As of late (the last 20 years or so), I have a tendency to sleep late and not much. This may sound odd to some, but I don’t go to bed very early. Once I do fall asleep, I tend to sleep for a short amount of time and late into the morning. When discussing her retirement, Fine Girl mentioned sleep, “Once I’m retired I am going to sleep in every day.” “Maybe I am partly retired,” I told Sleepless.
Sleepless, appropriately named, and I have a lot in common. Not sleeping being one lot. I’m not entirely sure why she doesn’t sleep. I don’t sleep for a variety of reasons – not tired, get distracted, reading, writing and arithmetic. Some of the best sleep Sleepless and I ever had was in Switzerland. I don’t know if it was the beds, the comfort of the hotel, or the privilege of watching German’s Next Topmodel (simply the best), but we slept very well there. As I ponder it more, I wonder if perhaps a move to Switzerland is in order. Then I start thinking about what I’ll need to do to make that happen – more reading, writing and arithmetic – and the next thing I know it is morning.
I notice Sleepless is up (thank you facebook) and ask her what, besides her, is up. “Sometimes my name is appropriate.:) Have you had a nap tonight?” she replied. Napping is really the more appropriate term for what I occasionally do at night. I told her I hadn’t napped and that I had been doing a variety of miscellaneous things – one of which was writing the blog. A few minutes later, I receive this message from her, “This week’s reading entertainment is brought to you by the letter P. Thank you! You’re positively perfect! One hundred percent!” I looked back at my previous entries and she was right – for the last week they all started with the letter P. Reminded me of the time That’s Not Chinese did online dating and only dated people whose name started with J.
Being that I had used P so many times, I thought it might make sense to start an entry with Q. Which made me think of ‘mind your Ps and Qs,’ and caused me to wonder the origin of that phrase (something that, as another saying goes, “kept me up at night,” while I researched it). Seems the jury is still out on this one, however, the term was first believed to be used in the early 1600s. There are several derivations, my favorite being my own (which I came up with instead of sleeping), “mind your pees in queues.” Put simply, don’t pee when waiting in line for the loo.