It’s chillier outside today. It’s sunnier though after several day of clouds and it always looks nice to see the light in the trees. I didn’t stay outside very long when I took this. I’m still pretty tired and I need to go to class tonight. Something I’ve found helpful if you’re needing to guarantee you get a good nap is to put on a podcast while resting in bed. If music is playing I won’t fall asleep, especially if I know the songs that are playing.

I’ve kind of described it like your brain latches on to the song that it knows. It stays awake because it knows what it is listening to and what comes next. But when it is voices talking in the background, even if you’re interested in the topic at hand, it doesn’t matter because there’s nothing predictable for your brain to latch on to. That can’t be completely it though because even if it is a song that you don’t know you can still have a hard time falling asleep.

Josh came in and showed me a picture of his dad and asked me if he looked like that. In the picture his dad was only about a year or two older than we are now. We’ve always kind of thought his dad looked older, but some of that is just because he is the dad. I didn’t think it looked like him. But the other day he looked into the living room window while out on his walk and I said, “Oh my gosh, you just like your dad.” He did that time.