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It's a Funny Sort of Plan
I'm off today for an overnight conference in London. I've been putting it off and putting it off, but there's no longer any chance for escape. I really, really don't want to do it, largely because it will be the first time I am not just away for putting the babies to bed, but away for getting them up, too. I hate that. And I don't like sleeping away from Angus - cheesy Disney sappy, but it's true.
But a small part of me is looking forward to this, too.
You think I'm meeting up with old friends? Going to a bar? Maybe a little Mexican food and some dancing?
Not quite.
See, it's an all-day conference and then a dinner, then back to our respective hotels for sleeping. But I'm skipping the dinner part. I'm going to the meeting all day, doing what needs to be done, then I'm going back to the hotel. I'm going to have a long hot bath, and then I'm taking a sleeping pill. And not just any sleeping pill, I'm taking one of those Good Ones. I had a Good One once and found that they hit you like a trainwreck - it was so good I woke up the next morning and found my vibrator was still in my hand, no less (I can't be the only one that's happened to.) I'd completed the money shot, switched it off, fell asleep instantly and didn't move all night long.
I'm so excited about taking a tablet and getting loads of sleep not brought on by sheer exhaustion and aching renovated house muscles and then not waking up to builders and bottles and bitching that you wouldn't believe it.
I'm 34 years old, going to be in London overnight, and all I plan on doing is going to bed by 8pm, whereby I plan on getting almost 12 hours of sleep, something I haven't done since before I was pregnant.
I'm not even bringing the vibrator.
See you Thursday.
-H.
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Hi Helen,
My name is Meg, I'm 28, live in NYC (by way of southern New Mexico), am reproductively challenged myself and this is my first time commenting on your blog though I've been reading it almost daily for a couple of years now after a coworker turned me on to it. I think you and your blog are fantastic and often have saved me in an otherwise endless cubicle world of misery. I lost a boyfriend/fiance to suicide 5 years ago and enjoyed reading your other blogs of that nature as well, though slightly different of course. Forgive any poor grammar as I have just taken a lovely little ambien pill, in keeping with this post's theme. I hope that your sleeping experience involves one of those, and if not, hopefully something better. Enjoy your mini holiday!
Meg
Posted by: Meg at June 25, 2008 01:58 AMexcellent plan!
Posted by: Melissa at June 24, 2008 11:10 PMWaking up with vibrator in hand? Do you even remember using it? Pretty sad if you couldn't even recall the experience. :)
Thanks for the giggle, I need it today.
Posted by: diamond dave at June 24, 2008 08:03 PMSweet Dreams!
Posted by: caltechgirl at June 24, 2008 05:59 PMYeah, that's not at all a funny idea, this is adequate. Sleep well and good dreams!
Posted by: Paula at June 24, 2008 03:36 PMIsn't it sad how exciting sleep can be? I totally would do what you are doing, it sounds like heaven. Whenever my kids protest about bed time or whine "but it is still light out" I look at them like they are crazy people. My mind thinks "how can you not want to sleep?"
Sweet dreams babe.
Posted by: Teresa at June 24, 2008 03:10 PMI'm actually excited for you! Enjoy!
Posted by: Lisa at June 24, 2008 03:03 PMHaven't woken up with a vibrator in my hand (yet). HAVE had a roommate walk in WHILE it was in my hand. Definition of awkward.
Posted by: D at June 24, 2008 02:19 PMWhere do I get me one of these sleeping pill things? I'm running on empty...
Sweet Dreams, and my wish for you is no nightclubs under your window (as happened to us when we stayed up in town after the company Christmas Do)... it was the 06:00 empty bottle collection that finally did it.
Posted by: Steve at June 24, 2008 02:08 PMTell me what the bed is like so I can live vicariously through you. My dream is to escape for a night or two and do the exact same thing as you (minus the conference). Sigh.
I look forward to hearing about your bed, and thus sounding like an absolute weirdo.
Posted by: MsPrufrock at June 24, 2008 01:13 PMSounds marvelous! Exactly what I would do, too. Enjoy, my friend!
Posted by: Dotty at June 24, 2008 12:40 PMENJOY! I remember being in the time of life when I would have done almost anything for a full night's sleep.
Posted by: kenju at June 24, 2008 12:15 PMSleep? What's that?
Posted by: ~Easy at June 24, 2008 11:46 AMwelcome to motherhood *;)
Posted by: Mei at June 24, 2008 07:43 AMEnjoy yourself. I knew that I was a grown up when the thing I wanted most was to get an early bedtime followed by many hours of uninterrupted sleep! Sweet dreams.
Posted by: Melissia at June 24, 2008 07:27 AMIts my birthday on Sunday and all I want is a lie in. How times have changed after children!
Posted by: Super Sarah at June 24, 2008 07:19 AMAhh...that sounds heavenly. Enjoy!
Posted by: stacie at June 24, 2008 06:05 AM