Lots of ~ma, Vortex.

I got kinesio tape on my shoulder at PT again. This stuff works pretty well while it's actually on my shoulder, but it's humid outside today, and every time I went out, another bit of tape got unstuck.

Vortex, you are in my thoughts and have all my getting through a rough time~ma.

Ambien works like a charm for me. I've never had weirdness and as long as I give myself six hours to sleep I don't have gronk.

No weirdness maybe, but your spelling stops making actual words happen and becomes more letter soup.

I just rearranged my bedroom furniture and had to figure out which way I'd face when sleeping The Way I Like. I did a little rearranging before the actual moving of furniture so I wouldn't end up facing a wall. Every night.

No weirdness maybe, but your spelling stops making actual words happen and becomes more letter soup.

Fair point.

Ooh! That brings up a question the SO & I were nattering about on vacation. Do people who are in couples always sleep on the same side of the bed, both at home & away? And if so, which sides?

I always sleep on the left side of the bed; Dave is on my right. But we slept the other way during vacation with no particular reason why. Now we're wondering if we should try it the other way at home, and if it would throw us off. We're coming up on our sixteenth anniversary next month, so I bet it would.

Anyway, I just rearranged the library/guest room to accommodate the loveseat, and I think I would end up facing the wall sleeping on the guest bed the way we have it now.

The dried strawberries I made last night are excellent. Little chewy bits of concentrated strawberry flavor.

Today is a day I really did not need to be around humans, as evidenced by the fact that I went to the grocery store and a) there was a child shrieking their way through the entire store and all I could think of doing was tracking down the kid, slapping duct tape over their mouth and showing them how real shrieking is done.

(We're talking this kid was letting loose with the extremely high pitched, make your eardrums bleed, set the dogs howling, shrieks.)

And then as I'm wandering through the frozen foods section, I run across an absolutely atrocious smell and after a second, realize it's coming from the guy about twenty feet in front of me who, while neatly dressed, smelled as if he hadn't bathed or touched a bar of soap in thirty years. I mean, this was serious funk, the made the eyes water and lingered long after. It was literally so bad, the managers were opening up lanes furthest from the express lane where the guy stood.

This made Day Five at a Gamer Con palatable.

It could be my tolerance is also exceptionally low.

Do people who are in couples always sleep on the same side of the bed, both at home & away? And if so, which sides?

We do. I sleep on the left side (with Henry to my right) and we keep that arrangement when we travel, though there was a time when I slept on the right because that let Henry sleep furthest from the door (and against the wall)(he is still furthest from the door at home, but is not always when we travel and was not in the last house we lived in before this one where he was still on the right side, so the the leftness and rightness has outlasted any other reason, it would seem (neither of us has been against the wall since we bought this bed, however, which is something like 8 years?)). I would kind of like to break out of it, because while I toss and turn quite a bit, I was told at some point that sleeping on my left side is beneficial in some way so I tend to at least try to do that, which means turning my back to DH when I don't mean to be unfriendly, just trying to get comfortable, but habit is a very strong force that I'm not sure I want to mess with for no real reason.

In case anyone is wondering, not on Ambien right now, just rambly.

I am not in a couple, but I always sleep on the left side, both at home and away.