RantWoman Sleeps--or Not

Almost everything in full bloom   5.4 hours of sleep. Cooking last night. Cranberry relish and steamed broccoli SUN is magnificent. Maybe we should have done the leftover feast at lunchtime... Balm of science based radio shows: wolves. Orca poop. Karelian bear dog     

6.4 hours of sleep. Amazing what going to bed at a reasonable hour will do. I will try again to figure out the new CPAP instead of trying to go to Renton I rounded up the trash last night and stashed it on the balcony overnight. SO easy to take it down in the morning. Still no idea how to deal with compost. Do I WANT to spend money for a home composter??? On the E Line an announcement remembering the Bus driver who was shot on the 359, the predecessor of the E line. Black Friday. I remember I was eating a burrito in Greenwood when I heard the news. I am glad there was a route home that did not involve the Aurora bridge. And holiday ness is now acceptable. Take me to your eggnog lattes ASAP.

  Not quite peak pink but a ton of fun. 6.0 hours of sleep. Now if I can do that consistently. Family feast at RantMom's dining room and dessert after in her apartment worked swimmingly. I cam home and figured out I can bag up trash and get it ready to zip downstairs that WILL save time. Now of course laundry. Happy Thanksgiving all. Tomorrow to Renton to deal wit CPAP stuff

This one sounds unusual but yummy.      6 hours of sleep. Well-earned after yesterday. Going to bed at a reasonable hour helps. Nothing like biopsy results that it would have been fine to get on Monday. I bought a completely unreasonable quantity of cranberries. Hello relish. Hello cranberry bread. And SO much to be grateful for

This approach sounds sensible on multiple grounds but onion powder usually has a ton of MSG. Hmmm 3.8 hours of sleep. My fault for videos plus crossword plus late night snack. I should sleep well tonight. No deadlines tomorrow and a ton of activity today.

5.2 hours of sleep. Getting to bed earlier definitely helps. BIOPSY today. Fine with me if the results don't come back until Monday. I REALLY appreciate friend who volunteered to come with.

Sweater, legs, striped socks, patterned mules   6.1 glorious hours of sleep. One weird dream of watching in a sensitive location and paperwork I could not read. Mom has a cold. DRAG. I hope she feels better.

Pedestrian you say?  But it's with an accent AND there is paprika 3 ish hours of sleep. Awake in time to wash hair just so I can spend all day chilled while my hair dries. I almost forget about the Quaker Voice Annual Meeting. I slept through the part after lunch. And a collaborator is motivated! Good because I am not sure how I will be doing on Tuesday. Abundance is almost too much of a good thing.

Between politics and the bomb cyclone, clinging desperately to annual regeneration! The #Christmas cactus with the pink blossoms  4.9 hours of sleep  and my Amazon Fresh order already at my door. Not sure how I wound up with two bags of celery and two bins of Super Greens, but somehow they both seem helpful. #BombCyclone food prep on Tuesday: make chili while the lights flicker. Tonight I really MUST start some laundry. Party on

Fascinating ideas, but HOW DO WE KNOW THIS? Speculation! And AI Generated???? Repetitive language and a kind of vagueness similar to texts I KNOW are AI generated???? 4.9 hours of sleep Tonight I will either go to bed at a reasonable hour OR do laundry. Now back to sex crimes among Cabinet nominees, intercontinental missile from Russia with Love and arrest warrants for Middle eastern War criminals. Or maybe just the local rages of a #BombCyclone.

Half the fun of this group is the name. 5.1 hours of sleep Lots of things cancelled because of cleaning up after the windstorm. I succeeded in putting a BUNCH of papers in the recycling.

  Hah. I remembered I have Christmas lights on my lamp. So light without worrying about fake sunlight at inappropriate hours. Also my mother needs a lighted snow globe to use for a night light when here power is out due to the #BombCyclone The daily blossoms chronicle 2.9 hour s in bed and 3 ish between compline and bed      Nothing like trying to cook up a pot of chili while the power is flickering. Results rock and I will eat appreciatively for days. Other adventure: trying to find working cables with the right ends and charging block to charge my devices in case the power goes out. November weather is SO much fun

6.1 HOURS of sleep. A friend invited me to COMEDY. The walk to the theater was manageable from the bus stop.but downtown at night is SAD. I SO needed to laugh. Uber home was SO easy!

Political Voices Network: Malcolm Nance scorches... posted as a link because of rally images at the beginning. "Stop mealy mouthing and ...stand up" Big White and Pink Blossoms  4.4 hours of sleep--in late morning and early afternoon. Only exercise is 30 minutes on the bike exerciser. I did not even wake up in time to take trash out. To-do for tomorrow.

I love this guy's accent and the eager way he tells the story. 4.9 hours of sleep which is AWESOME until one realizes that one is due on Zoom in about 10 minutes. Thank heaven for the long purple hoodie bathrobe.

White and pink Christmas cactus both going strong.  Wednesday, Thursday, Friday mornings all in one post. Between 3 and 5 hours. Sorry today I am not tracking details. Wednesday's medical appointment: guess what. Come back for a biopsy on Nov 25. Bleah. Thursday: combination birthday parties at Mom's. Transportation fiascoes included dying phone but I finally made it. Takeout salad while nephew assembled a new cart for the toaster oven. EASY ride home with nephew's girlfriend. Friday Up at 6:45 to cofacilitate disability caucus for FCNL Annual meeting.

I don't actually care whether it is reasonable to expect a humble houseplant to be one's major barrier to unbounded anxiety. I just have to roll with it! Look! More blossoms 4 hours of sleep. About 10 pieces of junk mail moved from desk to recycling on the way out the door. Successful email exchange: new upload your own dang paperwork aspect of annual paperwork obligations. Looking arduous for me. So much cheerleading will be needed for LOTS of other less computing enthusiastic. Last week computer lab was lonely on Tuesday. I have plenty to do but it's lonely with no customers. If I weren't expected to have the lab open I would not turn on all the lights because they tire my eyes. Happy Birthday Mom.  

Yeah. Yeah. I NEED to deal with lamps, but this is a fun experiment Pink blossoms cactus at night  3.7 hours of sleep. It takes an amazinglong time to do morning stretches, make bed, shower. 4 zooms and I could have attempted 3 of them in the glorious purple bathrobe. Glad I showered. 45 minutes on the exercise bike and a couple walks back and forth between buildings. Sun was out for a bit this afternoon but I did not have time for anything outdoors and had to just grow lamp myself. SO hard to keep feet on the ground amid all the paths to ANXIETY And tomorrow will come.

What's a hablogroup? File the word in the "mean to look up" category but there is enough here from context to digest this video. Full disclosure: there is some family speculation about what is the background for the grandmother I never met. So this video is of more than average curiosity 4.7 hours of sleep. Not enough paper to the recycling. The Christmas cactus blooms are getting lavish and I MUST take another photo. One Quaker Meeting had LOTS of other topical messages. Another was having Day of Remembrance so MAYBE there was good conversation during potluck for all the newcomers. Lots of to-do's for tomorrow. Not a single sheet of paper to the recycling. Oh and I need to take out trash. And I signed up for another zoom call. Exercise is just the exercise bicycle while zooming with the blind prayer warriors. Happy Sunday

Kamala Harris washes her collard greens in the bathtub. Gwen Walz bakes cookies I think it is just fine not to expect Melania Trump to cook, but I would love to know whether and what Usha Vance likes to cook. 6.2 hours of sleep! A pot of split pea soup. Some baked yams and baked potatoes. a FEW pieces of paper to the recycling. PART of the floor swept. Hair washed. Rain. Grow light. Things to write Mix of threads in social media.

4.7 hours of sleep. Shy of my current goal of 5 hours. Enough for now.    

  New shoes are making me VERY happy 4.2 hours of sleep. If only I would get to bed earlier. Early sunsets are a DRAG. I still need bananas but I do have a skadillion kiwis that after weeks of ripening on the counter are about ready to eat. Other than that, one highlight of the day: someone from freshman year of college on the same post election alumni zoom call tonight.

Was it really just 2.7 hours of sleep. Scary election results cause insomnia. When I finally made it to bed, I slept well, just not long enough. Snark available elsewhere

Solace for all the #ChildlessCatLadies ???? The election AIN'T OVER and it's not all terrible... So tomorrow...?. 3.7 hours in bed and another 2 in chair. I only have so many f*ks to give and I could NOT spend them all doom scrolling. So I got other things done. I have PLENTY to eat and feel blessed about that.

  Day about 4 of pink blossoms 5.7 hours of sleep. I am still rattled by things that do or don't want to be blogged about. I love, Love, LOVE my new teal blue Dr. Marten oxfords. They are stiff AF but my feet really like the support. I am glad I made two kinds of food with lots of veggies yesterday. Count my blessings even though I also need more humans I want to talk to as opposed to the ones that duty asks of me. Tomorrow the soap opera will enter new phases. It's embarrassing how engrossing the dumpster fire is AND that is different from picking up and going forward. Available babble option: real estate, Excel, and different accessibility needs.

The plant with the white blossoms 5.0 hours of sleep. Yes absolutely it should have been more especially since there was another hour of dozing in the chair. Everyone is on edge about the election. Everyone and I mean everyone including the suspected trumpers in the Blind prayer warriors is also praying that better angels prevail in the days after. Sound is good for compline. I did an Amazon order. PLENTY of dairy and not enough vegetables but I turned one can of too salty chicken noodle into a vegetable festival with much less salt per serving.  

How is a person supposed to sleep when there is a mass shooting at a hookah lounge around the corner. The hookah lounge shooting was awhile ago. PS: THE FENTANYL IS COMING IN THROUGH PORTS OF ENTRY.  0 hours of sleep--until a LONG zoom call.. Clean hair. Starting to break in shoes. A pot pf tahini and brown rice pilaf. Wild life styple. PS I love my new full zip hoodie. It is completely luxurious to have sleeves that are too long.

My Christmas cactuses are getting an early start even for their usual Thanksgiving schedule. Twitter / X , that source of all that is true and wise and pure in the interwebs has notices that others' plants are also starting to bloom. Considering all the blech that is also blooming, let us all in a joyous bipartisan way embrace beauty where we can find it.  Big Green plant. Pink buds and one blossom White buds, not as much foliage 5.4 hours of sleep. LOOK how much more alive I am with only urk 25% more sleep. Big accomplishments for today: Find. among my collection of tote bags, zippered bags with enough space between the two selected to carry home THREE pairs of shoes. They all seem to fit but will need some breaking in. Successfully sent another pair back because it is too big. PRAYING that the gods of internet shoe sales will take pity on me and let me return another pair that is too big but that I took too long to get around to dealing with. Otherwise, EBay here I come and ditto...