RantWoman Sleeps--or Not

 5 ish hours of sleep Apparently my body thought I needed to make quinoa porridge more than I needed more sleep. view  from "my" balcony I am zooming all wee k 3 x /day  with great young professionals doing cool work in the intersections of transportation, equity, and climate justice. SO energizing. I finally got dishes washed yesterday and compost / trash taken out today. Now, um, the floor

4 ish hours of sleep. I made the very grown up decision to eat good chocolate late at night. So after an inadvertant nap, I was wired for two more hours. Title: 4 of the 6 people due at a 1 pm Zoom did not show up.  I dunno....

Almost 6 hours of sleep.  Random Rider Alert sign I woke up twice for no reason I understand. I could have lounged in bed a little longer but making instant oatmeal turned out to be a good thing. Dishes washed. Now to compost and cleaning floor.  But first EMAIL

 Somewhere close to 6 hours of sleep.  Exuberant beach towel joy and other Zoom event gear  other  The beach towel doubles as a blanket for certain out of town excursions. The event took place on Zoom so the beach call came to the Zoom space. It would be nice if hte beach towel came with more sleep but I seem to have an endless list of excuses for why that does not happen.

      5 hours in bed plus another hour + in the chair. Do NOT park the scooter INSIDE the bus shelter This picture is the latest hostile interaction with transportation innovation. The ciy has a FindItFixIt app where one can report such issues but it has two fileds of required info that a blind person has no way to find out? Where IS the scooter id? Now hanging with the Blind Prayer warriors. It's praise report time and an infrequent visitor has a really Good list of praise reports. Too many for the Do NO of the room.

 Less than 3 hours of sleep. Someone was sleeping indoors where they shouldn't be. call the security company. Wait for them to show up. Go home and have to come back because one of them was testing locked doors and we needed to know that one was unlocked. The veggies were part of aconversation that worked out despite a gulp about the randomness of Zoom

3_ barely 4 hours of sleep.  Why so wired? Multiple reasons. One I stalled about some more. I wound up trying to do an Amazon fresh order and turning ingredients into food. This resulted in lots of things like onion skins and cabbage cores and maybe the beet greens that would make fabulous vegetable stock. Except that that last boil water increment made me reflect on why I gripe about vegetable stock in a box.   I have no freaking idea why I had to resend the order for later. This is why in person is so much better.

 Almost 6 hours of sleep. I gave up on my late night to-do list and just went to bed. No Shower. I am clean enough from yesterday. But my bicycle exercise is SO helpful during Zoom meetings.

5 ish hours of sleep. Does a good half-hour walk around a grocery store count as exercise? Does it make a difference if one spends time griping? Cat's favorite brand of dry food costs 50% more than elsewhere. The plaza needs better lighting. And don't get me started about proposed bus route changes? Creation themed Bible study but alarm at computer lab means although I am respectably dressed in decent bathrobe, monring's second Zoom is in computer lab and I would prefer to be more professionally dressed. Luckily this Zoom is low visuals. Few of the presumably mostly sighted audience has turned have turned their cameras on.

 5 + hours. It definitely helps if I go to bed early. The GPS Corodinate... at the time of your birth do not determine your value... The bicycle exercises is so cool.  First Zoom was at 8:30. On zoom #4 and 3 more to go. I could bail on the office supplies order, but I will just hold in the Light.

 about 6 hours of sleep including luxury of going back to bed after feeding the cat. Title says it all. Today i get to shower and wash support stockings and masks. Tomorrow I have early-ish zooms but I can skip the shower, brew tea and make extra ice today.... and other words needed elsewhere.

 Somewhere close to SIX hours of sleep. Thank you going back to bed. A new nicer mask and funny glard I am slightly disappointed that it did not pour today like yesterday. But after big wedding even though everyone was masked I am glad not to try to see my mom.

 4 ish hours of sleep in bed and another 1.5 or so in chair.  I should just not, not not fuss with crossword puzzle after I come home. And I am trying to summon energy for some weekly chores. But I had time wrong in my brain by two hours for event where my input is wanted about SDIEWALKS and data, and... So now I want a latte and a place to hang out and have conversations instead of plunging into all the things pending on my computer. Start with some morning cycling with the Under the desk guy and some of the stretches recommended yesterday. But I still want a latte. Happy Friday

 Somewhere over 6 hours of sleep including going back to bed after breakfast and then wshing hair and getting ready to go to a wedding for very joy filled couple both divorced who fell in love in Quaker Meeting.. I'm  SOLELY responsible for poor transportation planning including missing 3 buses and then not getting completely soaked walking from the bus stop.  One of the table vases Apparently I needed to sit with all that I walked out walking to the daybreak Star Center. Also, it is supposed to pour again tomorrow. Even though everyone at party was vaxxed and masked when not eating (and comfort levels were variable) between badly needed rain and generaly caution, Mom and I agreed I should duck out of an in-person visit tomorrow. So OH WHAT I HAVE TIME FOR

 4 ish hours of sleep.  Form requesting state of body in a bunch of checkboxes One might think we need to leave by 10 for an appt at 11 there would be time to go back to bed. WRONG Today's pic o the day is an annoying form someone wants me to fill out. The type is teeny. The information is more than just check boxes. And the physical therapist does not get blind people AT ALL but he suggested some neck stretches that REALLY seem to help. 2 sets of 15 reps 5x /day sounds insurmountable, but... Oh and figure out different ways of carryings...

 5ish hours of sleep. This post was supposed to be named 3 zooms in my bathrobe while roasting vegetables but instead I am collecting hair raising video clips of help from surprising directions. The video clips are on another blog. It's nice that it's cool enough to need a blanket at night and the long purple bathrobe in th emorning.

 Somewhere close to six hours of sleep. If I sleep well one night  i am just wired the next night. Last night i did crossword puzzle untill never mind. The cat I think woke me earlier than I would have preferred but luckily I was still able to go back to bed and make it dressed in time for 9 am help that was not well utilized. Oh well.  Now I am digesting my fourth vidoe meeting and munching broccoli before my fifth meeting o the day. Just odering my broccoli pre chopped feels like an indulgence including unnecessary packaging--except that I see more likely actually to get the broccoli eaten and if I don't have to worry about composting the stalks oh well. Speaking of broccoli, if I can still taste the broccoli, the sniffle is probably not COVID. But articles like this  Over 7000 people in WA have died of COVID still give me a twinge only because my mom was friends with someone, one of the earliest (KNOWN) deaths from COVID in WA and the time until she just clearere...

 Did I actually get to almost 8 hours of sleep counting going back to bed for 2 hours after I fed the cat? Exercise with bicycle gizmoe definitely helps about sleep but it also reminds me of tensions and body aches. Keep at it anyway  Sarcasm round 1: Darn, a certain blindness advocacy organization is not going to be out helping spread COVID while doing outreach staffing a booth at the Puyallup fair. Oh Wait. Holy Crap. Some members will go anyway so pen an email saying if you must go BE SAFE. Try to keep head from exploding about antivax obliviousness. Snark gets to linger under the surface while talking of Zoom role titles among Quakers. Yesterday's hit was "Clerk of Zoom."  For one event, I just renamed myself Zoom cheerleader Several strands of shower-borne clarity. For example  --Start with " Well, I KNOW you would prefer cleanly focused email and I actually would prefer to be able to deliver cleanly focused email, but SOMETIMES one is called to bear witness to ...

 4 ish hours in bed and more time dozing off before bed. My grocery orders arrived. Simplicity is an easily replenished supply of spinach and potatoes and don't forget beets. Getting to actual sleep earlier would have been good. a 7-9 am delivery window was a stretch but count my blessings. I had more to say but maybe it is supposed to go elsewhere. PS. This post needs some poetry. The Google asserts that there is a poem about painting a table in this scan of an out of print poetry book. I did not find the poem relying only on my eyeballs.  Is there a Bill matchett poem in here somewhere?

5 ish hours of sleep watching news videos is addictive but MAYBE I need to make a point of scheduling in some music. Also meditating about not liking effects of one approach to an issue and not wanting  but tryign to decide to try to convince myself I need to try plan b.  Anyway I was awake when Mom texted after getting home from the ER. And going back to bed did not happen this morning. Can we please return and reuse these things? But I did wade through ordering groceries. I have mixed feeling about sending Jeff B to mars of whatever and I have NO qualms about ordering the bare minimum I need to get free delivery. Or saying DO NOT substitute with the item that costs 40% more only substitute something of equal or lower price or not even that.. SO I am sure I am dream customer but at least the app showed acceptable delivery windows. And speaking of delivery windows and actually buying ice cream instead of chocolate milk, I would really LOVe to be able to return and reuse the sp...

 Somewhere close to 6 hours of sleep because even though I was wired when I first woke up, I ralized I was wired in a way that was not going to get anything done and I went back to bed. So many things to do. So many seasonal anniversaries. And on the way to the computer lab I missed plowing into dinosaur boy's grandma only because she was smoking too close to the entryway. And dinosaur boy, the boy whose dinosaur spent the whole pandemic locked up in the computer lab took off on his current wheeled thing so at least I knew to look for him at the other end of the breeezeway. Happy Friday.

 A respectable 5 hours of sleep.  Food, exercise, inertia are all tangled in why it's hard to go to bed earlier. But today I also  bounded out of bed because of nervous energy. Not nervous energy to get the floor scrubbed or nervous energy to wrangle the refrigerator science projects. Barely nervous energy to handle all the 9/11 remembrances on the radio and hug the current cat in honor of the one who woke up with me twice because the first radio announcement sounded like a weird dream and the second time I woke up I realized I should just get up and turn on the television. And barely nervous energy for various flavors of drama that replicate themselves in different parts of life and ARE NOT GOING AWAY. But I have AWESOME compression socks and several newish (thank yhou stimulus payments) pairs of SHOES THAT FIT. And not quite the worst problem of my day  is finding an acceptable two-hour window for my whole foods deliver... Focus. Focus. And leave the labels issue e...

Solid 5 hours of sleep AND an extra finished crossword puzzle. I popped awake in time for a shower before a Bible study led over internet of inconsistent stability by someone s based in Honduras. Quakers and Methodists. Language and voices one can appreciate over and over while also treasuring one's Quaker lurches. Part of the group's sharing: in what watershed.. and  ...sense of communion with God in nature. I have two trees outside my window that help keep me grounded. random landscaping Construction noise outside my apartment. Grrrr! At least I walked across the breezeway without leaf blower noise today. This is the day that the Lord hath made. And speaking of days and marking time: a friend was live at a funeral liturgy I watched livestream. The priest spoke of working with the deceased planning the service. He said there were lots of elements not in the traditional funeral liturgy. As in Quaker elements. The friend and I agree: THANK YOU FRIEND. Made it to Bible study SO t...

 5 ish hours of sleep.  Aerobic exercise with bicycle exerciser makes me feel more alive but does not make more time to sleep. But I sort of expect more exercise to answer question from a conversation the other day: is all that pandemic weight LOSS due to lost muscle mass because that would be crappy. Exerciser does not give me more time to sleep and tomorrow is another 8 am  zoom. cauliflower crunch snacks at bedtime. Tasty. probably better for me than other options but it would be better to skip the late night snacking altogether. Trying to hit the right balance to do that.  As fopr the trainined public radio puppy dog. I looked at the redistricting website and sent the link off to the WCB list. It will be interesting to see who if anyone interacts. Today is 9 am in person with masks required. It's a drag with two people. It willb e een more of a drag if we have customers.

 5 ish hours of sleep After dozing off when I should have gone to bed earlier. Today the dishes are clean, the second calendar is turned over. The cat box is changed. The kitchen floor? Uhhh And i'm not even trying to put images of Colorado river issuesin here. Last night music was Compline at St mark's. Tonight is Avenu Malkeinu for Rosh Hoshanah  

 About 6 hours of sleep even with crossword puzzle drama. Lunch detritus in need of trash receptacle My life is all about which side of the street has crappier sidewalks intersected with whch street crossing are scariest. South Jackson is curretnly overachieving on both fronts. Hybrid worship was WONDERFUL On way home I found an intriguing barbecue place except for disappointing coleslaw. Take out food on the plaza near a bus stop but NO PLACE TO PUT THE TRASH unless I either cross at a crossing in traffic or walk a block to the stop light. I PROTEST.

 5.5 hours of sleep. aka THe Queen of Spades How the HECK do I manage to wake up at 7:30, eat breatkfast, wash ahir, and barely make it to zoom meetup at 11:30? I had lost in mind to say this morning but now I have the rest of my day on my mind. I love Zooming with blind people who qualify as well as I do for the Association of Bad friends. The lawyer brother isn't on so no TX ramble but horse dewormer is holding up fine.

 7+ hours of sleep. New shoes. new laces Yeah the LUXURY of going back to bed after feeding the cat. Just hide from the news streams. The floor, the dishes, and the trip to mailbox can all wait. But the shoelace order came and I was even home to catch it! THe exercise part is the cool under the desk bicycle exerciser I finally got around to ordering.

 About 5.5 hours of sleep. After semi vigorous activity handling six loads of dirty clothes. No Late night snacking which meant I was starving in the morning. Other than that midday lunch date and not trying very hard to fog past a lot of construction and find the bus stop to go to Grocery outlet landed me buying bananas at the new Amazon Fresh store.  Convenience in the land of bus transfers and the opportunity to pick bananas to suit my taste are the key things overcoming skepticism. Today the clerk at least used my own bag but she put the bananas on the bottom so I had to rescue them before bussing home. But this time I found the sushi and for that I am grateful.

 5 ish hours of sleep not counting dozing off while watching video about the importance of sleep.. There was also a crossword puzzle involved. And being wired from a Zoom call. "My" resolution got slimmed down and approved by the board. Slimmed down. Not slimed down. And an email is in the offing. What the heck. I am new to this but why start slow. As for Drama Being Dealt With: a yellow sign in not huge print saying photo id required for lockouts. In other words, recent police blotter report of gunfire in apartment infested by squatters has FINALLY generated action. NO ONE laments. Oh, and my bicycle exercisers are making me very happy. Happy Wednesday