Reasons I'm Awake At 1am on Monday Morning

I realize that I haven't cleaned the kitchen floor this weekend like I told myself I would and I feel disappointed in myself.

I mentally go through the items in the last two boxes of things I've yet to put away and wonder if packing my high school class photo was all that necessary in the first place.

I hear someone using the garbage bin in the apartment complex nearby and think "who has a garbage emergency at 11:52pm on a Sunday night?"

I get up to sort through the dry cleaning that I keep meaning to bring in, breaking it up into smaller bundles so as to figure out which place I'll decide to make my "regular" cleaners, and then wonder if it just makes sense to give all of it to one place.

I wind up reading every single online review of a restaurant that I didn't even know existed not all that long ago (and that I've not yet been to) and find myself rolling my eyes at some of the comments.

I realize that I'm too warm in my fuzzy new pajamas that my folks gave to me for Christmas and change into a long-sleeved tee shirt ... and wind up putting socks on my feet 15 minutes later when I realize my toes are cold.

I make the mistake of checking the time and say to myself "self? If you don't fall asleep in the next 20 minutes, you're gonna get less than 6 hours of sleep tonight." Half an hour later, I recalculate the threat ... and wonder if maybe the math of the recalculation is what could be preventing me from falling asleep in the first place.

Padding out to the kitchen to get a water for the bedside, I accidentally brush against the Christmas tree and knock off a few of the lowest ornaments. I find secure locations to rehang them and wander back into bed, which is when I realize I still need that water.

I manage to take two sips of water and, as I snuggle deep into the covers, I figure it'd be a good idea to use the restroom before I *really* fall asleep.

I start to convince myself that I'm drifting off when it occurs to me I may have set the alarm wrong for tomorrow morning. I wake myself enough to make sure that's not the case.

I really DO start to fall asleep shortly after 1am, as I'm musing to myself that staying awake to Midnight on New Years Eve was almost an impossible task.