RantWoman Sleeps--or Not

 Somewhere close to six hours of sleep.  Black cat on white couch Going to bed earlier helps.  So does baking enough yams for more than one meal so I can just be lazy and eat cold from fridge and still enjoy they nice roasty flavor. So does solving the crossword puzzle. Okay, I do check puzzle a few times and I do not care if that spoils streaks. It means I get the puzzle done in a finite amount of time. So, somehow does getting the weekly pot of beans boil / soaking on the stove. Throw beans in pot. Cover with water. Bring to a boil. Add garlic and whatever lemon or lime is getting too far to eat from fridge. Turn off pot before leaving house. Next time one is around the stove, check to see whether more water is needed and if so, add. Then bring to a boil again. Do the boil cycle a few times until the beans are cooked enough to use. And appreciate new upstairs neighbors. Music I can hear rumbling through my ceiling is a big improvement over very problematic odors wafting...

 Four + hours of sleep. Black Cat. White Couch Blame: --finishing the last of my applicant interview reports --baked cheetos and chocolate way too late. --a really frustrating Saturday crossword puzzle --my news video fix and bless a Barack Obama one for making me laugh and FINALLY getting me to go to bed. --waking up and needing to pee even though I had rolled into a lovely blanket burrito --not going back to bed and nipping at a Twitter diet of women of the Insurrection bits. Happy Women's History Month and dang, the culture! The Backlash! Did I write this before? Nephew and friend made it safely back from MT road trip before Snoqualmie pass closed. And the travel time even with dinner did not imply a COMPLETELY unreasonable rate of speed, never mind winter driving conditions. Between God and fear of God as embodied in insurance premiums... And the photo? Cat not really into photo op and human not properly fulfilling role as cat furniture. But at least the house has clean dishes ...

Only about THREE hours of sleep. Black cat with grey hair in her ears "To heck with my groupies. I object to forced selfies" Yikes. Blame the crossword, news junkie video fix, late night end of the Taco Time meal, and generally ragged angst.  I could have gone back to bed but somehow, even though therapy appointment was later than usual, body was afraid of missing it.  I finished my aborted merch purch from the other day. Masks, a phone holder I can put my phone in to Zoom hands free, an accessories bag and a polo shirt. Boy will I be sporting the brand. I wish I had a source for more provocative masks too. I finished the last of my alumni interviews of applicants. It feels like they gave me every kid with an amazing story. Odds are long and these will do great wherever they wind up, and. Then there are chores. It did not occur to me in my protesting youth that i should aspire to enough financial wherewithal to pay someone to do chores. Now to various writing tasks, never min...

 five plus hours of sleep. Somehow I slept wrong in all the lumps in my bed and things feel off-kilter that shouldn't. Going back to bed would have been good. But Twitter and the cat's need to sit on me and my sister's phone needs sucked me in. Houseplant Zone I forgot to tell sister that DNA test came back. She and I share one piece of DNA lotto that could only be identified a couple years ago. Now we get to decide how much of the rest of the fam on mom's side to encourage to get tested. And reading a long list of other negative results with a screen reader is a drag. My mom has torn tendon in hip area nd tears in hamstrings on right leg. Owwww. And nothing to do except take it easy at her age. Plus she got a rash. She thinks from opiates now discontinued and substituted with muscle relaxers anyway. I think could be several possibilities but so far it seems to be going away with hydrocortisone cream. I wish it were easier just to go give her a hug. Email says her commu...

 Almost six hours of sleep. A cool weekly Zoom. This week is ALMOST interesting enough to again make me rethink my decisions not to go to law school. Almost. Keyboard plus mandarins Now I need to get brain together for a lobby meeting with Adam Smith about ACB legislative priorities. And the mindless picture of mandarins is just because I need some visuals and vision loss says Keep It Simple Superhero.

 about five hours of sleep.  Going back to bed would be nice but not happening. One of the bananas was ripe enough to eat. That means the others should be on their way. Three days of blind zoom webinars interspersed with ads for merchandise. Very friendly human interface, ie very nice friendly woman on phone. And I am impatient and so want to cheerlead her to join 21st century. NOT realistice. I had VERY nice Google meets call yesterday. No of course no one can figure it out in one test.

 I achieved about 5 hours of sleep AGAIN. Today no hair-washing but my First World problem of the day: I bought bananas the other day at Grocery Outlet. They were nice and green and I expected them to ripen. They are still nice and green. After awhile green stops being nice.  These are Atlanta daffodils. They put a body in mind of an old blog post about daffodils and cigarette butts. Neverthe less I am glad spring is on the way. Daffodils