Things I Tried To Make Me Fall Asleep Last Night

(Most were ineffective.)

• Counting sheep.  (I prefer to count cows, but they don't jump over fences as easily as sheep do.)
• Thinking about the most boring thing in the entire world.  (I got into conflict with myself over which thing actually was the most boring, then I realized I was arguing with myself about it and gave up entirely.)
• Going to the bathroom.  About 8 times.
• Opening my eyes really wide in an effort to make them sleepy.
• Moving to the couch in the living room.  (After 10 minutes I got mad that I was on the couch and decided that if I couldn't sleep I might as well not sleep in my own bed.)
• Looking at pictures of Hurricane Dean on Weather.com in the dark.  It made my eyes tired, but I still couldn't sleep afterwards.
• Thinking about cockroaches.  (This only served to make me even more wakeful.)
• Trying to clench up every muscle in my entire body, including my baby toe.  Try it, it's hard; it might even make you sleepy. (It didn't me.)
• Praying.  (I think I fell asleep doing this, because I don't remember finishing Sarah Engle.  Sorry!)

And, after much pondering, I think I figured out what my sleeping problem was.  I drank 415 mg of caffeine in 2 hours yesterday morning.  That is a ghastly amount for any person, much less me.  I can't seem to process it in much less than 12 hours, so I probably just need to quit drinking any caffeinated beverages altogether.

Also, Cingular (my asthma medicine) is known to give jibblies.  So I'm not going to take it tonight (nuts, I forgot to take it this morning!) and we'll see what happens.

And I'm not eating (or drinking) anything after 8:00 p.m.  Let us see how this one works.  As it stands now, I am extremely tired and grouchy.  Beware.