My challenge was to stay up for 32 hours while doing everyday normal activities. These activities would seem rather difficult to do with sleep let alone without sleep. Somehow, though, I have prevailed over my competitor Matt.

This means, ladies, that we have hit this one right out of the ballpark.

The challenge took place on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 6 and 7. So, this actually means that I stayed up for 32 hours over the weekend and did some rather tedious activities . which seemed rather simple but ended up not being so simple in the long run.

I woke up at around 6 a.m. That is actually a pretty normal time for me to get up anyways. Plus, I also wanted to get a head start.

The main rule of this venture was to not have any caffeine at all, including energy drinks. That was something that was really hard for me. Since, like most people, the first thing that I want to go for is a RockStar.

One of the other rules was that we couldn’t have any illegal substances. That didn’t prove a problem to me. Since I do not do illegal substances, I found this one quite funny.

My day actually went by pretty fast. I had to baby-sit most of the day. After that, though, I got dressed and went to run errands before having to meet up with my boyfriend for dinner at the Marketplace.

By midday, I was getting kind of drowsy and started to think that this was a really bad idea.

I snapped out of that when I got to Wal-Mart and found out that they didn’t have my phone charger in stock.

You could say I got my second wind really quickly after that, the first of many, actually.

After meeting up with my boyfriend and eating, it was around five o’clock. This is actually the moment when I almost gave up completely. I got so extremely full and tired.

When we were finished, I met up with some of my friends to tell them why I wasn’t going to be able to hang out with them. They laughed hysterically after what I had told them.

They made a few jokes about it, since I am usually the one who falls asleep first.

That is why I was extremely anxious about this challenge, because, yeah, I am that person who is usually in bed by 10 p.m. So, I made it a point that I was going to do this and win it.

Moving along, I headed home about 8 p.m. so that I could start on some of the challenges that were set in front of me.I waited till about midnight to do the first challenge, which was to read a chapter of a book while you start to feel sleepy. I found this one rather difficult, for the simple fact that it made me incredibly sleepy.

I honestly made it through two entire chapters of a book. I was really excited that I made it through that many. I thought I was going to inevitably give up at that point.

The only thing that I knew was going to wake me up out of this half-asleep stage was a horror movie. I mean, come on, that would wake anyone up really quick.

So I got up and hooked up my DVD player and threw in an old school “Friday the Thirteenth” movie. That actually woke me up quickly.

I had no more problems staying awake after that. Well, to be honest, that was just until my next challenge. Next up on the list was lying in my bed in the dark with no noise or sounds. I did this one around 3 a.m. This challenge was actually a real challenge.

I thought I was going to die (metaphorically) during this one. It turned out to be somewhat easier than I imagined.

Don’t get me wrong. I totally wanted to fall asleep, but it gave me some time to actually just lie there and think about stuff. Sure, it was very incoherent stuff, but at least I had a chance to think.

I continued to read a whole book while waiting for the sun to rise. That’s when I decided that I would take it a step farther and try some real-world activities with absolutely no sleep.

I got all my clothes together and waited for my laundry room to open. I had to go back up the stairs a couple of times, though, because I forgot a couple of essential things I needed such as the laundry room keys and my laundry.

This was a very tedious activity though; I actually laid on the laundry machine for a split second. After that, I attempted to introduce myself to the new apartment manager, which I’m sure caused him to think that I’m absolutely crazy.

I actually decided to try to give up at 11 o’clock, but for some reason I couldn’t fall asleep at all.

By two o’clock, I started to hallucinate a bit and decided the only way I was going to fall asleep was by pulling out my history book and reading. It was a very useful tool for this. I fell right asleep.

All in all, I won and learned a very valuable lesson. Don’t ever stay up for 32 hours!