RantWoman Sleeps--or Not

 7.5ish hours of sleep No morning agenda items and going back to bed helps.  Morning email has news of laundry. Sounds too good to be true so I have to try it. Email from overnight will keep and probably try to turn into a zoom event and a podcast. Boy do I know how to have fun. Body is sneezy today. The neck pain comes and goes.

Somewhere around 5 hours of sleep. Late night snacking probably a factor. Going back to bed after feeding the cat did not happen. Among other things instead I did an Amazon order and scored some of my favorite canned tuna salads for a way better price than when I buy at Whole Foods. Such is the dance with the Jeff Bezos empire. Everything but the hand soap got delivered tonight when I wasn't expecting it yet. Nice problem to have except the driver cannot grok the delivery instructions in the app and wasn't wearing a mask. One box handoff and socially distance for rest of conversation. Duuuude The Omicron variant!?!?!?  One reason it's in the US interest to help get other countries vaccinated so there are fewer reservoirs of unvaccinated people for the virus to mutate rapidly in. And does easily transmissible mean also more or less dangerous if one gets infected? Not gonna chat about it with an unmasked Amazon driver but... Anyway celebrate a live driver because I want to ta...

4 ish hours of sleep. Timewise I could have gone back to bed but it didn't happen. What is happening is neck and shoulder spasms related maybe to adding new PT exercise. Or maybe to carrying stuff. I have shopping cart. Not a great one but I could have taken it this afternoon. Zoom is so interesting. When I zoom worship on my phone sometimes I just look at the participants list and some names just make me smile. I did succeed in buying toothpaste. Between shoplifters and supply chain issues Walgreens has the toothpaste under lock and key. Luckily another woman and I wanted to buy toothpaste at the same time. Now I have two tubes. Hoarding on a minor scale so I guess I can feel guilty if I need to if some family has to use baking soda because I bought a year's supply of toothpaste. Other than that my blind nurse friend recommends this clip and it's pretty sweet though Youtube will also tak you to another cute one featuring the kids with the new sister. Blind nurse friend...

  The Queen of Spades modelling sensible behavior 5 ish hours of sleep in bed plus another in chair. CPAP all night but I am still tired. I half suspect the cat sometimes turns off. I wish my spiffy bed would automatically reinflate every day because it has an annoying trough way too soon. SO much joy visiting friends in Lynnwood. So it should be easy to go to sleep in the glow. Enter ANXIETY. They have both been through A LOT this year and there are points of tension to hold carefully. And as ever there are wayfinding adventures for another blog. It's 4th Saturday worship time. I forgot to put the time in the invitation and decided not to expand the mailing list. So we'll see who if anyone comes to the virtual as opposed to the conceptual space. Expanding the mailing list also means the kind of holiday origin story that can be told different ways different times of year.  Anyway I woke up unsettled and out of sorts and then I looked at the calendar. Holly Near It could have b...

almost 8? hours of sleep.  The first time I woke up, the CPAP was not working. The second spell it worked all the way through. DEAL WITH on Monday. Body is knotting in asymmetrical places. Tomorrow just do the stretches. Do not worry about disturbing the cat sleeping on the pillow. Maybe for grins tomorrow I will see about getting linens run through dryer and sheets changed. Tonight I am feeling well blessed and blissed after inviting myself to dinner with friends in Lynnwood. We had not seen each other since before the pandemic. Much just to sit and talk about. Yummy vitamin rich meal and exquisite French chocolate

4 ish hours of sleep. Not nearly enough. Mocha partly to blame. The Christmas cactuses just keep hanging in there. Dear text message groupies, Happy colonizing feast day to y'all too. I don't in the least see how permanent rebellion against muythologizing, cultural appropriation, genocide... is AT ALL incompatible with deep humility and gratitude.  And while we're at it, sometimes #BlackLivesMatter means listening with great interest to program about African American classical music.  There. Am I being cantankerous enough? Today's Thanksgiving celebration was lovely: assemble some treats. Make cranberry sauce and cranberry relish. Ride transport to visit Mom who had already feasted. Nibble and chat the afternoon away. Get on transport and go home. Have conversations with Sister. Assure I am amazed by the festivity she and household pulled off last year in pandemic and I am glad we have not figured out how to be in the same space and let's try to make it a group effo...

Almost 8 hours of sleep! Achieved by going back to bed for almost 3 hours after feeding the cat. The downside: after washing dishes and hand laundry, it was past 2 pm when the rest of life started. Neighbors are complaining about slow pace of reopening computer lab and also complaining to outside places about laundry. Feeling humble about my privilege and glad for others' initiatives In closing one of many options if one needs contemporary arms races to lose sleep over