The no sleep (walk)

It's the early hours of Sunday morning right now and I'm having trouble sleeping...it's not unusual for me I guess, but I've had several days in a row of bad sleep and it's beginning to catch up with me, ND not in a good way. I've been having bad and weird dreams when I manage to fall asleep so either wake right up with a start or don't feel I'm getting the rest I need. It's, not a good situation but one I've had before and so I'll just push on and through it knowing it'll straighten itself out sooner or later.

I've been laying here thinking, as I often do; I have one of those overactive minds that is rarely not thinking and has trouble switching off. Do I overthink things? Yeah, I'd say so, but it's worked (generally) so far and it's difficult to teach and old dog new tricks, even a G-dog. So, I've been thinking about Sunday and what I'm going to do with it for the last hour or so whilst trying to get back to sleep.

It's winter and we're only a few days past the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. Winter here is fairly mild with a cold winters day being around 12°C and average days being around 15-18°C. We're lucky to get a lot of sunshine though, even though the air is cool, and that means it's often suitable for being outside. That's what I have planned for Sunday; a walk.

I'm going to head down to the beach and go for a walk as the weather is supposed to be reasonable, a shower or two is possible but it'll be mainly blue skies according to the weather boffins.

My city has a lot of coastline and most of it looks like this image which I took at a beach called Brighton about twelve minutes west of the city. I think Brighton is where I'll go Sunday and I'll walk north from the jetty to the Glenelg Jetty just over four kilometres away. There's a nice coastal path and it's an easy walk. There, I'll have some lunch at one of the many places to eat then walk back making it a decent days walk of almost eight and a half kilometres.

I enjoy walking like this, the fresh sea air and open spaces relaxes me and I think that's what I need right now; the monotonous act of one foot in front of the other. I'm hoping it'll help me sleep better on Sunday night as I have a big week ahead at work; meetings and all, with one of them having the potential to set me up for the year as far as my budget goes. It'll be a solid working week ahead so some sleep would be nice and I think a decent walk and some fresh air on Sunday will help me find it.

I hope y'all are having a great weekend so far and have something great planned, even if it's a basic walk like my own I'll take on Sunday. Feel free to drop me a comment and let me know what you're up to, or what you'd like to do.