It's 04:45 on Sunday morning and I've been awake for some time now. Still lying in the dark typing this as it doesn't seem "right" to get out of bed quite yet! I enjoy my bed and sleeping but for whatever reason for the last month or so, I've been waking up around 5am. Not sure why I've woken up so early this morning and why I'm so wide awake. But least I know, being a Sunday, if I do manage to fall back asleep, I am able to snooze late. Do resent waking up really early when I have to go to work. I know that as you get older, the theory is you need less sleep. I'm getting older (aren't we all!) but hope I can go back to sleeping properly.
Strange to be lying here thinking of how many people are still in the land of nod and that there are probably a relatively few people who are having to get up to go to work.
I really do like the stillness of early morning and dawn. Has a different feel to it compared to late evening time. As a child in South Africa, whenever we went on holiday, we'd always be woken really early in the mornings, pile into the car and start our long journey to wherever. As we'd go through towns, I'd be fascinated to see which houses had lights on. And if they did, what they'd be up to. My imagination obviously being limited as I was very, very young!! 
Well, I'm starting to yawn, so I'll end my early morning rambling and see if I can get back to sleep.....
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2008-03-09 @ 07:52