The science of sleep

I woke up this morning to a little MBC or maximum bed comfort.  You know those few and far between moments that all the elements, sub atomic particles and neurons have combined in such a way that your sheets feel extra soft, your pillow is perfectly positioned beneath your head and the temperature inside your bed is not too hot and not too cold; it's perfect.  It is so much harder to get up on those days because you know that as soon as you leave the bed the anatomy of the set-up will change immediately and never go back.  Combine a little MBC with a great dream and voila!  You have the perfect morning, unless you have to get up.  I was dreaming of purses last night.  That's right, I dream of them.  I had gotten my first Gucci bag which was the perfect buttery leather light beige, almost bone color.  Gorgeous.  And then of course there had to be a plot twist and I lost it.  I was running around everywhere begging businesses to check for my lost Gucci bag.  I pleaded with Georgio and Stefan to check their back closets and sure enough it was finally restored.  Phew.  Then I woke up and had to face the real task at hand for today which is  Thank You notes.  

Ugh.  I've been doing them for the last couple of days and while things could be worse, I prefer not to wear out my tiny bird-like wrists.  I've got a nice system going.  I pull up our lovely netflicks page on my computer and watch instantly all my favorite BBC shows while I scribble away.  So far I've gone through a lot of Coupling and Hotel Babylon.  

And while I'm thanking a lot of people I'd like to give a public shout-out to one of the couples we dined with last saturday night.  We somehow got on the subject of downtown Mesa and so naturally I began to gush that so far it was one of my favorite places in Arizona on account of all the taco stands and Mexican stores.  "In fact" I began, "Ricky and I went there today and went to the Mexican supermarket.  You know, the Rancho Grande supermarket?".  "You went there?" gasped wifey.  "Did you feel.....safe?" she genuinely asked.  I was a little taken aback.  " Sure, of course we felt safe.  It was great!  We got some awesome groceries there!!" I told them.  She immediately notified her husband where we had gone.  "You went there?  Did you feel Ok there?  My dad went in there one time and everyone just looked at him like, why are you here?".  "No, it was great.  Really." I continued.  " We got great stuff and got fresh fruit drinks at a stand in the store and some great fresh tortillas for really cheap.  We loved it, I could go all the time".   They just couldn't believe we had ventured into unchartered foreign territory.  And then wifey mentioned that she went and got mexican popsicles all the time downtown.  So I mentioned that the popsicle store was literally across the street from the grocery store.  They are in the same place.  Is one side of the street more safe?  Whatever, it made me laugh.  I guess next time a Mexican person goes to Scottsdale to go shopping I should ask them if they felt.....safe.  You know, with all those white people there and all.  

No matter, just more queso fresco and fresh aguas for me!