The tall kid is gone tonight, and it is a school night. He and some of his classmates are going on a field trip tomorrow morning. I think they are going to the space museum in Huntsville, AL. Boring. I'd rather go to the aquarium in Chattanooga. That would be much more interesting and entertaining! All those fish? Swimming around right in front of your face in those big celling to floor tanks? I mean, c'mon! How awesome would that be? I'd be mesmerized for hours, I just know it! At any rate, the tall kid is gone - spending the night with some other kid so they can catch the bus around 5:30 in the morning. Apparently, when the class gets back home late tomorrow night, the tall kid is going to bring home a couple of his friends to spend the night over here. Oh joy.

I just came back from checking on the taller pretty girl. I heard her coughing in her sleep, and I figured I'd go see if she was okay. Her television was on and tuned in to Disney (gag), and she was asleep and snoring. I was looking for the remote control to turn off the TV when I noticed that this crazy kid had fallen asleep with bed's comforter wrapped around her head. How in the world was she breathing? I gently peeled the covering off her head. Nuts, I'm telling you! Who sleeps like that? I mean, really! Where did she learn such odd habits? And then I went to check in on my roommate's girlfriend and the little baby. I immediately had my answer concerning the taller pretty girl.

I saw the baby sleeping soundly, and I swear she was smiling! Probably dreaming about the short curly haired girl not being around . . . And then I noticed the girlfriend. At once I thought I had intruded on her privacy, because she was not lying down. Rather, she was propped up on her elbows with her face staring at the head board of the bed. I was nervous because I didn't want her to think that I was some kind of a creep sneaking into her room. After all, I was just checking in on folks to make sure they were sleeping well before I turned in for the night. But then I realized that I heard snoring. It sounded familiar to me, and as I stood there inside the room, I realized that the snoring sounded a lot like the girlfriend. So, I quietly crept closer to the bed to investigate. As I grew closer, I figured out that it was indeed the girlfriend snoring! She was sound asleep propped up on her elbows. All she needed to complete the similarity with her daughter was to have a blanket draped over her head.

And I thought I was going to be accused of being creepy . . . !