Sleepless

I can count on one hand the number of times that I've been awake for the sunrise. I feel that it is unnatural for any sane person to be awake at that hour in the morning. I can (and often do, recently) sleep until noon. And yet here I am, at not quite 6 am, wide awake and watching the sky getting increasingly brighter outside our little basement window.

I used to be a GREAT sleeper. I could sleep anywhere, in any position, easily for 12 hours straight. I remember a Monday night a couple years ago when, in the middle of folding and sorting clean laundry on my bed, I got sleepy and decided to take a quick nap. I crawled into the corner of my bed where there was about a square foot of empty space, curled into a ball half-covered with clothes, and fell asleep for a few hours. (The best naps, by the way, are at least 3 hours long.)

I used to sleep so deeply, too. I used to joke around that someone could break in my bedroom window, steal everything in the room including the sheets I was sleeping on, and I would still be asleep when they left. I'm pretty sure every one of my roommates wanted to kill me at one time or another, because I was one of those annoying people whose alarm clock would beep, and beep, and beep... and they never wake up. Or I would somehow hit snooze before I was conscious enough to comprehend that I needed to wake up, so my alarm would go off numerous times.

Sadly, I don't sleep well anymore. I wake up to the smallest noises, and once woken up, I have a hard time getting back to sleep. And my bladder control is not at all what it once was--I wake up at least once or twice every night because I have to pee. I'm pretty sure I have Naomi to blame for my sleep problems... but she's so adorable that I will forgive her.

Unisom

Last night I slept beautifully for the first time in a long time. I woke up about 3 times less than I have every other night because I had to pee. When I got back to bed, I fell right back asleep. In fact, most of the time that I was "awake" and walking around, I was still half asleep. I didn't even have ten minutes out of the whole night that I had to lay in bed whimpering because I hurt or didn't feel good and couldn't get back to sleep. It was great!

The only thing I wish I had done was only take half a pill, because I've been sooo groggy this morning. It made me think of that line from You've Got Mail:
"I use a wonderful over-the-counter drug. Ultra-dorm. Don't take the whole thing, just half, and you'll wake up without even the tiniest hangover."

What a great movie. Maybe I'll watch that today when I get home.

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Good Morning!

Jacob and I have somehow gotten our sleeping schedules seriously turned upside down. It happened so gradually that I didn't realize how bad it was getting until now. When we got back from our honeymoon and Pennsylvania, we wanted a few days to sleep in, relax, and recuperate, but our "few days" have turned into 3 weeks. We just kept sleeping in later, and staying up later, until the last couple nights we've gone to bed at 5 in the morning and slept in until 2 or 3 in the afternoon. Somehow, tonight we got sleepy again and fell asleep at 10 pm for a two hour nap. By 12:30, we were both wide awake and unable to sleep anymore. I just had a bowl of cereal and am contemplating taking a shower, and Jacob is playing World of Warcraft, just like he does every other morning. I am feeling energized and ready to take on the day! The only problem is, the day won't really start for another 6 hours! I would really like to tackle my to-do list and work on cleaning and organizing our apartment, but I'm terrified that our crazy downstairs neighbors will hear me walking around and complain to Daddy (a.k.a. our landlord). *sigh*
Maybe if we don't fall asleep again and we stay awake until 10 or 11 tonight, we can get our schedules flipped back around... Maybe by blogging that thought and sending it out to the many admirers who read our little blog (HA!), I won't lose my resolve in a few hours when my bed starts calling to me. Maybe...... I guess we will see how tired I am when morning finally rolls around.