While the world slumbers...

So I read an article the other day about how night owls are more intelligent than people who tend to go to bed "on time." Now, whether or not that actually has any merit, it got me thinking.For as long as I can remember, I have always been a night owl. And more recently I have been embracing my night owl. Probably not to do anything constructive, but hey, who said staying up all night to binge watch a season of American Horror Story on Netflix isn't productive? But I don't just stream Netflix all night when I'm feeling like an insomniac. In fact, I spend a lot of brain power sorting out my life, or at least pretending to. So here is a list of things I think about at night, in no particular order or importance.

• Calculating how long it's going to take me to be debt free. This includes doing meticulous math equations on my phone's calculator and being a little bit imaginative about my budget.
• Wondering what my life would be like if I didn't have two dogs and a cat. And how I'm going to handle my life when they die, and oh boy, here comes the waterworks. *sobs quietly in pillow*
• Wondering why everyone I seem to know is getting married or having babies or getting divorced. I'm just over here like, oh hi, I cuddle with my dogs and watch horror movies on Netflix by myself.
• Simultaneously being grateful and terrified that I'm not in a relationship. To quote the very dashing Hunter Hayes, "everybody has somebody but me."
• Seriously entertaining the idea that the plot of "13 Sins" is actually reality. But what if there really are people who actually just control everyone and everything???
• What would happen if I quit my job and just up and moved to a new place, somewhere else in the world.
• Obsessing over my next tattoo. Let's be real, my next 10 tattoos.
• Contemplating what happiness is and what my happiness is. Sometimes my brain decides to be all deep and philosophical and stuff.
• Calculating the amount of sleep I get if I go to sleep at a certain time and how long I can afford to sleep in before I'm almost late to work.

Now I know you read that and decided that I'm kind of insane. Well...you're right. I am. But that's okay. I embrace my crazy.