I've been having a bit of trouble sleeping lately. Partially because my ankle is constantly hurting, and it's hard to get comfortable. (Of course, then I get comfortable, fall asleep, and end up kicking myself in the ankle and starting the whole process over again.) But the rest of the time I'm just awake. No particular reason why, just awake. I used to have trouble sleeping when I was stressed out, but I'm pretty unstressed currently. My apartment (aside from the jackass neighbors) is pretty great and now decorated with a new flat screen TV, my car is pretty much always awesome, I'm dating the greatest guy on the planet (yeah, I'm biased), and my job is secure (which is more than I can say for others, since we laid off two people this week. One of whom is a good friend of mine.). There's no real reason for me to be not sleeping.

And yet last night I was awake every hour on the hour. I was SO exhausted. I was ready to go to sleep at 7, no exaggeration. But things like shopping for food and setting up the new TV can't be done in my sleep, so I didn't get to bed until midnight. And then I was up at 1. And 2. And 3. And so on and so forth until my alarm started going off. So then I got 90 minutes of semi-sleep in 9 minute increments, which did not do much for improving my temperment. I cannot figure out what's keeping me awake. My mattress is brand new, and extremely comfortable, so it's not that. Mia has been staying at my parent's for a couple weeks (first because I was in Hawaii, and then because I sprained my ankle and decided she was better off not being near me on crutches), so it's not her kicking me. My brain just doesn't want to shut down. I wish it was my brain AND body that were still awake, so that I could get more things done. My apartment could use a good cleaning. My office/second bedroom is full of post-divorce leftovers that need to be organized and put away or donated. There are several recipes I'd like to try making for dinner (or making and saving for lunch the next day). I have oodles of pictures to download off the camera and post here for you all. But I don't have the energy to do those things. I just want to sleep, and yet my brain says "HA! NO!"

If I'd written this entry about how wonderfully I sleep every night, Murphy's Law would have me awake every hour when I try to go to bed tonight. So I'm hoping that rule works in reverse. I won't be holding my breath.