Sleep Off!

I took a brief break yesterday to check my regular blogs and learned that there is yet another thing I have in common with the adorable Jennifer Lynn Barnes (unfortunately, being adorable isn’t one of them.)

It seems that Jen, like me, is a highly-acclaimed sleeper.

Don’t laugh. My sister, has often said that sleeping is my best skill.

I can fall asleep at any time—night, morning, afternoon, evening. Doesn’t matter. If I’m in the mood and have the time I can fall asleep.

Not only that, but I can stay asleep for anywhere from fifteen minutes to fifteen hours. On occasion, in college, I sometimes slept for eighteen hour stretches. And then I went to bed and slept like a baby the next night.

I can also sleep anywhere. Like Jen, there has been many a flight I don’t even remember taking off or landing.

I’ve been known to fall asleep at my desk at home. Or on the cushy, comfy carpet beneath my desk. And don’t even get me started about cars. My parents are partial to big, comfy American-made cars, and they currently have a Cadillac (I’ve seen living rooms that are both smaller and less comfortable than that car).

Like Jen, I also have very vivid, very interesting dreams. It’s like going to the movies. But free. That you can wear your pajamas to.

So, I ask you, is this a skill? Or a talent?

Or maybe a curse?

And perhaps the most important question: is Jen truly, as she claims, the best sleeper in the world?

Well, she may well be, but we won’t know for sure until we settle this like the near-narcoleptics we seem to be.

That’s right, Jennifer Lynn Barnes, I’m challenging you to a sleep off!

You name the time and the place…

Airplane at two in the afternoon? I’m there.

Hot, cheap hotel room with lumpy pillows? I can take it.

Cross country roadtrip in the back of a Buick? Girl, you are out of your league!

I’m waiting, Jen. May the best sleeper win!

-Ally

ps...and if you haven't already, check out Jen's book, Golden. She stayed awake long enough to write it, so it must be great!