The Sleep Cycle

Most nights it takes me a decent amount of time to fall asleep. My husband gets frustrated with me because since I can't sleep, I get bored and I think he should stay awake to keep me company. Then I get frustrated because he falls asleep while I'm in the middle of telling him a story. So I get mad and I wake him up and he gets mad, not because I woke him up, but because I'm mad and he thinks that because I'm mad, it will take an even longer time for me to fall asleep. Then, while he starts listing off all the reasons that it's important for me to calm down and go to sleep, he falls asleep and the cycle starts all over again. Sometime, in the middle of all the drama, I fall asleep and everyone wakes up happy.

I've tried a lot of things to help me fall asleep faster like a sleep mask, a CD with calm music, and a more comfortable pillow. Once, I even resorted to taking an herbal sleep medication, which is something I will never do again and the story about the time I took an herbal sleep medication is a story my little brother told me I shouldn't tell people, so I won't on this blog.

I always come close to falling asleep when someone talks to me about mutual funds, stocks, physics or Lost, so maybe I'll have my husband tell me a story about how during a conversation about physics, all the characters on Lost decided to put all their money in to stocks and mutual funds. Then I'll sleep like a baby.