Wow, Clive, I could've written your first paragraph! Same here. Every stressful thing just swirls up in my head as soon as I wake up. Bleh on that! Nights tend to be totally one way or the other... morose or fairly contented. No telling which!

Last night I got really busy with an art piece. Had all the tools and materials out, lol! (Had to put some away today as there's no room to work at this point. ) It's a very dark piece, but even though I am in constant reflection of what I'm trying to say and how every nuance contributes, I'm so in my element and engrossed in doing it that it actually doesn't get me down. Weird, but true. Hehe, usually get so involved I end up getting blisters, wounds and filthy hands and don't even notice. Wish I could spend all my time doing art, but truth is, it comes and goes. Either I'm off to the races with it, or doing nothing for long stretches (even as the things are happening that later are distilled into pieces, they do not happen then.)

Today has been pretty good, a little lazy, but that's ok. Working a bit more on it, listening to music, will do a little cooking, maybe watch some Sherlock Holmes... and hopefully again tonight work more on it (very messy part coming up...) to keep the otherwise almost inevitable loneliness at bay...