I really thought after yesterday’s efforts that I would sleep like a log all night. As well as all the IKEA assembly, we had done two major walks, and on the second one, I stopped at the Garden Centre and picked up and carried home a 20L bag of soil. So when I went to bed at 10:30, I figured that, in spite of my normal insomnia, that had to be me out for the next eight hours easily.
Nope. I woke at 12:15 and that was me wide awake. After an hour of tossing, I put on an audio book (one I had listened to before, with a soothing British voice) in hopes that would lull me back to sleep. At 3:00 I got up and made a cup of hot milk. At 4:00 I got up and made a one-egg omelette wrap. Finally at 5:03, I thought I might doze off. I checked to make sure I had nothing to do today (not as ridiculous as it sounds – my social calendar is picking up), and decided to try closing the heavy outer curtains in hopes of blocking out the morning light.
All the windows in the house have regular blinds that do a good job of providing privacy and a fair job blocking light, and that’s all I’ve used so far this winter. But each bedroom also has heavy, thick, fully lined curtain. I have to think that, come June, when the sky is light from 3:30a.m. to 11:00 p.m., people here need those curtains to get a decent night’s sleep.
Well, they work – the room was pitch dark and stayed that way, and the only reason I am up now and not still asleep is a 62lb, 4-legged alarm clock.
Harry Potter is my insomnia-curing audiobook, with a British accent. I have read or listened to the books so often that it doesn’t matter if I miss something.
Exactly – mine are the Swallows & Amazon children’s series. British voice, I know the plot, etc…. Nice to know I”m not alone!