I Live With a Mummy...

Yes...a wrapped-up blanket stealing mummy!
Let me back up and explain...

I enjoy cold weather, but when I bed down for the night, I love to snuggle down under 2 or 3 blankets/comforters/quilts. (In hot weather...a sheet and nothing more than a sheet!)
My Darlin' Man HATES cold weather.
He is a mummy. He wraps up in as many blankets as he can find.
This leads to my having to fight him for blanket coverage during the night. Inevitably, I wake up with a scant corner of a blanket while he is warmly wrapped up.
 I try to tug some blanket over to my side.
Tug...tug...tug...and  I have just enough to cover a knee and maybe my feet.That lasts about 5 minutes and he does his death roll and snatches that small comfort away from me.I have tried snuggling closer to him, but that doesn't work, either, as he always ends up rolling again and somehow accumulating all the covers again.
Yeah...he is a blanket hog.

Yeah...that is usually about what it looks like in the mornings...

I figured I'd get smart about this.I staged a comforter on the floor on my side of the bed.
Sure enough, I woke up around 2 am with no covers. Smiling smugly, I pulled my comforter up on the bed with me and covered up.
I woke up around 4 am with no blankets again and with my Darlin' Man completely swathed in a blanket cocoon.
The next night, I staged TWO blankets.
Same result.
Last night...I added our featherbed to our bed, put the sheets on, put the normal blankets on the bed and staged THREE blankets on my side of the bed.
I woke up this morning a bit chilly and got to watch the spectacle of the Darlin' Man trying to fight his way out of all the covers he had cocooned himself in.
*snicker*
Ever put a blanket over a dog or cat and watch them trying to find their way out?

Yeah...it was similar, lol!
My giggling aside, I have a new plan of action.
Gonna wear socks to bed. And flannel pajamas. I am normally a nekkid sleeper, or just tee shirt and undies...but I am tired of waking up with goosebumps!
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My organization is going...okay. Somethings have gotten done...some things haven't.. Should be able to post pics in the next couple of days.

Three Cheers for My Hyperactive Self!

I am a bit hyperactive. It doesn't affect me all the time, but occasionally it pokes it's little fuzzy head up out of my brain and wants to play.
Tonight is one of those nights.
I am not tired. Absolutely no desire to sleep.
So, besides this blog post, I am cleaning the kitchen, catching up on the ironing and will probably cut out 2 or 3 patterns so I can sew up a dress or two tomorrow.I am also watching/listening to a documentary at the same time.
I was hyperactive when I was small, but that was before Big Bad Pharma found out it could make money by convincing parents to drug their little darlings into a stupor. My parents solution was to give me a flashlight and a bunch of books to read.
The results were a life-long love of reading accompanied by a life-long fear of the dark!
I also tend to multi-task like crazy when going through a hyper phase.
While I am ironing and listening to a documentary, I have some sweet roll dough rising and also have started another load of laundry.
I go through these little bouts around once or twice a month. I normally sleep 6 to 7 hours a night, then I just have two or three nights in a row when 2 or 3 hours is sufficient.
I've adapted to it. I save up some particularly odious chore (like ironing) for a hyper stage, knowing it will all get done in one night.
It may seem weird to those 8 hour a night sleepers out there, or to those poor souls that suffer from insomnia and end up exhausted the next day, but this is my *normal*. I won't be exhausted tomorrow...I will be brimming with energy after a cat nap of an hour or two.
To all those other *hypers* out there, my best advice is:
Don't fight it, go with it. Your system (biological) doesn't have to work the way anyone elses does.
I have never considered my hyper-activity a handicap, I always considered it a bonus! Long after everyone else fades and crashes, I can keep going.
Sometimes I will go a week or two on 2 to 3 hours of sleep in each 24 hour period. Eventually, I have learned, my system says "Okay, that is enough of that!" and I head for bed and sleep soundly for 10 to 12 hours. Then I am back to *normal*. (Well, *normal* for me, anyway!)
Well, I have sat here long enough...after a bit more ironing, I think I will mop the kitchen floor....

Other Blogs and random things...

In case anyone is interested, I have another blog that focuses less on preparing and more on the economy, politics and my Pinky and Brain plans to take over the known universe, lol!
Just click here!
other blogs I follow...
Ten Things Farm
American Apocalypse
Sleep Talkin' Man
The Archdruid Report
The Never Done Farm
Self Sustained Living

and...about a dozen more...but those stand out to me right now. Some are homesteading and preparedness, some are on econics or politics .
And Sleep Talkin' Man? That one is simply FUN!
Give them a look sometime...