Reminders

9am Thursday: garbage/recycling out

9:30 Thursday: transfer grocery $ (to college child)

10am: 20 push-ups

5pm Mon and Wed: hydrate for swim practice

10:30pm: Time to wrap it up

I've been using the reminder app on my Iphone for 

about a year to remind me to do things and it's been very helpful.

Except for one thing-

the 10:30pm "time to wrap it up" reminder.

This is supposedly a reminder to myself that I have 30 minutes to finish whatever I'm doing, get in bed, read and get a good night's sleep.

But it rarely works.

The ding goes off on my phone and I usually look at it 

and think "Yeh yeh I don't feel like going to bed right now."
It's like having a nagging parent because I'm a perennial night owl and love the evening.

But the truth is that saying up late and being sleep deprived the next day never benefits me. 

It's terrible self care.

It makes the circles under my eyes worse.

It gives me less bandwidth for my long list of responsibilities 

and I know that getting enough sleep is high on the list for maintaining health.

Yada yada yada....

So I thought to myself-

Maybe I need to edit the 10:30 "time to wrap it up" and make it more of an affirmation?

Maybe I should edit the reminder to say, "I desire to be healthy and well rested"?

...and hopefully this will help.

I think it will. Maybe, but maybe not!

Also this week- I'm reading "Can't We Talk About Something More PLEASANT?"

by New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast. Gosh is it entertaining and funny. It was one of The New York Time's top 10 books in 2014 so it pretty much speaks for itself.

It's 11:30pm and I am off to read it now...