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It’s been quite some time before I had one of these!

I was reading in bed while Shell slept on the couch, and I woke her up when I was ready to go to bed. She looked at me and pointed at my shirt. I asked her what was wrong and she reached out, grabbed by shirt, and pulled it up a bit so she could look at my stomach. Then she said:

“I don’t understand.”

“What don’t you understand?”

“It’s not there.”

“What’s not there?”

“I don’t want my tea anymore.”

“Ok, I’ll toss it out.”

“My teabags still in there.”

“Ok, I’ll take care of it.”

“Make sure it doesn’t stain.”

“Ok.”

With me going to work at 4am these days, I go to bed before Shell, which means I don’t get to hear her sleep talk too much. But since I have off tomorrow (we’re headed to Portland, ME) I had the opportunity to wake her up from her nap on the couch, and I got a good ol’ “What Shell Said” out of it.

Just as background info, we have thunderstorm and tornado warnings tonight, so I’m sure that was on her mind.

I was ready for bed and went to get her off the couch and into the bedroom.

“Come on babes, time to get up.”

She opens her eyes, looks at me, and gives me this sad puppy dog look. So I said:

“You look like a sad puppy”

This causes her to make an even sadder, more exaggerated face.

“Come on, let’s go. We have to get up early tomorrow.”

Shell gets up with no problem and then looks outside.

“Oh, it’s raining.”

I look outside to see a rainless night.

“No it’s not.”

“Yeah it is. It’s raining sideways.”

“Huh?”

“You can see it in the street light.”

“Oh yeah.”

And then we went to bed.

I had just finished writing up a short piece on the new Mortal Kombat demo, and I went to wake Shell up off the couch.

“Come on babes, let’s get ready for bed.”

“Is it ready yet?”

“…no…”

“Then I don’t need it yet.”

I was pretty tired and wanted to read for a bit before I fell asleep, so I pushed her to get up again.

“Let’s get ready for bed.”

“It doesn’t need to do this…”

She then got up and went to bed.

I went to the living room to wake Shell up, and for whatever reason she had the couch pillow lying on top of her. So I woke her up and said:

“Why is the pillow on you?”

“I think it’s your Grandpa’s.”

Shell had been researching our family trees that night, so I assumed that that was where the “Grandpa” came from. I was tired, so instead of egging her on I just said:

“OK. Let’s get you to bed.”

I didn’t laugh or smirk or anything. However, Shell knew she said something because she said to me:

“Why are you laughing at me?

“I’m not.”

“You have a smile on your face. You’re laughing at me.”

“No, I’m not. Let’s just get you to bed.”

“What did I say?”

“You didn’t say anything.”

At this point I am close to picking her up off the couch. Then she tries to push me away and says:

“I don’t need you. I can do this myself.”

She then got up and stomped off to bed.

This was a weird one because she was all over the place, and I was getting confused with what she was talking about.

I woke her up from her nap on the couch:

“Babe, wake up. It’s time to go to bed.”

“Where?”

“Let’s go to bed.”

“Where’s your bed?”

“In there.”

“Oh. I’m sorry.”

“Why are you sorry?”

“It’s over there.”

“What is?”

“I want to stay here.”

“On the couch?”

“No, there.”

“Ok…”

I then left so that I can write this up real fast. Better go try and wake her up for the second time now.

Shell was sleeping in bed while I was reading. I was done, so I woke her up so she could get ready for bed.

“Hey babe, why don’t you get up and brush your teeth?”

“WHY DON’T YOU BRUSH YOUR TEETH!”

“I did this morning. Come on, brush them so we can go to bed.”

“I e-mailed them this morning.”

“Huh?”

“Leave me alone.”

“Come on, if you go in now you can be done in five minutes.”

“No I can’t. I have to floss.”

“You can do all that in five minutes.

“BUT I HAVE TO FLOSS EVERYWHERE!”

“Like where? Between your toes?”

“No. I sent them out this morning.”

“What?”

“I sent those e-mails out this morning.”

“That’s good. But now it’s time to brush your teeth.”

She finally got up, stuck her tongue out at me, and went off to the bathroom.

I was laying next to Shell on the couch playing Smackdown vs. Raw 2011. All of a sudden she starting moving about, and then started punching the couch numerous times, as if she was frustrated. I said:

“What’s wrong?”

She continued to punch the couch.

“Are you hot?”

“Mmmm.”

“Yeah, it’s a bit warm tonight. Here, take this silly blanket off so you can cool down.”

I took the blanket off her.

“Just kill me!”

“What?”

“Just kill me. In the game. You know I’m not that good anyway. I’ll just die.”

“OK babe.”

She then went back to sleep.

Wow, she’s been saying quite a bit lately!

Once again I was playing games in my chair while she slept on the couch. Suddenly she started stirring.

“Rob?”

“Are you alright babes?”

“Where’d you go?”

“I’m right here, where I always am.”

“You weren’t here anymore.”

“No, I’m here now. Is that ok?”

“Yeah…what’s your mom going to say?”

“About what?”

“About the hosting.”

“The hosting?”

“Yeah.”

“I think she’ll be ok with it. What do you think?”

“I don’t think so…”

Wow, two in a row! I think this is a new record!!!

So I was on the chair again, playing Mass Effect 2. Shell was sleeping on the couch. All of a sudden she sits up and says:

“You were just here”

“Huh?”

“You were just here, and now you’re there”

“You mean on the couch?”

“Yeah”

“Sorry, I came over here to play games”

“What am I supposed to do?”

“Lay down?”

“Mmmm”

“Can I get you anything?”

“NO!!!”