RantWoman Sleeps--or Not

6 ish hours of sleep counting in the chair and in bed. More sleep also = fewer generalized body aches. Woot. Life is definitely better when I don't compute or eat too late at night. Today's blindness emails are about should we or should we not have an info table at the fair. No, because COVID. Because transportation. Because we can do a better job if we just make some vids. Stay tuned.

 Solid 5.5 almost 6 hours of sleep.  Maybe i would have slept longer if I went back to bed instead of eating breakfast first. No late night munchies AND I woke up with fewer aches than some days. Lots of exercise yesterday.  Also lots of activity and turning ingredients into food today.  Yeah lentil brownies. As for supporting case, I just can't get enough of business meetings. Stay tuned.

Somewhere over 6 hours of sleep. Thank you going to be "early" and going back to bed. Cooler nights are SO nice. If Youtube sends it to me...The English on the page assumes everyone should know what the song is. I assume it must be something from the Sami tradition and did  not look up further.

 5 ish hours of sleep but a sense of better sleep now that I have my exercise buddy. Aquaker event I had forgotten about until my email reminded me this morning. institutional memory meet continuing revelation. I bailed early from that before taking out compostand shwoeing and arrived to funeral litrugy livestream dressed but barefoot. God does not care but I am out of practice about things like preludes. I am sorry I missed the prelude. Service leaflet  is a new concept as are passing the peace and communion and a time of plague and God forgive me and more so God's followers when I speak of gluten free Jesus.

 4 ish hours of sleep in bed after 2 in chair.  I thought I had bought two different exercises but no, one black and one whit of the same one.  Pedal exerciser and this time instructions all in English

about 4.5 hours of sleep.  Definitely not enough but the crossword puzzle is done.  No late night snacking has to be the rule although the almond crackers tasted REALLY good. I got one of my cute under the desk bicycle exercisers assembled. Now, deal with getting all the packaging out of the house It's an under the desk exerciser Me with baseballs mask

 somewhere over 6 hours of sleep. And of course I need more. One path tor remedying the ills of the world, the ACB resolutions committee. Even fussier than Quakers writing minutes. So far the first one needs to be an ad campaign: taking your untrained dog everywhere IS DOG ABUSE and guide dog users are sick of it. Vegetation out front of ICH Hah. A couple resolutions later, mine is up, tweaked by a committee member befhorehand. It almost sailed through! If I had not missed two bible studies it would have been SIX zooms. I will now breathe

 About three (yikes) hours of sleep in bed and 1.5 drowsing in the chair. Up early and no going back to bed because a savvy gnome has appears to tend to STAR Center computers. Emil is full of 39+ people opining about their glory days in college living at the co-op where i also lived. And here is a visual Unofficial 2 Dickinson st house logo Masks while sleep deprived and trying to work area draf!

4 ish hours of sleep in bed after at least 1.5 dozing in chair.  Why is it so easy to fall asleep to John Oliver? Something from the garden Lots of good exercise yesterday. Two posts dated today mean something didn't save yesterday. And some of the plantings at Mom's place.

 Somewhere close to 6 hours of sleep counting flling asleep in the chair. Not going back to bed, Okay. Day of vigorous exercise. Amazon Packaging? Discuss. New Exercises plus packaging

Almost five hours of sleep. The bags formerly covering the computers pretty good considering the crossword puzzle got finished before I went to bed and i could not go back to bed because of a Quaker voice Zoom call.  But the computer lab is slowly coming back to life.

 6 ish hours of sleep. Going to bed earlier would have been grand. Sleeping longer after the cat woke me up would also have been grand.  New Mary Janes plus purple argyle socks Meaningful phone calls and a trip to mailbox to fetch several mail order item--after the Amazon box arrived.  Now I have SHOES THA FIT. They are birthday shoes from a place I now totally trust to do mail order shoes. So much fun.

5 ish hours of sleep. I could even have gone back to bed. Grocery delivery and dishes and open a package from my friend N the now-blind fisheries biologist  from the southern tip of India. N of the Good trouble in her job with the forest service. I sent N some yarn because she crochets and... She sent me back the yarn and also sent a really beautiful sari. Now I have to figure out how to put it on and find an occasion to wear it. What a nice problem to have.

 Almost 5 hours of sleep and I could definitely do more but besides the weekly telecomm zoom a techno elf volunteer is coming to the computer lab to deal with some stuff I don wanna.. Yesterday's walk excursion yieled too may doors with plywood in part of where glass usually is. BOO! The second half of a subway sandwich for breakfast. I weird treat but not something I have done in a long time. Happy Wednesday.

 4 ish hours of sleep because two good nights in a row would be unattainable. and because all the words are going to spill out in other blogs In the meantime please enjoy a nice mountain ride and bear with my fascination when God smacks down major infrastructure namely Interstate 70 with a landslide through a recent fire burn and then taking out part of the roadway. At least it doesn't appear to be the part of I70 where there are runaway truck ramps. Riding Shotgun with Mountain man Mike Did Mention that the narrative reminds me of relatives?

 I think I made it to almost 7 hours of sleep. That involved going back to bed and sleeping until 9:30. Good if difficult conversation helped. Now, what to do with TIME when I showed up 45 minutes early for a Zoom event that got rescheduled from its usual time. First world problems Today's visual is Glenwood canyon CO. 18+ minutes--plus narrative Nah. Forget 18 minutes of drive through the Glenwood Canyon landslide zone. Instead make fried eggplant with honey and goat cheese. (?!?!?) I wonder how it would taste if there were cardamom involved.

 4 ish hours of sleep. One contribution from today's gifomatic search for Prayer. Luckily I have several daily texting buddies with a sense of humor. Very flashy gif with typo Add harrowing radio shows about mountain climbing to the things one should avoid getting hooked on at what might reasonably be bedtime. Plus I do not entirely trust Wikipedia but one look at the Wikipedia version of Afghan history, culture, international relations: all I can say is PRAY.

Pretty sure I made it to at least 8 hours of sleep, 5 before breakfast and another 3 after breakfast. So OF COURSE now I have more words and maybe even more words will make it onto paper Wildfire smoke is exhausting. Yesterday I badly needed exercise and could not summon energy even to heat anything responsible up. So I went out foraging for food with my faltering phone battery, several nearby places that didn't work. Bus to new PCC and a place to eat soup indoors did, but I still needed to drown my eyes in artificial tears when I came home. Today I took a chance mid morning and baked some potato strips. Then this and that on the shopping from and then shampoo and some clothing themed chores. A good scalp scrub is SO invigorating. Then I got hooked on  a couple radio shows and one thing led to another as far as tastes and search engine results and available ingredients. I now have several days of quinoa date almond tahini porridge. The taste test rocked. Plus the bean soup I need t...

 4 hours of sleep in bed. another 1.5 asleep in the chair. AC in the computer lab is so seductive. Late night videos on the phone don't help. Today's option in loose fitting single layer clothing: long sleeved white blouse with blue paisley design. Nave capris and navy diamond compression socks. Such concious choices are part of my self care plan

5.5 hours of sleep counting going back to be and ignoring a harassing phone call at 8 am. None of the civic extreme heat resource media streams say just ride the bus but most transit vehicles have AC. mac and cheese demo cup in need of trash can I needed TP. The Amazon fresh store at 23rd and Jackson is having a grand opening. Walgreens both had TP and had it at an amazing price in package size thatwas eary to carry home. Amazon fresh gets its own post. There goes the neighborhood? 

 5 ish hours of sleep in bed and more in chair before.  I clearly still want to do more in a day than is humanly possible but as an adult at least I do not have glasses fights with my mother trying to pry glasses off my face and make me go to bed. Ahhh adulthood. I was never into flahlight under covers but maybe braille would have been cool. The package Body craves exercise, defined as cooking but not other chores. At least I turned ingredients into food that I will only have to reheat during heatwave. At least I got rent paid today. Yesterday bank wanted to show me a bunch of spiffy new tricks and I justwanted to get my rent paid in the finite interval I had between scheduled items. Landlord is very forgiving abut timelines especially in pandemia but still Arrrrggggh! The other day I was at farmers market at Grocery Outlet. Talk about parking lot zoo. I had cash and could have skipped other shopping and just bought berries. Instead I bought one enourmus cauliflower and replen...

 well over 6 hours of sleep maybe close to 7 gounting going back to bed. does digital literacy require random customers to know how to find funky gifs on their phone? late night spaghetti sauce and no spaghetti snack turned out to be just the hot food needed even though I was definitely NOT hungry when I first woke up. Get ready for heatwave. --read cliff mass weather blog. Finally formulate grumpiness about accessibility point. --Read items in and commenting about OEM Twitter feed. Yes indeed all public transit vehicles have AC but for people with no fan or inclination to walk to a bus... --Read latest ad email from beloved compression sock vendor. Find an accessiblity point to grumble about. Resist the urge to copy edit when I read the offending text with my eyes. Speaking of dancing garden produce, here is yesterday's silly gif from my phone's vast gf troves. Yesterday's enouncter with rhubarb blueberry bars reminded me I would be happy to adopt any and all stray garden ...

5 hours of sleep. Go to bed earlier. Morning schedule did not permit going back to bed even if I am still drowsy from all my exercise yesterday. Now back to today's powerpoint in pdf. Fun. Fun I signed up for. I guess  Digression for a foodie vlog. This guy's voice alone does it,

 Did I really make it to almost 7 hours of sleep? Just eat whole grain carbs and wait for sleep to set in? Black cat, whitish couch Much vigorous exercise today and bus missteps before landing at Whole Foods. The place is SO overwhelming in person, but some times I would so much rather be in person. Welcome to #FirstWorld Problems The Boy across the hall is into an I hate clothes and shoes stage. More importantly now we need to work on a let's not leave loose toys and tricycles strewn all over the hallway for blind neighbors to trip on phase. Manners question: what does one do when one enters a building just as the muslim bus driver is kneeling to pray?    Other than that, eat some ibuprofen for aches and aim for steadier daily levels of both exercise and sleep..

 4 ish hours of sleep. Amazing how if I wake up at 6:30 and am due on a blind people zoom at 11:30 I can do breakfast and wash hair and barely make it to my Zoom. First Zoom adjourned to go to a second blindness related Zoom. Then a quaker zoom.

 5.6 hours of sleep. 4 before breakfast and 1.5 after. Thank you disappearing internet and crossword puzzle. I was too tired to dig up phone number and call about internet problems last night. Luckily they seem to have solved themselves today. Crossword puzzle did the magic last few letters fall info place thing... From my phone's gif trove When I woke up the second time I did the standard bed linens in a hot dryer for 20 min bedbug prophylaxis and changed my sheets. I am not sure I am going to like the microfiber ones. Like I wouldn't have bought if I had been paying attention, but let's give it a go. I have various adult chores like pay rent but also a whole stack of useful info for a family dealing with kids' vision loss. Dance of which people with which titles, which experience, which familiarity with that advocacy area need to weave together which narrative. Hey y'all I am new at some of this...

 over 7 hours of sleep counting almost 5 before breakfast and 2.5 after breakfast. That schedule is SUCH a luxury. Am I allowed to tell the person from the 800number receptionists who keeps referring problems to me to use his own dang search engine. What about the person who called in? Thank you so much Construction company clerical staff for calling to inquire about ADA braille signage. USE THE GOOGLE. I don't even like beer but a beer with a slice of lime sounds so much nicer than worrying about transmissibility of delta, gamma, epsilon...  I ain't gonna quit masking indoors anytime soon, not even in the poorly ventialted restroom used by Metro bus drivers on the end of their run.

 5 + hours of sleep. I was Hungry last night. Try to eat responsible supper earlier but the cat food expedition kinked the schedule. Now plenty of cat food. The cat, the couch I made it up and showered and dress for 8 AM Bible study. What blessed connections. Must cut the Zoom to write a monthly report. But yes, if one has two devices one CAN attempt two Zoom's at once. Whether or not one SHOULD do that is...

about 4.5 hours in bed and 1.5 in the chair after breakfast. Yes I should have gone back to bed as I told myself a couple times until it was too late and time to get dressed for counseling appt. It's zucchini season. I have zucchini I plan to eat as a vegetable but if I had a too large zucchini I would make zucchini bread or zucchini chocolate cake. What is most interesting about this recipe is the cooking technique. 

well over SEVEN hours of sleep. 4+ hours then up and then go back to bed for almost 3 more. Birthday Present! The delivery is a big part of the present Let's hear it for a month of almost nonstop Zoom excursions and vigorous exercise yesterday. I should not feel so achy today just because of exercise yesterday.  Wonderful writing group: before next meeting a month out I will elaborate in starters generated from the prompts: My mother is a purple carboard box full of cans of fizzy fruit flavored water and labelledparly in aforeigh languages. Of else the blue and green dinosaur is the perfect metaphor for my dissertation because.  Channel Gogol. Channel kafka. Channel magical realism. Oh and my public health gesture while listening to the biweekly community covid call: Change AmbassadorThwack's twitter name to Amb. Thwack Vaxxed and Masked." 

 4 ish hours of sleep.  Green and Blue dinosaur with very toothy grin Between the fire alarm at the computer lab building and the crossword puzzle AFTER the blind people zoon. Today was writing group starring besides cool Quakers from the FGC workshop a dinosaur that has spent the pandemic at teh computer lab and needs to reconnect with its boy.