Staying Comfortable While Drinking

You know how great it is to get the pillows smooshed just right under your head? To have the blanket (preferably a polka dot blanket) all sealed around you, so there is no cold air sneaking in? And you are angled just right to see the tv, or read your book?

But then, you realize you are thirsty.

Really thirsty.

You roll your head to the right (maybe you turn yours to the left, but I have a table on the right side of my bed, so I turn right) and see the glass of water sitting there. Full of hydration possibilities.

The water is calling you.

Suddenly, it seems as though you have been walking across a long desert, and you have to have that water! WATER!!

You reach out your hand for the glass, and realize - the smooshed pillows, the blanket, the comfort - if you sit up and drink that water, you will not reach this level of comfortability again for the rest of the night.

Dilemma.

Will you try to drink that water while lying down? If so, you have a 25% chance that you will be successful, and a 74% chance that you will be lying in a puddle of water (which would ruin your comfortablility more than sitting up). There is also the 1% chance water fairies will show up and cause the water to shoot from the glass and dance around before it lands in your mouth without spilling a drop, but I have yet to have that happen (also I think this proves I watch too much Tinkerbell).

What to do?

I say go for it. Live dangerously.

Because that moment where you successfully drink the water while lying down? Perfect.

And the moment, a minute later, when your husband asks for the glass of water and is unsuccessful? Even more perfect.

It is the little things in life that are important.

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