I've been housesitting for my friend for the past week, so I've been thinking a lot about sleeping. Specifically, I haven't gotten much sleep at my friend's house. There's a myriad of reasons, so I am sleeping at my house tonight to see if I am better rested in the morning.
First, my friend has a kitten. He's about 6 or 8 months old, but he's quite needy. At night, he likes to keep me awake in bed, and he wakes me up around 6 each morning. Not being a morning person, I typically end up locking him out of the bedroom so I can get another hour or two of sleep. However, even that doesn't work well, since he meows and paws at the door.
Another thought is the pillow/bed situation. I've never given a whole lot of thought to pillows. Growing up, I just slept with whatever we had, and we never really had big, poofy pillows. In the year before I came to Michigan, my mom finally got some really nice pillows, and I ended up with one in my room. I was so spoiled. I ended up buying two nice pillows at Target once I moved here, and I enjoy every minute of their soft, puffy goodness. I suppose I could just take one of my pillows to my friend's house, but I keep forgetting every time I come home.
With the bed, there's a few things. First, they (my friend and her husband) have either a double or a queen bed (not quite sure which). I've got a nice little twin bed. Second, their bed is out in the middle of the room, and my bed is pushed against a wall. I've got this thing about sleeping against walls; I just don't sleep well unless I have something solid on one side of me (the wall here, or the sideboard of my bed at my parents' house). So, I find their bed a little disconcerting. It feels really huge, and it's awkward to sleep all by myself in such a huge bed. I've discovered that I really enjoy my little twin bed for sleeping by myself. Also, it's the wall thing. I don't know how, but I will somehow convince my future potential husband that the bed must remain against the wall. I'll even volunteer to crawl in from the end. I just can't hack the open space.
I'm glad to sleep in my own bed tonight. I'll go back to my friend's place tomorrow evening for my second week of housesitting, and she'll be back next Saturday. On the bright side of housesitting, I do enjoy having the place all to myself. Certainly better than dealing with housemates.