you know that feeling?

this morning when i got up i felt that feeling. it's the feeling you get when waking up in a different bed than your own. whether it's staying a my Grandma's house, camp, or West Virginia. I just realized this morning that it has a feeling. see, we have air conditioning downstairs, and downstairs only. my room that i share with my sister is in the back corner of the house. so it's very cold in the winter, and very hot in the summer. but it's all good because i get the best radio reception in the house, and that's all i care about. but last night was really hot. and i guess i fell asleep for awhile, but then woke up at 2:30AM or so. then, at 3 i went downstairs to the nice cool living room. i had troubles getting to sleep down there because there was a fan being very loud. so i turned that down a notch, and grabbed my portable tape player/radio(i love it!). i started listening to Christian music, but craved classical. so thank God for WITF radio. they play classical music all through the night. so i started listening to that.

i guess i fell asleep sometime soon after 4, because the next thing i knew my brother came downstairs and turned on the light and the computer. i don't think he even noticed me for 45 minutes or so. that was at 4:50. crazy, but true. it didn't matter anyways, because at 5, WITF starts NPR news. I guess there are a lot of NPR listeners around here that get up around 5 or so and listen to NPR, so they don't want to hear classical music. so then i just listened to Christian radio some more, and didn't get a chance to fall asleep again. so it'll be interesting to see how this day goes. i don't drink coffee or soda, so i don't intake caffine. but God can give me energy!

Part of the reason why i had troubles sleeping was because i was thinking about yesterday. it was a very interesting day to say the least. it had it's highs and lows. things i was so happy about, and then other things that i never want to think about again, yet i can't avoid.

another thing is that i'm trying to get back into the habit of going to bed early and getting up early. i've been doing pretty good this summer about getting up before 8am. usually 6:30 at the earliest. but i haven't been going to bed until ten o'clock. and i really don't give myself any winddown time, which is probably why it takes me so long to fall asleep. usually i just go right from an activity like watching tv, or being on the computer to going to bed. school only starts in a few more weeks, so i need to get back into all those habits again.

it kinda won't help though that my sister will want to stay up late. but as long as i'm asleep before she comes in the room, i think i'll be okay.

so, back to my point. when i finally decided to get up this morning, i felt like i was in West Virginia on the missions trip waking up at the 4-H camp. but then it also felt like whenever i wake up at Grandma's house. maybe that's because i slept in the chair in the living room, and whenever i stay there, i sleep in a chair. basically it was like waking up anywhere other than my room.