RantWoman Sleeps--or Not

 7.5ish hours of sleep No morning agenda items and going back to bed helps.  Morning email has news of laundry. Sounds too good to be true so I have to try it. Email from overnight will keep and probably try to turn into a zoom event and a podcast. Boy do I know how to have fun. Body is sneezy today. The neck pain comes and goes.

Somewhere around 5 hours of sleep. Late night snacking probably a factor. Going back to bed after feeding the cat did not happen. Among other things instead I did an Amazon order and scored some of my favorite canned tuna salads for a way better price than when I buy at Whole Foods. Such is the dance with the Jeff Bezos empire. Everything but the hand soap got delivered tonight when I wasn't expecting it yet. Nice problem to have except the driver cannot grok the delivery instructions in the app and wasn't wearing a mask. One box handoff and socially distance for rest of conversation. Duuuude The Omicron variant!?!?!?  One reason it's in the US interest to help get other countries vaccinated so there are fewer reservoirs of unvaccinated people for the virus to mutate rapidly in. And does easily transmissible mean also more or less dangerous if one gets infected? Not gonna chat about it with an unmasked Amazon driver but... Anyway celebrate a live driver because I want to ta

4 ish hours of sleep. Timewise I could have gone back to bed but it didn't happen. What is happening is neck and shoulder spasms related maybe to adding new PT exercise. Or maybe to carrying stuff. I have shopping cart. Not a great one but I could have taken it this afternoon. Zoom is so interesting. When I zoom worship on my phone sometimes I just look at the participants list and some names just make me smile. I did succeed in buying toothpaste. Between shoplifters and supply chain issues Walgreens has the toothpaste under lock and key. Luckily another woman and I wanted to buy toothpaste at the same time. Now I have two tubes. Hoarding on a minor scale so I guess I can feel guilty if I need to if some family has to use baking soda because I bought a year's supply of toothpaste. Other than that my blind nurse friend recommends this clip and it's pretty sweet though Youtube will also tak you to another cute one featuring the kids with the new sister. Blind nurse friend

  The Queen of Spades modelling sensible behavior 5 ish hours of sleep in bed plus another in chair. CPAP all night but I am still tired. I half suspect the cat sometimes turns off. I wish my spiffy bed would automatically reinflate every day because it has an annoying trough way too soon. SO much joy visiting friends in Lynnwood. So it should be easy to go to sleep in the glow. Enter ANXIETY. They have both been through A LOT this year and there are points of tension to hold carefully. And as ever there are wayfinding adventures for another blog. It's 4th Saturday worship time. I forgot to put the time in the invitation and decided not to expand the mailing list. So we'll see who if anyone comes to the virtual as opposed to the conceptual space. Expanding the mailing list also means the kind of holiday origin story that can be told different ways different times of year.  Anyway I woke up unsettled and out of sorts and then I looked at the calendar. Holly Near It could have be

almost 8? hours of sleep.  The first time I woke up, the CPAP was not working. The second spell it worked all the way through. DEAL WITH on Monday. Body is knotting in asymmetrical places. Tomorrow just do the stretches. Do not worry about disturbing the cat sleeping on the pillow. Maybe for grins tomorrow I will see about getting linens run through dryer and sheets changed. Tonight I am feeling well blessed and blissed after inviting myself to dinner with friends in Lynnwood. We had not seen each other since before the pandemic. Much just to sit and talk about. Yummy vitamin rich meal and exquisite French chocolate

4 ish hours of sleep. Not nearly enough. Mocha partly to blame. The Christmas cactuses just keep hanging in there. Dear text message groupies, Happy colonizing feast day to y'all too. I don't in the least see how permanent rebellion against muythologizing, cultural appropriation, genocide... is AT ALL incompatible with deep humility and gratitude.  And while we're at it, sometimes #BlackLivesMatter means listening with great interest to program about African American classical music.  There. Am I being cantankerous enough? Today's Thanksgiving celebration was lovely: assemble some treats. Make cranberry sauce and cranberry relish. Ride transport to visit Mom who had already feasted. Nibble and chat the afternoon away. Get on transport and go home. Have conversations with Sister. Assure I am amazed by the festivity she and household pulled off last year in pandemic and I am glad we have not figured out how to be in the same space and let's try to make it a group effo

Almost 8 hours of sleep! Achieved by going back to bed for almost 3 hours after feeding the cat. The downside: after washing dishes and hand laundry, it was past 2 pm when the rest of life started. Neighbors are complaining about slow pace of reopening computer lab and also complaining to outside places about laundry. Feeling humble about my privilege and glad for others' initiatives In closing one of many options if one needs contemporary arms races to lose sleep over

 5 hours of sleep. Voting detritus Caffeine is so weird. I think I have hit the right balance of powdered milk, instant coffee, chocolate syrup for a beverage with the coffee hit that is not too cloyingly sweet. Drinking it at 8 pm is or is not a terrible idea depending. Today schedulewise I could have slept another hour after going to bed at a ridiculous hour, but there is this awesome More Housing is Happening construction site nearby. For some reason it needed to be VERY noisy this morning. PT, trip chaining to the grocery store and a zoom call on a bus bench.  Then home and bilingual Zoom book group. Hence the tirade in the title. I was not interpreting. I will try to summon enough tact to suggest a different approach next time there is a bilingual event. I don't know whether it is good or bad to be able to be equally insufferable in more than one language.  The laundry room is allegedly functioning again. I think I will try on the weekend and hope others especially caregivers

 respectable 6 hours of sleep. I think I need to figure out the hungry at night thing. And generally more vegetables and ... Also need to make calls about CPAP. 9 bags out  5 bags packed well back Most important, THE LAUNDRY CAME BACK. It was folded very precisely and took up way less space than in its unwashed state. I have no idea what the issue was with my "sudster" and the people who supervise her said she does not get any more orders from me.  I was not that interested in her excuse for the delivery delay.  I had satusfactory communication with her supervisor and told them I will be willing to do business with them again for one thing because their app is accessible. And today as I was walking to the computer lab, I talked to the new property manager. She said my sending a litter to the board was very helpful. I am so grateful it was well received. Now things are SUPPOSED to work with debit cards. So I will see if changing sheets is reasonable after I put the bed linens

a little over 6 hours of sleep. The Christmas cactus again Writing an email left me exhausted and in tears. Not necessarily a bad thing but definitely motivation just to GO TO BED. LAUNDRY????? The Laundry has not returned. The "Sudster" has responded only once to texts. The return of laundry is long overdue. There was an excuse about app issues. Bank transaction issues look reasonable and appropriate. But no ETA for return of clothing. Other than that, the title is about icebreakers and comes with implied strongly divided about pineapple on pizza. And my heart is full and I feel very blessed but as usual the rest of life beckons AND I still need to process the weekend. I THINK my mother and I have solved Thanksgiving. I want turkey and stuffing SOMEHOW but I want Mom to feast with her neighbors. I will go visit in the afternoon and figure out turkey another time. My sister's fam will do whatever. And I will invite self but not Mom to go see friends in Lynnwood another ti

close to 6 hours of sleep. The cat being a furry lap rug And awake, vertical, showered, properly dressed and not completely combed but also a few minutes late... And this after writing one report that's not due for another week ahead of one that is overdue. 

About 5 hours of sleep. More would be good but if one is zooming for events located on the east coast... On the up side, I had time to SHIP OUT LAUNDRY. I woke up with all sorts of misgivings. Should I have sent all the laundry at once? What if it gets stolen...? But welcome to the gig economy. If it works maybe I will use the same person again. Cross fingers. Say prayers. Hold in the Light. As far as event so far there is an interesting bearing witness angle. Today it matters that I put on my #ADA25 t shirt and clothing. And i have had GENTLE conversations which all feels well held. In other news my mom got grumpy making medical news yesterday afternoon. She had just come back from training to go back to a volunteer gig and I imagine for various reasons the training is stressful. So she opted to tell the person on the phone she is ready to deal with it in the morning. YOU GO MOM.

Not quite six hours of sleep. I really like this pattern even though fleece is not really my first choice Weird non sexual memorial meditations as I fell asleep: recently deceased blind son of famous local actress really really wanted me to have the fleece blanket he donated to last in-person blind people Christmas party gift exchange. RIP. The whole story helps me stay a decent human being. Family wants to have a private funeral. Do they just not want to have to deal with a bunch of blind people? Anyway here's to blind person idiot savant gifts which I share: tell me an event venue once and I can give directions all night.   I started bagging up the laundry to send out. Looks like it will be about SIX trash bags. Fun I guess. I could get spoiled. Except I REALLY just want laundry to work for everyone in my building. Happy pandemic!

Almost 6 hours of sleep AND bathed and combed and dressed in time for before 9 zoom. Part of a What are the people in the cars doing series As for the zombies, I could just leave them hanging. They DO NOT appear when one drinks honey and lemon in hot water, not even in Kenya. Morning started out with too many ouches. Wait, if too many ouches, why...? 1. Space to name the ouches. 2. It's about persistence.3. It's about teamwork and upholding ... In case flirting with Zombie apocalypse in Bible study is not enough, I signed up for some notetaking in spite of risk of further annoying software update gnarliness.   

About 5.5 hours of sleep Up in time for a good breakfast before a quarterly Zoom. Random night view from "my" balcony during rain Oh bless your heart madam president. Not sure why your email is sending out pathetic spam. Change your dang passwords.  Umpteenth Google search about Laundry services and finally I am all in. I will send laundry out tonight and get it back tomorrow and not try to finagle schedule to charter nephew. Really glad I have resources to do that. Morning Zoom features marketing presentation which MANY of the 5 0 attenders are jumping all over FOR GOOD REASON. Dude is receiving feedback more or less graciously. I am glad other people commented about unreadability and cumbersome upcoming process. Will write a too many ouches blog post now and try to write polite email and then post after event. Good Morning America!

 Somewhere over 7 hours of sleep because ...going back to bed and no early commitments. Pigeons on the window ledge Shhh. Don't tell the cat: there was a whole pigeon confab while she was sleeping on the couch. The laundry saga continues with inaccessible apps, inaccessible display panels, and maybe i will just charter the nephew. And the Sleep clinic calling wait time is too long and the callback queue is full. Meanwhile, thanksgiving planning. Welcome to pandemia

Somewhere 5+ hours of sleep or trying to sleep in bed and another hour in the chair when I should have gone to bed. Going back to bed only partly worked. More or less "and the Lord spake unto RantWoman and the Lord said 'get your butt out of bed because you are not going to sleep anymore, you know you need to change sheets, and there are Laundry Matters ahead before that can happen.' "  Pink and Green and White And lo, dealing with Laundry Matters in daylight involved both technology and a neighbor who mainly speaks Chinese and only slightly speaks English. And now there will be email and maybe a blog post... And either there will be improvement .. or I will figure out a laundry service app or I will charter the nephew and his raised up Subaru. Who knew there is a whole guy subculture of offroading in Subarus? The Christmas is glorious as ever and if I can't do laundry tonight more time to listen to Compline.

4 hours of sleep. Both tea and instant coffee late in the day along with late night snack no matter how nutrition conscious did not help. Plus I aimed to get up and get hair washed in time for a Zoom event at 9:30. Hair, socks, masks, bra all washed. Now zoom event is over. hair is still damp and drying in braid. And even though it's Zoom with Quakers, dress professionally, now an awesome excuse to continue neglecting chores. And it's pouring so even though going somewhere and getting exercise would be good, not gonna happen. But here's the cat The Queen of Spades

6 hours of sleep. This achieved by going back to bed for 3 hours after wking up with no flow from CPAP, feeding cat and going back to bed. CPAP flow lasted the whole last spell which is VERY good. Yep, it's the same picture  as a couple days ago. Cope. I hAVE to call clinic and get started on repair or replacement. Happy Birthday Mom. What Mom most wants for her birthday is to have all her offspring assembled over food. That she shall have, even if one right now is only present in prayers. MInute progress on laundry. Some working machines. Now if they have card readers ...becaue I am NOT introducing more quarters to cause vandalism. Meanwhile, doing grand tour of pick up and delivery laundry services web presence and apps. So far, one has good accessibility except for a video with no audio description. Two other apps are not operable with screen reader. Do not worry about the geek speak. It just means DOES NOT WORK FOR ME. 

4.5 hours of sleep. Corn chips and candy corn late and grande latte in mid afternoon probably contributed to problems getting to bed. Sigh. This episode of Fun while Adulting brought to you by the color blue: the boy's jacket, a blue sweater and great grandma's blue scarf, all commented about in the elevator. The boy recognized that he and I matched. I noticed great grandma's blue scarf. Boy and cat are doing fine just looking at each other. So far cat has no interest in anything but looking from a distance. Boy is in good company with other neighbors about that, but at least he does not run in and chase anymore. Happy Veterans Day, proudly wearing my Navajo Code talkers T shirt for the occasion. And apropos of nothing related, celebrating joyful compression socks, willingness to wear them and therefore being in much better shape than family members who didn't. Body has weird aches today. Instead of going back to bed, I made baked orange food, baked yams for later and p

5 ish hours of sleep. The Queen of Spades was particularly insistent about it being breakfast time. Since I made it to bed without any late night snacking, I also was hungry and did not make it back to bed. Other than that, one of my projects is cheerleading and moral support for a mom who has figured out that her severely autistic daughters are blind. Now I get to wade through a lengthy email which, just guessing from the length, could have benefited from review. Had I offered any such pre-send read through? No. Ummm. But a friend who had been to Costco just brought over the world's biggest season supply of Lucky Charms. Like I need more sugar even if they are one of my silliness go-tos.  Lucky charms with yogurt anyone?. Because everyone needs fallen leaves in fickle sunshine  

5? hours of sleep. Breezeway at night I sort of wanted to go back to bed but by the time I talked to my sister and told another friend that proper bereavement related nonwork attendance seems exactly on point, it was kind of too late. Sister themes relate to MOM. My sister shot down all my suggestions for a birthday observance and then my sister figured out if she hopes her guys will participate whe should ask them. I also asked Mom in morning text and she says she has to think about it. I just want to take Mom across the street to a new Indian food place and to heck with my sister's family. They can fete Mom a second time on their schedule. My sister simultaneously thinks all of us in Mom's apartment is too much and wants just to take over cake and tea. If not Indian food, what about good soup somewhere? My mother would prefer never to see her children argue and quibble and her children agree that arguing and quibbling is part of the package. Welcome to family. I guess new PT

almost 6 hours of sleep. Not sure why I woke up at 4 freaking am but going back to bed for almost 3 hours was heavenly. I guess it's good to have friends who share the gleanings from their catering co gig leftovers in exchange for tea and a listening ear. I thought I was good at Oh Good Grief personal decisions, but OH GOOD GRIEF. I hate having to do my own tech support. I am spoiled by having help. Plus knowing the kind of minutia I need today used to thrill me. Now I just want things to work and there are more pieces than ever to trouble shoot. Is it the device? The internet? The app. #FirstWorldProblems Leaving early for PT so I can buy cat crunchies on the way. Welcome to a new week. More Christmas cactus because the blooms bring so much joy  

Over  6 almost 7 hours of sleep.   Cashew milk frozen dessert before bed maybe not the hottest nutritional idea ever. The cat at her Saturday photo op Feed the cat. Go back to bed. Do the lie in bed and be warm thing both before falling back to sleep and after waking up. The cat would prefer I serve as non-stop cat furniture. I need my arms to do other things. She is not sympathetic.

  First we celebrate the first blooms of the Christmas er Thanksgiving cactus Somewhere over six hours of sleep.  Up with masks, socks, bras, ahir washed just in time for technology meetup. Today's themes: --technology for storing and retrieving pictures of vax cards on one's phone. --the ninja cooker and a service called Be my Eyes to figure out all the cooking cycles. --a million things to consider when making popcorn --tech themes from recent convention Checking out laundry services. It's early in the month so I am willing to experiemt I want one that won't send clothes back reeking of scented detergent. Really what I want is to get the laundry fixed NOW even if it means everyone has to learn to use debit cards so there are no attractive nuisance reservoirs of quarters lying around. --toastmasters. I mean it about rain. I also just decided to order MORE from Wholefoods to justify the delivery fee. Lots of stuff I like on sale and I might as well stock up.

a whole SEVEN almost 8 hours of sleep.  Trees and color and new housing going up This involved going back to bed and sleeping until almost 11. I guess I will feel less decadent if the time changes and the hour does not seem so late. My phone updated itself and I can't tell whether that is why whole foods can't tell I am a Prime member and should qualify for free delivery. I also have plenty of food and will try to tend to other matters anyway. TWO people to be thinking condolences about, one whose daughter is flying back home tomorrow after funeral and sweet moments with family and friends. Another is the blind epileptic son of a local actress. The losses are hard in different ways. We will not discuss all the other things that left me sipping one of my trademark scary powdered milk mochas at 5 pm catching up on the building grapevine and NOT having gotten to my to-do list. At least I keep working in short stints of PT throughout the day and my body feels a little better assemb

Almost 6 hours of sleep but 1.5 in chair maybe don't count and the last 2hours of going back to bed were lucky in terms of waking up in time for the first zoom. I THINK I can get by with 3 emails from the first zoom. I also realized I need to take my own advice with respect to one of them. In the case of the second zoom, does a blog post count in the limit? And today was a low-zoom day. Some days I have 6 or more zooms, just like some days I have up to 10 transit segments. I got my monthly meetup announcement out a whole day earlier than average and a staggering tWO days before the event.  And now I need to craft an email to the new property manager saying as politely as possible, PLEASE get the laundry fixed.  Every Day is a holiday. The point of the picture is the baby carrier.

5 hours of sleep. I woke up an hour before the first Wednesday zoom. No point in trying to go back to sleep. Quaker / methodist bible study with a theme of earthcare. An interesting space. And then broadband nerds where I wish the cumulative skin tone were a lot less monochromatic. My sister is in the hospital again. This time she has some kind of palatial quarters on the transplant floor. Considering the issue is sepsis and pneumonia an interesting choice but she definitely likes it better than what she called the broom closet before. We just got started on an Important family Topic and her nurse came in or something and it was time for my zoom. The sartorial comment includes pink flowers, pink shirt and aqua sweater. I don't care what anyone thinks of the color coordination. If anyone complains I will be too happy to go on at length about The Laundry Situation., as in DRAMA and need probably because of thieving vandals to go to debit card payment. And staff slowly coming back exc

Hmm. Made it all the way to 5 hours of sleep despite the appalling time I finally went to bed. Chocolate and sunflower seeds late at night are partly to blame. Also a crossword puzzle. Also words still needing air but not getting combed into sense after the rest of the day. Maybe that is enough for now.

well over 6.5 hours of sleep. And every time I am still very long, I can still fall back asleep. And it's a season of eyes itching for no reason but I should probably document Looking east from Roosevelt Light rail This has nothing to do with being out in the sun and lots of walking yesterday. Body thinks I should do that much exercise every day. I am a wimp about rain. I only want to go swimming in a real pool. Occasion of exercise was visit to Mom. Waiting for bus I got text from a friend that her mom had just died. Another exciting round of white person calls cops on brown person last night. Inarticulate man in lobby of building last night. New building manager thanked me for photo. Not enough detail to recognize face. At least he's wearinga mask..   Now back to the email inbox.