RantWoman Sleeps--or Not

RantWoman made it somewhere close to 5 hours counting going back to bed for 1.5 hours after breakfast. If RantWoman had been listening to level of  sleepiness it mighrt have made sense to stop ignoring the google calendar reminders and go to bed by say 11:30. As it was go home when first computer shutdown ok or cancel warning comes along and still.... Mornintg achievements included routing a number of Christmas gifts along in the universe checking some neglected mail, and taking out a whole shopping cart full of paper recycling, compost, trash. Meditation possible upon shopping cart issues, both the grocery store kind that tend to migrate to RantWoman's building, to get used for decidedly un shopping purposes and then sometimes migrated back from whence they came, and shopping carts suitable for collecting many bags during a day's travels but that officially have an owner other than the grocery store or other retail experiment. Put Christmas tree on precious balcony.  Me...

Somewhere around 5 hours of sleep again. I should try to go to bed earlier. At least I got to go back to bed. almond hershey kisses were the munchy of the night. Now they are gone. Good. Less temptation. That was after lots of cheese and carbs and beet chips at a party.  It was nice to be out in the cool and dry but the sidewalks where I needed to go just SUCK. Today: a repaired refrigerator and a big ish check payment on an old invoice. New shoes on the way. And, no, no hamsters were harmed in teh making of this blog post, but readers are invited to inquire, wht the HELL is RantWoman thinking about?

RantWoman THINKS she made it to about 5 hours of sleep couting some early in the chair zz's, the hour she slept after giving up on a sudoku, the4+ hours from reading Psalm 24, not super soothing but mostly braille words not hard to figure out,, and falling asleep until before 8. RantWoman! Who are you kidding. You SHOULD really describe physical reactions to someone like a professional. Really! Also lying in bed and being warm definitely counts especially when there is inertia saving one from   from wilder adventures than just taking out the plastic recycling. (The rest of the trash and recycling and compost still needs to go out but at this point save it for daylight.) Today was good day for social connecting. Had a wonderful I see you conversation with someone today and her 3-year-old daughter who truly had no reason to tell some adult she barely knows how old she is. Mom talked about how people just come up and pat her kid on the head or worse. Mom had NO problem g...

RantWoman made it to almost six hours of sleep. RantWoman did this by getting up after 7, eating oatmeal and going back to bed for an hour. RantWoman knows how to party. RantWoman, sigh, is out of her sunflower bites which were her late-night munchy last night. Tonight RantWoman managed to pass on popcorn made with organic extra virgin olive oil. That makes up for the cottage cheese and hard boiled egg from earlier. RantWoman is grateful though to have insulated water bottle so water left several hours is still cold and may even have a bit of ice. Here we will contrast these reflections with one item on RantWoman's college lit major syllabus: a book called Oblomov. The guy still has not made it out of bed after 50 pages. RantWoman on the other hand can scrawl pages and pages all over the internet and still not get to bed. RantWoman also found two Sudoku books with still a couple unfinished puzzles. SO RantWoman did one and started another. RantWoman was surprised both t...

The thing with sleep: sometimes the more one has the more one could just stay in bed. Once RantWoman gets up though, the benefits of moving and breathing frequently outweigh the benefits of going back to bed. RantWoman is a little fuzzy on when she made it to bed. Somewhere around 2 and up after 7 so hanging in at 5+ hours. Try to go to bed earlier. Try. Went shopping at Uwajimaya; Malaysian YUMMY curry for dinner plus after shopping gooey glutinous rice and coconut milk sweets. That should have been enough but late night snacking included whole grain goldfish crackers, raisins and small potatoes nuked. Effect did not disturb sleep as much as other things to eat. Just the winter carbs effect. That and get vegetables other places because Uwaji downtown is getting expensive. Morning chores and why not back to bed: --Change cat litter completely. Overdue --Replace hook roller tips on two canes. Need to make name tag for the one with the better red tape. NO I did not need 50 yard...

RantWoman hit a little over 4 hours last night. RantWoman definitely recommends homemade tamales especially prepared in palm leaves. One came RantWoman's way via a Guatemalan friend of Little Sister's. RantWOman is SO appreciative. Rantwoman is responsible for eating whole grain goldfish crackers, dried cranberries and really good cheese at an hour when RantWoman knows perfectly well she will sleep better if she consumes nothing except water. Aren't adult decisions FUN. Rantwoman from time to time experiements with substance abuse. This morning besides a container of the legumes of the week plus riceRantwoman decided mint chip ice cream with rum in int would make an awesome dessert. Um, no. RantWoman also spends enough time at bus stops bitching to herself: I voted to leagli ze weed but i did not vote for free distribution and secondhand smoke at every dang bus stop in the county. So hallucinogens instead? `

5.5 hours + overnight. If I go to bed earlier at least some chance that I can sleep longer. But if one just wants anxiety one can still be desultorily reading the Two Koreas book: there are too dang many people whose last name is Kim. They should diversify so it's easier to keep track of who is who. Note various threads of diplomacy and wonder what kind of :"Christmas present" is DPRK President cooking up: will there be say an actual long-range missile test OR will there be some kind of announcement?  "Oops, we were just funning. The Christmas present is we will not be testing our long-range missile after all." Sleep on that!