Things I do while waiting for sleep to befall me
1) Stare out the window.
2) Read blogs, but don’t comment, because I am not entirely lucid.
3) Try to lie very still and “will” sleep to come.
4) Ponder doing work. Decide against it.
5) Make mental lists of things I have to do when I “wake up”.
6) Think to myself that I could get a lot of laundry done. If only the basement was not so scary.
7) Think to myself that I have absolutely no excuse for not packing away the clothes that are on my bedroom floor. Decide against it anyway.
8) Browse the internet.
9) Check facebook.
10) Marvel at the number of people that log into MSN Messenger at 2am.
11) Pray.
12) Look at my kids sleeping.
13) Hug the kids, kiss them, and try to make them laugh. Kids laughing in their sleep is one of my favorite things to witness.
14) Try to walk in a straight line, but appear like I can’t and is forcing myself to concentrate really hard. (This is not as easy as you may thing!)
15) Ponder why people are always so angry. I’ve decided that ignorance is our biggest enemy.
16) Answer emails. Mostly ones that have been sitting there for weeks, or months even.
17) Practice kickboxing moves.
18) Lie on the bed and stare and the ceiling.
19) Use the washroom.
20) Pace.
21) Stare at my computer screen.
22) Pick out clothes for work.
23) Check my work email.
24) Think about how we only really know people during times of conflict.
25) Think about how you know your friends are true when they remain with you even through your darkest times. And that’s when you realize that maybe you didn’t know some people as well as you thought you did.
26) Feel very blessed to have my kids all safely asleep in a warm house.
27) Pray some more.
28) Try to sleep some more.
29) Close my eyes.
30) Try to close my eyes and think good thoughts.
31) Sigh and wait for my kids to wake up.
