Insomnia

I have insomnia. So this article caught my attention, 5 foods that help you sleep: cherries, oatmeal, toast and warm milk (bananas is the last food, but I don't really care for bananas unless they are in daiquiri form or accompanying ice cream, lol).

Cherries have melatonin, which is something I take as a supplement regularly. That helps me get to sleep. But I wake up frequently through out the night. I am lucky in that I generally can get back to sleep in a short amount of time, but it's not really restful.

After my daughter was born, I took a sleep aid / anti-depressant. That was brilliant, because it helped on both fronts, it helped with my post-partum depression and it helped me sleep. When I couldn't sleep, it of course amplified the depression. I quit taking that when I lost my medical insurance and didn't feel the need to go back on it when I got new insurance. But I surely do miss the sleep aid part!

Turned the heel

Whew! Got the heel done, after much angst. It's not like it's really all that difficult, I just can't count, lol. And idiot that I am, I said last night as I put my knitting away, that I needed to put in a new lifeline before I went any further. So what did I do this morning? Just started knitting and somehow managed to screw up the turning of the heel. My last lifeline was before the heel flap.

But the heel is turned, a new lifeline is set and I am on the home stretch!

Now if I could just get the kiddo to finish cleaning out her toy box. She only started 2 hours ago and now there are piles of junk all over my living room: keep, toss, donate. The toss and donate pile are much larger than the keep pile, which is good, but I want all the piles gone, lol.