I don't know if it's a personality quirk, a survival mechanism, or a symptom of the fact that I spend so much time living in my head, but wherever I go, there I am and I just accept the parameters of it. I'm insensitive to being uncomfortable. Sometimes, J comes home from work and complains that the house is freezing, and I suddenly realize I can barely feel my fingers and my teeth are actually chattering, but it hasn't occurred to me to turn up the heat or put on an extra sweater. When I'm sick, I have a hard time recognizing that I'm sick - I'll carry on like everything is fine until I … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2010
I Suck At Sleeping
I've never been a good sleeper. It is not one of my special talents. Dog snoring and husband sleep talking (and once sleep truck driving) doesn't help that much either. A few months ago, in the middle of the night, J nudged me awake, laughed and said, "That's so typical of night," in his sleep talking voice. "You're sleeping!" I said, hoping to fall asleep again before I shifted into wide awake. "But it's so typical of night," he said. "No, it's not!" I said. "Go back to sleep!" "It's not? It's not typical of night?" He was annoyed. "It's NOT typical of night?" "Fine," I … [Read more...]
Things that make me happy
I think I've got a little case of the winters. We had a little thaw out time and I jogged outside with the dogs and got to leave the house without six layers of clothing and it was awesome. Then it got crazy cold and we got more snow. That little reminder of what life is like in other seasons made it all the harder to go back to winter. So, instead of bumming you out with a long list of little nitpicky things that have been getting on my sunlight-deprived nerves, I'm going to give you a list of things that have been making me smile. My dogs having a blast playing together in the back … [Read more...]