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TIFU by not setting an alarm.

Last night I got off work early, had dinner and was looking around trying to decide what to do with the several hours before I had to be in bed.

I didn't want to watch TV, play games, read or stare mindlessly at my phone and I wasn't particularly interested going outside seeing as it was absolutely pouring.

Lacking anything better to do I started reorganizing my yarn. Well I come across some yarn I had forgotten about and it sparks a memory of a pattern I had been looking at, so I pull up the pattern to check if it was the correct size yarn and it was!

Now I've figured out what I am doing for the evening. I put on a podcast in the background, get out my knitting needles and cast on.

I get so into knitting that it isn't until the latest episode of my podcast end and it switches to a random one with a deeply annoying presenter that I shake myself out of my zone, front panel of the sweater half knit.

I stretch and check the time only to realise that not only have I completely missed my bedtime but I only have 3 hours before I have to be up for work.

And the worst part is I know myself well enough to know that if I get really involved in something that I will not notice time passing at all. I almost always set a timer if I have a specific time I need to do something but because I was sure I had so much time before needing to get ready for bed I didn't set my alarm to get myself to put the needles down and now I'm dragging ass in the middle of my work shift.

TL;DR: I forgot hyperfocus was a thing and didn't set an alarm to make myself go to bed on time so I got less than 3 hours of sleep on a work night

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