Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Good energy flowing in from the South-West, take heed.

I've been sleeping sooo restlessly these past couple of days. I can't stand not being able to lie down and automatically fall asleep. How do other people do it? Maybe I need a new bed time ritual. Maybe I just need a new bed. I'm thinking the latter.

I've never been a normal sleeper, I don't think. I move around A LOT!!! People have told me that they feel sorry for my husband when I finally do get married. I don't blame them; I feel sorry for my poor future husband. I've always looked at the whole Lucy/Ricky relationship as ideal (I mean it!) They are totally loving husband and wife, but they get their own beds! How awesome is that? I'm sure there were some nights that they pushed them together. They had a kid for goodness sake. But honestly, I've always considered that as being the perfect solution for my married life. Is that sad?

I'm not sure what position I tend to stay in sleeping. I feel that I am 70% side sleeper. But it's more of a twisty pretzel side sleep; hard to explain. But then there are nights where stomach sleeping is delightful or I need to be on my back. Pillows under my head, pillows under my legs, no pillows at all. It's kind of ridiculous sometimes the amount of positions I try before I can fall asleep. And then, I guess I keep trying to get comfortable throughout the night because I move sooo much. Slightly annoying (and that's me thinking that, could you imagine what my husband would say? It would probably be more than slightly). I thought that I would grow out of it, because that is what people said, so that by the time I was ready to get married I wouldn't get my husband out of bed (on accident). By this rate of growing out of it I won't get married until I'm 50. Forreal.

Then there is the whole trouble of directions. I feel that my body has this weird inner compass that only lets me sleep when my head is pointing the right way. Whether it's north, south, east or west. I'm not joking. This is a serious problem. Lately I've been sleeping with my head going South East, but last night I could not fall asleep for the life of me. I thought it was because I was sick so I got up and took some medicine and went back to bed. At this point my internal compass took over my body and laid me down with my head going South West (more west than south though). I fell instantly asleep. You may think it was the drugs. Hah! You would be wrong! It was totally my body needing to be pointing another way. I slept pretty good for the few hours of sleep after that.

The way I sleep is definitely interesting, there's no doubt about it. It's annoying and frustrating trying to figure out what my body wants to do, but I have been getting better at figuring it out closer to the start of the bedtime routine. It may be because I've been sick that I've been totally off my game. Let's hope that's it. I've become okay that I'm an abnormal sleeper and it may be my claim to fame one day? Okay, I guess I can't go that far, but it's all good.

My poor husband though... :/

8 comments:

J. Frankenstein Lutes said...

Your future husband would be the luckiest man in the world even if you lost all control of your bowels every night. That is how awesome Ashleigh Lutes is everybody.

Also, you might find it easier to sleep if you went to bed earlier and got up earlier. I mean, twelve-eleven is rather late.

Erin said...

I was just thinking the same thing the other night. I was laying in bed and was so happy I could spread out and sleep on the diagonal! I thought if I ever do get married the perfect arrangement would be separate beds. Sad? I don't think sooo!

Heather said...

I concur with JFLutes. It would be easier to sleep if you went to bed earlier and got up earlier. Especially if it was on a consistent basis. I could wake you up every morning before I went to work! :)

Grandma Bonnie said...

And I think you are practically perfect!!!! Okay, I do not want to be your bed partner--once was enough!

Elizabeth Peterson said...

I love you, weird sleeping habits and all!

Anonymous said...

You should go to bed earlier...

Emily said...

Ummm...early to bed, early to rise makes Ashleigh healthy, wealthy & wise. You should try. Ok I should try it too for that matter! But please do not inform me if you lose control of your bowels every night. That is way TMI! But I would still love you all the same.

Zobell said...

That paragraph on Lucy/Ricky made me laugh a lot. And miss you.