sleep deprived
kelly | 28 August 2007 - 5:43pm
Despite the extra space available for leg stretching and arm draping, I don't sleep well when I'm in bed alone. Rob and I have only spent two nights apart in the five years we've been married. But occasionally he gets home very late or, like today, has to be at work in the wee hours of the morning. And I toss and turn. It's always this way.
I must miss him subconsciously. Because when I do get a good stretch of sleep without him, I wake up to find that I've been sleeping on his pillow.
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Aww, that's really sweet, Kelly. You and Rob sound like such a cute couple!
Cool like the otherside of someone else's pillow.
That's sweet, but...only two nights apart in five years!? You are definitely in need of a girls' trip!
Hopefully you're not drooling on it.
I'm the same way, which probably explains why I'm tired all day, but get some crazy energy that still keeps me up till after midnight. I don't know how I'm going to survive till March on this schedule.
i sleep horribly when my husband travels for work. i go to bed too late, sleep lightly and hear everything, i'm a mess. just in time for his return, where i promptly go to bed early because once he's home i can rest again.
i, too, do not like sleeping when my husband is not home. he doesn't need to be laying next to me, but if he's not there somewhere, i have a very heightened awareness that i am alone and i don't like it.
however, two things disturbed me about this post. #1- what the heck is rob getting up at the wee hours of the morning for? and when you say "wee hours", do you mean like 5 am- like SOME OF US have to awake every single goshdarn morning?! or do you mean, like 3 in the morning- in which, again, I would have to ask- why the heck is rob getting up so early for his job???
also, TWO NIGHTS apart??!!! in FIVE years??? how can this even be physically possible??? do you never go anywhere without each other??!! the fact that your two lives have only pulled you apart twice in five years blows my mind. especially since i'm calculating in my head, and B & I probably average a night apart every month.
whoa.
wasn't one of the nights apart when you had that girls' night with ieatcrayonz? assuming that was only your second night away from one another, that must've felt weird being away from him! wow. y'all are incredibly sweet. but i totally got that after meeting y'all. :)
Aw, thanks, Jen.
Indeed, William. :)
Actually, Ern, I don't do girls' trips. Because being in a group of girls annoys me. I'd rather see my friends one-on-one, or in twos at the most. And even then, day trips are fine. No need for overnight, for me.
Ha, mrtl! And I think, and hope, you will eventually adapt. But I feel you, girl. I feel you.
kristen, you get it exactly. I've been very lucky that in my job I have the flexibility to go with Rob whenever he travels for work. It would suck if I couldn't because he gets to go some awesome places! And also because I'm just not the same when he's not around.
nicole, by wee hours I mean 2 or 3 am. It's not often, but it happens. Unlike some people, a geek genius doesn't always have a set schedule. And no, we don't tend to go places overnight without each other. One of the two nights we spent apart was the night before your wedding, actually. But typically we don't have events or travel that necessitate us sleeping in different places. We make it a priority to spend our nights together, which is a commitment that, while perhaps unique, in no way qualifies as disturbing.
Hi Rz! And yes, that was the second of the two nights. Good memory! That was for sure an exceptional situation, and demonstrates how much I wanted to meet/spend time with ieatcrayonz. And it was totally worth it.
kalki~
you are so right. actually, i sent you an email, because my comment came out all wrong. ooops.
~n
And I mean this... aaaaaw!
I don't sleep well without Joey either, and I too end up waking up on his pillow!
I think it's awesome that you guys haven't had to be apart that much, and that you have made such a commitment to do so. I hate when Joey and I are apart for even one night.
Until Feb. 2006 we had never spent a night apart, but I had went to Florida to stay with my mom after her surgery and I hated every minute without him. Since then it has only been a night or so when he has to fly up to Charlotte for meetings. He is usually only gone one night with each trip, he schedules it that way so as not to be away any more than he has to.
Thanks, cat.
Momo, you and Joey sound a lot like Rob and I. You get it. :)