Insomnia

What does it mean when you can't sleep? I am tired and it is bedtime. Actually, it's past bedtime. Sometimes when I can't sleep, I mentally re-write favorite childhood fairy tales, but I can't do that anymore as I have re-worked the biggies many times: Snow White, Jack and the Beanstalk and Cinderella. In my sleepless version Jack and his momma live in the projects and he traded her big screen TV for some magic seeds. I am not one of those people who can get out of bed, and transfer my worries or my ever growing To Do list to paper and hop back into bed into the arms of Morpheus. Once I start the mental gymnastics, I am a goner. I've planned entire menus, worked out project details, re-designed the garden and mentally organized closets. Note that I said mentally organized closets. I know bedtime is the time to release the day and slide into sleep, but that isn't going so well. Thank goodness the cat is nocturnal too.