Early Posting?

It is 6 a.m. It's early, especially for a Sunday morning, right? Not for me. No, for me, it is late. It is late because I have not awoken this early, rather I have not gone to sleep yet. I cannot. I am sleepy but not tired enough to fall asleep apparently. It's a side effect of insomnia issues, I suppose. It isn't rare for this to happen to me. I'll prolly finally get tired to a point of actual sleeping in an hour or so.

I see warmer weather ahead again in the forecast for the upcoming week. Hooray! I love warm weather, especially after not-so-warm weather. Sunshine & warm air. I wouldn't mind throwing a thunderstorm in there, but I prefer it to be at night. For one, I like the nighttime ones more. For two, then it doesn't interrupt any time that could be spent outside in the warm weather.

Trees are starting to gets buds. Soon the leaves will come out & things will look so wonderfully different, so wonderfully green! And more flowers (have seen a few already) will sprout out & all the other plants & such will grow as well. Fabulous!

I wish I could sleep. But I long ago accepted that sometimes I will not sleep as much as one should or even at all. I've had insomnia issues at least since high school. And over-the-counter pills do nothing for me & prescribed ones are either to expensive or the ones I could possibly get would knock me out much more than I want to be (mostly because of the being a mommy thing).

When I get no or next to no sleep, there are 2 effects this can have on me (other than the obvious being tired). I can feel more easily irritable & kinda grouchy. Or I can feel silly-hyperish. I prefer the second option, although the choice is never left up to me. If it were up to me, I would obviously choose just to sleep.

My sleep issues mainly occur in 2 ways, sometimes overlapping. 1) I have trouble falling asleep (or back asleep). 2) I have trouble staying asleep. Occasionally I take naps but sometimes that makes it hard to get sleep the following night. I can stay up all day in order to sleep at night & then by night, I am suddenly not tired. It's an odd thing.

Some weird is good, some weird is not. It just depends on what type of weird we are talking about. And sometimes, how much.

Well I suppose I shall end this & hope to drift off to sleepy time. Some happy thoughts to end the post...

Spring, animal crackers, orange juice, green grass, flowers, CutieMan hugs, pillows, oxygen, texting, pajamas, fresh laundry smell.