Let the `’Light Shine

As I sit here at 3:22am, unable to sleep, unable to even think of putting my light off, I am wondering how other people entertain themselves in the wee hours of the night.

I’m too tired to be productive, and too awake to just put my laptop down.  Somewhere in the back of my curiosity, I’m scared I’ll miss out on something that might happen.  But WHAT prey tell, is supposed to happen at 3:22am that can be so very interesting that I need to be awake for it ?!

When and how did my circadian clock’s battery run out? Seriously, who broke the little ruts of my inner mechanism which are supposed to tell me that I need to get some rest?  Here’s the real mystery. I have been sleeping 11-13 hour nights for the past 2 weeks straight.  It’s just the actual falling asleep that has been super difficult.  but that has always been a pain. 
This doesn’t work well at all having a morning person for a husband.  He is happiest when he gets to sleep and wake early. Matter of fact, it drives him nuts knowing that I am still awake when he goes to sleep. 

But it’s really unfair, because he just decides to go to sleep, lies down and 2 minutes later he is sound asleep and far removed from reality.

So what am I supposed to do then? The whole valley is sound asleep and happily getting their rest to look all puffed and fluffy tomorrow, while I will reluctantly open my eyes at around 10am or later when the dogs’s incessant crying will prompt me to get up to feed them.  I kind of cheated, I gave them a little bit at 2am so they won’t be so hungry in the morning. 

There is nobody to talk to. Talking on the phone to my friends in other countries is a bad idea, as it will wake my lovely, taking a walk is just silly because it’s freezing outside.

I’ll lie down, and try what Lovely does, close my eyes and look at the patterns that form inside my eyelids. Hope they’re not too interesting, because then there is no chance of drifting off