This was my second night (normally I won't use it at weekends, just getting used to the effects). It's amazing the difference that 8 hours of deep sleep has...normally I'd get about 20 minutes then wake up the continue that cycle throughout the night, waking up feeling lousy and more often than not having a headache. This weekend I've had 2 perfect nights' sleep and I feel like a different person!
Anyhow, this is the beginning of my third week of working on myself, no coffee at work, working on the sleep and getting out a bit more. What prompted this? Well it was a few things; I got to thinking about it after reading Rory's blog over the last couple of months, watching the interview with Jeff Sandquist, oddly reading Microserfs again. I also got to thinking about a friend of mine from years ago ; Stuart who basically had a nervous breakdown due to overwork (due in no small part to me - something I will be forever sorry for).
I realized that I was heading the same way as Stuart, luckily being off sick a couple of weeks ago and unable to work game me some time to think about the direction I was heading in...the discovery that being worried less about work actually helps me work far better is insanely surprising!
Anyway, still at the beginning of a long road; and frankly a pretty embarrassing one for an ex-psychologist...but part of the point in my restarting this blog was honesty! Next up, back into the dating scene (or more specifically *into* the Seattle dating scene)!
So, any Seattle women up for meeting a fat Scotsman with low self confidence :-)