What to Do When You Wake up at Two AM and Can’t Go Back to Sleep
2am-2:30am: Stare at ceiling.
2:30am-3:00am: Do some early online Christmas shopping. New camera for the parents.
3:30am: Make tea. Have a fig.
3:35am-4am: Find some new ‘tunes for the iPod.
4am-5am: Consider making pancakes, since you have the time. Make your regular 2-minute breakfast instead. Read My Antonia and eat.
5am-5:45: Go for a jog in new sneaks with new tunes. Realize that running alone in the dark to heavy/glitchy dubstep is a scary, scary thing. Run fast as a result. Scream like a girl when a rabbit jumps out and startles you.
5:45-6am: Shower.
6am-6:45am: Write a novel. Nanowrimo!
6:45am-7:02am: Nap.
7:05am: Leave for work.
I was up at 1am – we could have had a virtual tea party
If only I’d known
There needs to be an early insomniacs club
Glad you squeezed some NaNo in there!! I’ve been sleeping better and haven’t been getting as much writing done. Yikes!
It’s a compromise, right? Be healthy and sane, or have a novel…hmm, which to choose?
That scrabble mug is the bomb! I’m such a scrabble nerd – where did you find it?
It’s actually a mug left behind by old roommates, so I don’t know the origins, but I do know I love it–cooking terms AND scrabble=love.
Woo that list makes me tired just reading it! Hope the rest of your day was as productive
It definitely went downhill in productivity, but hey, with a start like that, didn’t really matter
You seemed more productive. I just sat up watching all the ESPN Joe Paterno firing coverage.
It helps that I don’t have a TV in my room and that the one in the house would probably wake up a roommate. Keeps me at least pretending to get things done…
This made me laugh a little
I have screamed as a result of little animals while jogging in the dark! FUN! Haha.
Nothing makes you feel fit and strong like leaping across the street after being challenged by rodents
haha – funny, but that stinks. I haven’t been sleeping as well lately. My cats keep waking me up an hour early. Why don’t they understand the time change?!?!
Someone should really explain clocks to them
Wow, a lot of work done before anyone else woke up
I often have those sleeples nights, but I have found my ways how to enjoy them 
Yeah, I’ve found I’m much less miserable being awake at odd hours if I’m at least getting things done!
Ugggh, it’s going to be a long day starting that early. But at least you were productive.
It WAS a long day, but that just gives me an excuse to sleep all weekend, right?
I hate when I have middle-of-the-night insomnia. I always manage to fall into a deep sleep 20 minutes before the alarm goes off. Ugh.
That’s what my silly 17 minute nap ended up being…get back to bed just in time to go to work.
Oh my goodness 2 am?! That must have been bad! Hopefully you will be able to fall asleep earlier tonight!
Ended up having things to do all evening, but at least it’s almost the weekend!
I have one question. At what time in the afternoon did you collapse
. Hopefully, you’ll sleep soundly tonight. Have a great evening. Blessings…Mary
Wish I could have collapsed, haha. Had to keep going ’til 11pm, that’s a loooong day when it starts at 2am.
Haha I agree with Mary, how long did you make it in the afternoon? I would have fallen asleep by 1 pm after getting up that early
Pesky jobs have a way of keeping me up, haha. I need a cubicle ;D
Bleh I hate when I can’t sleep. I am always conflicted with whether to get up and be productive or lay in bed and pray I will pass out.
That second option was what I tried for 30 minutes, but grrr, too frustrating to just lay there.
You’re early morning productivity makes me a sleepy panda.
If I wake up in the middle of the night, I watch a lot of really bad T.V.
Luckily I don’t have a TV in my room, or I would have been considerably less productive. Although, I still could have done some Christmas shopping, just the as seen on tv version
It’s beginning to look like an info-mercial Christmas…..
Clip on feathers for every girl.
I could go on, something about sham-wow and super putty and miracle ear… But I won’t.
You’re welcome.
Girl, you crazy! I did just try a delicious new sleep-inducing tea…it was the yogi brand, something caramel…it was quite good!
oh wow, well I’m glad you were able to take a little nap before work! that’s an early morning!
I’ve had a crazy sleep schedule lately too. Working two jobs isn’t quite helping that department either =)
Wow! You did more during the early hours then I do all day sometimes! LOL
There is nothing I hate more than not being able to sleep. Good for you for being productive – I usually just lay there and get unbelievably angry.
That happens to me about once a month… thank God it’s not more!
More so when I’m pregnant, which won’t be happening anymore cause 3′s enough.
I usually try and stay still in the dark hoping to fall asleep but the hours just keep passing by… I’m afraid if I expose myself to light that it will ruin any chances of me falling asleep. I think it’s just my brain thinking too much!
Anyway, I used to run in the dark and remember feeling scared! I would have little intervals of sprinting when I felt a sense of “danger” lol!!
I LOVE this! Love the dark scary running
I am a total dark and quiet morning person – I think it’s awesome you got to enjoy this time of the day! I always love it!