Insomnia March 24, 2008
I’m clearly still catching up on the sleep I missed last week. Gads. Do you, or have you ever, suffered from insomnia? For about ten years (well, maybe eight) I suffered from insomnia the second (or was it the third?) week of September every year. That was odd. I don’t know what caused it. I was just glad that at the time I was taking public transportation to work. There’s no way I would have been safe behind the wheel. Horrors! Anyway, since then, the insomnia has spread itself out, and I get it a lot more often than that. A lot more often. I think that every night last week I got up at 1 am, stayed up for several hours, then went back to bed. That wasn’t so bad. One night, though, Friday night, I got up at 1 after only being in bed a couple of hours, back to bed at 3:30, up again at 4, and that was it. Saturday I needed extra caffeine to keep going. Big surprise there. Not.
Sunday we were supposed to have breakfast at our neighbor’s house at 9 am, then go to Easter service with them. We don’t normally go to church—the last time I went was a year before I met Dave, and that was just one service. But you know, it being Easter and all, churches usually pull out all the stops, decorate the place with extra flowers and showy bits, have special music, and do a nice sermon. So we agreed to go. But Saturday night I couldn’t sleep, either. I was up again at 1 am, and fell into bed, not able to function any longer, around 7, when Dave was in the shower. About 8:20 he came in to get me going, assuming I could.
Turns out I couldn’t.
I barely even remember him trying to wake me. I guess he made a good go of it, too. He went next door for breakfast without me, then came home. He wanted to be here when I woke up, just in case there was something wrong other than plain, old exhaustion. Wasn’t that sweet? I finally woke up about 11:30. Ha! I was in bed last night less than 
twelve hours later, and slept clean through until 8:00 this morning. Ah. I’m feeling much better now.
I managed to get quite a bit of knitting done over the weekend, mostly on Emerald. I’m concentrating on it so I can finish it up. So close. The raglan decreases are all knit, the neckline and button band stitches picked up, and the ribbing has begun.
  
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Isn’t that raglan treatment pretty? I love the openwork and the cables.
Right now there are 85 stitches on each side, plus the stitches across the back, 30-something of those. In all, somewhere around 200 stitches on the needles for this part. It’s, uh, a bit cramped. In the last picture above you can see what I’m doing. This is where modular needles are divine. I have two needle tips, two caps, two cables. It’s sort of like working on straight needles, but they’re flexible.
Progress was accomplished on the vine stole, too. I didn’t bother taking any pictures this morning, as it doesn’t really look any different than last time—it’s just a little longer is all. At this point, a little more than half of the center panel is done. I think it’s looking pretty cool, too. Just sayin’. I’ll see if I can get a picture to show you in the next day or three.
In case you’re wondering, no, I haven’t touched needle to Figgy Pudding yet. Like I said, I’m concentrating on that sweater. That Figgy Pudding yarn is staring me down. I don’t know how much longer I can hold out.
My regular morning helper wasn’t very helpful this morning.
KeanaLee March 24
UGH! I had insomnia the last two months of this pregnancy, it was horrible. I totally understand. Feel better. I am about to CO your pattern Illusions, wish me luck, as I have never done a sock with a pattern through it like this……
~Kristie March 24
What a great plan to get out of attending church. I wasn’t so lucky. Stayed up until 2am and got up at 6am to be in Lake Elsinore in time. I remember at one point during one of the 5 prayers, that I started to feel myself cross that barrier into what I call the “fuzzy zone” that takes you to sleep-land. I had to open my eyes immediately or I would’ve been asleep.
Emerald is zipping right along. Wow. I can’t wait to see it tonight.
Suzanne March 24
I haven’t slept all the way through the night in about 3 years. After a few dr’s and multiple tests, I still don’t know what it is. The neurologist decided it was carple tunnel related even after I passed all sorts of tests. She thought it may be a nerve in my neck that I am sleeping strange on. Who knows. I consider it a good night if I don’t wake up till after 3am. The worst nights are the ones where I wake up at 12:50 after going to bed at 11 and I feel like it should be morning.
I love the color of the sweater.
Karen March 24
Oh sure, using insomnia to get out of going to church!! LOL Seriously though, I’m so glad you were finally able to get some good rest - it can’t be easy to try to function on so little sleep, and then it must be so frustrating to go to bed and not be able to get some rest.
Your sweater looks gorgeous. And it looks like your little helper is catching up on some sleep too!!
charlie mcgee March 25
Sorry you are not getting a lot of sleep. When that happens to me I ask my what are you worried or uptight about. Once I answer that and find answer to it I have no problem sleep. I think we all go through that at one time or another. Sorry you missed church. There is next Sunday to make you for it.:)
KarenJoSeattle March 25
I’m running on less than 4 hours sleep today, but that’s because we have movers and I stayed up late getting ready then the cats got me up an hour early.
I’ve had irregular sleep patterns since high school, and the occasional insomnia, but things got much worse when I hit my 50s and full-blown perimenopause. Sleep disturbance is one of the ’symptoms.’ My issue is often going to sleep in the first place.
Glad you got caught up. And I’m amazed you can knit cables and the like with that little sleep. I resort to my basic, no attention span projects on such days.
knitography March 26
Lovely sweater! The raglan treatment really is very pretty. I’ve been thinking for quite a while about knitting a sweater with cabling at the raglan seam, so this is extra motivation to actually do it.