I'm so sleepy

Ok, I am not an insomniac. Not even close. Usually my head hits the pillow and I am out! Lately though, I've had a ton on my mind and I can't sleep.

It's nothing bad on my mind...mostly new ideas and thoughts about my job (which I LOVE), but nevertheless, I lay awake at night.

In fact, it is to the point that pretty much if I feel really sleepy, I just want to make a mad dash for the bed to try to get some sleep while I can. I'm not one to want to take medicine to make me sleep, although Tylenol PM has been a friend on several nights in the past few months.

Even when I do sleep, I find that I am dreaming much more---or, at least dreaming to the point that I remember what I dream, which seems to make me more tired when I awaken.

I am usually a person who goes to bed about 10 pm because quite honestly, my body prefers 9 hours of sleep over 8. However, in the past couple months, I am not getting to sleep until midnight, sometimes one...and then I usually start waking up around six even though I try my best to lay there until 7:10 (did I mention that I am not a morning person. Even when I've had plenty of sleep, I don't just "pop" out of bed.)

Last night I went to bed at a little after 10...but laid there listening to the snores of my husband for about 45 minutes before finally deciding to get up because my stomach was feeling a little queasy. I got up and went and browsed some things on the computer that had been racing through my mind and about midnight, Richard woke up and called out wondering where I had gone. I went back to bed. I laid there a little while longer before finally managing to drift off to sleep. When the alarm went off this morning, I was still deep in dreamland. I can't remember what I was dreaming although I know that while I was sleeping, I was aware of what I was dreaming. Many times when I awaken, if I don't consciously think about the dream, I'll forget it soon after (unless it is one of my wackier dreams, which I tend to have on a reasonably frequent basis).

I was sooooo wishing that it were Saturday this morning. I crawled down under the cover for a few more minutes until I had to get up. So, anyway, now I am here...but I am so wishing I could just crawl back under the cover and get some zzz's!