This week has not been a week of getting good nights sleeps.  I managed to catch about seven hours between Tuesday and yesterday but then Will and I were up until two, working on a friend's computer that was having problems.  Or, Will was working on the computer, I was helping him with crossword puzzles while he ran scans and other computer geeky things. 

Every morning when the alarm goes off and I jab Will awake with my pointy pointy elbows (he is convinced that his alarm clock is broken and that's what wakes me up!) he rolls over and urges me to go back to sleep and to sleep in for a couple of hours to catch up on my sleep.  His intentions are good but I really need to stop listening to him. On the days that I do go back to sleep and sleep in until ten or eleven my mood improves, but I lose the ability to concentrate for pretty much the whole day.  Today, for instance, I have two projects and I've only gotten one of them done. 

What I really need to do is learn to go to bed on my own.  I can do that.  Apparently there are nights when I go to bed and then, when Will comes in to go to sleep, he and I have entire conversation–conversations that I don't remember having.  It's just….I don't like to go to bed on my own anymore.  I know that makes me sound all sappy and girly, but the truth is that I like falling asleep together, especially on those nights when we both have trouble falling asleep so we talk until we pass out.  Also? Most of the time, Will does not understand how to be quiet or stealthy when it comes to going to bed.  He knows how to close the door quietly and after that, it goes downhill.  He'll flop down onto the bed, which bounces me around.  He'll yank at the covers and usually ends up pulling them off of me and then tossing them back over me.  He'll turn on his alarm to make sure it is at an appropriately eardrum bursting level when it "fails" to go off the next morning.  It's hard to fall asleep when you know that you'll just be woken up again–and you don't know when it will be. 

I am very much looking forward to getting eight hours of sleep each night again….someday!

Also? How excited am I that Yummy-McStaples-Himself will be back on Grey's Anatomy tonight?!?  So excited!