Take time to think about the important things

Fake it til' you make it?

Health Magazine recommends a technique called paradoxical relaxation to trick your brain into thinking you took a nap.

The technique, from Matthew Edlund, M.D and author of The Power of Rest, attempts to create a form of active rest to help you recover from a night of tossing and turning. Edlund explains how to do it by saying,

Focus on one muscle group in your body for at least 15 seconds, concentrating only on how it feels and nothing else. Repeat up and down the body. Surprise — you feel recharged.

I tried it but it didn't really work. What do you think? Try and share you experience!

Tommy Pickles did it.. you should too.

Spicing things up... kind of

I feel like my blog and I are on an episode of What Not to Wear. My blog is nice and plain.. but nice and plain doesn't attract the followers. On top of that, I'm having a hard time changing things because I like the simplicity. Clearly we have a problem.

Nonetheless, I tried a few different backgrounds. I was sticking with the cloud/sky-look theme, but nothing was cutting it. I gave up on that eventually and decided to play around with a few new header ideas. I added a little clip art, as you can see, but I don't know how well it meshes with the colors of my existing theme.

So, I'm a little stuck. Any ideas and opinions would be much appreciated!

A little advice for future bloggers...

Do some researching before choosing a title. Luckily blogspot was on my side, so I was able to switch before any weird realizations. For those of you that don't know, Happily Napping was called Happy Napping when I was foolishly posting on Tumblr.

Check out what a "happy nap" means on Urban Dictionary:

I certainly don't want my blog associated with that!

Don't you like the new name a lot better now?

Too cool to drool?

I think at one point and time we've all found ourselves in a puddle of our own saliva after a nap. Not many of us like to admit that, but it's true! This and some inspiration from classmates led me to our good friend Google. For the most part I was disgusted, but I learned that drooling can be a little serious.

Usually, drooling is caused by the inability to contain excess saliva. In most cases, this is no big deal unless you insist on having a dry pillow case. However in some cases, drooling can be really problematic. Issues with drooling include an increased risk of breathing saliva, food, or fluids into the lungs. This may cause harm if there is a problem with the body's normal reflexes (such as gagging and coughing). Good news is, drooling problems are treatable!

How do you feel about drooling? Is it just another bodily function that we all accept but aren't willing to talk about or is it absolutely disgusting?

I have a confession...

I haven't actually taken a nap in a very long time. I'll go ahead and estimate that it's been somewhere around two weeks.. and before that, it was an even longer period of time. Sadly, all this blogging about napping is using up my nap time!

With that, here's some advice to the children that don't like nap time: GET ALL THE SLEEP YOU CAN. Get off Facebook and stop texting your BFF about how that boy in your kindergarten class is really cute and just take a nap. Trust me, you will have plenty of time to act "grown-up" when you have actually grown up.