Lately: Sleep Struggles

Steve has a new work schedule where he spends ~1/2 the week starting very early and ~1/2 the week on nights.  We are not adjusting as well as we'd like.

We're basically on a graveyard sleep cycle, with a couple biphasic sleep days thrown into the mix for the day shifts. It sounds easy when I write it, but the inconsistency has been rough. And keeping vampire hours is a little weird on the psyche (we're a lot less productive) and social life (it's 4am on Wednesday, everyone is sleeping). Luckily, we entertain ourselves pretty well.

And Phoebe is the very best "You're home!" greeter a person could ever ask for. She brings so much joy to each day.

But me, not so much.

All three of us are big nappers though, and it's really getting us through. We sleep at random times and for varying lengths, which I'm sure just throws in more inconsistency, but anything goes when we're trying to catch up on all the zzzz's we seem to be missing.

Every few days, we acknowledge that flipping our schedule back to being awake on days (rather than nights) is probably better from a productivity perspective. But the thought of increasing our sleep deprivation for a couple weeks while we transition...yeah, NO.

So for now, we're okay just gettin' by.

And very content with being so sleepy together.

The end.