Small Stuff

After a week of not sleeping, or rather, a week of instead of falling straight to sleep as soon as head hits pillow, I lie there for two hours each night, having lengthy debates with myself about the state of my life, before eventually falling to sleep, two hours later.  By last night, I worked out that I was missing a solid 8 hours of sleep from just four nights.  I'm off work today, and so last night, I had half of a herbal sleeping tablet then I dissolved into my pillow, only to awake 9.5 hours later.

Today is the first day of the year that you can actually feel heat in the sunshine, yes, we actually have sunshine, although it is June tomorrow for heaven's sake, it really is about time.  Apparently, this has been the coldest Spring in 50 years.  I am so ready for June to arrive.

So you know how they tell you to "don't sweat the small stuff"?  Well, I try not to, to a degree, which, coming from a reformed "hot head," (I'm a fire sign, what can I say?)  It takes a considerable amount of spirituality and enforced calm, still,  after months of ironing my newest pillowcases, the ones were the makers apparently couldn't get the seams to line up which makes ironing them torturous.  Well, I couldn't face the fact that these infuriating imperfections, were the best that I had and so after weeks, months of torture, I headed out to a well known department store and purchased some not unreasonably priced, non-iron, white, Oxford pillow cases.

And so, I got home, I washed them and as I stood, ironing the non-iron pillowcases to get the creases out, they looked good, all seams where they should be, I feel calmer already.

Don't sweat the small stuff, but sometimes, it's just easier to buy new pillowcases x