a. Have sex where ever we land first, who needs a bed?
b. Have sex on a single twin mattress
c. Have sex on an air mattress
d. Or? (tell us your solution)
Though I certainly have no problem having sex on a couch or even the floor, I would probably go with b, have sex on a single twin mattress.  If it was a sleeping-over friend (as opposed to a fuck-and-run friend), we’d push the other two twin beds together and sleep on them afterwards.  I’ve always had trouble having sex on an air mattress as I expect our vigorous movements to cause an air leak.  And while that would certainly be the best possible circumstances in which to damage an air mattress, those things can be kind of expensive.

2. What is the oddest thing you have in your bedroom that someone would be surprised to find. Why is it there?
At the moment?  My daughter.  That’s not to say that my daughter is odd (or that she’s a thing), just that she has her own bed and should be sleeping there.  But it’s sometimes difficult to put her down for a nap in her own room – too many distractions – and frankly who wants to bend that far?  It’s easier for me to just put her down on our bed.  As for things that are always in our bedroom,  maybe our sex library?  It’s not really odd, I suppose; if you’re going to have a bookcase full of erotica and such, the bedroom is probably the most appropriate location for it.  But I’m sure there are people we know who, if they saw it, might find it it odd or inappropriate.  That should demonstrate the lengths we go to in order to conceal our pervy sides from our family and vanilla friends, and it should also explain why we keep our bedroom door shut when certain people visit.

3. What are your favorite sheets?
a. Flannel
b. Cotton
c. T-shirt cotton (jersey)
d. Satin
I like cotton sheets in the summer, and flannel in the winter.  Of the two, I don’t have any clear-cut across-the-board preference.  It just depends on whether I am warm or cold.

4. Do you sleep with sheets tucked in or out? Why?
Untucked, please.  I’m not a fan of being locked into one position for my entire eight (well, these days more like four) hours’ sleep.  Though I sleep restfully and wouldn’t classify my sleep patterns as tossing and turning, I tend to move around a bit while asleep.  This actually brought to mind a scene from an episode of Seinfeld.  I’d embed it below, but none of the Youtube clips allow embedding, so you’ll have to click the link if you want to see.


5. What is your usual bedtime? Why?

a.  8-10 pm
b. 10-12 midnight
c.  12-24
d. Whenever my eyes won’t stay open any longer.
The logical answer is d, whenever my eyes won’t stay open any longer.  Unfortunately, that’s not even true.  I often stay up past the point of coherence.  With our recent move, my late retirement was due in part to unpacking, as well as the necessary decompression once the unpacking was done for the day.  Sometimes I’m working on the blog, perhaps editing and formatting a post or even just writing something for another day.  Sometimes I’m reading other blogs.  Sometimes I’m doing my own non-blog writing.  Whatever the case, as Cougar in Training will undoubtedly attest, if I get to bed before three AM, it’s  a miracle.


5. Do you sleep with closet door(s) shut or open? Bedroom door shut or open? Any particular reason why?

Generally speaking, it doesn’t matter.  I’ll take this as proof that I’ve grown up, but I no longer have the childhood superstition that demanded I – or more likely one of my parents – close my closet door before I went to sleep, lest the werewolves burst out and eat me in the middle of the night.  If the bedroom door happens to be shut, we might open it in order to hear our daughter in case she wakes up crying in the middle of the night.  But as her bedroom is adjacent to ours it really isn’t necessary.  The only time that we insist on having a door closed is if my parents happen to be staying with us, as Jill and I usually sleep naked, frequently have sex after turning in for the night, and never want to hear my parents’ too-loud conversations over breakfast in the morning while we’re trying to sleep in.

6. Have you ever broken a bed or other furniture during sex?
I never have, but one time when we were staying with Jill’s brother, we were having sex on their guest bed in the missionary position.  When Jill came, she kicked out her leg and sent a lamp flying off the nightstand and crashing to the ground.  Somehow, the body of the lamp was not damaged, either by her expert kung-fu kick, or the impact with the floor.  However, it didn’t work for the duration of our stay.  We decided not to mention it.

7. What’s your favorite type of bed for sex?
Ooh! I want to fuck on one of those racecar beds.  I bet they don’t see much action.  Alternately, i.e. if that’s way too fucking weird, I’d love to have sex on the Great Bed of Ware, which is, according to Wikipedia, “an extremely large oak four poster bed.”  Claimed to be the largest bed in the world, it can accommodate more than fifteen people at once.  Since Jill’s inclusion is a given, I had fun deciding who would make up the other thirteen occupants.

“…And you were there, and you, and you…”