Hi.

How are you?

I assume you’re well because you’re… sleeping.

However? I AM NOT.

Sure, I just moved into a new place in a different neighbourhood, and sure, I’m far away from my “person” and sure, I’ve never really been one for rockin’ out the ZZZs in an appropriate fashion, but in the past few months, I’d developed kind of a 5 – 6 hour a night understanding with you.

Now?

2 at BEST.

I’ve stopped drinking coffee.

I’ve eliminated all light sources.

I’ve started eating earlier in the day.

I drink “sleepy” teas of various varieties.

I don’t bring my laptop into my bedroom.

You name it.

NADA.

Seriously, it makes me a bit buggy to hop into bed at 9:10 pm (my friends are now looking at this page in abject horror: “YOU? YOU DID?”) and not fall asleep until 1:30 am.

I do the whole, “Get out of bed and read and do something quiet, and then return and try again” thing.

NADA.

I took a hot bath. I inhaled lavender. I adjusted my covers.

Is it that my mattress is kind of dubious, and my upper layer of pillows (I have four) need replacing? Is it that I am a giant stressball? Is it that some of us are just not destined to sleep?

WHAT IS IT?

SLEEP. I NEED YOU. COME BACK.

Love,

Meg