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Tuesday, 2009 April 14 3:39 PM MDT — Arvada, Colorado UNITED STATES

So, being unemployed lends itself to certain tendencies. Mine? Sleeping. It is always easier to sleep in than to get to bed sooner. Since I really don't need to get up in the mornings, I tend to sleep in. However, sleeping in then results in my not being tired enough to get to sleep when any garden-variety soul would be sleeping.

I need to get back into a proper sleep rhythm. Each week, I'm setting my alarm clock earlier one hour to slowly move back into a normal day. The problem is, like mentioned earlier, it's easier to sleep in than to get to bed. Fortunately, I've developed a most elegant solution.

I am just going to stay up until I'm tired and sleep in until I don't want to. The eventual end goal of this is that my sleep schedule will be pushed later and later. Eventually, when I start getting to the point where I'm sleeping in until 6:00 AM, I will have succeeded.

Quote to ponder: “Many things such as loving, going to sleep or behaving unaffectedly are done worst when we try hardest to do them.” — C. S. Lewis

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Jennifer P. wrote on Sunday, 2009 April 19 12:06 AM MDT:

that your sleeping plan above is the best way to get teenagers back onto a normal human being sleeping schedule. Whether or not it really is a viable option for a house with one or more teenagers is an entirely different issue. Best of luck to you on your endeavor.

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