In this regard, Janis and I are alike. I can sleep anywhere else in the brightest lit, noisiest places you can imagine. At night, the bedroom has to be pitch black and silent. It mystifies both my wife and me.
I am like Janis. When sitting on the couch watching TV or reading, I will doze off. Sometimes for about 30 minutes. So, I will get ready for bed. No TV or book in the bedroom, ever, but getting ready for bed has awakened me enough that I have a hard time falling asleep.
In the last few years of her life, my mother essentially lived in front of the TV. She stopped going to sleep in her bed and slept in her chair in front of the TV.
I can’t go to sleep without the TV on. I put it on so low that husband cannot hear it (and I barely can) and it has a specific kind of show or movie – one that I am so comfortable with that it holds me attention from wandering, but does not draw me in to watch.
charliefarmrhere over 5 years ago
But, but you…. Oh never mind.
alasko over 5 years ago
If you can’t sleep Janis, do something else…
Nachikethass over 5 years ago
Why is this strip suddenly so disjointed, with no continuity of story arcs?
jarvisloop over 5 years ago
In this regard, Janis and I are alike. I can sleep anywhere else in the brightest lit, noisiest places you can imagine. At night, the bedroom has to be pitch black and silent. It mystifies both my wife and me.
chuckydoodle over 5 years ago
I’m curious as to what is up with their son, Gene and his family. It’s been awhile since we have seen them featured
Dani Rice over 5 years ago
This is why we don’t have a TV in the bedroom. Bedrooms are for sleeping and getting ready for the day.
snootbag over 5 years ago
Well Gene & family didn’t make an appearance over Thanksgiving, maybe Christmas???
nosirrom over 5 years ago
Arlo you should leave sleeping Janis’ lie.
Plods with ...™ over 5 years ago
Snap snap, grin grin, wink wink, nudge nudge…
Tyge Premium Member over 5 years ago
It must not have been a chick flic.
ParrotheadDab over 5 years ago
I’m left to wonder what their dating life as well as their early marriage was like.
gigagrouch over 5 years ago
Nor should you.
sfreader1 over 5 years ago
I am like Janis. When sitting on the couch watching TV or reading, I will doze off. Sometimes for about 30 minutes. So, I will get ready for bed. No TV or book in the bedroom, ever, but getting ready for bed has awakened me enough that I have a hard time falling asleep.
David Huie Green ForceIsAUsefulFiction over 5 years ago
“Then don’t snore so loudly while sitting there.”
paranormal over 5 years ago
Yeah right. That’s why Arlo couldn’t hear the WW2 war movie with all the bombs going off!
Airbender over 5 years ago
In the last few years of her life, my mother essentially lived in front of the TV. She stopped going to sleep in her bed and slept in her chair in front of the TV.
eladee AKA Wally over 5 years ago
This is so ME. I fall asleep like this all the time. I miss a lot of movies that way.
mafastore over 5 years ago
I can’t go to sleep without the TV on. I put it on so low that husband cannot hear it (and I barely can) and it has a specific kind of show or movie – one that I am so comfortable with that it holds me attention from wandering, but does not draw me in to watch.