insomniac

dearest, darling readers, let me preface this blog entry by saying that it was a great weekend. of course it went too fast. but i ate a lot all weekend, and that always makes things better.

now on to the long-awaited bitching and moaning bit of this morning's post: for the last two weeks, i haven't been sleeping. it's not that i lie there awake, tossing and turning until 3am. i fall asleep as soon as my head hits my pillow (now extra-firm because i've gotten old and my neck's apparently too sensitive for anything else), but then--and this is what's strange, because it's happened every night for the last two weeks--i wake up between 4-6am and then can't go back to sleep until 7. and then my alarm goes off at 7:15 and i'm pissed off.

most of the time i wake up at 4 or 5 or 6 i'm absolutely convinced that there's an intruder in my apartment. every thud i hear, every drip of the faucet, becomes a baltimore street thug, perfectly happy to run off with my mac mini while i'm sleeping but who will shoot me the first noise i make. is this normal, sane behavior? not really. when you combine it with the fact that i also inevitably wake up singing a kelly clarkson song in my head while worrying about being mugged/robbed/attacked, it's a very strange situation indeed. "since you been gone, yeahhhh yeahhhh....A ROBBER!"

and so i suppose i write this post for suggestions from you. what do you think will help me sleep through the night (or at least til 7)? hilary suggested a glass of wine, but it's not that i have trouble falling asleep--i'm having trouble staying asleep. and tylenol pm isn't working. i suppose that i could invest in an alarm system and stop listening to kelly clarkson...