Remember when you were a kid and absolutely hated having to take a nap every day? I was so against napping that I convinced my parents I didn’t need such frivolity in my life at an unreasonably early age. I remember feeling SO proud of myself for being such a “grown up” and not requiring any extra sleep during the day. HA! What a fool I was. I’m sorry I was so quick to toss you aside, naps. Sometimes you just don’t know how good something is until it’s gone.
Times have changed and these days I’m lucky if I get seven hours of sleep a night. I’m not even talking about seven good hours of sleep. Lately it has been seven hours of sleep interrupted by my new downstairs neighbor returning home from work (or wherever) at 2:00 AM. Every night she takes to her patio for her nightly cigarette and proceeds to talk loudly about her life and laugh like a hyena. And every night those two noises reverberate off our courtyard walls, landing in my bedroom. Right around the time she crawls into bed I’m getting up for work.
Needless to say sleep has been scarce for me and it has been ROUGH, particularly since I have always been somebody who needs a minimum of eight hours of sleep a night. The only good thing about this new found lack of sleep is that I have reintroduced napping into my life on weekends and guys, I’m loving it. In fact, I’m becoming a bit of a napping fanatic so when Casper, an innovative company that offers high quality mattresses, sheets and pillows, contacted me ahead of March 14th’s National Nap Day to share some of my favorite napping tips and tricks it seemed like a match made in (napping) heaven.
