::and the lightbulb over the head finally lights up::

[rosebee]

Fact the first: I've been *really* exhausted the last few days.
Fact the second: I forgot to bring my lightbox to Idaho with me so I missed my normal time underneath the bright lights on Friday & Saturday mornings.
Fact the third: Last year at this time I was doing a full 2 hours of my lightbox, and having no tiredness and no trouble getting up in the morning.
Fact the fourth: I'm currently only doing an hour and a half of my lightbox, having insane trouble getting up in the mornings, and am exhausted & irritable.


I'm really thinking I need to do more of my lightbox. Granted, *part* of my tiredness is just the awful stressful busy weekend. But not all of it. And since we didn't do (hardly) *anything* for two full days, I would think that I'd be mostly recovered from the weekend by now.

So I'm gonna try more lightbox. I also need to exercise. In a bad way. I haven't gotten much exercise in a while, and my psychiatrist who treats me for my SAD is always telling me how good exercise is for it.

Maybe I'll do one of my balance ball dvds during the 30-45 minutes I have between the time I get home from work & HTB gets home from work. I think I'll also see if HTB wants to go for walk tonight (assuming it's not raining or anything).

Goal for tonight: 30 minutes of balance ball dvd or walk & start organizing/shredding all the piles of paper on my computer desk (step 1 in getting the desk ready to be moved several feet to attempt to make room in the 2nd bedroom for a 2nd computer & 2nd computer desk).

Comments

[lemniskate.livejournal.com]

have you considered putting full spectrum light bulbs in all of your lights? i know it won't take the place of teh lightbox, but it might help some?

you might also want to do some research to see if there are any vitamin/mineral supplements that may help. good luck :)

[rosebee.livejournal.com]

You know, I think that's something I'm really going to have to look into!

Any little thing that might be able to help is worth trying.

Thanks! :)

[rainbow.livejournal.com]

nodnodnod!!! i messedup my lightbox time while daddy was on vacation cuz it is by the puter and we only have one main one and he needed time there to and i started sleeping WAY more! yesterday i did it again and only slept 10 hours instead of 12 last night!

[rosebee.livejournal.com]

I hate it when I mess up my lightbox time! Especially when it takes me a long time to figure out that's what happened.

But I did lots of light yesterday and this morning I woke up a whole 15 minutes before my alarm clock went off! But part of that I think had to do with the dog that was barking really loudly somewhere nearby. ;)

[lilacrose.livejournal.com]

What the murl is a lightbox?

[rosebee.livejournal.com]

see: www.sunbox.com
I get sleepy in the wintertime because the sun goes away, so I have a lightbox I sit in front of for an hour or so each morning and it helps wake me up.

I don't think I've seen you around my journal before. Your comment is quite the 'introduction'... :/
BTW - Hi & welcome to my journal :)