Pregnancy and Sudoku

I am crazy about Sudoku! One of my friends showed me what it was about a while ago and I found it challenging and interesting. So it became a part of my routine. Sometimes I solved one or a few per day and other times I solved a puzzle per week or per month. But it has ever since been present in my life.

As Wikipedia describes it, Sudoku "originally called Number Place, is a logic-based, combinatorial number-placement puzzle. The objective is to fill a 9×9 grid with digits so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3×3 sub-grids that compose the grid (also called "boxes", "blocks", "regions", or "sub-squares") contains all of the digits from 1 to 9."
Some say it keeps your brain working and it helps you focus. In my case, it was true: it helped me a lot to concentrate easier and learn to "see" solutions even in my day-to-day job and life. So I can say Sudoku trained me into seeing solutions faster and evaluating opportunities. Plus it is a challenge and I love a good challenge!

But lately, since pregnant, I have started to find it harder to solve as fast and as difficult puzzles as I used to. I think it must be another "side effect" of pregnancy. Just as learning and attending classes became more challenging. Or concentrating. Or paying attention. I have noticed, as I wrote in one of my earlier posts, that as pregnancy evolves I find myself drawn to my bed in an inexplicable way.
So, to keep it simple and honest, I find it easier to sleep than do anything else. Forget eating, socializing, working out, reading, seeing films... I'd rather sleep. But I know that would be damaging to my mental state and so I keep myself afloat with all of the above. I start in the evening with the plan for the following day: visiting my parents, shopping, cooking, going to gym, working and anything that needs my attention the next day. Plus a lot of sleep and one Sudoku grid per day!