The Mermaid Kiss

The Mermaid Kiss.

“I have to take the dog out to pee, but before I get back you have to be out of this bed.” She said it not for the first time. In fact she had been saying the same thing for 20 Minutes. You would think it would be annoying, but to me it is cute.

I feel too tired to get up yet. In fact rarely, these days, do I feel that I am rested fully enough to warrant getting out of bed. Even when I am fully rested enough, it seems like a few more minutes in bed wouldn’t do any harm.
She flips out of bed and thumps down the stairs. I know if I don’t at least get out of the bed now, I will never wake up. I move to the floor and start stretching out. The movement of blood begins to wake me up like a drug.
Why don’t I do more of this? Just get up and do these yoga like stretches two hours earlier. It’s not like I really have to wake up. Plus if I did it every day I would be jacked, not to mention more flexible as well as on time to work. Maybe I’d even get there early. When I sleep by myself it is easier to do this. But who really wants to get out of a bed that Grace is in.
I lie back and slowly ease my legs up over my head in that stretch that does my lower back and the back of the legs. I’m so stiff in the morning so I can’t go all the way down but the blood rushing around is waking me up. Good. I might actually be able to function today. I go through a few more stretches, stretching out the groin doing a slow push up… I don’t know if I’ll get to my kung fu stuff, a deep horse stance. Seriously, If I eased into it slowly two hours of this wouldn’t be hard. I swear I could be crazy jacked. Why don’t I do this?
I move into some kung fu moves, just for exercise though…