RantWoman Sleeps--or Not

RantWoman collected this item from a Tweet stream about  #potus45 The President's daily tweet cycles: first tweet at 5:46 am one day, last tweet 12:22 am the next day. Twitter was wondering how he maintains his #stablegenius persona on that little sleep. https://www.healthline.com/health/sleep-deprivation/effects-on-body#7 The article has all kinds of links in case rantWoman or anyone else needs more detail and / or more exhortations to get more sleep than one is probably in the US getting. RantWoman recognizes that there could be many things impairing the President's sleep. RantWoman also in no way feels ANY responsibility for the President's sleep hygiene even if she is one of probably millions of voices contributing to presidential sleeplessness. RantWoman is simply doing her part for the republic by tending to her own sleep issues and praying fervently that the idea might catch on and the planet might be spared at least a SMALL percentage of presidential electronic mu...

Appointment and pizza early afternoon in Fremont Safeway on way home. Ice cream bar and some of bean and rice with spinach added for dinner Also, a meeting with Vietnamese sandwiches. Ate half at meeting and half about 9 pm. No tingling in hands and not as heavy feeling on awakening as other late night foods. Moderate total amount of walking. I aim for more but I need to work my way back up and just plan time walking without baggage. Cannot remember the exact sleep hours. Maybe 1:30-6 and then back to bed for like half an hour about 9.

Sunday: Cool , the kind of cool that means one spends all day thinking a jacket would have been a good idea except that a jacket would have been to much. Decent amount of walking bus to worship. Worship to Subway and Rt 44 Walk long way to catch the E line. Collect mail Bus back downtown and out to Rite Aid. to pick up prescriptions. Frownie Face for no more public restroom at QFC Light rail to Columbia City "Cook" at PCC Supper with Mom including conference call. Thirsty and want something hot so Earl Grey Tea 5 pm No, no cheap RantWoman mocha at 9. No. Just go to bed! 12:30. early for a change. Hah. Wake up at 4:30. Monday is full so tend to stuff not done last night. Use restroom. Decide I am hungry so eat breakfast. By 8:30 energy flagging but dressed so not back to bed. table end « Back to Drafts Send Save Draft Discard Draft Draft saved at 10:08 am (7 minutes ago) 1 of hundreds Older › Search accurately with operators  including from: to: subject:. You are cur...

Saturday: --Cool weather. Good time to make pots of the week: barley chicken stew and start some lima beans. --Wash hair and do household chores. So activity, but decide not to go out for errands. Early Supper time: Cheese sandwich applesauce gingersnaps. Whole grain bread and juice but maybe not enough fiber. 9 pm  Decide to walk for fast food. White bean chicken chili and guacamole chips. Body needed legumes. Did body need legumes at that hour? . Home Doze Bed 1:30 awake 5:50. So at least > 4 hours but body not sure about needing food so late at night.

Wherein RantWoman comes back from 7 pm close at The Friendly Neighborhood Center... eats barley and random vegetables pilaf, squash, English muffin with peanut butter, listens to radio, considers more computer time but fusses with Twitter and email on phone. RantWoman fell asleep at some point, woke up about 1:30, went to bed, slept until almost 6. Still just over 4 hours and the eat breakfast or got back to bed question. Ate breakfast. Twitter time. A lot of Twitter time but not convinced it is necessarily too much Twitter time Radio says smoke is gone. My nostrils disagree. #seattlesmoke

Cancelled one meeting due to smoke and incomplete preparation. Walked two blocks to buy lunch. Exhausted after walk home. Last night home from going out in the #SeattleSmoke. Home about 9 pm.  Very energized by event even though not sure I can add related activity to life. Stay tuned. Hungry despite clearly having eaten plenty. Bottle of juice plus more ice water. Intend just to go to bed. Doze in chair. Wake up. Solve more than one Sudoku puzzles. Go to bed about 2 am after messing up the third puzzle. Go to sleep listening to the earthquake book. Wake up unsure whether I hit the sleep button. Definitely hit the sleep button and went back to sleep. Sleep almost 5 hours. Woohoo. Wake up. BLUE SKY. Breeze. MAYBE the smoke is blowing away.

The resource of the evening: The Insomnia Project home page and connections to a podcast. http://www.theinsomniaproject.com/ Last night RantWoman made it to bed about 2:30 and up past 7. Sort of 2.5 hours. Look, it is  2:47 am. RantWoman should have headed to bed around 11:30. Instead she has been dozing in the AC. RantWoman will go to sleep soon. RantWoman does not HAVE to be anywhere

  Haze check view from my balcony Despite the haze, RantWoman slept > 5 hours. RantWoman INTENDED to go to bed before falling asleep but the chair grabbed her until 1:30 am. Awake around 7. Cannot remember the dream this morning but there was one. Body also needed to use restroom or maybe RantWoman would have slept longer. The rest of this is tales from the land of haze. 

When in doubt make limeade. First a paean to pathways to literacy. RantWoman spent a lot of time with her face in magazines such as Women's Day on her way to literacy. So RantWoman smiled just to think of Women's Day online, never mind the lecture and guilt trip about things getting in the way of sleep: https://www.womansday.com/health-fitness/wellness/a52369/reasons-why-youre-always-tired/ How many of the above pieces of advice will RantWoman immediately violate? If only by composing on a screen...? Sure RantWoman, let Internet Research guru friend invite herself over with leftover cantaloupe and green bean salad. Save the cantaloupe. Eat some of the salad. Also much some popcorn for the sake of nerves. It's fiber. And some of the steamed cauliflower from the fridge. Sure, RantWoman listen politely to Internet Research Guru friend recount her findings about sleep, PCOS, what to eat or mostly not to eat before bedtime.... No RantWoman, NO black tea. The Evening i...

Awesome day of breathing and household activities of daily Living. Plenty of exercise. Power outage resolved itself in time to roast butternut squash and make barley and random vegetables pilaf for potluck. Potluck menu: chicken, gorgeous watermelon mint feta salad with lime juice olive oil pepper dressing. Decadent chocolate and cream dessert. Modest peach and rhubarb pie. Wine. Excellent company. Bus to potluck: the heartbreak of not getting across the street and then needing to connect with something that has a half-hour headway. But it was bright and sunny and who could waste time being grumpy? After potluck, face in Twitter while the tail end of the potluck including RantWoamn's ride home chattered about hearing aids and moments with adult children. Home and parting hugs. Eat the piece of pie brought home for tomorrow. Consider going to computer lab. Consider watching vids on phone. Sleep in chair 10:30 - 1:30 the bed 1:30 up 7:07 5+ hours dream fragments Dream fragm...

Somewhat adequately exercised today. Some of haze seems to have blown off. Will either help as far as sleeping? Sleep: last night in bed shortly after 3. Awake towards 8. Woo hoo. Almost 5 hours, not counting falling asleep earlier. Don't forget haze and light pollution.

It will be well past 2 am when RantWoman hits the pillow. Ummmm RantWoman is feeling underexercised because of the wildfire haze. Eyes burn, Feel lethargic at same time as muscles want to move. Feeling too lethargic to walk a few blocks to walk around in air conditioning at nearby big box store. Note to self: write up minimize walking routing from yesterday. Note to self: admit it. Even when the city is NOT so hazy one cannot see nearby landmarks, RantWoman is walking less than she used to. CAN she notch things back up a little? Note to self: food rhythms off a little. Eggplant sandwich and grande sized black tea before 7 pm as part of stay hydrated efforts. But the caffeine. Also made limeade later at home. Leftover meatballs about 8 pm? Ummmm RantWoman from time to time allows her brain to be infested by earworms. Or more precisely, RantWoman listens to the same song or piece of music over and over for awhile. In the realm of not sleeping, RantWoman is currently in the thrall ...

Really tired of wildfire haze. Eyes burn, and not just from annoying and repetitive medical experiences. Really tired of wildfire haze. Body wants more exercise, but lungs do not even want to walk to a big box store with AC and cleaner air. Really tired of wildfire haze. Did RantWoman mention, Really tired of wildfire haze? Yesss, RantWoman, so GO TO BED. The CPAP mask absolutely helps. The starving orca who carried her dead calf around for two weeks received an air drop of live salmon. No word on whether she actually got to eat some, but she let her calf go. Retweet the number of the suicide hotline every time it comes up. Digression about what friends of RantWoman say about why they do not commit suicide: "I'm a Buddhist. I believe in Reincarnation. I do not want to have to go through all this shit again." "...al the time...I figure that if things ever got so bad I would actually be ready to try anything, probably I would just botch things and come out s...

There is a Chekhov short story called Sleepy, Спать хочется where the main character spends most of the story fighting sleep and the things that keep her from sleeping. In the novel "Oblomov" by Nikolai Goncharov, it takes the main character 50 pages to decide to get out of bed. RantWoman falls somewhere between these two poles. This blog is dedicated to sleep, particularly RantWoman and sleep. RantWoman needs to sleep more than she does. RantWoman does not always manage to do things that probably would help her sleep more. This blog is partly intended to collect data in hopes that RantWoman can settle on some steady practices to help her get more sleep. What time does RantWoman fall asleep? Is this before or after RantWoman goes to bed? What time does RantWoman go to bed? What time does RantWoman get up? Does RantWoman go back to bed? If so, how long does she sleep the second round? Adventures with CPAP The Queen of Spades and behavior issues. What ti...

Sunday night: Home from Mom's about 8:30. Sudoku. Radio. Twitter. Got to bed at 12 or a little earlier No book. Need to charge player. No radio. SLEEP. 1:00 in the @#$#$#@*( morning: FIRE ALARM. Stay in bed and fall easily back to sleep. Awake about 5:45. So much for too much more sleep. Meant to go back to bed, but radio, breakfast, shower and need to leave by 8:45. Another gosh dang fire alarm eye dr. Visual field test. Ugh. Conference call transit mail, pick up prescription and some other shopping, bank for quarters and home. Feel underexercised but air is still hazy, also some shortness of breath. Walk more. Walk more. Walk more. Hard to do because of haze. Evening Meant to get to STAR sometime around 7, 8, 9. Made tea maybe 7:30. Drank end of the cup after fill the water bottle. Okay after 9 Work, Facebook. Ruh-roh: mini peanut butter cups at 9:30. Doze for awhile until after 10. Doze and email and ... Computer reboots at 12:00 Suddenly I am alive and have...

#caturday night live: the Queen of Spades asleep across my chest or snuggled on my shoulder. Intentions about writing more of what is on my mind dissolve in inertia mind is still captivated by July 10 #SeaTac plane episode: --Holy SHIT: two fighters scrambled. WTF??? Watch. Don't even retweet for awhile. --a guy with no pilot's license doing barrel rolls and asking about the mother orca still pushing her dead calf to the surface --CALM on the Air Traffic Control radio. --Ground stop at the airport --The raw OH WOW eyewitness video clips --The sad end: did the guy have health benefits with mental health coverage? Did he plan it or just on the spur of the moment seize the opportunity? Hours dozing in chair I hate wildfires haze. Western news Nachos tapioca pudding cottage cheese 2:45 to bed Wake up around 7, think about going back to bed after breakfast but dawdle and still leave for Meeting later than usual.

Ratatouille for supper but late STAR center until about 2 and home. Cat needed to wash my arm. Probably the garlic in the Ratatouille Digestion said enough of ratatouille. Loose stool but relief and probably slept better. Tried Sudoku. Oops In bed shortly after 3 Awake 6:30 uh oh Banana egg oatmeal Back to bed after 7. Wake up about 8:45 Need to be out door before 10

RantWoman, GO TO BED. Do not spend all night looking for clip art. You already fell asleep once mid search shortly after midnight. When you woke up, first of all the search was not returning anything like what you thought you were looking for. Second, whatever decisionmaking capacity you  have during daylight hours is long out the window. It's almost 2 am. GO TO BED. Explain about this blog tomorrow. GO TO BED. Good Night!