Blame it on the moon!

Yesterday was not a great day.  From the moment I awoke shit started rolling downhill.  I was exhausted, dragging my feet around and my eyeballs felt watery and squishy.  I was clumsy, everything I touched dropped or I stubbed my fingers.  I swore more yesterday than all of the month before combined.  Coordination being off can mean sleep deprivation and the fact that I sat on the sofa and immediately fell asleep after just getting out of bed, well you don’t have to be rocket scientist to put two and two together. 

I was tired all day at work and everything crawled under my skin.  Not a good day to tackle paperwork, that’s a pin in the eye most days and today it was a double dose of needles.  In order not to show my greyness, I hid upstairs paying bills and that was a great mood builder...not!  It was stinking hot outside and upstairs in my office felt like a sweat shop.  Downstairs is divine with the heat pump but cool air doesn’t rise so I was a bit of a Mrs. Hyde, barely standing the skin I was in. 

So I was a big ole cranky pants and left work at five minutes to five and drove home in a robot state, I was staring and not as observant as I normally am.  I could feel that I wasn’t on the ball and I’m thankful I made it home without crunching metal.   I took the dogs out for a pee and then barely made it to the sofa and was asleep before my head hit the cushion.  I was out for hours and woke feeling like I had been hit by a log, my mouth was dirt dry so I must have been catching flies.  Boy, that was the most tired I’ve felt for a long time.   A physical as well as a mental tired.  Zombie tired!

Coincidentally, I recently read an article about sleep deprivation symptoms and I had most of them.  I’d been on one of those insomnia trends that seems  happen once a month, a perk of menopause that plagues a lot of women.  It comes and goes like a bad smell and I’m in the middle of one right now.   Apparently, the lack of sleep can make you overeat comfort food and alter your mood.  Check and check!  

Then an evening nap took the edge off and I actually slept better through the night so I was more on the ball today.  Last night I had big plans to start the next Initially Yours letter but I’ll start it tonight for sure.  Sue was in today and we talked about insomnia and she mentioned that the full moon can play havoc with sleep patterns.  I’ve never put that two and two together but maybe I should keep a journal.  If it’s the moon I wouldn’t feel so bad, it’s always nice to place blame elsewhere for your problems.  That way it takes the heat off of me because I always think I’ve done something to cause it. All that water I drink, liters a day hmmmm….the moon determines the tides for bodies of water, maybe it’s messing with the water in this body?