Our rule
 
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| Sunday, March 28, 2004 |
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This morning it was me who woke up early. I did go back to sleep for awhile, but by 8:00 or so, I was ready to get up. I was kind of rustling around, I guess, stretching, and Bob told me to be quiet. He said, "Just lay there quietly and go back to sleep. Isn't that our rule?" Since I couldn't argue with that, I did. A little before 9:00 I woke up again, and Bob told me to stay in bed 'til 9:00, then I could get up. I did, and came quietly downstairs, and now, at 10:00, he's still upstairs asleep. I vaguely remember him getting up sometime in the middle of the night and not coming back to bed right away, so I'll have to ask him what that was all about later, when he wakes up. One reason I like to sleep later on the weekends is that that's when I remember my dreams better. For me, it's the light sleep, waking up a little and then falling back to sleep, that helps me remember what I've been dreaming. Not that what I've been dreaming has been anything particularly revelatory or earthshaking, but it makes me happy to remember them, and I'm always pleased when I do. I had a couple of my stress/anxiety dreams recently--one of the water ones, and one of the travel ones. Those are two of the themes that pop up in my dreams when I'm under stress, along with being lost. And, of course, sometimes I'm lost in an airport, covering two of the themes at once, and sometimes I'm traveling and lost near water . . . It's always a trigger that makes me think about how much stress I'm under, even if it isn't apparent. Sometimes it is, of course, sometimes having one of those dreams just makes me laugh because it's so redundant. Right now, though, I feel like, with everyone I love out of the hospital and doing okay at the moment, that I'm not really under a lot of stress. But sometimes I feel like I'm always under stress. I guess everyone is. Some just handle it better than others, and I don't always handle it very well. Witnessed by my dreams.
We made the paper last week. A photographer came to the office and took a bunch of photographs of Cello, one of which was in the print edition, although they didn't put it in the online one. He also took one of the whole group, which they didn't use. He sent it to us, and it's a really good picture, I thought:
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