A sheep called Ambien.

I am sleep challenged. My past is peppered with bouts of insomnia and I have tried, at one time or another, every known sleep inducing technique. I don't stress about it much any more. Most nights, I stay up late watching "tivo'd" TV and knitting and luckily, I can function pretty well, most days, on only five or six hours. Last night, I tossed and turned for about an hour, and when sleep did not come, I decided to turn the light back on and start my new cardigan. Sounded easy enough: Cast on 70 stitches and work in K2P2 rib for 1.5 inches. So that's what I did. I cast on until I thought I was close, stopped and counted. Pretty good, 64 stitches. 64. 65. 66. 67.68. 69. 70. Ok. now I'd better check before I start the ribbing. So I counted again. 69 stitches. Ok. Add a stitch, count again. 70!!! Happily I am on to the ribbing and sleepily, I get to the end of the row and shit!!: P2,K2,P2...k1????  How does that happen?  I'd like to say it's because it's 1:00 in the morning, but I swear, this happens to me all the time. So, I am now sleep deprived and counting impaired.

And if it wasn't 1:00 in the morning, I might have started over. But at 1:00 in the morning, it's perfecty o.k. to just increase in the last stitch, and call it a night. Perhaps I should stick to counting sheep after all.

Comments

[scribblesnbits]

I do that, too and I can't figure out how. It'll happen when I'm not even doing anything that would distract me. I suppose there's a perfectly logical explanation, like gremlins stealing a stitch at a time to make a matching sock for the one that they stole from the dryer.

[Carrie K]

I can't count either and it's maddening. Even when a pattern is in what you might think of as perfectly reasonable 12 stitch blocks, I drop and add stitches with wild abandon.

Pretty colors!

[Chris]

It looks fine at least!! :)

I'm a member of the Poor Sleepers Club, too. When I started to drive through red lights, my doctor strongly suggested medication. Bless Trazadone and Elavil...

[Melissa]

If your insomnia is that bad, you should try acupuncture. It works really well!! I was just having some insomnia for a couple weeks, and I finally put just a couple needles in my ears, and then I slept like a baby that night. Acupuncture needles are a LOT better than nasty medications!!

[Allegra]

Sorry to hear you have insomnia. I have been having it off and on for the past five years....I will pass out easily when I got to bed, but then i'm wide awake from like 2:30-6 or 6:30am.......got to the point that I am not productive and cannot function well and am highly emotional. Broke down and got some sleeping pills, but even 1/2 a pill makes it really hard to wake up in the morning. Glad to hear from another commenter that acupuncture works. I've used it for other problems, but will give this a try. I hate taking drugs...but at the same time, i'm glad to know i have something just in case.....
Oh, BTW, nice blog!!!!!