i never really grew out of that feeling, either. not to mention (pre-pregnancy) ive never been one for sleeping. i like to get up early and stay up late. i feel 'the best' when i sleep about six hours - anything more or less and i just dont feel quite as rested. so ive never really needed naps, either. no need for naps = no worries about missing things!
enter pregnancy!
when i got pregnant, all that about napping completely changed. i was tired all the time to the point where if i was sitting down/laying down resting or watching tv, there was no fighting falling asleep. sometimes i would fall asleep in the car while mike was driving on even the shortest trips. at first i tried to fight it, but for anyone who has ever been pregnant before you realize that's the biggest joke ever. there is no fighting it.
so i gave in. i started napping. i napped all the time through the first trimester. i was working about 50 hours a week then and when i wasnt working, i was sleeping or feeling sick. once the second trimester was in full swing, though, i got some of my energy back and didnt nap QUITE as much. granted, i felt like i was still napping a lot (for my standards) but that was mostly because i was working about 65 hours a week or so.
then, i hit the beast that is the third trimester - which to be fair is really bittersweet - i feel bella move all the time, which is awesome. but my belly is getting heavy, and hard to move around. its hard to stay comfortable or to be on my feet at work. but its cool to be able to see that the end is getting near, which is also a tease because its coming SO SLOW now (the last two weeks have been a DRAG and i have 8 left!)
but because of all the extra work my body is doing now, even though im 'only' working about 35-45 hours a week (some of those are at a desk, dont worry!) i am almost as tired as i was in the first trimester!! (now my hours are getting substantially cut down every week from this point on until im at 8-12 hours for my last few weeks at work before maternity leave) and once again i find myself NAPPING ALL THE TIME!! which in itself isnt a bad thing, and i feel like i have finally (recently) come to not only accept my need to nap during pregnancy, but have embraced it and started almost (ALMOST) looking forward to my (almost daily) naps...
its funny because mike has, in the time we've known each other, tried to talk me into napping when i really need to. he always says to me, 'just take a nap. you need to. you're tired. its good for you. stop being so silly, you're not going to miss anything important....'
except today......i missed this:
...
ummm.
in case you didnt notice...that's a tornado. or (maybe technically) a water spout? but it came onto land. so i think that makes it a tornado.
an EFFING (somehow, that word is NOT quite strong enough) TORNADO.
for those of you who dont know this. . . i have a few...quirks in my personality. shocking, i know.
im a little ocd. i have a little bit of a texture...uhh...i dont like to call it a disorder, per se...so lets just say im texture sensitive. i have a LITTLE bit of anxiety about silly things...i guess you could call them phobias...specifically relating to spiders, heights, airplanes...oh, and tornadoes.
like the one i slept through this afternoon.
i'll never nap again.
at least until tomorrow.
xo.
m.
this footage is on 65th street, just north of the rt 90 bridge. apparently the funnel came off the bay (see picture above) and crossed over coastal highway. luckily (as far as ive heard) no one was injured....
more footage:
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