MacBook Air has spinning rainbow every time it wakes up from sleep

I have been having an issue now for a few weeks where everytime I wake my Macbook air from sleep I get the spinning rainbow and the Wifi indicator at the top will be completely gone and it will never recover.  I then have to restart my mac and sometimes ill get the flashing question mark when it restarts and sometimes it starts up fine after the restart.  Its a pain to have to restart my mac everytime i want to use it.  Can anyone suggest potential fixes for this problem?
2011 MacBook Air
OSX 10.8.2

Try Reset SMC.  http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
Choose the method for:
"Resetting SMC on portables with a battery you should not remove on your own".
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