It's Time For Farm Babies!

It is almost time! Time for for Farm Babies at the Minnesota Zoo! Starting April 1st they open up the Wells Fargo Farm and with it the yearly Farm Babies exhibit. Baby pigs, rabbits, cows, sheep, and GOATS! All available to see up close for the month of April! The farm is one of my favorite parts of the Zoo because while the animals are not exotic in any way, you can get up close with most of the animals in this area. Pet a cow, pat a horse, feed a goat, run from a chicken (really- they are freaky lookin). I mean look at this little guy, he is just so cute!

My Unassuming Sleep Positions?

In the past year I have developed some of the strangest sleeping habits.I have always tossed and turned in my sleep...okay flipped rather than tossed. I don't wake up in order to do it, I just flop over from my back onto my stomach. I am kind of a restless sleeper only I am sleeping so I don't notice the restless part:)
Yet this year my tossing and turning has reached new levels. Please refer to the diagrams below if you are a visual learner, or just because they are there. (the white and purple things are my multiple pillows, though I only show 3 here I have 5 regular sized ones and 1 body)

When i start out at bedtime I am on one side of my queen size bed, usually on my back (picture in the upper left), the next time I awake I usually find myself kiddy corner across the bed with my head approx. in the same location (picture in the upper right). That's not a big deal, I am just stretching out right? Just using up the extra leg room available in the bed. There is nothing wrong with that. It is the third position that I find myself in that baffles me. I proceed throughout the night to keep turning further and further to my right until my body is parallel to the pillows and and I am laying with my head (sometimes) on a pillow that I have twisted around to the side and with my feet all but hanging off the side of my bed (pictures are not to scale, duh). The only conclusion I have come to so far is that even in my sleep I am strange.

Some claim that your sleep position tells you something about your personality-

Sleep Position No. 1: Crouched in the fetal position: Shy and sensitive

Sleep Position No. 2: Soldier position flat on the back with arms at the sides: Quiet and reserved
Sleep Position No. 3: On the side with legs outstretched and arms down: Social and easy-going
Sleep Position No. 4: On the side with legs outstretched and arms outstretched: Suspicious
Sleep Position No. 5: Flat on the tummy with hands at the sides of the head: Brash and gregarious
Sleep Position No. 6: On the back with outstretched arms and legs: Unassuming and a good listener

Then I would have to put myself under No. 6 as far as my "style" of sleep. Do the descriptions fit me, yes but so do many of the others. Do I think the way I sleep describes some of my personality? I can see where the correlation would come in, when you fall asleep you are at your most vulnerable, and your most comfortable so ergo the way certain people fall asleep might have something to do with if they are shy, outgoing, calm or nervous people, but sometimes how I go to sleep just depends on how tired I was when I was reading a boring part of a book:)

Back in the Saddle Again

For the past two summers I have really slacked off as far as watching what I eat and exercising and have managed to gain back some of the weight that I had lost:( (about 10 pounds) This past week i made a concentrated effort to exercise and eat better and had some great results. Not only did I have more energy but I also lost 2lbs! Right now I am concentrating on just losing the 10 lbs to give myself a small goal, but my ultimate goal will be to lose another 40 lbs. Here we go!