RantWoman Sleeps--or Not

Vital culinary info I may have to try for one thing because I like cilantro and usually do not get a whole bunch used before it rots in the fridge 5:22 hours of blessed sleep. IGNORE THE DANG FIRE ALARM. The old message used to tell people to stay in apartments and put a towel under the door to keep the smoke out. The new message tells people not to use the elevator (very practical for people in wheelchairs) and exit. NOT HAPPENING if I am in bed unless I smell smoke or there are firefighters banging on my door. Annoying resonance with a political science class in graduate school that had a fire alarm EVERY flipping week. After awhile the class just ignored the alarm. It was a concrete building. The Classroom was on the ground floor. Somehow either the term ended or the fire alarms stopped the week after firefighters finally came and scolded us for ignoring the fire alarm. Chore list: --trash, STILL --Floor, STILL --mandatory paperwork where I just need to log in and finish --more on n...

Silliness and rhetoric of vegetable abuse aside, who knew you can make kale chips in the oven? I am INTRIGUED 5:22 hours of sleep. AND a big pot of chicken mushroom barley soup. Trash WILL go out today, tonight. I think I should have just said the computer lab should close if another volunteer is not available. Having all the lights on in the room is SO exhausting. GAH! A customer showed up.

My vote: roast beets in the oven. Then puree with yogurt or sour cream, horseradish, lemon... Just read the recipe. 5:02 hours of sleep after changing the bed AND turning the mattress. Worship twice online. Brew a big pot of chicken mushroom barley soup. RIP Jimmy Carter. I have never quite forgiven him for conceding in 1980 before the polls had closed in mountain and pacific time zones. but otherwise... STILL need to work at taking trash out.

4:0 hours of sleep. Not quite enough of sleep but enough motivation to read more CPAP documentation and figure out bluetooth connection. It feels nice to be more on regular meal and sleep schedule. I got sheets washed. Will I get the Chicken Barley soup made tonight? Or should I make chili and do the barley soup another time??? Stay tuned. And tomorrow hopefully it's trash and if I am really on a roll, some of FLOOR.

It's the real saffron and the carmelized rice at the bottom I think I should invest in some saffron and some sweet smoked Spanish paprika And there are a million and one variations on paella. 6:02 hours of sleep. TRY to do that again tonight except I think I am going to skip until tomorrow to wash sheets and hot dryer the bedding. No eggs because I did not want to pay $5.89 per dozen. "Nationwide shortage" of eggs probably because of bird flu. Trying not to overdo the alarmist wins about another pandemic as soon as the H5N1 virus mutates to manage human to human transmission. JOY. Tomorrow I will make barley chicken mushroom sooup. Maybe I will do it tonight.

No, it was not plastic spacers in the box  Something like 3:55 hours of sleep. Amazing how an hour of conversation reconnecting with a long divorced aunt can be both AMAZING and triggering. Both of us shared of seeing and having opinions we did not know what to do with. Sounds like part of the picture was some next level small town soap opera and part of it was me saying "oh, I can absolutely see my mother doing...." But the main thing is some cousins finally met after decades. It was rewarding to have aunt thank me for helping bring that along.

3 hours 50 minutes again. No breakfast at McD's because McD's like almost everything was CLOSED. oh the horror. I have to demonstrate poor nutritional choices based only on what is on hand. Multiple Uber fiascoes but I made it to Mom's in time to have festive lunch. Highlights: rutabaga carrot soup and parsnip squash mash with Rosemary and sage respectively. Sweet visit with Mom and home without any more drama than a need to wait longer than I wanted for the 8

Attempting to wander through the mind of the President elect is a fraught venture, but I am really glad people are studying how offshore wind farms affect aquatic life New CPAP reads differently. 3 hrs 50 minutes? FUN actually to prep presents and let imagination run wild. "People of the dawn" at Christmas eve service. Really FUN participatory animal noises including camels that talk instead of snort. Both my mother and my sister DID NOT GET things about how I see. Also sometimes crying makes me see better. In this case it was grandpa's issues with candles and seeing the projected lyrics. Last year my phone made enlargement of the bulletin easy. This year WTF? Fun meal. The black bean burgers were tasty but mushy. And the pear gorgonzola pie was dry and would have been better soaked in rum and set on fire. The fam is not used to me wanting food flambeau. Nephew got me pomegranates. It made me laugh. Everyone was good-natured about peppermint tea. I came home and went to w...

5.5 hours of sleep. New CPAP WORKS. Finally the Me Do It took shape and the result is MUCH better than the old one. Christmas presents will all be similar. Lots of not decorating for Christmas happening. Elevator stuff for Mom and many things for me. GOOD Meeting that will lead to train the trainers and work about gun violence. And just for grins, I got flu shot AND COVID booster just in time for celebrating. Fun times.

Video disappeared in an oopsie. I will see if I can find it again but maybe not tonight. Another evening of coming home and plopping. 4.8 hours of sleep in bed. More earlier in chair. Almost have new CPAP set up. Me do it means find some key directions AGAIN and wade into whether I want to try bluetooth about anything. I wanted air plants but I finally scored some other possibly acceptable presents that can be delivered TOMORROW. I will also go get flu shot. High excitement. Compline was on the edge of lovely but somehow the sound was more garbled than sometimes.

CPAP machine says 1.8 hours. I think it got turned off somehow and it was more like 4 hours based on when I went to bed and when I woke up. Good news: up early enough to get breakfast at McD's (Horrors) and get to Mom's to duck out of elevator problems by MOVING TO ANOTHER APARTMENT. She is happy. the new apartment will have better counter space but less square footage and a more rectangular layout than the current one. I liked a different one but she's the one who gets to live ther. Looked up various things about Uber and Metroflex. PROGRESS Tne police nabbed the guy they think murdered the bus driver. WHAT A RELIEF for everyone. After getting mail I visited new grocery that use to be HT market. WOW. I bought bananas but they decided the bananas and other groceries did not need to go to vigil for the bus driver. One aunt and my only remaining uncle are dealing with cancer. Uncle appears to be having a rough time of it.      Fun times

This recipe intrigues me. I like lima beans and care less about shrimp even though I know paella sometimes contains several kinds of seafood. 4.0 hours of sleep. Too late to bed and maintenance banging on my door at 9 am. Freezer forcibly defrosted and then I turned ingredients into food. Now I have some trash to take out but unfortunately even to the trash chute might not happen until tomorrow. The other THRILL: new overhead light in the bedroom. Motivation to sort my socks and figure out why I have several socks with lost mates. First world problem. Other than that the federal budget survived for another few months. No #WarOnChristmas shutdown.  And no laundry tonight even though I have another grocery cart load. Life is GRAND     

4.9 hours of sleep. 3 meetings just far enough apart to not be able to do any errands between here but close enough in time to at least a little mentally change gears.

Believe it or not, sometimes stuff like this relaxes me so I can go to sleep better. Other times it just puts me to sleep which may in fact be the point. 5.6 hours of sleep in spite of doing laundry. I CAN worship with Kyiv Friends and do laundry eve n though for a few different reasons I do not necessarily recommend it. Holiday party turned out beautifully even though I did nearly nothing.  MUCH gratitude and also gratitude for getting doors fixed. Now I will not just tweet my life away. I will not just tweet my life away. I will not just....

Not just an ad for Ground News. 5.6 hours of sleep Doors work! All except a door that should NOT automatically open. But I have my meds and my phone charger and tomorrow is a holiday party..

Because I clearly need some funky cooking vocabulary and techniques to distract me from all there is to distract me from.      4.7 hours of sleep. Anxiety about trying to do all the things I wound up not needing to do anyway I don't know what I did to make my screen quite so huge. I WILL figure out how to undo it. I WILL also reflect on why the giant font seems so comfortable and simultaneously why I am not more adept at just screen reader and who needs what is on the screen. Today's door drama: the door that was left unsecured all weekend has now been secured. But the automatic door still does not work. I left half my life behind the door that locked and now I have to HOPE I can open the door tomorrow in time to run the computer lab. Today's other excitement: phoning about insurance coverage for a breast MRI. Dun.dun.dun cue the heavy plodding music.     

I refuse to condone the slaughter of evergreens. I also really don't have space for anything that is not flat. So here is a Christmas Tree story from Twitter / x   "This was my autistic son putting up his felt Christmas tree today. After he decorated, he sat and cried for a while. After I asked him what was wrong, he replied, " I am sad because nobody will see my tree and all the hard work I have done " He then asked me could I post the… pic.twitter.com/83a77c8n19 — Mr Commonsense (@fopminui) December 15, 2024 6.6 hours of sleep. Now if I could only keep that up every night. My computer is too slow and I need a bigger screen. I need help with about 10 2-hour blocks of tackling CHORES. And there was SUN so I could get more done in daylight while also TRYING not to have too much light in the evening. So many things I want to get to done tonight.  Will I or will I just tackle some of my laundry????

This video is deliciously silly. Plus I have no visuals of the global zombie invasion that keeps infesting my Twitter / X Something like 3.3 hours of sleep. Could that be why I came home from holiday party and flopped in my chair? If I move around now will I summon energy badly needed to do laundry???? UBS holiday party was fun!. Bus worked . Food and setting were great. Weather getting home was bearable but not great. Will I have more energy tomorrow. WTF with all the sirens????

Limited French but what I get from the transcript: French lyrics much more appropriate to the reopening of a cathedral than that very bad breakup Leonard Cohen version Negligible sleep one night due to nerves Meeting went well yesterday and I slept 5.9 hours in bed on top of basically flopping in chair when I got home from meeting. Front door of building is FIXED!!!!  Praise God. Let's hope it stays fixed.

3.9 hours of sleep. MUCH conversation and some yucky topics. I am exhausted. PS I draw the line at EXTRAORDINARILY EXPENSIVE ceramic bread pans.

This picture of packages under the mailboxes is NOT how I want my deliveries to go. I forgot I had ordered some festive holiday sugar (peppermint taffy) until I was wondering where my peppermints are. 4.9 hours of sleep We will not discuss from when until when or which meeting I decided did not need my presence fulltime. Festive holiday sugar

Chili con carne means Beef and to heck with beans. So it could be interesting to see what happens to the flavor palate without beef here. Beer, jalapenos, Korean fermented chili paste 4.6 hours of sleep. Phone calls, zooms, water plants. No outside exercise but rode the exercycle for an hour while on the office class Zoom.

I kind of hope to find more expansive vids. I love hearing that the organ has been restored. I wonder how many of the organists historically have been from the "15-20's" a charity originally for returning war vets and blind people. 3.7 hours of sleep. Hair washed before meeting. practicing saying ... Trip to Amazon Fresh.

4.2 hours of sleep after about 3 hours dozing in the chair. Lots of Twitter snark. EXTREMELY glad something that was flaky on the schedule got rescheduled--by text at 7 am in time to replan from 2 pm on. Fetched mail. "package" was a BUTTON in honor of 40th college reunion. Really?

An ingredient combination that would never have occurred to me but since one can travel through space and time just reading recipes here we are, in Spain via Tuna stew 4.2 hours of sleep. Birthday party last night was a hit. I at pizza leftovers for breakfast. TOO MANY meetings today. Too much yakking when I need to breathe and focus and not just chatter. Meet with surgeon January 9. Fun. Practice talking about it between now and then.

Nephew wanted pizza. It took some huffy moments about I am not sure which but everyone made it into car and then into lovely room on the main level because THE ELEVATOR IS STILL OUT OF SERVICE. ETA for repairs: at least two days. But we all survived and sauteing eggplant bare without any special coating is an interesting idea. 4.2 hours of sleep. Even though I have to-do's in my email I am in such a food coma from the pizza and ice cream, I think I will just GO TO BED.     

Vocabulary definitely unconventional. Including about preparation techniques. 4.4 hours of sleep. I started the trickle of phone calls. First step: wallet and insurance biopsy I love being in meetings where people are glad to see me. I have a headache about other meetings. And the elevator to Mom's floor IS NOT WORKING AGAIN. I do not like this Sam I am. Nephew's birthday.

6.2 hours of sleep. LONG conversations. Still need to write up Leftovers on the road and more digital inclusion roads. Tomorrow O WILL make a phone call... Last night I read a bunch of medical reports. BLEAH 

More narrative food distraction. 4.6 hours of sleep. Added another blanket. So I woke up warm and toasty and without other aches and pains I frequently wake up with. Last night it was Look. Here comes the baby Jesus or at least the anticipatory music. So time to put socks on. Phone call # 2 when I really don't have time to talk. Happy Monday.

5.7 hours of sleep. Not counting a couple inadvertant naps. I made a pot of borshch. I forgot to roast one beet so I will have to add it next time i am baking or roasting something. Washed hair. Did Quaker stuff. Interacted with work stuff. Sun was gorgeous but I did not get outside enough. I happened on lovely Antiphon service for first sunday of Advent at St Marks. Healthy break from the news fever swamps I also waded into getting new CPAP set up. Fun? Uhhhh And tomorrow MORE NEWS about biopsy