Sleep or the Lack Thereof

Sleep, such an elusive thing.  I don't know how many people have this problem but I don't always fall asleep when I want to.  I always wake up at the same time every morning, no matter what time I went to bed, or went to sleep I should say.  But here's how it goes for me, not always (Thank God) but sometimes.  Now I lay me down to sleep...but I am still awake!  My mind begins thinking about various things like what am I going to do tomorrow, what do I need to do tomorrow, what do I want to do tomorrow and so on.  I may think of what I said or did that day.  I may think of trivial things like how do you spell "gray" or "grey"? My sister-in-law was married to an artist and years ago was the first time I heard of the color "ecru."  It seemed to be an important matter at the time, getting it right.  I for some reason only knew "tan" or "beige."  Things I called "blue" might have been "green" and "purple" to me might have been "lavendar" or "lilac."  Then I could start thinking about Jennifer Aniston and whether she is pregnant or not and then by gosh who got her pregnant, I haven't kept up with this!  After Vince I lost track.  But back to sleep effort, I may fall asleep eventually, surely after I reach boredom stage.  But what wicked thing should happen a few hours later?  Snoring?  My husband's?  Mine?  Oh, my God.  Then another thing that concerns me when I can't fall asleep is the position I'm laying.  First, when I lay down I like to lay on my side facing the middle of the bed.  I can't always do this because somebody else is facing that way and I can't be breathing that close to anyone.  So I turn over to the other side facing the edge.  Then if I can't sleep, I start wondering what to do with my arm that I am laying on, I put it under my pillow or down at my side sometimes, it seems to get in the way and I start thinking maybe our arms should be detachable at night so they wouldn't get in the way.  Sometimes I get pins and needles from sleeping on my arm.  I think laying on my back is not a good position for snoring (if it occurs by me, I really don't know, haven't been told that yet).  Laying on the stomach is way too uncomfortable for several reasons.  First, the head and neck don't agree with smooshing into the pillow and second, the chest area gets smashed, not good.  I'm a mostly a side sleeper.  So I get too hot and stick one leg out, I get too cold and move it back in.  We have a down comforter and pillows which work pretty good.  When you first lay down, it is like heaven, but can change to a much warmer place quickly if the body heat gets trapped.  Then there could be another trouble that occurs depending on what I ate before I went to bed.  A quick trip is made to the bathroom, I always look at the clock to see what time it is and then I can tell how long that took.  Oh what misery!  Should not have eaten that crab wonton before I went to bed!  Then what happens?  Morning, dawn's early light.  Mercies are new every morning and I think I could use some mercy.  :D

Sooners Lose to Mountaineers

Oklahoma Sooners lose to West Virginia Mountaineers at the Fiesta Bowl.  48-28.  But I must say that West Virginia wanted to win very badly and played great.  Oklahoma didn't seem to show up.  They were better after the second half but the Mountaineers were too fast.  

My husband went to bed before the end of the game, probably the last two or three minutes.  So this morning before he was leaving for work and said goodbye to me I said to him, "oh you missed it, Oklahoma won!"  He said increduously, "They did?!"  I said, "No," while laughing.  He said, "You planned that all night, didn't you?"  I said, "No, I just thought of it."  And I did.  Sorry.  I don't usually do that but I couldn't resist.  I guess I could have just said, "Oh you missed it."

Pun intended!  

Wordless Wednesday-If a Picture Paints a Thousand Words

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If

I was so in love with this song when I was young.

New Years Day

Happy New Year's!

The Road of Life

It goes in both directions. 


It takes you along for the ride.


It is a wonderful trip.  Happy New Year 2008!

Fun Monday

Peter is our host with the most this week.
Here are his instructions for FUN:

I want you to tell us your favorite joke and/or show us
your favorite cartoon, don’t worry if there is some
duplication that just means more than one person
found it funny.
So come on and regale us with your best joke and/or
cartoon, remember its New Years Eve and we feel
like a good laugh, before 2008 comes along and does its thing on us.

PS, I've left myself too much time to think about this..... we all have
more than one favorite, Right!! hit us with your best selection!!!!!

This appeared in our newspaper under "Reasons Not to Mess with Children."

A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales.

The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale

to swallow a human because even though it was a very

large mammal its throat was very small.  The little girl

stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale.  Irritated,

the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a

human; it was physically impossible.  The little girl said,

"When I get to Heaven I will ask Jonah."  The teacher asked,

"What if Jonah went to hell?"  The little girl replied, "Then

you ask him."

Contest over on Laughing Always Helps

There is a new contest over at Kelly Jean's Laughing Always Helps blog. If you want to enter and win this planner, go over and check out the rules. You just need to come up with a funny story and post it in her comments section.  Hurry to enter by 10 pm Jan. 1, 2008.

Weekly Winners Sunday Meme

Litsy, the hairstylist.....

See more Weekly Winner photos at Lotus'.

Pioneer Woman

Here's Ree.....

A Major Award

You know how much I like the word "fragile" and this award is very "fra-gi-le."  It came packed in a big, big box with lots of paper.  I could even get inside the box!  And so could my cat.  My new blogger friend Kitten decided to bestow this honor upon me.  What a great Christmas time treat.  We watch this movie continuously on Christmas Day. 

I am passing this award to:

Jeanette-she's on the net

KellyJean-she always makes me laugh

Deborah-she has the best recipes 

Go forth and celebrate!  You've won a major award!

Wordless Wednesday-"My Baby Shoe"

1957

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Pensieve's Poetic License-December

The theme for December's poetry is Cinquain-Celebration! Come and join Pensieve's Poetic License this month.  Here is my attempt:

We Are

Humans

Pale, frail

Being, breathing, living

Going through the motions

Fragile.

Weekly Winners Sunday Meme

Lotus has moved herself to Wordpress and taken Weekly Winners along

for the ride. I followed her instructions on creating her buttons on my

page and I am happy to say it worked.

Here are some pictures to enjoy from this cold past week:

The Cattle are Lowing

Pretty Christmas card.

The second snow.

Ziggy

I wish this didn't have to be true for anyone....

The Nativity and

Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World

Have a bright blessed day....

What a Wonderful World

I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people going by
I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do
They're really saying I love you.

I hear babies crying, I watch them grow
They'll learn much more than I'll never know
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
Yes I think to myself what a wonderful world.

Wordless Wednesday-"Christ"mas