best of series: part one

to welcome some of my new readers, i have decided to collect just a few of my entries from my old blog and present them to you in a "best of series". this will indeed be boring to my old blog readers and quite possibly just as boring to my new readers. on that note, here we go!

this entry is from july 18th, 2006.

sleeping beauties

"the sun's coming up, she's pulled all the blankets over. curled in a ball, like she's hiding from me, and that's when i know, she's gonna be pissed when she wakes up for terrible things i did to her in her dreams." -ben folds

trev and tachi once told me, that when they first heard this song, they both thought of me. i think they were right in thinking so.

i always have dreams that bryce is being awful to me. a few days ago i had a dream that as an anniversary gift to me, bryce decided to play a joke and ask for a divorce. he played on with it throughout my dream, with a slight smirk on his face, while i continued to be obviously hurt by it and then as a surprise, on our anniversary he re-proposed to me, like he was all sweet for thinking up such an ingenious idea. i was so mad at him that i didn't want to re-marry him. when i woke up, i was still mad at him.

the worst time was during our first year of marriage, when i woke up telling bryce i hated him. it took about 10 minutes after i woke up for me to stop hating him. i wouldn't even let him touch me, i had to cool down first. his response back to me is always... "but i haven't done anything but love you." then i can look back and laugh. but those first few minutes upon awaking from such dreams, i want nothing to do with the man laying next to me.

bryce is the funniest sleepy person i know. he can fall asleep instantly anytime after 8pm. he gets very disoriented and makes the funniest faces if i wake him up. he loves falling asleep on the couch watching movies. he says he likes the disoriented feeling he gets when he wakes up in the middle of the night on the couch and heads to bed, i hate that feeling i think it's awful but i can never go to sleep in our bed without him so.... he also gets insanely hot when he sleeps, something he has passed on to our poor little baby. i love to ask him questions when he's sleepy because he makes absolutely no sense and he gets mad at me for bugging him. when we pray together at night, i have to shake him periodically to wake him back up. the moment the lights turn off in our bedroom, bryce is usually instantly asleep.

as for the mornings... bryce rarely sleeps in past 8 am, even after a late night on the weekends. he is such a morning person! i on the other hand am not. this is bryce's time for revenge. before we had ava, when sleeping past 8am was a reality, bryce would wake up and start talking to me the moment i made any movement, as if that meant i was ready to wake up. i would get so mad at him... let me sleep! but i hated when he would leave me in bed alone so i would beg him to try and go back to sleep, he would toss and turn, so he'd go get a book to read in bed. swfft... swfft... swfft, the turning of the book pages would keep waking me and so i'd finally tell him to get out. so, being the sweet husband that he is, he'd go out in the kitchen and start making breakfast for us.... cling, cling, clank, crash...'sorry!', whoosh, clank, clank. knock, knock, knock...'honey, do you know where the ______ is?' i would then throw off the covers, give bryce the look of death, then angrily say 'fine, i'll get up!'

in the words of paula abdul, "opposites attract."

i love you, bryce... between the hours of 10am-12am.