What better place for me to start then to discuss the thing I miss the most about being in a relationship. Currently, I am suffering from late night phone call withdrawal. That is the most relevant drawback of being “boo-less” for me at this present moment. I sit here typing because part of me doesn’t want to go to bed. Now don’t get me wrong, I love sleep but there has been a slight derailment in my sleep routine and it has left me tossing and turning. For the boo-filled portion of my life, there was nothing like retiring to my bed after a long day, turning the lights out, putting the television on so I had adequate lighting to locate my cell so I could…. call the boo. Talk is smooth, mellow, raspy, calming, relaxing, whispers even. And you can be talking about anything, ranging from absolutely nothing to what you miss about your boo so much. But it doesn’t matter. Some how hearing your significant’s voice on the other end of the phone just before you shut your eyes, makes everything else pale in comparison to it. It’s enough at times to wipe sleep completely from your eyes as you get lost in conversation and all sense of time, jobs, responsibilities and sleep become obsolete. So when you are boo-less, what are the other alternatives? You go from that to….curling up to a good book once you hop into bed ? Or better yet, late night channeling surfing? These are practically the only other alternatives a boo less life can afford you. Who would do this by choice?
The boo-less life definitely leaves me adjusting from talking to a boo every night, even if it’s just nothing more than a few seconds of muffled sweet dreams and I love yous, to hearing nothing but a dial tone. It’s like having the icing to your cake scraped off. When you’ve grown so accustomed to recounting your day to your significant as you lay in bed or talk of the next days plans, to have the phone snatched from you mid sentence due to a lost connection, never to be regained, is enough to interrupt any a sleep lovers sleep cycle. No need for Tylenol PMs when you have late night phone calls from the boo–those are your Tylenol PMs. They help you sleep better. And I suppose what made them so comforting was the fact that you’d go to sleep knowing that when you woke up you’d have someone you could share the next day of your life with. Late night phone calls, you depend on them. But of course, when you don’t have late night phone calls because you have no boo. And instead of a boos voice, all you have is a dial tone that is not due to a bad cell phone connection, you are left with no other choice than to come up with a list such as the following in the hopes that you can convince yourself you’d be better off without them anyway:
The Upside of No Late Night Phone Calls:
- You get to sleep more without having to sacrifice your shut eye to try to decipher what your boo is saying in between his snores.
- You don’t have to pretend to be interested as your boo rants about things you either don’t care about or can’t devote any attention to because all remaining mental energy has been depleted
- Your job will no longer be in jeopardy due to you calling out from work the next day because your phone call ended when you should have been waking up to head out to work. I mean, no more calling out because you’re sick. *cough* *sniffle*
- You will not have to deal with extreme tiredness on the job that causes you to doze off unconsciously or uncontrollably for that matter
- You can find another time filling recreation to fill your before you shut your eyes time (i.e. blogging about missing late night phone calls with the boo).
*Yawn*
*Stretch*
That feels much better. Think I can go to sleep now.
