My Crazy Sleep Experiment: Day Five–not insane yet
May 16, 2012 What's Going On
So far so good. Waiting for some kind of crash, but so far, nothing!
It can’t really be this easy, can it? I mean, if it were, everybody would be doing it!
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Day 2 of my crazy sleep experiment
May 13, 2012 What's Going On
Day two of my Everyman Sleep Schedule was totally messed up by something completely out of my control, so I think I might be back at square one. :-( And yes, I’m still wearing yesterday’s clothes. It was a rough night.
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Day 1 of my crazy sleep experiment
May 11, 2012 What's Going On
Last month I wrote about the Uberman and Everyman sleep schedules. Well, here we go…
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Can I get more time by sleeping less without going crazy?
Apr 24, 2012 What's Going On
Last week I was reading an article on Cracked.com titled 5 Ways to Hack Your Brain into Awesomeness (that’s about as close as I can get to self-help without barfing). The very first tip was about something called Uberman’s Sleep Schedule, detailed here and here. You may recognize the basic concept from an episode of Seinfeld, where Kramer tried something similar. It seemed to work for a while, but then he fell asleep during sex and slept so hard that his girlfriend thought she’d killed him and had him thrown into a river.
And while I definitely don’t want that to happen to me, I can’t stop thinking about the concept. How many times have you said, “I wish there were more hours in the day!”? I said it just yesterday! At this moment I have a lot of balls in the air: I have literally 11 blog posts half-finished that I started in the past week. I have to pack for a big trip. Our house is being appraised in a few weeks and still needs a lot of work, most of which will be done by me. My daughter’s birthday party is coming up and needs a lot of planning and coordination. And the kids’ school’s biggest fundraiser is also very soon and I need to learn an entirely new system for handling the money, via some online seminars that I don’t really have time for this week. And that’s on top of all of the normal every-day stuff that also has to get done.
Well, it sounds like I could get all of that done and more, if I were willing to try a crazy experiment.
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Goodbye, Selma
Mar 27, 2012 What's Going On
So, our cat is dead. For real this time, not like a few weeks ago when I prematurely announced her impending demise. If you follow me on twitter, that told the story pretty well.
Just gave my old kitty a nice long snuggle. She's really slowing down. Still purrs when I pet her though. :-)
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Not even asking the workers 2 close back door anymore. My old kitty can barely lift her head off the floor today, she's not running away. :(
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Pretty sure my cat is in renal failure. Has all the signs. Trying to decide whether to put her to sleep or let nature take its course.
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I just told Jake I'm having Selma put to sleep tomorrow. He cried, but took it well. Then he took a picture of her. :-)
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Jake & I told Fiona about putting Selma 2 sleep 45 min ago & she's still begging. If I'm ever on death row I want her in charge of my appeal
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I sort-of can’t believe this is my house
Mar 9, 2012 What's Going On
When I last wrote about my house we had finally, after five years, started renovating the last unused floor, the second floor (or, in Brooklyn brownstone parlance, the parlour floor). And by “we” I mean “the people we hired,” lest you get the mistaken impression that we can do anything more complicated than hanging up pictures.
Well, it’s almost done. The three rooms themselves are pretty much done. There’s still a lot of work to come in the hallway, and a couple of minor things we’ll have to take care of at some point in the rooms, but for the purposes of arranging furniture and decorating, done-a-rooney!
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Videos from the Disney Fantasy christening gala
Mar 5, 2012 What's Going On
I’m still chuckling over parts of the christening gala for Disney Cruise Line’s newest ship, the Fantasy. We were treated to some absolutely amazing entertainment.
The evening started with one of my favorite actors, Neil Patrick Harris, doing a musical number that had me literally shaking as I was trying to record it.
Next up was a number from the on-board production of Aladdin, “Never Had a Friend Like Me.”
Then, Jerry Seinfeld did a set that had me shaking again:
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Disney’s Tangled Royal Family 5K
Mar 5, 2012 What's Going On
Heading over with our group to the Tangled Royal Family 5K on Saturday morning I wasn’t quite sure what I was going to do. It was the first day all week that I was feeling myself, my really bad cold having finally exited my body. And while most of the people in our group were taking it easy (Colleen was even doing the race with her six-year-old daughter) I kind-of wanted to do a test run for the half marathon, which would be the next day. I’d felt sick and exhausted the day before after stumbling along for just two miles, so I was curious how I would do if I tried to go at my half marathon pace of 4 miles an hour.
This was also the first time that I’d be using the vibrating run-walk-run pacer I’d purchased from Jeff Galloway at the Fit for a Princess Expo the day before. It ended up being the best $20 I’ve ever spent. I’d been doing Jeff’s run-walk-run method for a while, but it was annoying to have to constantly look at a watch or my phone. This timer can be programmed for a single pace or two alternating paces, and it can beep or vibrate to tell you when to switch from walking to running and back.
It was awesome! I could finally just enjoy moving and not concentrate on the timing. Switching paces became automatic each time the beeper-sized device vibrated on my waistband. If you do any kind of interval training, I highly recommend this timer.
The Family 5K was a blast. There were so many kids participating, and a lot of fun costumes. For the first time since getting to Disney World I wished my kids were there – they would have loved this!
This couple just cracked me up. I want to be them when I get older. Of course, I may have to trade my husband in for someone a tad more whimsical.
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