Caffeine

Is it cliche to start this off with "In my old age..." I'm tempted to put it but at the same time, I refuse to admit that I'm getting older. I know that I'm still young at heart. At least, I feel young at heart, but for some reason my body doesn't agree. These deep thoughts of my fading youthfulness were engaged through an unwanted bodily reaction last night. It was around 9:30 and I was up at the church with some of my leadership and I decided to drink a Mountain Dew. To Do the Dew if you will. Next thing I know, I'm wide awake at 1:00 and there's no way I'm going to sleep anytime soon. I finally enter this game with my body to where, I try to trick it into falling asleep. I eventually win. But it doesn't end there, 4 hours later my body realizes that its been duped, wakes itself up, and refuses to fall for the trick of letting me sleep again. After many failed attempts of trying to fall back asleep, I give in. Now, I'm awake, miserable, and no longer WANT to Do the Dew. After 4 hours of sleep, I HAVE to Do the Dew or I'll fall asleep at my desk. When did I reach the age that one caffeine drink at night affects my whole sleep pattern? What happened to the days when we can stay up all night off Red Bull, sleep 2 hours, then do the same thing over again without any remorse or hesitance the next day?




(As I read over this blog) When did I get so lame that the most exciting topic I can think of is my sleep pattern? I'm old.