There are several things that annoy me when I am trying to sleep.  These things make it difficult to impossible to sleep so I end up getting up and typing one of these late night / early morning entries.  The things that annoy me are as follows...

I hate it when you have a cold (yes I am the lucky recipient of one) and you lay there very still breathing out of your mouth because you can't breathe out of your nose and all of the sudden you hear that little tiny wheezing / whistling noise when you exhale all the way.  If I don't fall asleep before I start hearing that I am doomed to lie awake concentrating on that one noise all night.

I hate it when you are lying in bed and your position is such that you can  hear your own heart beat loud and clear.  Now, don't get me wrong... I love the fact that my heart beats nice and slow and rhythmic, keeping me alive.  That's the good part.  But I always catch myself trying to count how many times it beats within six flashes of the " : " on my digital clock.  It's almost impossible to count your heart beats and the six flashes all at the same time when one is always faster than the other.

I hate it when you are lying in bed and no matter how PERFECTLY still you lie there, your pillow NEVER seems to stop settling.  It makes little tiny settling noises if your ear is pressed right up against it and you listen carefully.  So then you move your head thinking maybe it's not relaxed enough and is moving ever so subtly.  And then you have a whole chorus of those settling noises.  And my pillow is worse because I have one of those plastic / vinyl / whatever material things that cover it to protect it from dust mites and other wonderful things no human being should ever know grows on a pillow.

I hate it when you are lying in bed and your husband can not stop talking about the INTENSE, awful, disgusting, putrid, horrible, aren't enough bad words to describe it although your husband sure does do a good job trying to describe it, stench.  Not only that but he now insists the blankets and sheets have absorbed all the odor and they must be cleaned or changed at once.

We are talking 4:29 AM.

And all of the above is the reason I find myself sitting at my desk at this hour typing a journal entry.

But... pumpkin pie is yummy.

I know how to look on the bright side of things.

=o)