{"id":1054,"date":"2005-03-28T00:54:50","date_gmt":"2005-03-28T04:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/28\/well-this-always-makes-for-a-nice-monday-morning\/"},"modified":"2007-07-29T11:43:37","modified_gmt":"2007-07-29T15:43:37","slug":"well-this-always-makes-for-a-nice-monday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/28\/well-this-always-makes-for-a-nice-monday-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Well this always makes for a nice Monday morning…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’ve had insomnia all weekend, which is always an interesting change of pace. Last night (Saturday night), I fell asleep at about 4:30 in the morning. Woke up this morning at 10, and intentionally didn’t take any sorts of naps today, so that I’d have a chance in hell of falling asleep at a reasonable hour. Yet, here I am, writing blog entries about not being asleep.<\/p>\n

Vicious cycle? just a bit.<\/p>\n

I think part of my problem is my apartment layout – I live in a loft studio, so I have to climb up a narrow staircase (almost a ladder) to get to my bed. And I won’t go up there until I am absolutely, positively<\/em> ready to go to sleep. And since I’m a stubborn, stubborn person, I pretty much have to be ready to collapse before I realize that it’s the middle of the night.<\/p>\n

Hopefully this situation will change soon, as I’m getting significantly closer to buying a 1-bedroom apartment. I’m scheduled to sign a contract at the end of this week (or next Monday at the outside), and close around the end of April. Of course, there’s a few months of renovations to do (as it has been pointed out, the electrical is so old, that you can’t keep the lights on and blow dry your hair without blowing a circuit, so my computing habits would likely burn the building down without an overhaul), but I’ll definitely be moving to the Upper West Side by the time my current lease ends in August (I’m just ignoring the fact that I’ll be paying both my rent and a mortgage for a few months – no new shoes for me!). And for now, I’m spending my insomniacal hours obsessively figuring out where all of my furniture is going to go (Oh, the other part of the story is that I’m actually buying the apartment that my stepmother has lived in for 27 years – I’ve mentioned before that she and my dad are upgrading, and while they got the benefit of rent stabilization, I’m getting the benefit of their insider status, since their building went condo in 2001). I’m just about done figuring out the dimensions of every piece of furniture that I own.<\/p>\n

One thing that’ll make the renovations easier – the contractors who have been pretty much living in the ‘rents’ new place will be done just around the time I close, so dad’s going to send them 5 blocks north to take care of things. It won’t be cheap, but at least we know they’re reliable. And yes, I’ll be living 5 blocks from my folks. Which should be interesting (to say the least).<\/p>\n

And with that ramble, I’m going to climb up to sleep…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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