Friday, October 31, 2008

Don't sleep so close to me

The vivid dreams are back. During the first trimester they were so active that despite sleeping all the time, I hardly ever felt rested. But that seemed to be behind me until the other night, when I was chased through a field by a bunch of monkeys.

Macaques, to be specific.



The chase came after Elizabeth and I were stuck on a frozen island with a random guy who wouldn't give her his jacket. She was cold, he was a jerk, and then came the macaques. As I ran through the field, I turned to warn everyone that the macaques were coming. As I stopped to yell "MACAQUES!" at the top of my lungs, they started to surround me. One of them took a nibble out of the back of my thigh, so I kicked backward as hard as I could ...

... and nailed my dear husband in the shin as he slept away the last 15 minutes before his alarm went off.

His groaning woke me so I realized that, in fact, macaques were not trying to eat me. And then I realized that I had assaulted the poor man as he slept.

"Why did you kick me?" he asked, his voice filled with sleep and bewilderment.

I tried to explain about the macaques and the frozen island, but all that happened was that I got hysterical giggles and laughed so hard I cried. All Hunter could do was stare at me and chuckle as I apologized in between giggles.

Getting a body pillow might not be a bad idea after all - to protect Hunter from my flying limbs. And the macaques.

2 comments:

Julie said...

Here's a funny pregnant story that I have never confessed to ANYONE. I was 7 months preggers or so and was desperate for chocolate one night. I thought for sure there had to be some in our pantry so I searched every shelf. As I was getting to the lower shelves, I toppled over because, well, you saw the pictures, I looked like a weeble wobble. Anyway, as I toppled over, I "tooted". I found that funny so I started giggling which made Rob giggle at me which made me giggle harder. Soon, I was laughing so hard I was crying and I peed my pants a little...remember, I had a big kid sitting on my bladder. Between fits of giggles, I announced that I peed a little which made Rob laugh uncontrollably. So there I was sitting on the floor in front of the pantry holding my crotch and telling him not to laugh or I would pee more. He covered his mouth and tried to hold the giggles in as I did the hold-the-pee-in waddle walk to the bathroom. I don't think we've ever laughed so hard.

I know you're laughing right now. Admit it, you just peed your pants a little didn't you...

jules

Kathleen said...

THAT IS AWESOME. I didn't pee, but I did laugh really loudly at my desk at work.