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Need more than Five Hours of Energy

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Ok so I’m sure people have seen the ads out there on the internets for Five Hour Energy. The little plastic shotglass with a spout that says it’ll keep you going through your humdrum day. Going by internet ads along, it seems that the American economy is based on 5 hour energy drinks to keep people at their desks playing Evony.

Anyway I digress. The whole schtick about the drink is that you get that 2:30 feeling. The post lunch falling asleep at your desk feeling. Groggy. Unable to work. Unable to focus. Most people have felt this at one point or another. They claim “hey drink this and you’ll feel right as rain for 5 hours to get you through the day”

I’m sure it works on some people. Not me of course.

The drink itself is essentially a b12 shot combined with a couple other things and espresso levels of caffeine. They have a super duper one that has double the cafeine. Personally I didn’t like the taste of it. It was very sacchariney or whatever they use for artificial sweetener, but it wasn’t bad enough you couldn’t drink it and basically it’s a shot. You pound it and are done.

The problem with me is that I already drink like a pot of coffee a day so a cup of coffee at 2:30 plus a b12 shot just isn’t enough to perk me up if I”m falling apart.

But WHY am I falling apart at 2:30? Why do so many people apparently fall apart at 2:30?

Well I’m not doctor, but I’ve noticed something. If I go exercise, even just a 20 minute walk, and then that night get somewhere between 7-9 hours sleep…I don’t get tired at 3pm.

Shocking right?

If you just have very moderate physical activity, and get a good nights sleep you’ll not need to do shots of espresso and b-12 in order to stay away at 3pm.

Maybe THAT wouldn’t work for everyone, but it sure works for me (when I do it).

Today though I stayed up last night till like 2am, and haven’t excercised in days and now it’s 11:30 and I just want to go back to bed.

Seriously though…exercise regularly, eat healthily, and get a good nights sleep. If you’re doing that and falling apart at 3pm then you need to go see a doctor, imho, not drink an energy drink.

Now for me to finish up olawoffice.com and we’ll have all our product sites up. oclubhouse.com got finished first, then odaycare.com and then ofitnessclub.com. I have to update all of them more, and add internal graphics and whatnot, but they’re all getting to be in pretty good shape.

Egads It’s Friday

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It rained all night. I don’t think I mentioned before, but our gutters totally ripped from the house in the big Snowpocalypse in February. The icedams and snow ripped it from the house. It was a pretty scary sound. Last night the rain fell from the roof onto the gutter now leaned up against the house, awaiting repair or replacement once we find a contractor available. Tap tap tap tap tap. Not exactly soothing. Then waking up to a grey morning by your five year old at 6am after not going to bed uAlmost Gonentil 3am.

The snow is almost gone though. Only one small sad patch remains in the front. Where the snow once proudly sloped all the way up to the tops of those bushes, it’s melted back into almost nothing.

Some places up the block are still fairly sizeable, but they’re hidden behind big bushes and things and don’t ever get sun. I wonder how long some of those will last.

Anyway, Yeah I’ll be crashing by mid afternoon. If you need something from me today I recommend getting it to me immediately because after lunch I’m gonna be a hot mess.

I wish I could find something that would effectively perk me up in the afternoons. I know it’s coming. Right now I’m ok, but I feel it. I know that by 12 my brain will start shutting down, and I might even fall asleep at my desk by 3pm if I’m still sitting here. I’ve tried all sorts of stuff to keep me awake and functional but nothing really pulls it.

Coffee sometimes keeps me awake. More likely I lay on the couch groggy unable to keep the children from jumping on me, unable to react while some weird PBS Kids show flys by on the television. Maybe I pass out and then it’s 5pm and i smell dinner cooking.

I tried Sudafed. yeah it’s speed. Yeah it doesn’t work for me. It certainly dries out my sinuses and it wires me up, and I certainly won’t fall asleep but my brain is turned off. i can’t really compute things. It’s like part of my brain falls asleep but my body won’t.

And that 5 hour shot thing that is all over the hulu’s now in advertising? I tried it. it’s an espresso shot mixed with a B-12 shot, mixed with sweet and low. Not only did it taste disgusting, but it didn’t do a damn thing for me.

I think maybe there’s really only one thing that keeps me from totally shutting down at 2pm.  A minimum of 6 hours uninterrupted sleep, a decent breakfast, and sunshine. Give me a grey damp day, 3 hours sleep, and coffee and I’m as good as comatose.

What’s the point of this? Meh i don’t know. I think my brain already shut down. At least I’ve had a productive week. We’ll see what I can get accomplished today, but I’m looking forward to kicking ass on the new OrcaPack site next week, and getting it live hopefully sometime next week. Then moving onto the product sites. oClubhouse first after OrcaPack, then oDaycare and oFitnessclub.

I have even more things on my list after that.

For now though… I think I might just veg.