A Nap

All day I've been playing with an idea for a post that I want to add to this site, but when it's come to it now at the end of the day, I think the best thing that happened today was that I passed out... at least as far as awesome manliness stuff goes.

My wife and I got up early. Really, she got up early to work, and she read something funny my mom put on Facebook and came in and woke me up with the overwhelming humor of the story, which I didn't think was that funny at the time. I got up with her, even though she left pretty much right away. After talking to the moody, sullen child for about an hour (about weird things, as usual) and doing eleven billion dishes again, she came back. She had more work to do, so as she did it, I finished the last remaining things on my "dissertation to-do list" and officially finished my dissertation, I think (now just to defend it...). She came in from her work and looked crazy tired, and I told her about my accomplishment. Celebration was in order.

We promptly went to the bedroom (this isn't one of those stories) and lay on the bed. The plan was to lay there and enjoy some free time together for a few minutes that ended up turning into an hour-long nap. Passed out. Big time. We apparently needed it. She apparently was very happy that I took the time to do it and labeled it directly in "romantic." Good enough. If I can score points by falling asleep, I'll take them!

Next we got up and ran errands for all of the first half of the afternoon, most of which were hers (I rode to be good company). Then we got more coffee, which was my errand because, disasterously, the coffee I got the other day ran out. We were in the terrible state of not having any again, and we had to have some because that's a romantic staple in our day (and because I was only worth half a damn without it). It turned out that our whole area flooded in the crazy rain that woke us up crazy early (before the alarm's warning of my wife's crazy-crazy-early work requirement today), so we had a romantic little walk down at the park where we stared in amazement at our normal path being a couple of feet under the rushing waters of normally dinky little stream.

Things went well all day after that nap, so apparently, taking that time was a good idea. Like I said... if I can get points by simply laying down near someone and passing out, I'll take them all!