Thursday Thought: Patience

Patience is something my family falls short on sometimes. With so many people and animals in the house, we are constantly in the way of someone else. Until last week, we shared 1 bathroom between 4 adults and 2 little girls. That was a nightmare. My dad has become very accustomed to peeing outside, even in bad weather. My grandmother moved into her own place now that she is able to get around and so the holdup at the bathroom is a little better. But the kids still want food the second they realize they are hungry (same for the critters), my dad wants the puppies to be potty trained 6 months ago, and Mom wants to be able to snap her fingers and have a clean house.

I am a patient person. At least I try to be. My job requires an inordinate amount of patience. My family requires it as well. lol Here is a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson about patience to keep in mind: Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience. How appropriate is that?! That really resonated with me this morning.

And now I am off to work and am going to try to patiently await the weekend. Which is when I will patiently sleep for about 12 hours at a time between naps. :D

Thursday Thought: I Need Sleep

As of the writing of this blog (hello from the past- Saturday, that is), I am dead tired. I've been working a lot lately and spinning my wheels trying to fit everything into my schedule. Obviously I have not quite been able to keep up with everything. So today's Thursday Thought is this: Sleep is the most important part of the day!

You hear the advice from doctors all the time. You need X hours of sleep nightly, X cups of water daily, and X amount of this food group and that vitamin and those minerals and these fats. Yeah, obviously I missed the exact numbers somewhere along the way. But I can honestly say that sleep makes my world go around.

When I miss just an hour of sleep at night, the next few days are in trouble. I just can't get it together. And those (normal) nights where I miss about 3 or 4 hours of sleep... yeah, I might as well turn off the alarm and keep on sleeping because my next week is screwed. And trying to catch up on the weekend is pointless. If I sleep more than 8 hours, I feel hung over because I'm dehydrated, my muscles are sore from laying for so long, and my brain is mush.

So today, try to remind yourself of the importance of sleep. Is that rerun of whatever sitcom that just popped up on the television so mesmerizing? Can't that last load of laundry sit in the dryer until you can spin it for a few minutes in the morning? Do you really need to play one more game of solitaire before bedtime? It is worth oversleeping tomorrow to read three more pages when you know its going to turn into thirty? I bet it isn't. Take your health (mental and physical!) in your hands tonight and see if you reap a bounty tomorrow.