Date: July 27th, 2007 03:10 pm (UTC)From:white_hart
I often find that exercising leaves me feeling energised, even when I started off feeling wiped out. Especially if you do something outdoors in the fresh air. And brisk walking is fine.
I'm a light sleeper and generally wake up several times during the night. I often do wake up when Tim comes to bed but these days I'm pretty good at just dropping off again. OTOH, if you're waking up early and going back to sleep, perhaps you actually need to go to bed *later*. I tend to go to bed between ten and half-past, but occasionally, if I've been ill or really busy or something, it'll creep earlier, and what I then find is that I wake up at half-past five feeling wide awake, go back to sleep and then feel groggy when the alarm goes off. And then I feel tired all day and go to bed early and end up in something of a vicious circle. And yes, shut the cats somewhere; we started shutting Sandy out of the bedroom a few months ago because he kept coming and waking me up at five in the morning and demanding to be let out.
As for low-effort meals, I have several staple weekday dishes (pasta with tomatoey sauces, or with mushrooms or smoked salmon, risotto) that I've done so many times and that require so little effort in terms of chopping or measuring that they barely feel like cooking now. Do you have anything like that? Or if I can't even face that I tend to buy some steak and tell Tim he's cooking it ;-)
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Date: July 27th, 2007 03:10 pm (UTC)From:I'm a light sleeper and generally wake up several times during the night. I often do wake up when Tim comes to bed but these days I'm pretty good at just dropping off again. OTOH, if you're waking up early and going back to sleep, perhaps you actually need to go to bed *later*. I tend to go to bed between ten and half-past, but occasionally, if I've been ill or really busy or something, it'll creep earlier, and what I then find is that I wake up at half-past five feeling wide awake, go back to sleep and then feel groggy when the alarm goes off. And then I feel tired all day and go to bed early and end up in something of a vicious circle. And yes, shut the cats somewhere; we started shutting Sandy out of the bedroom a few months ago because he kept coming and waking me up at five in the morning and demanding to be let out.
As for low-effort meals, I have several staple weekday dishes (pasta with tomatoey sauces, or with mushrooms or smoked salmon, risotto) that I've done so many times and that require so little effort in terms of chopping or measuring that they barely feel like cooking now. Do you have anything like that? Or if I can't even face that I tend to buy some steak and tell Tim he's cooking it ;-)