night night

bedtime. usually we'll watch some tv at the endish of the night, then chuck will go in to the bed. not to go to sleep. just to check the internet. so, then about 20-30 minutes later, i come in there after walking the dogs, brushing my teeth, washing my face, going for that one last tinkle of the night and changing into jammies. then i go to bed... and chuck's still internetting. and he wants a "barely touch" back rub to gently float him into sleep. which i'm fine with, i get my super awesome back rub every sunday. but i don't want to wait until some ungodly hour of the night when chuck decides he's ready. i get into bed and then go to sleep. like within 10 minutes i could be asleep. chuck will wake me up when he's done and ask me to help him get to sleep. arrrgh. i am so not a nice person when awoken after 20 minutes. not not not. and then he says, "geeze, i never get a back rub."

so, i decided we would make a new rule. 10:30ish bedtime. that works. i'm cool all the way up until 11. then i'm out. this hasn't worked either. the internet! blah! i've even been accused of staying up late to get out of giving this back rub. what? who decides? i try to stay up so that he has enough time to look at whatever. BUT if i go to bed and am in bed, i will fall asleep. shocking! so if i go in there i need to do the back rub and fall asleep. i don't do other things in bed (besides the sexy time). i can't even read in bed because i will fall asleep. i read on the couch. who knew relationships were so hard?

i've written a whole post about sleep. can you tell i'm deprived? my day off that's not chuck's day off (wednesday). i sleep. like a lot. and i love it!

and now a night knight related poem:
"night-night!" said one knight to the other knight,
the other knight.
"night-night! knight."
-Michael Rosen