Operation Ball Pit Bed
Most people who've been to one of the places I've lived since moving out of the dorms my junior year know that I inherited the balls that made up our Best C5 laundry room ball pit. The brightly colored balls are either sitting in the mesh laundry bag that we used for a fourth wall back in '05 or, more likely, spread out across the floor of my living room and/or bedroom.
How my dormmates and I came up with and executed the idea to build a ball pit is a whole other story that I don't think has ever been told online, but now's not the time for that. Suffice to say, for the time being, that I have a lot of balls.
Anyway, as I was trying to fall asleep last night, I suddenly became quite discontent with my sleeping arrangement. I was lying down, all flat and at right angles to the corners of my flat, rectangular bed... like so:
I thought about going to sleep on my slightly more curvy couch, but I figured I'd wake up in the morning with my neck all out of whack because that can sometimes happen when I sleep with my head up on the arm of a couch.
Then I had one of my most brilliant sleepy ideas ever: What if I put the ball pit balls in my bed?
Quickly, I started gathering the balls, which were — predictably — spread out over my bedroom and living room floor, and piled them onto my bed. Then, I tweeted, "This is gonna be either the best or worst night of sleep ever," and showed the world what I was about to dive into:
But before I got into bed, I covered the balls with a sheet and tucked them in so as to minimize overnight spillage. Then I got on top of my newly awesomized bed and rolled around until I got comfortable.
Surprisingly, I slept soundly through the night and awoke feeling far from battered and bruised, mostly just amused by the balls. My rolling around pulled the sheet away from one edge of the bed, so there were some goners, but most of the balls hung around until morning:
It was in my early-morning snoozing that I finally got under the sheet and really got all up in the balls, which I found was also a pretty sweet setup. In fact, I think I'm going to try that tonight since I've got so many balls left in my bed.
Also this morning, I was glad to see that my ballsy adventure was so well received by my Facebook friends.
To address your comments:
- Jodi C.: I like that you like this.
- Stacy: Yeah, you know me...
- Kate: BOOM!
- Colin: Does there need to be a why?
- If there does, Jodi M. has supplied a perfectly good one.
- Sam: I was thinking the same thing as I fell asleep... but that's not the first time I've thought that thought. lol
Oh, and Operation Ball Pit Bed also inspired this musical tribute/retweet from Meghan:
And then a hero comes along... RT @btindrelunas This is gonna be either the best or worst night of sleep ever. http://flic.kr/p/8pmN5Z
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