Zzzzzzzz

You know how they always have those lists of things you need to do to be healthy?  Well, I can make myself exercise.  I can make myself eat properly.  I can make myself take a multivitamin.  I can make myself floss.  But how the heck do you make yourself get a good night's sleep?  Either you get one or you don't.  And they keep pointing out how that is one of the most important things you can do, which only adds to my stress level when I'm trying to sleep. 

I can fall asleep.  But if I wake up, I'm up.  Last night I woke up at 1:30 a.m. and I don't really think I ever fell fully back to sleep all night.  I tried really hard to make myself do it, but myself was having none of it.  I'm nice and sleepy now, though, thanks very much!  I'm a bad napper, though, so I will just try to tough it out until bedtime.

My son says if you wake up in the night you should get up and do something productive, because that quiets your mind and makes it possible for you to go back to sleep.  Usually it's too warm in the bed and too cold out of the bed for me to consider that, but I may get desperate and try it.  I could count sheep or better yet, count the days until Becky turns 50...oh, that wouldn't take very long so scratch that.

Anyway, here's wishing you a good night's sleep and wishing myself one as well.