I’m one of those people.
You know the ones.
The tossy-turny, rollovery, hmm I was just thinking-y, woo-it’s-warm-in-here, maybe-I-need-a-glass-of-milk-y, are-you-sleeping-already, I’m-not-ready-for-Monday-y, late-night-revelation-y, well… people.
When I climb into bed at night, my brain rumbles into overdrive, and I’m left lying awake until 2 am pondering the universe and world economics and old Magnum P.I. plotlines.
It’s much worse on Sunday nights, too.
I guess I’m mentally preparing for the week ahead, but not by making lists or setting out my agenda or doing anything rational. No, I’m just boggling at life. And not necessarily important aspects of life, either.
Like, only moments ago, trying to remember the names of the Hanson brothers (no, not the band. From Slapshot.)
For hours.
People make all sorts of suggestions as to how I could slow things down in my agitated brain/heart/soul: prayer, essential oils on my pillow, yoga, sleep breathing, sleep hygiene, herbal remedies, prescription drugs… you name it.
I suppose some of them might have an impact. But this has been the Nature of Meg since I was two years old and yelling, “HEY, WHAT YOU GUYS DOING IN THERE” through the wall when I was supposed to be a sleeping cherub in my crib.
Can it be cured? Hard to say.
I’ve never been a cherub.
More of a town crier.
And that’s fine, I think.
Except that I have nowhere to PUT all this stuff. I just have to let it juggle around in my psyche until I finally wear myself out or experience the cosmic release valve that is Morning Coffee.
So.
Want some?
For you, the last 15 things I thought about. Feel free to think about them, too, or just marvel at the fact that I’d do this instead of ZZZZZ…
1. If my love of fabric softener is leaving a buildup on the fibres of my clothes (well, okay, I already know it is, I’m just thinking about how I should STOP THAT.)
2. Why soda is always “lemon-lime” and not just “lemon” or “lime.”
3. How people actually make it through an episode of Survivor without wanting to send Mark Burnett a bill for their time.
4. Haircut or new boots? Haircut or new boots? Haircut or new boots?
5. Why the “vibrate” setting on my phone is so violent my roommate can hear it rattling on my bedside table through the wall when I get late-night texts (and this is a girl who can sleep through Eric and I debating about U.S. politics and Cirque de Soleil from three feet away.)
6. Why sometimes my bed is so incredibly comfy, and sometimes it makes my back ache.
7. How anyone convinces themselves that the way to get people to agree with their ideas is to belittle everyone else’s ideas mercilessly.
8. Why it is that I radically prefer non-fiction writing to fiction writing, even with a Lit degree under my belt (or hoop skirt, as it were.)
9. What the purpose is behind junebugs, the Electoral College, Dr. Phil, the return of legwarmers, or Dancing with the Stars.
10. If I put my charitable dollars in the right places this past year.
11. How to very quickly master the art of baking bread, with as few failed loaves as possible.
12. What I *really* want in a lifemate.
13. Which city I will end up moving to, when I eventually move. Which I think I will. One day.
14. How one can learn to excel at following diagrammatic instruction.
15. What it will take for me to become a better friend.
And you?