Allyssa's Cycle - Two Day Post

10:45 am

Wednesday Night:

I found that working without the nap difficult to remember, which happens to be a major part of making sure who gets the right food. From now on I am going to sleep an extra hour the night before and have a power nap before or on my break to refresh myself so this doesn't happen again. I don't know if it’s because I'm not used to the cycle yet or because my body can't handle loosing those hours of sleep.

Thursday:

So my youth group had an event planned that went from 8am-8pm  (I slept an extra hour and a half so I wouldn't need a nap in the day) we went to Niagara Falls, outlet shopping and to an Art Gallery. The extra hour and a half didn't help, and I was still very tired from the afternoon on. 

Friday Morning:

Because I was so tired from yesterday, I fell asleep an hour early and woke up an hour late. It was really nice to go for a bike ride this morning because it hasn’t really gotten hot yet, this cycle has opened more doors for exercise schedules

That’s all.

Allyssa's Cycle - The Sleepover

9:05 am

Last night my friend and I went to go see People Like Us (quick review: it was cute but not life changing, should have seen The Amazing Spiderman) and then went home and played some card games. Its tricky to be in this cycle with social activities, and I think it would be easier if there was more routine that summer doesn't bring.

I am not too focused on the whole physical mental side of this but more of a schedule side of this. I can handle the effects it has on my body but its much harder to do in social situations.
I work 11-4:30 so I will be missing my nap again today, or I will take it when i get home  we'll see if I can handle going without one 
Last night I slept the right amount of time and my dog needed to go outside and she kept me awake which was good.

I will blog about how my shift goes! I have a feeling it  there will be mistakes and forgetting to give people theirs fries or something.
Anyways, have a good day :)

Allyssa's Cycle - Change of Plans

5:40 pm
My summer goal is to build a platform/captain's bed in my room, and to do that my room needed to be emptied. Lucky for me my little sister cleaned it out for me (she is not a cheap worker) so that was pretty great! The reason I'm telling you this is I was busy organizing and my chores and missed my nap time (not that I was planning to have it anyways).  This shouldn't be a problem because I slept longer this morning, and I don't really feel tired.
My friend and I are going to the movies and I have to work tomorrow 11-4:30 which will be interesting to try to nap around. I wanted to start this cycle on a calm week and I thought this week was going to be that.
So you will see how this cycle works with a busy week ahead!

I will blog again in the morning (and will wake up on time!)
Until then :)

Allyssa's Cycle - Day 2

9:05 am
I  made a big mistake this morning, I didn't wake up. My alarm went off at 5 and then I hit snooze and didn't get up, that happened until 6 and then I must have hit dismiss because I woke up at 7.
I learned two things:
1. My sleep walking has moved to alarm changing, and I need too fully awake myself every morning\
2. It solidified how much I love my sleep

these two things I kind of knew in the beginning but now need to be fixed in order for me to succeed.
I didn't say this before, but I am a champion sleeper, I can fall asleep anywhere and with speed and ease. Which is really great, expect when I am trying to stay awake.
I think I will not have my nap today, or have a 20 min one for refreshing because of the extra sleep I got this morning.
Mentally and physically I feel very normal.
Thats it for now!
Enjoy :)

Allyssa's Cycle - Game night

12:15pm
So my dad thought it would be a great idea to ride our bikes to our game (we play on the same team, weird sounding but the league doesn't have an age restriction and I love any opportunity to beat him), and of course it pour rain for the ride home (but hey, I still beat him home)

The game went well, i don't believe the sleep cycle effected me in any way physically wise, I actually think the early morning improved my endurance. The problem I did have was the effect on my mind, a couple times i got really mixed up which isn't usual. If this cycle stops that or at least lessens it, I think it will be extremely helpful in the future so I'm not a dough head every time I'm tired
Staying up at night isn't really a problem because its impossible for me to fall asleep in front of the TV and I cant really do anything productive (not yet at least) because I'm not one for concentration; especially when I'm tired.
Corbin has been able to be awake enough to work at night so the competitive side in me is determined to get used to working at night, and if its quicker than him; well...that's just the name of the game. right?

For those of you reading this at this time of night, koodos, you are half way there to the sleep cycle, just wake up at 5 every morning and you'll be good to go :)
Sleep tight!

Allyssa's Cycle - First Afternoon

4:30ish pm
I am so tired!

I napped from 2:20-3:20 and it was very deep, but then when I woke up I was even more tired and slow minded. Like this  morning I forgot to tell you how I was physically and mentally handling this so far. This morning i just felt dopey, nothing out of the normal tired feeling. Although I do have a headache from not having any caffeine (For this experiment and other reasons I am going without my daily morning coffee) so i hope I can get over this quickly.

 
Today I shouldn't have watched so much Scrubs and actually did something productive like clean the house like I was suppose to. Tomorrow I will defiantly find something to do, like the gazillion craft ideas stumbleupon.com has given me.

   
My game tonight is at 6:30 and my position is only running, so we will see how that goes! I am actually very interested to see how athletic I can be with this cycle.

as of now if I continue this after the 10 days I would continue to wake up at 5 and go to bed at midnight  because the morning is actually very nice and the extra hour wouldn't hurt and there's not a whole lot for me to do at midnight anyways. 

That is the up-to-date news and I will be back tonight to post about how the game went

Bye for now

Allyssa's Sleep Cycle - First Morning

8am

I didn't end up going to bed until around 1:30 because my sister was watching her show and then Scrubs is just too good to not finish.
5:30 this morning wasn't that bad actually, I stayed in bed for a while and talked to Corbin but didn't fall back to sleep which was pretty great! Hitting snooze instead of shutting my alarm off was the best advice from Corbin on how to get up on time because really, who wants to get up at 5 in the morning?
Since i have a game tonight i decided to just go for a walk instead with my dog. This morning was so cool I should have bundled up more, but it also helped me wake up.

London the Labradoodle also referred to as: meathead, and snickers

so today I don't know when i will need the hour nap, i will just see how it all goes and blog afterwards
Enjoy the day :)