About Jackson County, NC

Early mornings are my favorite times to visit ActiveRain and post whatever has been brewing in my head overnight. It’s lovely to live in a south facing property in the mountains of Western North Carolina, the sun comes up over my left shoulder when I’m at the computer. That’s what happened yesterday when I was typing the post about LinkedIn’s sleep survey. I glanced over my shoulder and thought…perfect, there’s my Speechless Sunday post out on the deck. Everyone would like jeweled mechanic’s cloth, right?

Even though I did capture the photos, I missed posting them in favor of getting some sparkle of a different sort back into the kitchen! Our deck has ½” squared mechanic’s cloth to keep the dogs from plunging 25 feet into the backyard. Yesterday when I saw the sun shine through the droplets of dew on the mechanic’s cloth, I grabbed the camera and started shooting. The closer I got the more interesting it looked. It seems that several beads of dew settled onto a strand of Silverbear’s fur and the colors in the drops turned out to have a decided violet cast to them.

Here’s the tardy entry for Speechless Sunday…only with a little speech to it. Jeweled Mechanic’s cloth sounds like it would be a great upgrade for a deck, doesn’t it?

Sorry to wake you but it’s time to get up.

It was a short night for sleeping last night and instead of posting a brand new topic I remembered something that Mike Cooper recently published. He suggested revisiting early blog posts to see if there were any to reblog or subjects to approach from a different angle. Yikes…how humbling was this visit down Memory Lane? Let me take a moment to say “NEWBIES…TAKE ALL THE COURSES ON WRITING POSTS THAT ACTIVERAIN UNIVERSITY HAS TO OFFER! ! !”. Most of my first posts shall remain “Members Only” forever.

So, back in March 2011, LinkedIn did a survey to see how much sleep their members got on average and what kind of energy level did they have? Their members of course are involved in all kinds of professions. I posed this question to just ActiveRain members along with a drive in movie sized image of Mama Cass (our coonhound) sleeping soundly. About four AR members generously responded, it must have been “Take Pity on Newbies” week or something. I thought I’d like to give the topic a good chance and take another run at this same topic.

Last night I got 4 ½ hours of sleep and have a pretty good level of energy this morning. I decided fairly late last night to bake some whole wheat oatmeal bread and wanted to be sure I got it out of the bread machine so it wouldn’t sit in there getting soggy. I really should learn how to use the timer! Normally though, I get 6 hours of sleep and if there weren’t canines involved I’d probably get 7 hours. Usually I’m asleep by midnight or so and up by 6 am.

When we have an unusual contract in the works, something stressful like the past couple of deals then there is usually less sleep but the energy level is still good. My sleep is generally sound and rarely do dreams wake me.

How about you? Do you have a predictable sleep pattern? What is your "normal" amount of sleep and if you don’t get that amount can you still function well or do you feel like you are moving through mush? I’m really curious to see if there is a difference among our real estate professionals based on whether we are owners, agents, lenders, inspectors, property managers, etc.

I hope you slept well last night, but it’s time to get up now and play in the Rain.