RantWoman Sleeps--or Not

 Slightly over 4 hours of sleep and not even laundry. THREE crosswords in one day (EASY ones but still) is probably too much and saving the walking until the only sane option is 20-30 minutes walking the breezeway at 10:30 does not rank as great planning either. Oh and mozarella sticks and figs late in the evening also... But the TubShroom is STILL collecting hair from Saturday's hair washing. And the kitchen is holding up to the no dishes in the sink regimen instituted after the plumber visited.  I thought I was going to make it through September without a timely event getting restimulated, but NO! And the funny thing is the rest of life is such a whirlwind that that topic is barely a ripple. A Favorite Breezeway Bench in Sunlight And it's been almost 25 years since a certain night at Gay Bingo, a story that it probably would not have been a good idea to tell at one moment but is now one of several moments behind a PERSISTENT allergy to sloppy use of mental health terminology...

 about two hours in chair trying to head to bed. About 4.5 hours actually in bed. Longer would have been fine but did not happen. The Queen of Spades trying urgently to keep the human sane Not enough exercise late in the day but phone call about convention video was great. WAY too much fun to wrtie the How not to do it script. How did phone not get charged overnight? Either I plugged it in wrong or the cable was not connected correctly. Good that it charged fine over breakfast. I want The Cat in the Hat and Thing 1 and Thing 2 to come over and clean my bathroom. But my TubShroom is miraculous about catching hair. Last night I emailed family. Results were predictable. Stay tuned? Phone calls with sister and friend. I am kind of dragging.

 A solid FIVE hours of sleep. The problem with going to bed early because one is falling over and there is no way laundry is going to happen and the Monday NYT puzzle is always ridiculously easy is that  drum roll please One then wakes up early too.  And if one is home and travelling by Zoom with breakfast just across the room instead of riding over the mountains and sleeping with strangers (not what it sounds like) and there is a creek and no breakfast for two hours is that one first tends to get up and tackle the day. Going back to bed definitely would have been an option timewise and probably would have felt good. Pot of Chicken Barley Stew But morning texts with sister when voice would be too much and I already had enough voice last night 15 minutes right at the start of the call about her badly matted hair exercise. YUCK. Glad i have only my own problems since I am not doing so well holding even them together. Well , my braid actually helps hold my head together but ...

 Five hours of sleep.  Should have gone to bed earlier.  Should have saved the salmon spread for breakfast.  Made it to Bible Study. Such a good space for learning from each other. Zoom call to write a resolution about uniform standards as far as voting accessibility in WA Good call but a couple points i am still stuck on. Blind chatter call was not as interesting as sometimes. Need to work on second skit for our convention session. At least I got dinner before the Taco time indoor pickup closes. Practicing sharing medical news with strangers so i can figure out how to deal with family. Dumped the beta test software partly because the test protocol was not fitting into my schedule. Phone is behaving much better now that previous stable version of software is back.     Got the NYT Sunday puzzle done in about 2 hours.

 Somewhere around 5 hours of sleep. Going to bed earlier as in when I was sleepy anyway would have been good. Knowing the QM Bible study started 15 minutes later than i thought also would not have been terrible. But not trying to wash dishes while Zooming was definitely morning sanity. High Contrast Black Cat on sort of white couch Other random moments: --For rest of the world blog a Sometimes Stupid happens item. Someone at an anti-nuclear weapons event with a sign that said "Kill the Deathmongers" definitely falls into that category. Some other events too. Babble about accessible campaign management software. Oh and I signed up for a usability study involving the term "beta test" also known as unstable software likely to cause device to do weird things. So now I get to find the email about loading it and figure out how to unload. Welcome to life on the frontier for this century.

      Barely FOUR hours of sleep. Got to bed WAY too late. Part of that was late night food. Could have gone back to bed but then day would have started absurdly late.  Changed filter in CPAP. This is the one I removed. Kinda black. Old CPAP Filter. Look what one does NOT want to breathe Also changed sheets including run bedlinens through hot dryer as bedbugh prophylaxis. Dryer lint also just black. Got past the insurance authorization. Decided i am going to need some mouthy assertive blind women in my quarter.

 4.5 hours before breakfast plust 2+ after breakfast.= almost 7 hours. If I could do taht consistently it would be awesome.  The Queen of Spades   Lunch. Two phone calls and 3 webinars though i wound up staying in only 1 and not being able to find the other and skipping the blind techies one in favor of listening to people do bystander intervention training. Not to be repetitive but everyone finds no video hard. No morning schedule is SUCH a luxury. Things are inching forward about stuff with insurance. New documentation appeared in online medical chart. Now I remember what I signed up to do on Saturday 10/3: make a recording of an acceptance speech for an award I would give to someone else. Gah! My goal really is to inspire others to their own pieces of advocacy. And by advocacy I mean both nurturing the light of fierce affordable housing advocates and supporting blind landlord who needed to kick out tenant with bogus service dog in training. Have i ranted about this bef...