Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Separate Beds

Back when Tom was still here, we took a trip to the beach.

We slept in this room.



I know. Very Leave It To Beaver huh?

The thing is, I didn’t mind so much. It meant I could sleep without having to worry about Tom shifting around.

Tom took one look at the room and bluntly said, “What about the sex?”

“We’re at the beach, who is thinking about sex?” I joked. I just wanted to dip my feet in the ocean and lounge by the water. (This never happened though. When you have children there really is no such thing as lounging.)

The problem with two beds like that is, when your husband starts snorting you can’t just kick him to shut him up. No, you have to shout, “Cut it out!” And sometimes that doesn’t work so then you have to get out of bed (cold floors!) and smack him over the face with your pillow. Then when he’s all, “The eff was that?” you can feign stupidity and be like, “What was what?” while thinking, “It worked, he’s not snoring anymore!”

Tom also made s’mores while we were at the beach. He started digging a hole to start the fire and I went, “Let’s pretend we’re on Survivor!”



“No,” Tom answered.

“Oh come on. You’d be a good contestant. Your name can be Kurt and you can be some dude in special forces and—”

“Why the hell is my name Kurt? Why can’t I just be Tom?”

“Because we’re imagining!”

“I don’t imagine.”

Boring old Tom.

But he did make an awesome fire so we could have s’mores. I had like five of them. Tom had none because he’s strange and doesn’t like s’mores and wouldn’t pretend to be Kurt.

“You have chocolate all over your face,” Tom told me as he put out the fire.

“Where?”

“All around your mouth and I’m not sure how it got there, but on your forehead.” Tom leaned over and wiped the chocolate on my forehead off. “You’re the messiest eater I’ve ever met.”

“But you love me!”

“You smell like a giant chocolate bar.” Tom made a face.

“The best smell ever!”

53 comments:

  1. I love the separate beds thing, but I'm with Tom on the sex part. To me, beach and sex just kind of go together (only not on the actual beach, sand, ouch)!

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  2. My boyfriend and I work completely opposite schedules and so not only do we not sleep together, we actually have separate rooms. Unofficially of course, since "my" room is the master and has the bed, but more often than not he prefers "his" room because it's cooler, and has a futon which he thinks is more comfortable. We sleep together maybe once a week, but I hate sharing a bed so this is ok with me. And trust me, we find plenty of time and place to have sex :)

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  3. I want to be your neighbor. Just call me Mr. Rogers.

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  4. I think, the more separate we are, the more interesting is sex, hurray for separate houses!
    Don't you agree? ;)

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  5. I swear to you, that looks exactly like a condo I've stayed at in Texas. Weird.

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  6. YOU are too funny for words!

    I hope my future boyfriend smells like a giant chocolate bar!

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  7. Do you ever think women of the 50s knew something we didn't?

    Perhaps they instituted the separate beds in the name of prudence, but it was really due to the kicking, tossing, turning and snoring from their husbands that spurred the whole thing.

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  8. Now... didn't he lean over and actually lick it off your face?
    nom nom nom

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  9. Haha! I love your story. Especially the Kurt part. ;)

    Stopping by from SITS

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  10. Snoring's the worst! I used to plug my sleeping boyfriend's nose until the lack of air woke him up.

    Man, I'm mean.

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  11. smelling like a giant choc bar... oh i tell ya!!!

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  12. haha - my DH would have pushed those beds together post haste. ;) Silly boys. I adore s'mores as well!

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  13. Wait a minute? He didn't have any s'mores? What is he? A mutant?

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  14. I don't think I'd mind the separate beds for a few nights!

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  15. Hahaha! Yeah, I'm the messiest eater too, like a baby!

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  16. My husband is a stick in the mud too. He thinks I'm about as far out there as they come.

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  17. I hear ya about the snoring!! When the spouse falls asleep in the living room I like to leave him there because of his snoring, but then...ohh...believe it or not, it STILL wakes me and I have to get up and go smack him...not fun, and very hard to fall back asleep!

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  18. I'll take a smores :O)

    Hope you are doing good and hgetting more adjusted to things with Tom away.

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  19. Whenever hubs and I find ourselves faced with 'twin' beds...we push 'em together. I'd rather have him close at hand to nudge for the snore roar!

    Did someone mention Smores??? MMMmmm!

    God bless ya and have yourself a glorious day sweetie!

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  20. I was married for 8 years. We slept in the same bed every night and virtually never found time for sex. (Ok so twice, we have two kids) Now divorced, the rent-a-hubby lives PT here, and the other half of the week an hour away. And we find plenty of time for sex. AND chocolate. And I don't have to hear him snore if I don't feel like it...I just send him home. -J

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  21. So with six kids between us, we know all about zero lounging at the beach. There's no fun to be had!! Unless you consider non-stop headcounts and paranoid, imagined shark sightings fun. Then yeah, awesome.

    Excellent post. Stopping by from SITS.

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  22. My husband would have thrown that nightstand and lamp out of the way and shoved the two beds together. He doesn't play twin beds. :)

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  23. The first year we were married, Adam and I stayed in this super seedy hotel in Vegas. I know it comes as a surprise that there are seedy hotels in Vegas.

    But there were also two twin beds in our rooms. On platforms. It was sort of traumatic.

    Now, I don't want him anywhere near me when I sleep.

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  24. Too funny. I love the idea of playing Survivor.

    We have a huge King bed and it sometimes feels like Foxy takes up the 3/4ths of it. Drives me insane. So to get back at him I bring the dog in and she sleeps with us.

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  25. "You smell like a giant chocolate bar." -"The best smell ever" Definitely the BEST smell ever, I concur hahaha

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  26. i heart smores. I had to eat a handful of m&ms because I have no smores right now.

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  27. I wouldn't be able to resist a man who smells like chocolate! lol I love smores too!

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  28. Smmmooorrreesss! There was a smore making booth at BlogHer 10 and I definitely visited several times.

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  29. Um excuse me, Brit over here, if you don't mind me asking, what are smores?

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  30. I'd TOTALLY imagine that my name was Kurt if it meant I'd get S'mores for it. . . totally. :)

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  31. Have you seen the how i met your mother episode where lily and marshall have separate beds? It is hilarious!

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  32. This is adorable and awesome. So excited I became your follower yesturday. Happy Wednesday!

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  33. It's been scientifically proven that men named Tom have no imagination. I married one in a previous lifetime, and he admitted it freely. So, with my ex, and your Tom, I'd say that's scientific proof. Thank you for visiting, now turn in your exam and your grades will be posted Thursday.

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  34. I'm so glad you ate chocolate and not bear poop in order to survive.

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  35. I love the beds like that! I'm staying in a motel right now and like me sleeping with the baby 7 months and hub sleeping with our son 4 years. No stealing covers, no pushing me to the edge and no snoring in my ear!

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  36. mmmmmmmm smores....i'm totally drooling right now...

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  37. Survivor with S'mores. I could get to enjoy that. But tell me, who is this Kurt you speak of? ;D

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  38. Smelling like a chocolate bar reminds me of my Eyeore nightgown that smells like chocolate if I rub the picture on it. It's cute. It says something about loving chocolate.

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  39. Jen plugged her boyfriend's nose! Too funny. You could have thrown a heavy beach book at Tom to avoid those cold floors.

    LisaDay

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  40. My husband would be more excited about the seperate beds than I for the simple fact that he may get a full nights sleep with all the covers. You see I am a blanket stealer, ofcourse I don't admit that to him.

    And i totally would have pretended to be on survivor with you!

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  41. Whhaaaa? Tom doesn't eat smores? That's crazy talk!!!

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  42. Silly Tom. As if a bed is needed for Sex? Pshaw. KURT would totally know how to work around that problem.

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  43. Separate beds...sounds good to me.

    And, smelling like chocolate? Yum!

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  44. You had the Lucy beds! As in I love Lucy. And I've got to say, even though Tom wouldn't be Kurt, he still dug a hole, made a fire and then s'mores knowing he wouldn't eat any. That's luv...

    PS: When you were calling him by name that day, did you secretly pretend he was Survivor winner Tom the fireman?

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  45. If he was thinking, he could have licked the chocolate off of your face and turned it into a sexpurtunity! Kurt would have!!!

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  46. LOL at separate beds. The smores sound divine right now. I love chocolate. Tom is weird.

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  47. Hahaha - this sounds just like my man. Seriously.

    And I adore the single beds - no worries about anyone stealing the blankets!

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  48. "What about the sex?" Bahahaha! Your husband always cracks me up:) Looks like he can make a great fire!

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  49. Great Post. Stopping by from SITS.

    Jennifer
    http://livingachangedlife.blogspot.com/

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  50. We had to sleep in twin beds at the beach this summer too, but we pushed them together and demanded that my single aunt (who got a queen-sized bed) bring extra king sheets. I keep hearing separate beds are good, and I do make Michael sleep in the guest room after he goes out with the guys and smells smokey and stuff, but on a regular basis... can't. He can't either.

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