My new buddy Nico. He likes naps too.
I’m known within my family and friends as the girl who can, and will, always sleep when given the opportunity. In college I was so sleep deprived that when I’d make it home for a weekend, I’d regularly sleep 14-hour stints. My parents were baffled. In I’d come, dropping of laundry, gulping down a plate of meatloaf and then snuggly in bed I’d stay for extended periods of time until my carpool swung by to haul me back up the mountain for another round of academia. Alas, my love of sleep hasn’t wained as an adult. While some of my friends find it necessary to use cannabis products offered by the likes of Vibes CBD in order to sleep, I have no trouble falling asleep and can in fact sleep for 10 hours straight (with the occasional 12-hour beauty) without a problem.
This is especially annoying to my friends when traveling. There is something about planes, trains and automobiles that lulls me into the sweetest naps around. I was definitely the crying baby that was driven around the block once or thrice to be calmed in the middle of the night. I am still the baby that hates going out past midnight. It takes an afternoon nap to keep me alert. Yep, living la vida AARP and loving it.
For the last two weeks, however, I’ve been impressing even myself with my magical slumber powers (that sounds kinky, doesn’t it?). Once my family arrived for the holiday, I switched into relax mode and I’ve yet to return, even though they’ve long since gone back to their homes. I’ve been reading and reading and reading and going to bed to read and get warm and finding myself sound asleep at 8 pm regularly. I woke up this morning after another 10 hour voyage to dreamland with my glasses and novel across my chest. I hadn’t even moved. Ridiculous.
Obviously it is time for another challenge to tackle, but I just haven’t decided which one. A full Ironman in 2008? Actually complete the editing and publishing of my first novel? Write the second? Climb Kilimanjaro? Hmmm… maybe I’ll go lie down for a bit and consider my options.
~K
P.S. If you didn’t catch this recent editorial in the NYT, it is worthy of your time. I feel like finally someone climbed in my head and eloquently described my views on this presidency and our status internationally. Today’s letter to the editor in response make me hopeful for our country’s future.
P.P.S. Iowans, our future is in your hands today. No pressure, but please get off your asses and get to the caucus.