Exhausted

As A mentioned, we found a new apartment and are moving soon. Really soon. Like this weekend soon. Luckily we don't have to move everything in one weekend, but, considering we will be working and moving at the same time, it isn't really that much time at all. We're digging through 6.5 years of crap. I'm actually doing that both at home and at work. It's another job in itself!

We're excited about the new place but one unintended negative side effect has been on our health. After work, there isn't really enough time to go to the gym and do any significant packing up at home while still getting sleep. There's barely enough time in the day to do everything without the packing. How do people do it?

Another "bad" health effect is on sleeping. By moving around and packing late at night, it makes us more awake, leading us to sleep later and wake up exhausted. I looked at my fitbit stats this morning and it was crazy. I was restless and moving about a lot for most of the night (I don't remember all the details of my dream but I think it was part work and part running around), until my alarms started going off. Yes, that's correct. My deepest, most restful sleep was after the first alarm in our bedroom went off. Something about that just isn't right. It's like the alarm signaled to my brain that it's its last chance to get some sleep.

These days it seems like what wakes me up is a combination of the alarm and realizing the intense congestion and sinus pressure that built up overnight due to my allergies. At some point it becomes unbearable and I have to go running for the tissue box. Nice to know that my body doesn't want to get up except to deal with allergies.

Going to have to try harder to sleep earlier and efficiently pack before it. The problem last night was that we had to rush around clearing a lot of space so someone could look at our apartment today. (We didn't think anyone would need to see it until after we started moving out, based on our conversation with our leasing person, but I guess they are insisting on seeing it now even though the same unit on another floor is vacant to look at ... which is what we looked at for our new place... but whatever.) Granted, it is cleaning and packing and organizing we would need to do anyway at some point, but it just put more pressure on us to make sure that all got done in time. Hopefully tonight will be better and we can get more rest.