With Claire being gone the past couple of weeks I’ve gotten back into a habit of mine (I’ll leave the judgement of good or bad to you) where I take up an inordinate amount of space on the bed. After mentioning this on my last post I was asked why guys like to do this. For me the answer is simple, I spent roughly 20 years of my life getting the bed to myself, jumbling the covers however feels comfortable at the moment, deciding to get up on whichever side happens to be closer when I wake up and so on. Then, while I was in high school my parents bought a queen sized bed for me, the idea being that it would be the bed I took with me when I moved away (they were apparently looking forward to this time). So I soon adjusted from my twin sized bed to the majesty of a queen, and it was wonderful.

 So to make a short story longer, it was odd adjusting to having someone else asleep in the same bed, especially someone who sleeps lightly and apparently doesn’t like being hit across the face with a flailing limb in the middle of the night. So those few times a year when she’s away I get to go back to being a bed hog and not worrying about anyone’s comfort but my own.

To any nay-sayers please try this, kick whoever is sharing your bed out to the couch for a night, arrange the pillows so your favorite is dead center to the bed, with a standby or two on whichever side you may want to roll over to (no use waking up enough to drag your pillow over, you have the whole bed). Make sure the sheets and blankets are all as loosely or tightly tucked as you like and that everything about the bedroom meets your personal approval (temperature, light, where the clock is, everything). Just see if you don’t have a great nights sleep.