Is sleep too much to ask for? Or at least darkness??

3:45 A.M. and I’m wide-awake. I don’t know how I was ever able to live in this country and actually function with this little sleep. It’s bright outside again. Note to self- buy an eye mask to sleep in.  You’d think with where I live this would have been done sooner in Atlanta, but it’s so easy to pull black covers over my head and sleep with city lights, because at least the sky is semi dark. But no, in Finland the sky is always blue and the trees in my back yard aren’t quite close enough to the house to give me shade. Even the blinds are white, so at night they’re just blocking direct sunlight but you can see it through the cracks. The curtains are white too. Everything in Finland is white, white, WHITE. It’s the Scandinavian way. Everything is white, blue or birch colored. Look at our flag for crying out loud. Blue cross (to represent the blue sky) on a WHITE background. Oh, and we’re surrounded by birch trees. Quite the nature type we are.