Sleep early, wake up early!

     One thing that I have never been able to do at school, especially when I'm dorming, is sleep early. And by early, I mean any time before 12AM, which isn't exactly early, but definitely earlier than my normal sleeping time. Sleeping early makes waking up early a lot easier too. However, I still press snooze like two times. After splashing some cold water on my face, I feel refreshed and completely forget that I was sleepy a second ago. According to howtowakeupearly.com, waking up early increases your productivity and I have felt that lately. I feel like I have so much more time to do things that are on my to-do list. *Ahem* I am avoiding one thing though, I haven't started on my summer reading and that essay that we have to do too. I definitely need to start on that, anyway... Even though I'm sleeping at what is consider early for me (before 12AM), I wake up at 7AM, which is only 7 hours-ish of sleep. I would have to sleep at 11PM to get 8 hours, which I haven't been able to do yet. Hopefully, I'll be able to achieve that, so that at my dorm, i'll be able to sleep early and wake up feeling awake for class!

     I was told by someone, I forgot who, probably a health article that I read somewhere, (sorry can't give credit here) but it said you can't just change your sleeping schedule in one day. What you have to do to achieve an earlier sleeping time is sleep 15 minutes earlier everyday until you have reached your desired time. This definitely worked for me, I was sleeping at 1AM-ish before, and then I started work, which means that I need to wake up early translating to sleeping earlier too. And I used this method to achieve that time, I would definitely recommend this method to try AT LEAST. Its worth a shot. Its 10:30PM and I have to go shower and SLEEEP! Night!

Necklaces to Recycle

     On my earlier post I talked about cleaning out my desk drawer, and since it hasn't been cleaned out in so long, you never know what you'll find. Well, I found some old necklaces that I'm super excited to wear out! Here's a pic of some of it:

      I found the orange pick from middle school and I punched a hole in it so I can wear it as a necklace :). OH! I forgot that I have the faux diamonded tag and when I found it I was so excited!! I love recycling. The heart tag was a gift a friend gave me, I love that too, I don't know why it wasn't worn more... I must've forgotten about it. Y'all should go through your old stuff, and find things that you might not have loved before but might love now, or find things you loved and forgot about and re-love it again.

Have fun,
Katherine

Something Productive

      I haven't done anything really productive since I got back from college, BUT today I can gladly say that I did something productive! What did I do that I would consider it productive? I cleaned out my desk drawer! YES, that's right I went through everything in the drawer and placed them under need, or useless. I don't think you understand what I mean by EVERYTHING, I mean paper and stuff that goes back to 3rd grade! I looked through it all. It was actually kind of interesting because going through all the stuff made me think back to all the events and memories in my childhood. I saw realized the nerd that I was in middle school. I had all these awards which is nice and teachers that wrote me cards and what they wrote were really touching. I also read over all the old Christmas and Birthday cards that I got... yes I'm one of those people that the save cards people give me, I think that if people had the time to write out these nice thoughts I should at least keep it and read it for comfort when I feel down...so thank you to all my friends who wrote me cards :). Well now my drawer is light, neat and clean.
      It's a great idea to go through old stuff and realize that you are loved and thought of by people and friends. I hope y'all have a lovely day!

-Katherine