Night Owl - Where Do I Get a Switch?

Being a night owl, I am often awake after midnight. I can be found reading, watching TV, or lying in bed wishing I was sleeping. How wonderful it must be to get tired around 9:00 pm, hop into bed, and fall asleep. Sounds easy enough, so why isn\'t it? I wish I knew.

The problem starts late in the evening. For some reason, I seem to wake up after 9:00 pm. I don\'t do drugs and never have, so that\'s not it. I don\'t drink coffee and don\'t really drink anything with caffeine, so that\'s not it either. Having diabetes, I don\'t eat things high in sugar, so mark that off the list. I just seem to wake up and start to think of things to write, things I need to do, bills I need to pay, etc. The list goes on and on. If I do force myself to go to bed, the gears in my brain start grinding and I toss and turn until about 1:00 am. This is frustrating.

A friend suggested I take some type of sleeping pill. With being a single mom of two kids, I don\'t want to be sedated in any way. What if they fell out of bed? What if someone broke into my place? What if there was a fire? Ahh! The what ifs are killin\' me. I wish I had a little switch on my brain I could flip to the off position when I wanted to sleep, and then flip it to the on position in the morning. I would love to be a morning person, get up all happy and alert, but I am not. I am going to look into a switch. Heck, they sell everything else on the internet, why not that? Hmm.

Cindy Breninger

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