How do you fall asleep when your brain won’t stop thinking?  Last night I may or may not have stomped into the computer room and shouted “This is how people accidentally overdose on sleeping pills!” and then burst into tears at three in the morning to a WoWing Will.  I’ve been taking Advil PM for a couple of nights now–only half the reccommended adult dose–and last night, my one little pill just wasn’t working.  Now I know that taking a second pill when the reccommended dose is two pills isn’t a huge deal especially when it has been three hours since the first one was swallowed, but by three in the morning I was all the way past rational though and into full on “I can’t sleep! Why can’t I sleep? I need sleep! Fall asleep brain!” psychosis.

To give Will some credit, he turned off his game immediately and crawled into bed with me.  No grief, no “I’ll be right there.”  Just “my poor girl” and “here, move me however you want me and you just get comfortable” and “how can I help?” and “it’s okay, you can wipe your nose on my arm.”

We talked a little bit about why I couldn’t sleep–a rough “cycle” this month, stress about work and bills and Typepad not being as awesome as I remember it (that is a whole other post) and his family spending the holidays in our apartment and before I knew it, I was finally drifting off.

He really is a good fiance.

Still though–how do you fall asleep when your brain won’t shut off?  Do you have a nightly “get ready for bed” routine?  Do you do the whole warm milk and small snack of something containing tryptophan?  Warm bath? Herbal tea? What?

Really I’ll try just about anything right now, including an anvil to the head.