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Sleep. Something your body needs. Some bodies need more than others. Some bodies can function on little to no sleep. Not this body. I have always been an 8 hour a night girl. I can function on 7 but 8 is my preferred goal. I have not acheived this goal in a very long time. I go to bed at a fairly decent hour (around 10 most nights), I fall asleep pretty quickly, I usually do fine until about 1:30 or 2:00am. I wake up. It could be I’m hot (or cold but mostly hot) or I need to use the uh . . . “facilities” but most likely I just wake up. No reason. I just wake up. I can usually go back to sleep but then I toss and turn and wake up every half hour or so. Fitful, interrupted sleep is just as bad as no sleep for this body. I have my suspicions on why this is happening (and I’m seeing my doctor in a couple of weeks). I have started taking magnesium, which should help but it’s not really working.

I feel like a zombie most of the time. I am constantly tired and cranky. Why is a good night’s sleep so ellusive? And I won’t even get into knitting while you’re this tired. Well maybe I will (but just a little). I am still working on the Mystic Waters Lace Shawl. I completed row 200 last night and thought it was a good place for a lifeline. I started counting my stitches to make sure all was well. Up to the first marker . . . good . . . up to the center stitch marker . . . good . . . up to the next marker . . . over one stitch. Hmmmmm . . . maybe the marker got moved, let me count the remaining stitches . . . just exactly what I should have. How did I get one stitch off? I counted and re-counted. Same number of stitches each time. I checked my sitches against the chart and all seemed well, so why did I have an extra stitch? I finally gave up and put it away for the night. Today I went back to the chart and counted the stitches in the section in question. Guess what? It was the exact number of stitches I had on my needle! Never count stitches (on the chart or your needle) when you haven’t gotten enough sleep.