Insomnia

Two isolated weeknights in the last week I have suffered from insomnia.  This happens to me occasionally, although usually not so close together.  I blame my recent scaredy-cat-ness.  There has been a bit of a crime wave in the mile radius of our house in the last few weeks (thankfully it has not leaked to our cozy little subdivision but it’s hauntingly close).  Last week I could blame it on the Halloween movies.  This week I don’t know what to say.  I go to bed within the same hour every night and get up at the same time every morning.  But last night…it was like my head and my house were plotting against me.  Every single noise that you could imagine was forming an awful orchestra in my head.  The ticking of the many clocks (my betrothed does not believe that these can bother me as much as they do) in the house, random rumblings in my stomach, the fridge…which I am sure is haunted and it’s random knocking noise, and last night new sounds creaking from the attic.  I fell asleep and woke up at least ten different times.  I turned on my faithful Friends DVD for background noise and fell asleep (ironically it was an episode where Chandler suffers insomnia....), only to wake up 15 minutes later because Ryan wasn’t in bed. He was just peeing. I have a freak problem here.  I eventually moved to the guest room and shut the door, away from the snoring, the ticking clocks, the creaking, the dripping in our bathroom, and a silent bliss came over me.  Too bad I waited until after 2AM to do that.  Thank goodness for caffeine, that’s all I have to say about that!