Daylight & Dark

So I've been sleeping like crap lately. I wake up during the night sometimes and it's hard to fall back to sleep, or I just don't feel like I sleep soundly. Sometimes I just have projects on my mind and I can't seem to turn it off in order to go to sleep. We have a sound machine and that works great, but I recently started having more sleep issues. The other night I discovered the source of my problem. We got new windows and had to change our window treatments, so I no longer have the wooden blinds in my room. I made some curtains, which I like aesthetically, but they are not lined yet. That has become a priority now. We have this street light across the street and it stays perpetually "dusky" in our room at night. I gotta have it dark, so last night in an effort to sleep better I hung a beach towel over the curtain rod to create a more cave like feel. Aaahh, better sleep at last. Between that and the sound machine rain and the real rain, I slept like a normal human. I still feel a little sleep deprived, but I'm sure that I will catch up now that I have seemingly found the major source of my sleeplessness.