SNS

Sunday Night Syndrome

I was suffering from SNS last night. It's a very real condition that I've experienced since I was a kid. I settle down in bed, trying to get a good night's sleep for a jump on the week. Even though all of the conditions may appear to be in order for sleeping, that's when you start trying to solve the world's problems. I start thinking about what I've got to do at work that week, how I need to get my car inspected, I start running through my grocery shopping list. The internal struggle starts...I KNOW I need to relax and sleep. I try to let the sleep kick in...but then I'm tossing and can't find a comfortable position. And it creeps back in. I need to return phone calls to a few people, I have to stop in at the dry cleaner's this week, will i go to that happy hour on thursday, what should I cook for dinner tomorrow?

When I was a kid, instead of trying to fight it, I would just get up and run and around and rile my parents up on Sunday nights (trying to prolong the weekend as much as possible). My mom would be so mad...she would just be falling asleep and I would run and do a flying leap onto the bed. Ok, I did this well into adulthood too. She helped come up with the name for this disorder, and I can't help but think of her on Sundays when I can't easily fall asleep and have to say goodbye to the weekend.