Blog-lite

In lieu of doing something productive, like unloading my dishwasher or getting ready for work:

6 WEIRD THINGS THAT I DO WHILE GETTING READY TO SLEEP OR WHILE SLEEPING
(Inspired by my two readers, Sal and Christina.)

1. I usually wash my face with Clinique facial soap and use Nivea toner, then a little moisturizer. I recently started noticing that I have fine lines at the ripe old age of 24, so the routine is becoming a bit more regular because of my narcissicm. And of course, brush the teeth, rinse with ACT, floss when I remember. I don't really think any of this is that weird, but I had trouble coming up with six things.

2. I can only sleep if I'm covered up. Even if it's 100 degrees, I have to have a sheet pulled up to my ears to fall asleep. Once I'm asleep, I usually kick the covers halfway across the room during the night.

3. I don't remember ever talking in my sleep, but people have told me I do. My sister claims I once swore at her while sleeping, when I was much to young to even know swear words. In college, my freshman year roommate told me I woke up late one night when she was working on her computer, stared at her and said in a strange voice, "You can turn off the Christmas lights now." Another night, she told me I kept saying, "It's in the corner! It's in the corner!" I think I may have scared her a little. :)

4. I usually have trouble falling asleep for various reasons, but once I'm finally asleep, I'm almost always dead to the world. (Christina -- I think I might even be able to sleep through a German marching band outside my window at 4:30 a.m.) I'm hoping this will change when I have children... or maybe not. My mother has super-sonic hearing capabilities, but I don't think she ever truly sleeps, which can't be fun.

5. When I was a child, I had several recurring dreams, and objects in one dream (including a trash can outside my elementary school) would reappear in different dreams. Many years later, the dreams still don't make sense.

6. In college, the aforementioned roommate and I had wildly different sleeping patterns, and I took to sleeping with a pillow over my head. I still do it sometimes. My fiance thinks it's strange, until I told him about this. Ick.

See? Not that weird! :) OK, maybe the last one.

Blog-lite will likely continue for the next couple months. Wedding planning is like a part-time job, especially for someone as particular (not picky!) as me. Right now we are moving into DEFCON 3 with the invitations, which WILL be mailed by Saturday. The fiance and I spent a couple hours last night stuffing them. He kind of rolled his eyes when I told him to make sure the text on the map and on the response envelope are facing the same direction. I don't think he shares my vision! Good thing we love each other, in spite of it all.

We have a guest room full of delightful gifts from two bridal showers that friends and family have given me, so the next order of business is cleaning all the hand-me-down pots, pans, and dishes out of the cupboards to make room for the shiny new stuff.

Anyway, I know none of this is particularly exciting to anyone but me and maybe my mother. :) Now you see why blog-lite is probably a good idea, at least until I have some lovely wedding and honeymoon photos to share!