The Wonderful World of Sleep

Sleep -

Seems like it should be a simple enough thing to deal with. I mean, how tough can it be? You're tired, you go to bed. You sleep. You wake up. You get out of bed and go on with life. Easy! Right?

Please...Nothing could be further from the truth...

For the last few months, I've been noticing and increasing amount of stress stemming from the subject of sleep: when to sleep; when not to sleep; how much sleep is enough sleep? how much sleep is too much? Of course, I've really got no one to blame for this dilemma but myself. After all, here I sit, a 29 year-old borderline insomniac (who prefers early mornings to late nights) having just taken a job with split shifts that run until 3am on weekends with a beautiful pregnant wife who would LOVE to sleep AT LEAST 18 hours a day and a 18 month-old who, well, I think the following picture taken during what was supposed to be nap time a few days ago pretty well sums up his feelings about sleep.