Dec 17 2008
The Sleep Bank
It’s only 10:47pm in the Roxiticus Valley and I’m almost too exhausted to post. I did manage to make my EntreCard rounds to check out what everyone else has to say tonight, but my eyes are starting to close. Which brings me to my topic for tonight… do you believe in The Sleep Bank? My husband, Rex, has this theory that a person can only go for so long without “the right amount” of sleep before the Sleep Bank catches up with them. It doesn’t matter whether you’re an early bird or a night owl. Let’s say the right amount of sleep for me is 7 hours per night, but due to working, blogging, and EntreCard dropping, I only get 5 hours of sleep for 5 nights in a row. According to Rex’s Sleep Bank Theorem, I should have slept for 35 hours over those 5 nights, but instead only got 25 hours of sleep, so I owe the Sleep Bank 10 hours of sleep… which means that I won’t be able to keep up my sleepless habits until I’ve given back the 10 hours…. which could be an extra 2 hours (9 hours per night) over 5 days, or all at once….17 hours straight, which only happens to me when I’m very very sick. Back in college, I feel like I saw the Sleep Bank at work. Just before the holidays, I would stay up all night cramming for exams, then head home and crash for a couple days before I was ready to enjoy the time off with my family. These days, I know it is just a matter of a few nights of blogmania before I fall asleep one night while reading London and Maddie their bedtime stories at 9pm.
What do you think… do you believe in the Sleep Bank? How ’bout the Tooth Fairy?
Sleep bank eh? Perhaps.. I know that sometimes I can sleep like more than 18hours…lol!!!