I have a difficult time sleeping on Tuesday nights, it’s mostly because of my graduate school, the classes meet on Tuesday from 6-10 p.m. and usually by the time I get home and crawl into bed I cannot shut my brain off. There are times over the last two years (which is how long I’ve been in grad school now) that I toss and turn until close to midnight. This past Tuesday I tossed and turned all night long. I think I might have slept 15-20 minutes at a time between the hours of midnight and 4:00 a.m. but I’m not entirely sure.

Finally at 5:30 a.m. I gave up trying, and got on the treadmill and ran for an hour. By the time I got to work I was feeling it: exhaustion. My eyes were getting fuzzy and I really felt like if I were to lay down, I’d surely fall asleep. So I went home at noon, put on my jammies and crawled into bed.

And still I couldn’t sleep. I was certain that if I tried hard enough, and long enough, it would happen. I tried reading a book, but that didn’t work. I tried laying on the couch with the tv on, but that didn’t work.

Finally I gave up. It was a Mom’s Night Out for the Milwaukee Moms and I had dinner plans with Freckles and CeCe before we joined the MM’s for drinks and then a play at the Milwaukee Rep Theater. I warned them both that I had not slept since Monday night. After three glasses of wine, spaced out of course, and then a dark theatre, sitting between two good friends, I finally dozed off for a catnap. Ahhhh, sleep! It couldn’t have been more welcome.

Don’t worry though, I did not spend the night at the theater, nor did I snore during the performance. By the time I got home it was 11 p.m. and while I was a little worried that my insomia would continue, I drifted off and got a full night of rest.