RantWoman Sleeps--or Not

6ish hours of sleep.  The cat is displeased with the pathetic new canned food on the supper menu so she was insistently hungry for breakfast. So much for just lying in bed and being warm. But I DID decide to double check the wingnuts holding the braces in place on my new bed. I expect that will need regular monitoring. There is a new earworm in town. The Bach cello suite is exquisite but it's spring and time for some brain candy tinged with.... This came to me via an ABBA loving linguist colleague from my 1989 study abroad trip to Leningrad / St Petersburg.  As for why it is in season....

 4 ish hours of sleep not counting time in chair falling asleep to late night comedy on my phone. The cat again because we still need visuals I need to remember not to eat much after dinner. This also means I need a real dinner break and not just a succession of noshing even if the noshing is popcorn fruit... I am still smiling from huge sense of welcome that came through in a recent memorial and people who attended or did not attend. I miss the welcome. I have no idea what the current vision is... I am trying to figure out why a sort of interesting NPYM nominating committee request makes me so anxious. Need to keep telling story involving vocabulary that just keeps getting erased from story. Grrr. Time to find a new earworm. I love the cello suite and I will probably come back to it. The Elgar cello concerto is WAY TOO MUCH for an earworm.. I did not get one monthly report done last night so I had to hop to it this morning before deadline and before I have to get on a bus to deal with

 6+ hours of sleep. 4 hours and go back to bed after breakfast because I was too much of a slug to try to do anything else.  I may need to go back to oatmeal for breakfast. More fiber than the gluten free box stuff I have been eating this week purple mask, not how usually worn Downside of going back to bed: I missed my weekly 9 am telecomm issues zoom. Sigh. I also need a grubby housecleaning clothes strategy. I do not think I want to do chores in my sleepwear. I am conscious of wanting to keep sleep space as clean as possible. Do chores in yesterday's clothes. Then shower for the day. I started to pile old shoes in one of my Amazon boxes. I will leave the box in the elevator and see whether any of neighbors can use. I started to pile shoes because i was looking for my purple mask. I did find the mask and I cleaned up some old CPAP tubing and stuff to throw away. Yay! purple mask. Whatever CDC says about outside, I tend to be outside going from one inside to another. Hence mask whe

 Almost 6 hours of sleep in bed. Plus another half hour or so drowsing in the chair after laundry before bed.  Catching some morning cuddles It was so pleasant just to lie in bed and be warm. I could have done that longer, but the cat was hungry and so actually was I. More sleep after breakfast would not have been terrible but the day impinged.  Laundry last night was less "you think the UN has intercultural problems, ya oughta try LAUNDRY" and more just crip fights simmering below the surface. My next door neighbor uses a wheelchair. He also has progressive vision and hearing limitations. And he does his own laundry. That is admirable except for his obstinate practice of parking his wheelchair and laundry basket  to block not only access to the machine he is trying to use but also to a couple other machines in the area. And then he can't or won't hear when asked to move. I got 4 loads washed and dried in the top level dryers in spite of the potential mobility issues

 4 ish hours of sleep. I am wired from various zooms. Call friend. Friend is wired from a cool thing at her church. I will send her Women's lectionary info. I am now less wired. Go to bed at a decent hour. But First the water tank was too full in my CPAP. Get up. dump some water. Then mask wouldn't seal right. Okay fine. Have new mask and tubing. Get up. Deal. Now too wired to sleep. Figs, chocolate, Water bottles Do an easy Wednesday crossword from the archive. Go back to bed. Mask seals. Breathe. Breathe. Sleep Until cat wakes up and enough moving around just means going back to bed is infeasible. And stop digressing with the #DisabilityTwitter hashtag. Lunch was figs and chocolate but AFTER the brown rice cauliflower cheese and sesame seed feast.  Twitter can learn what's for lunch again tomorrow.

 About 5 hours of sleep. The lilac bush There is such a thing as going to bed too early. But anyway I got up early enough to have a shower before Quakerness. And the lilacs are in honor of a walk last night--to Taco Time is all--and the wonderful smell of the lilacs in the rain,.

 5.5 hours of sleep.  Knock over trash cans? Who me? It would have been fabulous to sleep another hour especially since I went to Bible study in my pajamas anyway. The cat likes to knock over the trash can with the recycling where the empty at food cans go.

 Almost 6 hours of sleep in my new bed. It helps to go to bed at a reasonable hour. It helps to do Bach cello suite instead of too much late night comedy. I beach towel turned sometimes blanket f this were a meet in person year, I would be in someone's car headed over the pass to slow down and breath fresh air and... Usually on such expeditions, I pack some sheets and plan to use my beach towel for a blanket. This year, the beach towel gets to hang on the back of my chair. Not as much pine-scented air and rushing stream. On the other hand homemade borscht and other food items of choice are better than...

 about 5 hours of sleep. I did not get to bed as early as previously. blooming lilacs only one reason spring is glorious I also had exercise as in trip to grocery outlet too late in the day. And it would make sense to listen to the whole earworm a little later. It really helped soothe but early listen made it easy to work and get hyper. Okayyyy Other nexus of energy and anxiety. Not that RantWoman is more coherent anyway.

 Another 6+ hours night. New bed is clearly wondrous. yesterday was a good outing. New SOCKS! I am bummed that Hai Tai market has closed their restrooms. Still plenty of reasons to go there, but ways to deal with bus bladder are definitely a big selling point. Trip up north was partly to retrieve new socks from mailbox. Now I can retire some that are worn out. New sock, light compression make me VERY happy and without all the anxiety of meeting with actual people. I need to remember name of guy who wrote My Grandmother's Hands. A Salmon Bay book group is reading.The book has lots of body practices to think about reactions to different circumstances.  Have some nice lilacs Some bus realities are entirely a foreign country  to others in the group. Let's see: African American guy who is clearly mentally ill is harassing Asian woman in extremely vile terms. Is my reaction any different than when white guy was berating bus driver for trying to deal with possible medical emergency fo

 Close to SEVEN hours of sleep. New bed. Summer bedding even the blanket was too much Thank you new bed and very satisfied exhaustion from the cleanup prep and putting it all together.  I needed to run new sheets and mattress pad through laundry and went to laundry room earlier than usual. Fairly busy place and I needed to pay attention to wheelchair using neighbor who needed floor level dryer. But it all worked and early enough that I could make the bed so it was ready when I was ready to fall into it. I had unrealistic expectations about being able to write coherently after a day of all that. So I just went to bed early--and slept, almost 7 hours uninterrupted. Last nigh bed seemed too squishy way too squishy but delivery person sait it could take up to 24 hours to fill out. This morning it was already way better when i did my morning back stretches. Someone asked whether the cat approves. Apparently because she was curled up on the other pillow when I fell asleep.  But this morning

 About 5 hours of sleep.  Is this REALLY a queen size mattress? I went back to bed after feeding cat 4 hours in but when I thought I heard knocking an hour later, i just bolted out of bed and decided just to DEAL WITH impending arrival of a new mattress, thank you stimulus payment and Amazon. The title covers it. I probably will feel it tomorrow, but today I just feel well-exercised.

 5 ish hours of sleep. All the floor scrubbing exercise must have been good for me. Way fewer aches and also it seems better sleep. Bus stop minus both bench and glass Longer would not have been terrible except body / God? was clearly telling me not just to sit and not just to drown in words on keyboard. It was a GLORIOUS day. There was a #FindItFixIt gripe involved. There was a quite agreeable Service animals sign--which doesn't apply to the Service python because no one can see it. There was enough trip chaining to come home with renewed supplies of limes and cuties. And for much we are grateful.

 Somewhere over 5 hours of sleep not counting nodding off from sitting tied down with headphones.  I really should look in the computer lab for some external speakers for travels in Zoom land. Boxes. Bedding New heavy duty bed platform Virtue is I GOT MY FLOOR MOPPED. We will not discuss the interval since last time. I should aim to do it weekly. Also weather is supposed to be glorious all weekend so hopefully the mop will dry on the balcony before the bare balcony police come through on Monday. Good God there is a lot of my hair in the floor grime. Thank heaven for my lovely TubShroom that catches hair before it can clog the bathtub drain.  Body feels well exercised and less achy than when I don't exercise.  Nutrition?Supper was popcorn, cuties, and white chocolate reees cups. I could do worse. I could also do better.  Saturday Zooms include mundane but vexing non-profit matters in one group and news that state president of related group and her husband and many relatives they liv

 Almost six hours of sleep. I woke up ridiculously early and went back to bed before part of breakfast. I woke up to timid knocking. A delivery I was expecting Monday showed up today and got plonked in front of someone else's door. THANK YOU to neighbor for telling me. It will be a wonderful platform bed once I move a bunch of stuff and get the new frame set up. Now about the communications fiascoes. Herself, here, just being black I realized a callback I was expecting from earlier in the week may have happened and I might have mistaken it for Spam. Arrggh because I do need to clean things up... And for the latest in probably you shouldn't try this at home dental extractions. I was eating dried figs for a snack. Suddenly there was something VERY hard. Urk. A tooth, I think one that had a root canal so maybe no wonder I didn't feel anything. But, yeah, you can skip the photo and enjoy another visitation from the Queen of Spades. Calamity in cat's life. The default flavor

somewhere close to 6 hours of sleep counting going back to bed for 1.5 hours after breakfast. Picketers at bus stop. Go union. Get a contract. I woke up wired with dreams of brother, probably related to an email exchange yesterday referring to him. Also quaker light based on dramas among "those other blind people." I got dishes washed and stove scrubbed. Stove really needed it.  Tomorrow the floor. Postponed mattress delivery to line up with bed frame. REALLY looking forward to better sleeping conditions but I really need to rearrange room. As for after vaccine effects: My left arm where I got the shot is a little sore. I am tired but I was already dealing with tiredness. I get texts wanting me to check in but something is not working on my phone about links in text in general so of course i can't respond to these either.

Almost 6 hours because it was a go back to bed morning. I am experimenting with a basket of Amazon services. Nice to get Whole Foods delivery in a 2-hour window. The text thing not so much. Got secong COVID shot. Mothers Day Live here we come! And the same earworm but with a wonderful zebra in the intro

Close to six hours of sleep. There appears to be a time window where if I would just go back to bed after I feed the cat I might easily sleep longer. But if I sit or move too much I am awake and aware of being hungry. Today I made instant oatmeal with dried apricots instead of just raisins. Does that explain revelations? Such light as comes to me comes partly from a memorial I found--because I had the right tools and knowhow and because over the #$#@ of years I have been dealing with the collision of vision loss and technology the FJ website has become more accessible, ie Quakers are publishing truth in the media of the day. The divorced first wife mentioned in the memorial was a Quaker touchstones before it became logistically possible for RantWoman even to consider attending Meeting. The divorce is because Quaker touchstone fell in love with a woman who was connected with some AMAZING moments of meeting process.. cookies for a snack Other signs of hope: --There is a sign on my door s

 somewhere over 3 hours of sleep. Instant oatmeal  with flax meal and nutritional yeast Because...sirens. Twitter says there was a fire pretty near me. At about 5 am. Sometimes after stuff like that, car crashes in the tunnel... I can go back to sleep. Not this time. Last night I was nipping at news. Then I realized I needed some more music. Then it was almost 3 am. And snacking late is always a dumb idea.

 Not quite 5 hours of sleep. Black cat, window green trees At a certain point I still had many more words, but it was obvious that sleep was the best idea. I do not understand something I think related to browser about why I have larger text size than usual. I think I will take it but at some point reboot and figure things will go back to normal that way. Sorry if that is too much techie nerd stuff. And here is the cat yesterday who survived her morning hairball today.

5+ hours of sleep Good music seems to be working like a charm to climb down from all kinds of things

 Almost SIX hours of sleep without even having to go back to bed. Woohoo. (Okay, apparently I needed to repeat myself. Good to know some things still look the same at the end of the day not counting new travels. Black cat white human in goofy hat and purple bathrobe And getting to bed at a reasonable hour AND doing four loads of laundry first. It is just awesome when I hit the laundry room and all the machines are empty. Another exciting medical visit. More "you are now more genetically interesting but since you have no symptoms that happen to people with the original reason you came to us, let's just add a few things to our list to keep an eye on." I am basically fine with that  Except Except now I get to figure out what boundaries are even possible given genetic overlap with all my sister's medical travails. LOTs of points where it would be easy to say I am so glad I did x or y differently than my sister, but that can get insufferable really fast.

 Almost SIX hours of sleep The Queen of Spades appreciating warm cat furniture time Ready to sleep after vigorous activities of daily living exercise doing laundry. The laundry gods were smiling. I took exactly 4 loads of wash with me to the laundry room. Miraculously all 4 washers were available and NO ONE else was in the laundry room for most of my laundry exercise. I have to go out. I am wearing one of my baseball masks again because they are the ones out of all my options that stay on best. Just because I wear baseball masks though does NOT guarantee that I will be able to have any kind of sensible conversation about baseball. Sorry I guess to disappoint.

6.5 hours of sleep. 5 plus go back to bed. I hate missing daylight but my body seems to appreciate sleep and exercise and good music. No, it did not seem fitting to be trying to buy furniture during the Bach Easter Oratorio. Even if it's in German and I am not trying to do some kind of bilingual follow the lyrics thing, crucifying Jesus while dealing with Amazon just does not seem right. But the Bach cello suite #6 in D major was just the thing and especially performed by a guy who bows with the cello on his shoulder. I am so excited. I got my stimulus payment and ordered a new bed to replace the one that is 25 years old and lumpy and otherwise difficult to deal with. Now I get to hope the delivery of the new platform and the mattress line up.  And my admitted student replied to my email. I am thrilled and humbled. Of the 7 applicants I interviewed she and a different person popped to the top of my list. I had to go back and read my report from our interview to remember all the det

 Five hours of Sleep, Again. Going to bed earlier would be good. Sleeping in later also but schedule. My total grin and joy: one of the applicants I interviewed got admitted to Princeton! I reread my report and am wowed again. And I am asking to deviate from rules about one who thanked me for a kind respectful interview, favorable comparison to another interview that did not deal well with him being transgender.  So good morning world and back to the email I need to write.

 Five hours of sleep. I wanted breakfast before I got to my only clear liquids window before a CT scan. After haircut Yes indeed it was one step too far to try to watch a city council hearing on my phone with an IV in my arm. Oh well. And it would be good not to have too many tasks come in email on top of what is already there. Everybody in many parts of the Seattle medical world is dealing with migration to EPIC. People in radiology where all atwitter. Other departments seemed less flustered. My doctor thinks it will be fine but take some getting used to. My blind nurse turned discharge planner is hanging in barely. Tests are more narrative. Nothing obvious to do except watch for now. Trip home made me want to scream "Stop enabling car addiction!" In same conversation streams as urban pols who equate recovery with make more space for cars. What if Build Back better meant safe continuous travel networks for all modes? Oh wait. I repeat myself... I should do laundry. I can squ

 Five hours of sleep not counting at least an hour in my chair.  Yes, yes, body, I get it go to bed earlier.  glass salad / mixing bowl yellow salad servers Go back to bed would have been an option schedule-wise but there was also Stir around and Do Stuff, like water plants, wash dishes from yesterday and GO GET A HAIRCUT. Great clips on Broadway has been open for months. I get my hair trimmed once a year. And today's stylist graduated from high school in the same teeny MT town where my dad had has first public school teaching job, 7 study halls and band and concert weekends in Billings because the Symphony needed a bassoonist. Such the story of privilege and patronage and the wife of an oil executive out scouting for talent. And there isn't salad in this bowl anymore, but...

 Almost 6.5 hours of sleep. Woo-hoo! Accomplished by going to bed at a decent hour AND going back to bed after the first round of up and feed the cat and pee. The seafaring nectarines we didn't eat today. The FAM came over. It's the first time since I have hugged my mother in over a year. I am THRILLED that I had access to a big space. Putting things together went brilliantly. I should know my family well enough by now, no matter what time people plan on gathering, not to order pizza until everyone is on the road. Thankfully no one cared that the pizza was less than piping hot. And the nectarines? I was tasked to bring fruit. Ordering pizza came later. Anyway I went to Grocery outlet looking for strawberries. No strawberries. Nectarines from chile that were still rock hard this morning. Frozen organic blueberries 3 bags for the price of two. The nectarines are perfectly vegan. But are they climate friendly if they travel thousands of miles further than nearby markets?  But worr

 About 5 hours of sleep. The Queen of Spades practicing one of her regal poses Go back to bed? Don't ask me why it is hard to get up after 7 and still make it with just a few minutes to spare to an 11:30 blind people zoom.  Hair did get washed but trash still needs to go out. And word on blind people zoom is that robotic mops do exist. I think I would have to clear some serious grime first but then daily maintenance with robot. I would also have tp simplify apartment and I might rather pay someone and hope I am directly helping someone feed their kids. Sometimes less is more. Two clear emails and most of the crossword. Then stop. Videos. Leave before first computer shutdown at 1. Finish crossword puzzle upstairs and post weekly cat tweet and then to bed.

 5 ish hours of sleep.  Brown baby bunny green grass blue sky Sometimes when the words are coming, I just get wired and falling asleep is not to be taken for granted even if there are more words and one knows one is tired enough that words will not come well. As soon as I get my stimulus I am getting a new bed. Theoretically I could do now but.... I am waiting on a phone call from someone who works at Amazon. I am also waiting on an Amazon order. The two are unrelated. The cute bunny showed up in some friends' yard in Lynwood. Results of car events are slowly passing and there is more energy to be outside.  Merry Good Friday to anyone who has it even a little bit wired in their brain.

 About five hours of sleep. Up early enough to watch WA House transportation committee hearing on state Transpo budget. Lost in links land trying to sign in to comment and can't listen to screen reader and hearing at the same time.  Photo of Computer screen and Red cellphone holder Last night for amusement I was trying to order Peeps on Amazon. I do not NEED Peeps and luckily techno fiascoes kept me safe from this sugar buzz. But the best April Fools day meme so far: Cauliflower Flavored Peeps. Cauliflower Flavored Peeps!