3:37 and I'm Wide Awake

I've got no clue what is bringing on my latest bout of insomnia, but I am once again in a cycle of sleeping for a few hours, then waking up in the middle of the night, wide awake. I read and commented on a few blogs, started a load of towels in the wash, and did a bit of household admin. Maybe I'll make myself tired and can crawl back in bed for a few hours. I try to fall back to sleep, and often it works. I do math in my head-figure out cost calculations, or budget planning, my version of counting sheep. Sometimes I'm just so wide awake that trick doesn't work. Tonight is one of those times. 

Fortunately, I have no place I have to be in the morning. I plan to focus on getting my house clean, laundry done, and household admin-which now I have a start on. Weather is 50-50 chance of storms.There was some rumbling a while ago, but it doesn't seem to have started. We have a grad party for the older daughter of our friends, the sister of M who stayed with us a couple years ago. This is our last grad party, I believe, though part of my admin today is sending cards out to the couple graduates that we didn't attend their party due to other conflicts.

I dropped off some yard/camping chairs last night and helped a bit with things for the party, but she is playing the it by ear due to the weather forecast. They have the garage prepped and ready with a couple tents to  line up out the door for weather protection. I hope they can use their patio and yard. Since moving back after the fire reconstruction, they slowly over the last two summers have been doing some yard work plus creating outdoor photography space (she's a photographer specializing in families and very young children) and it is truly gorgeous. The house itself is an old basic house style, probably at least 150 years old, now renovated with a mix of tradition and modern conveniences. It is not one of the large old houses, but compact as old houses in towns often are, definitely tight for a family of six, but they make it work. Hosting a grad party open house though, not so much. 

A positive thing, I don't feel like I will suffer the effects on either end when we travel in August as my body is already used to operating outside of my time zone. I must be getting out of my funk at least a bit. I've not really had a melt down with the work situation and I can find the bright side of insomnia. Fake it until you make it, right? I might start some menu planning for July and the holiday week ahead. There's a lot of drama with the crazy uncle and the cabin next door, but if it is going to be hot this week, I'm willing to ignore family tension and enjoy the 4th of July at a cool lake with DH and DD2. 

I'm going to get the lights washed now that are in my bathroom hamper after moving the towels to the dryer. Aren't I being efficient with the time? I hope for those of you in the US, you're reading this many hours form now and got a good nights sleep.