I woke up in the dark and drove to the store with the car lights on and I felt fine. 

I've been a night person for as long as I can remember. But over the last few years, I've found myself wanting to go to bed earlier than my standard 12:30, but every time I did it I'd wake up in the middle of the night and not be able to fall back to sleep.

This summer, business was so strong that it simply became impossible to put away books while customers were in the store. I started going in early, before opening, but I was only getting a few hours of sleep. So I set out to change my schedule.

It took over two months, but I think I'm finally there. I went to sleep at 10:00 last night, but 11:00 is fine too. I usually wake up at least once, but I've learned to just wait to fall back to sleep, which seems to happen if I don't panic. 

I'm going to keep up this new schedule if I can. There will be another challenge when the hours fall back in November, but I'm going to take whatever time it takes to get used to that schedule as well.