You Can't Have Your Cake and Eat it TOO

I can't sleep as much as I'd like and get everything I want to get done. I've always been a person who wants my cake and to eat it, too. I know I'm supposed to understand this quote, but I really don't because on it's face it just doesn't sound like it makes sense. It's almost like an Alice in Wonderland quote.

The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this; but all he said was, "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?"
"Come, we shall have some fun now!" thought Alice. "I'm glad they've begun asking riddles. — I believe I can guess that," she added aloud.
"Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?" said the March Hare.
"Exactly so," said Alice.
"Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on.
"I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know."
"Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what I see'!"
"You might just as well say," added the March Hare, "that 'I like what I get' is the same thing as 'I get what I like'!"
"You might just as well say," added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, "that 'I breathe when I sleep' is the same thing as 'I sleep when I breathe'!"

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter 7

I do understand that I want to sleep a lot, but I also want to get more accomplished. Something has to give and so I usually get less done because I've never been able to train my body to do with less sleep. I can stay up late some nights, but usually I ended up paying the piper after that.

I guess the answer would be to get more done in the time I'm awake? I usually take life at a leisurely pace, though. I guess I really do want to have my cake and eat it too.

And while we're on the subject of cake, this one also applies to my life of late:

My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.

Dave Barry