And here's my daily check-in.

I probably slept a little more last night, and today was a pretty good day. What happened was that I fell asleep fairly quickly, then woke up in a state of anxiety, but then got back to sleep, but then woke up...I have no idea how much actual sleep I got, but I haven't been too tired to get a lot done.

Someone asked a while back if I knew what caused the sleep problems.. I think it's pure and simple a brain chemistry problem. My father and brother had sleep problems too. With me, I can be cruising along having a pretty good life and decent sleep, with nothing going wrong in my life, and then one night I will wake up at like 3 am, jumping to a sitting position and in a state of panic. And then a string of sleepless nights follows, or no sleep one or 2 nights and then good sleep the next. This is one of the reasons it's easy to believe the bipolar diagnosis, because I researched this weird sleep pattern and some reputable source I can't remember said that this was characteristic of bipolar.

Anyway, back to today... the detailed schedule may be doing me a lot of good. I have something listed for every half hour, or a few things have an hour scheduled, and it's mildly challenging to get it all done, but I tend to rise to a challenge, so there's not much time to sit around worrying. It makes me tired too, which may help with the sleep. Today will be the first day I got EVERY. THING. DONE. !!!

Reading and replying to this website is set for 7 to 8 pm. See you then if I can stay with it. (I'm running a little late today but the last things are easy and can be shortened, like reading a book, and I scheduled several catch-up half hours, one coming soon, so I'll finish. )