Let me explain how Saturday morning works in our house. After I’ve been up for a few hours — and I am not an early riser — I try to get Stick moving. I offer him coffee, I remind him of the things we had planned to do today, I ask him what he wants for breakfast, I tell him there’s plenty of hot water if he wants a shower, I mention that some cultures place a value on waking before mid-afternoon. He responds with a grunt and falls back to sleep, completely unable to later remember having had any sort of conversation with me.
Finally, I give up and go back to reading my book, waiting for the sun to set and my vampire boyfriend to start moving. Around 2 PM, I’ll accidentally drop something in the living room. Today it was a jelly bean (a very sad waste, but there’s no 5-second rule in Beijing), last weekend it was a safety pin.
At the moment it hits the floor, Stick snaps awake and shouts “Baby! Are you alright? What was that?”
Listen to the podcast version here.
You know something is truly hysterically funny when, as you are reading, you burst out into audible laughter…and someone from the next room asks, “What’s so funny?”
Hehe. I love you two!
Thanks! We miss you! (I hope you were reading at work 😛 )
hm… sounds like the shoe is on the other foot now, doesn’t it.
:p
hm… sounds like the shoe is on the other foot now, doesn’t it.
:p
Sounds like my husband.
May I suggest a crowing rooster?
I never *ever* wake up to tiny sounds from the other room. A girl needs her 10 hours!
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Haha. Sounds exactly what I went through for a year with Phil. He was a night owl, and I, well, wasn’t.
And yeah, there is absolutely no 5 second rule in Beijing. They did a test once to see how many germs a single item picked up after falling on the ground for 5 seconds. I’m sure that test was done in the USA. I wonder if the germ count would be any higher in Beijing. That would be an interesting study.
It’s not like I’m hopping out of bed at the crack of dawn! I sleep until 10ish which might as well be torture for Stick!