Sleep or the lack of .....

I cannot sleep - was it the coffee that I had in the afternoon? I really don't know.

I went upstairs to sleep but I guess I had too much activity so I couldn't get any ZZZZZs in. I started by de-ticking Torrent our cutie pie Westie. Then I found he has monster ticks in his front paws. A trip downstairs to pick up his tweezers put the idea of sleep away. The 'exercise' made my blood circulate. After fighting Torrent for his ticks, I thought the ZZZZZZs could come - alas! after tossing around for 10 minutes with my active mind, I thought reading something would help so I started on the Reader's Digest. Hmm - no sleep anywhere on the horizon. So I came downstairs and fired up the old laptop. A few games of the boring Minesweeper do nothing for my quest for sleep.

I try to do stuff on Facebook, but sleep eludes me.

The lack of sleep can be terrible but I seem to be able to survive with little sleep. When I was younger (let's say about 10 years ago), I would be able to talk on the phone with Hero till 4 in the morning, go to bed and get up by 7 and head to the office before 8:30 and work sanely and repeat the cycle for a couple of days.

Even many more years back when I was in London, there were occasions when I went without sleep for about 3 days and nights - about 72 hours at a stretch. Don't ask me what obsessed me at that time, but I managed homework and classes and what-have-you with very little sleep. In those so called sleep-deprived days, I survived on 1 hour catnaps that fuelled me on. Horrors! Was it the bad coffee or just the lack of need for sleep?

God has given me a wonderful gift - I am able to sleep just about anywhere. Hero also has this gift. Besides the bed, we have been able to get our catnaps in all places. Let's see - I can fall asleep on the bus, the MRT when I can get a seat (it is a little difficult to sleep on the train and balance yourself), in the car, in the office, waiting in government departments or service centres for my number to be called, at friends' homes when the sofa gets really comfy and the list goes on .....

I have yet to fall asleep in the shower!

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