My mother has been an insomniac since the age of twelve.  I think it has something to do with a fear of death…or maybe it’s a fear of missing out on something.  On a good night, she’ll get six hours a night.  She’s been known to call me at 12am, which means it’s 3am her time.  Her motto is: “I can sleep when I’m dead.”  In comparison, I can sleep at a drop of a hat.  Planes, trains, automobiles– it doesn’t really matter where I am, I can sleep.  My motto is: “I’ll sleep when I’m…zzzzzzzz.”

So you can imagine my surprise last night, when at 4am I was still wide awake.  Mind you, it was sorta cool seeing the sun rise, but it didn’t make up for the fact that I was exhausted and frustrated that I couldn’t sleep.  Chuck was no help either.  He went to bed pretty late, but then he started snoring.   I woke him up promptly and told him I couldn’t sleep.  He wasn’t impressed and rolled right back to sleep.  Eventually, I feel asleep right around 6.  Boy was I grumpy!

I was pretty worthless today and vegged out on our couch all day.  I did, however,  catch some great, classic movies.

This is such a great movie!  I even sucked Chucklebutt into watching it.  We giggled and gasped as Lucy and Desi traveled across America in their long, long trailer.  My favorite parts are when Lucy tries to cook dinner while Desi is driving — hilarious!  My other favorite scene is when Lucy collects all these giant stones from the various places they have visited.  It adds an incredible amount of weight and they experience some problems climbing an 8000 elevation road.  If you have never seen this movie, I highly recommend it.

Another movie I watched today, while not necessarily stellar, definitely evoked some great memories.

I was ten years old the first time I saw this movie and instantly became obsessed.  (I am ashamed to say I’ve never seen the original all the way through.)  Grease 2 is my High School Musical.  I’ll admit it was a little painful to watch, but it helped me to empathize with all my students who swoon over Zac Efron and want to be Ashely Tinsdale.  I guess every generation has their teeny bopper flick.  Mine is Grease 2.  I remember my best friend (Emme O’Connell) and I setting our alarms for 2am in the morning so we could catch its last run on HBO.  We were so crazy.  In college, I introduced all my dorm buddies to the movie and they were not impressed.  Sigh.  It will always have a special place in my heart.  I even got my “cool rider.” 🙂  (Interesting bit of trivia, the twins in this movie are the sisters of Katy Segal (Peg Bundy).  Who knew?)

While I watched my movies, I treated myself to my favorite movie theatre candy:

Nothing says the movies like black licorice.  Yum-Me!

My other favorite candy is Goetze’s Bull’s Eyes (Cow Tails come in a close second).  So despite the sugar high, I was still able to take a two hour nap.  At least my nap schedule hasn’t been messed with.  🙂

Finally, I wanted to give a shout out to all the poppas in the world.  Happy Father’s Day.  I miss you Daddy!  The following clip is for you: