Birds

I fucking hate birds.

I have high anxiety and therefore can't shut my brain off at night to sleep. My current routine is to go to bed at midnight and get up at 9am. Which would be GREAT but when I go to bed I don't go to sleep.

I lie there thinking about all sorts of things for a few hours.

So about 3am I finally get that feeling that sleep is about to take over and I go to sleep.

Again, sleeping from 3am until 9am would be GREAT.

But the fucking birds.

They come every morning at 6:30am squaking and fighting right outside my bedroom window. The noise from my A/C unit combined with ear plugs are no defense against their violent screams.

So I've been maaaaaybe getting about 3 - 3 1/2 hours sleep and then spending the time from 6:30am until 9am trying to go back to sleep. Which means going in and out of consciousness and having crazy dreams. Then finally rolling out of bed at 9am-ish (I use "ish" liberally) but not before lifting the 100 lbs. of steel lying on top of me.

Okay, there's no steel but it feels like there is.

So this morning I gave into the fucking birds and just got up at 6:30am. I'm going to try to train my body to go to sleep earlier and try being a morning person.

I'll let you know how it goes.