To Sleep Or Not To Sleep, That Is The Question

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To Sleep Or Not To Sleep, That Is The Question

Written by Lori Ross

Thursday, 29 April 2010 09:53

HILTON HEAD, SC

Eight “Bad Girls from Cincinnati” (as editor Ray McAllister has dubbed me and my group of high school friends) are sharing a two-bedroom condo in Hilton Head till Sunday.

For any of you still fortunate to know your high school friends, you know that I’m blessed to still have them all in my life and great to be in Hilton Head, so that's not the subject of the blog because that’s too obvious.

As more people could make the trip (which is a great thing), this condo now ended up with wall-to-wall air mattresses. As with any group of eight, there will be camps of people with different thoughts on a subject. In this case, one camp might want to see about getting a second condo in the area for additional bedrooms. The other camp is the one that says it’s more fun to all be together. If we were in our teens still the decision would have been made already (cheap always won out) or in our seventies (our backs would win out) but in our fifties the jury is still out.

So, last night around 1:30 a.m. “Bad Girls” sleeping all around me in the living room, I got a coughing jag and couldn't figure where to go or what to do about it. I would have had cough drops in my purse if I wouldn't have listened to a book on tape on the way down by Nora Ephron making fun of disorganized purses — so I cleaned out all the random things in my purse at a rest stop, which included the cough drops. Every time I got up I figured I was jiggling my air mattress buddy, Dana. Then I was afraid I’d make sleep noise if I fell asleep. The air mattress was really comfortable but my paranoia got to me. Finally I fell asleep and figured I’d take the late shift of sleep — the 3 to 9 a.m. shift of sleeping.

Reading this back, the light bulbs of solutions are coming quick. Tonight I get the tub.