Mistake #1
Going to bed too early. After an exhausting week, I wanted to read in bed at 9PM. Of course, after a few pages, I fell asleep, as did my partner. We woke an hour later. It was maybe 10 o’clock at night.
Mistake #2
Not admitting that we were awake. That way, we could get up, make coffee, and watch movies snuggled with the dogs in the living room all night. No, we tried to go back to sleep. You may remember that every night is movie night at my house. After listening to an hour and a half of the worst Doris Day movie, “By the Light of the Silvery Moon,” I gave up, put on my glasses, and watched the last ½ hour of ice skating while generation-wide and family-wide misunderstandings were cleared up in time for the happy slay ride to “The End.” It was painful.
Mistake #3
Dogs in bed. The dogs have taken to sleeping with me. Not my partner, but me. The other side of the bed is free for arms and legs to stretch and move from one side to the back and to the other side without encumbrances. The dogs want to sleep with their mum. I have a dog at my head--on a pillow mind you--having dreams of chasing evil squirrels. She dream barks and dream runs all night. The other dog is at my feet stretched out lengthwise not vertical so I have to curl into a ball on the edge of the bed.
This is not pretty and I'm not making those mistakes again. At least not numbers one and two.
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