2 days in a row of blogging, which is unheard of lately, but I'm inspired to ask...
Is anyone besides me trying to age gracefully, but finding an uninterrupted full night's sleep elusive?
Don't get me wrong. I do have most nights where I can get about 8 hours, even if it is broken up by 1 or 2 trips to the bathroom.
And my problem isn't usually falling asleep at night... I can do that just fine. It's the falling BACK asleep after each trip to the bathroom that's usually the issue.
Regulating my hormones with estrogen & progesterone has helped at least with not having night sweats wake me up. Melatonin also usually helps, as does Advil PM... although that leaves me pretty hazy in the morning.
And well... if I'm teaching... that's not a great combo. Cue the acting skills.
Another habit I picked up while I was married, was to wear an earplug to drown out the snoring. And yes, I said earplug. Just one... because I mostly sleep on my stomach, which means one side of my face buried in the pillow, leaving only 1 ear exposed. I don't do that anymore... lost the snoring husband and the ear plug habit... but I do keep one in my travel supplement organizer just in case.
I've also been known to buy an eye mask during a trip when it's a very BRIGHT room at like 6:00am.
See photo above.
I would've been fine with a basic eye mask, but those were too good to pass up.
Anyhoo... to make a long story even longer... my family & I just had a trip to Anna Maria Island, Florida in January. It was our 2nd time there. Made me laugh that everyone recalled a funny story from that first trip in 2018, so since we're on the subject of sleep, or the lack thereof... I'll share.
My sister I were sharing a room and bed. This is usually fine because neither one of us move around a lot, so sleeping isn't usually an issue. Unless of course there's a hurricane in the area & you're both too stubborn to get up & open the window with the loud screeching winds outside... but I digress.
Hurricane Alberto was a looong time ago and we shouldn't live in the past.
But she was closer to the window & should've opened it or we could've died, I'm just sayin. Although in the moment, we both looked death straight in the face & went back to sleep... loud winds and all.
Back to 2018 though.
In the middle of the night her snoring, although it wasn't really snoring, it was more like loud breathing, woke me up. So I casually reached over to my nightstand & quietly opened the lid to my supplement organizer remembering right where I had left my handy dandy ear plug.
No need to turn on the light or get out of bed, I'm a pro at figuring out ways to go back to sleep, so I got this.
Pulled my ear plug right out of the case, put it in my ear & slept for the rest of the night. It worked like a charm.
When I went to pull the ear plug out in the morning though, I gotta admit, it felt a little different than it did earlier. Also, there was a weird residue in my ear.
So yeah... same size, similar texture & while it did drown out the snoring, I wouldn't exactly recommend putting fish oil in your ear.
Although I'm sometimes desperate enough to try anything.
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Although if you have any of your own tips for getting a good night's sleep, I'm all ears... LOL
XOXO
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