fracas

In catching up on everyone else’s blogs, I noticed that bluepaintred had tagged me for a meme. A sleep meme no less. A meme I’d not seen before!

So here is my contribution. And no, Mark… I haven’t forgotten that I still owe you a restaurant meme. I’m just keeping you in suspense because: (choose one)

a) I heard you liked that. (Okay so I didn’t. It sounded good here.)

b) You’re busy with a new lady  and I don’t think you’ll remember anyway.

or

c) I’m just a damn blog tease.

Right now, I’m doing the bluepaintred tag, because she hasn’t had a turn yet! 

6 Weird things I do while getting ready to sleep or while sleeping:

1. I have to have enough pillows that I fall asleep half-sitting up. It started years ago when I was pregnant with the youngest (now 11). I had serious heartburn issues while pregnant and had to sleep sitting up.  

2. I need fresh air. I’m like Goldie Hawn in that movie with Burt Reynolds. I need air!

3. (Holy Frac – this one was bluepaintred’s but I do it too so I have to leave it ) – I often leave one foot swaddled in the blanket and one foot outside the blankets, preferably hanging off the edge of the bed.

4. I need it dark. Having a light shine in my eyes is enough to drive be batty.

5. I can’t stand heavy bedding and I hate being too warm. 

6. I can’t stand sleeping in socks. I try to be all women’s magazine-ish and massage my feet with scented lotions and put on sockies to trap the warmth and the emollients and all that cosmetic-speak stuff so that I might awaken with feet to please the gods… but it never works. Within a short time either the socks must come off or I cannot fall asleep.

What? Did you think you were going to read slightly more racy stuff in this post? You should know me better than that by now.  Did you miss the link in “c” above?

Note: This is bluepaintred’s friend Shelli’s first meme. Just as bluepaintred wrote, I think it’s a good one. It’s unique and (like when I realized I do something bpr does) it has the potential to help tons of people feel less wierd about what they do to fall asleep.

I don’t like tagging people because I always choose the wrong people who don’t want to be tagged and then the people who would’ve liked to be tagged think I don’t like them. So.. just as bpr tagged six people with this disclaimer:

BUT I would see at is as a personal favor if you did the meme without being tagged. At the very least, save the instructions in your drafts for a day you are lost for an Idea on what to post!

And because I want to help Shelli’s meme take flight (like that butterfly in the sleep-aid commercial), I’m going to have a disclaimer of sorts too. Instead of tagging specific people, I challenge everyone that the first six to reply here to state that they will do the meme of their own accord will then be favored by the fracas, and given a link from the blogger fracas account that I have to have in order to take part as a contributor to the fuelmyblog blog.

Why is that anything to do a meme for you ask?

Well… it will give each of those six people another new link that Technorati will recognize as a new link and their Technorati strength will go up by one notch.

Hah!

Let the race begin!

UPDATE:

The fracas blog account over at blogger (I know… a bad word around here) is here. I have to have it in order to write for fuelmyblog otherwise I can’t log in to their blog… so please don’t throw tomatos or eggs at me. The links to you brave bed bugs who offered to do the meme are found here. If you ping technorati, the new link should register. I’m still waiting for one more volunteer and will go back to add their link also, but didn’t want to make the first five of you wait.