@Blue_Bird My cat Pecan wakes me most mornings to feed her by jumping and walking all over me. She is unfortunately an alarm clock I cannot set, so sometimes I'm up at 3 or 4 AM because of her.

@Scooter9 I have a problem with overthinking things as well. Sometimes I'll step back and think...remember, it's genetics too, but why me and not my 2 sisters? Maybe it's also to do with birth order, being the firstborn. And then heap on all the PTSD stuff along with horrible anxiety stemming back to when I was at least 4 or 5, a bad home environment, etc., etc.

I woke early this morning, around 4 AM and my cat didn't even wake me, I was just up, so around 4:20 AM I finally just got out of bed. I took a power walk, showered, read with the SAD lamp, finished my book, started another. I refilled meds (now the days are off because I refilled all the pills early when H was going on his work trip a couple weeks ago). Drawing was very frustrating this morning, nothing seemed to turn out, maybe it was too little sleep? Pretty soon I'll make lunch for myself and my daughter, have a low-key afternoon.

My mood is pretty good at least, but I am really hating the way my cycle is treating me in perimenopause. I got super nauseous this morning (I know it's ovulation time, that always makes me queasy.) I couldn't eat breakfast until I took a prn Zofran (gynecologist prescribes that one) and it kicked in. I'm so ready to be done with cycles and periods!