RantWoman Sleeps--or Not

  5.5 hours of sleep.  Starting before 5 am. Ending at almost 11 after breakfast in the middle. There was a crossword puzzle but that was pretty early. There were blog posts. There was staring into space on the breezeway. There was dozing in a chair.There was feeding the cat. And before / after that... Chocolate ice cream with rum and salami with mozarella inside after a trip to Walgreens did not help. So instead tonight it's pre-wrapped cheddar cheese, slightly rancid almonds and good dried cranberries. Who says pandemic / pandemonium anxiety makes people do weird things? Bathtub, soap in red container, pot used for hand laundry including masks Walgreens was a trip. The POS device kept screwing up. The clerk accidentally charged me for some Hand Sanitizer and my whatever savings club code was not entering correctly so I was getting billed about $8 more than I owed. Mental arithmetic is so valuable sometimes. Now the sink drains appropriately. The bathtub on the other hand......

 About 4 hours of sleep or a little less. The phone call at 6 am from RantMom's retirement community did nto help about the Go back to bed issues. RantMom fell in the bathroom at 3 am. She pulled the pull cord and staff did magnificent help including what sounds like a very smart easy to assemble chair to help lft RantMom up. But the RantSisters had to have some Sister words On the up side, blue birthday dress goes much better with orange and blue striped socks than pink dress does.  And the shipment of baking soda, vinegar, and drano will be a huge help with the sink and plumbing issues. Don't forget the "Tub Shroom" for the bathtub. PS.Here are a couple nice TubShroom vids A great Tub Shroom Video Another TUb Shroom vid And just type notes do not get in a hurry...

starting upper left and 1234 clockwise 1 Columbia Gorge at dusk 2. Columbia Gorge with a Rainbow 3. A walking trail with flowers and foliage 4. A red and white Japanese fan          4 + hours of sleep. Look I went to bed at 1. I woke up after 5. I decided to make lentil brownies from the lentils I started cooking last night. After that there was the matter of spilling some sunflower oil and and and I woke up and the sink had drained completely. YEAH maintenance man visit on Friday. So I started seeing what would happen if I ran boiling water down the drain. It helped. As in after several rounds I could pour steadily from the Teapot and it would almost all drain. I NEED to wash dishes but I am not quite ready to do that unless I get maniacal about water conservation. And there is a whole thread about new clothes from stimulus payment.

Sleep 5.5 hours. in two spells  I THINK the dose of late night comedy digesting the Repug convention was worth the sleep lapse. Amnd going to bed earlier still would have been good, but I did also finish the crossword puzzle.  I am definitely aware of I could have slept more. I also got my floor scrubbed. Itis much better but not perfect. The Garlic Peas Package Then just when I was going to shower, a guy showed up to deal with my plumbing issues. Both drains are better. Guy said the kitchen needs a real plumber and ... take care about grease. And the nutritional info: I love the ideaof a Friday farmers market  But at grocery outlet, I got there too early to go to the farmer's market before shopping and when I was done shopping it was hot and the line with social distancing was too long and I just caught the bus home At home I already have garlic peas from China and popcorn, and veggie sticks,... The nutritional info says basically why eat this stuff. It's green  and...

The SLEEP: SIX hours. in 2 spells , 1-4 and before 7 to before 10. If one does not snack in the evening, one sometimes decides one is hungry even if one wakes up too early. Also time for sure to make some oatmeal, the weekly pot of porridge, even though the sink situation fills RantWoman with despair of cleaning a big pot. The rest of the data: no evening snacking because laundry. But got laundry done in record time partly because no one else was in the laundry room until someone came in to wash as most of my stuff except one last load was already drying.  Sending an email, a voicemail and a paper form through the designated slot has now generated at least acknowledgment of the drainage problems. Now, about actual repairs. Somewhere in the laundry maelstrom, Thwack the cane has gone missing. RantWoman actually has 5 scratch that SIX canes. They collectively are known as Ambassador Thwack though sometimes they get fussy and one or another might ask to be referred to as Deputy Chief ...

about 4 hours counting a nap and going to bed at a ridiculous hour. Weird how sometimes I can get started and be fine for a long time and then look at clock.     But life is not automaticaly better when I go to bed   earlier. And today ideas flowed. Laundry and kitchen floor await. And filed both paper and phone grumbles about kitchen sink. Pandemic sucks. As for the accessibility whines. They belong in another blog and right now I NEED chocolate.

4.5 hours of sleep. Too much to hope that a string of longer nights will hold steady but there is the matter of chocolate late-ish in the evening. Yesterday was a decent exercise day because of kitchen drainage hassles and taking out compost. Laundry and scrubbing floor still need to happen and I need a strategy for decluttering, hopefully with some bulk initial steps to create momentum.  The Tuesday NYT puzzle is usually easy and I finished that early. Note to self: this reconditioned phone is doing the same thing as other phone started to do in fail mode. Time to call and get another phone but this one lasted only 6 months. I halfway wonder whether something about NYT puzzle interaction with vibrate on touch feature is killing phone faster than it should. But I also still mean to download the Scrabble game a blind dev I know wrote, both to play scrabble and to see if I can steal navigation ideas for the puzzle. It would be really awesome though to find a young blind dev who might...