I’ll sleep when I’m dead.
Picture: saphir66
I have no idea where I heard that phrase but it was probably a song and doubtless I’ll be told before too long. (Actually, it would be nice to know. 
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It’s a nice sentiment. It speaks of living life to the full and not squandering our time on earth by spending too long in bed.
In fact, I think it probably goes further than that and suggests it’s OK to steal time you would ordinarily use for sleeping.
That’s what I’ve been doing for the last three or four weeks and quite deliberately too. I wanted to press ahead and get on top of the goals I’ve set for myself and I was willing to pay the price in terms of sleep deprivation.
I’ve got to the stage now where I’m happy to slow things down and have a rest.
All the frenetic activity of the last few weeks needs to be set aside so that I can take stock of where I am and where I’m going.
I want to look at my position through a pair of well rested eyeballs rather than the blood shot blobs I’m currently seeing in the mirror.
My general level of sleep deficit has been brought home to me this week by the fact that three of my four children have had head colds. It’snot a fun time. (deliberate typo).
I think it was Monday night when I got up no less than 12 times to attend to one of the children, who were either struggling with blocked noses, hacking coughs or nightmares.
During the day each of them is a little more needy than usual and things around the house take longer to get done – if they get done at all.
When life’s like this, seven hours sleep just doesn’t cut it.
For the next two weeks I’m going to drop some of the extra burden I’ve been carrying and get an additional hour in bed each night.
I can pick up the pace again in a couple of weeks.
How would you like an extra hour in bed?
And that’s NOT a proposition! 
Have a terrific weekend, I’ll be back again on Monday.
Dave.
Once again, I’d just like to thank Tara for allowing me to use her space for my guest post yesterday. You can read it on her blog… From Dawn Till Rusk
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