Today’s Mon. A few small things.
Sleep
Didn’t sleep at all well last night. That’s somewhat typical. I sleep late on weekend nights and end up paying the price on Sun night. Yesterday I slept at 2:30 am, which means 6.5 hours of sleep if I woke up at 9, which is actually better than average for a Sun night. But couldn’t sleep. Woke back up at ~4 and back to bed at ~5. Those timings dont actually make sense since I cant imagine I’d toss and turn for 90 mins but I don’t have any better numbers so lets go with that. Maybe it was up 330 - 430. Anyway so I woke up at 9. Now I sometimes login to work then go back to bed. But I usually don’t go back right away, which is a mistake. Ideal would be to wake up at 9, login, and go back to bed immediately (well, ideal is to not go back to bed but you know what I mean). Instead I was at the computer for 40 mins today. Not being productive mind you. Just surfing.
Work
I had a deadline I was working on all weekend. I essentially met that. Manager said good job. But we’re not done here b/c another adjustment came up to these reports so we discussed that at today’s 11:30 am meeting. Our meetings are typically set for 2 pm so she said we don’t have to meet then if I dont want but she’d be available if I needed to reach her. It would’ve been great if I was done by 2, or if not then by 5. Unfortunately I wasn’t. I did message her at 4:45 saying I’m not done but will aim to be done by noon tomorrow and she was cool with that. Might be more valuable for me to reflect on why I wasn’t done with that.
So meeting ended at 12:10. I don’t think I did anything work related until 70-90 mins later. The first 20-30 mins were productive even if not work related. I don’t know what I did for the rest of that. Then when back to work I had something more pressing come up (manager also said to prioritize that). So that’s fine. But not sure how that possibly took so long, it should’ve taken an hour, not 3. Oh well.
Therapy/Sleep
Had therapy at 5. This woman is still in training so it’s only $25/hr which is awesome. I don’t find her particularly great but I’ve never really found much value in therapy anyway, and we have good chemistry which is half the battle. Today we actually did come up with some ideas to adjust for a bedtime routine. Typically how it works is my aim is to goto bed around 12 or 1 to wake up at 9. 12 isn’t realistic but would be awesome. I typically get to bed at 2 or later. So that’s a problem right there.
Now the shower is a bit of a problem as well. I do need to shower, would feel gross without that. But I often feel tired during the day since I didn’t sleep well the night before. That’s not great but on the days that I’m really tired I look forward to feeling that tired at bed time since it’ll presumably help me sleep. But nope, I’m wide awake at night. I’m pretty sure it’s the warm shower that wakes me up . Which is ironic since until recently I believed warm showers help us sleep. I’ve noticed recently that doesnt seem to be the case though. And I met a sleep doc 6 months ago who also suggested not showering too close to bed.
Anyway so there’s the shower before bed. And then we’re also supposed to avoid screens before bed. But then I wouldn’t really have much to do either. So I’ve typically been showering around 11 in order to avoid screens (though more often than not I still go on it anyway). Today I decided that I’ll just shower earlier in the evening and fuck the avoiding screens thing for now.
No hot water
I’m writing this after my bedtime shower. But today’s is a bit ironic. There’s no hot water! Not sure how that happened. I wish I had the guts to take a cold shower, which is supposed to be really healthy. That’s not going to happen. So I warmed water in the kettle and put it in a cooking pot and mixed it with colder water. Eh, gets the job done I suppose.
Irritating debate with Mohammed over first dates
One other thing of note. I have a friend who kinda irritates me. Mohammed. We goto the same salsa studio though I know him from before, so I see him quite frequently these days. He always wants to hang around me. I should be flattered. It gets a bit much. One of the behavioural ticks he has is that he really likes giving me girl advice. Which is funny because he has no experience with them. It’s fine to not be experienced, but why the fuck are you so full of advice then?! And the advice is typically along the lines of ‘dont give her attention, just stop speaking to her’ dumb shit like that. I remember I was having dinner with him and his brother once and he was saying ‘for example you go on a date. then dont message her for a few days, then message her a few days later and say sorry i got busy hows it going’. uhh… why? Anyway today idk how the topic came up but it was actually me who said you shouldn’t take women out to dinner on the first date (oh shit as I’m writing this I’m realizing…maybe it was me who was wrong? let’s explore further). He took issue with that so I said ok how much does dinner cost. I know he was going to say ‘depends’ (one of my behavioural quirks is - i fucking hate that word! if someone asks a question, just fucking answer it). So he finally says $30. I say OK good. So in 2018 I went out on 30 first dates. Do you want me spending $1200 on just first dates?? (Idk how I possibly said 1200 btw, 30 x 30 is obviously 900 and I dont struggle with math at all. hmmm…). I wish he would’ve just stopped but he kept arguing over that, which really annoyed me. I hate when someone thinks they know better than me about how I should live my life. But the reason I said a few sentences ago that this might be my fault after all is that when I said you shouldnt take girls out to dinner, maybe it came across as me telling him what to do, as opposed to vice versa.