RantWoman Sleeps--or Not

Well over 6 hours of sleep  AND late-night Seattle time worship with Kiev Friends AND up in time for highly topical techno Zoom Save the piquant nuclear power plant and other national security commentary for another blog. Also commentary relevant to the title. In the meantime: Random flowering landscaping  on the way to the bus  the other night

about 4.5 hours of sleep. Blame not necessarily in order of importance --caffeine late in the day --really cool social contacts --an effort to chase down the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai eruption video that Youtube had been tempting me with all day until I gave in and wanted to post that exact video to one of my blogs. It's still a cool video even if I couldn't find a second time. 

Almost 7 SEVEN hours of sleep. Getting out and moving, also seeing mom and making her reminisce helped a lot. Gorgeous fallish weather. Mild temps. Sun. Maybe the last time we can eat on the patio which I find WAY more opening and less depressing than her apartment. Route home: I can't believe how creaky I feel. I chose the more walking transit routing because it is faster. When I say I can't believe, the issue is a matter of a couple blocks. Sigh. Compline last night also spoke to me more than some days. The biggest downside of solid sleep spell: I woke up two hours past when work on the busted water main started. 

5 ish hours of sleep. Waiting until bedtime to wash hair has all kinds of logic. Going to bed hungry and with wet hair braided is a recipe to wake up sooner than one really needs to. Also there is a busted water main near our building and water will be off on Monday ie regular shower day. I HOPE the water main gets fixed in one day. Meanwhile, change the cat box early. Make extra ice cubes. Fill the tea kettle. And be glad if that is that worst problem of my day. It isn't so be glad anyway that there isn't even worse. And here is the relaxation video of the night. Yes, I said relaxation.

Almost seven hours of sleep.  No idea what I did to achieve that. Also even though I theoretically woke up in plenty of time to wash my hair before a 1 pm Zoom that did not happen. And the "HOLY SHIT" news just keeps coming. Tucker Carlson actually has a point to treat carefully about arming oligarchs in Ukraine. I am not going to untangle all the threads because there are enough other strand of geopolitics ahead of it in line. As for the "Election Justice" event on January 6...I think we should just steal the phrase and adapt it to... Then we come to who has Orange Foolius already sold stolen info to? And Puttie messing around with both nuclear power plants and supposedly possibly also tactical nukes. Two old guys losing it.  In the realm of Youtube trying to keep me from obsessing about the most up to the second time frame, here is an interesting item about mammalian evolution time.

4ish hours of sleep. Kahlua and skim milk seems to be good for relaxation but not necessarily good for sleep. But an hour of comedy about 60 % of which was actually funny and images of Jupiter are also good for cleansing the soul after too much Trumpishness and war in Ukraine.

6.5 hours of sleep all in one spell! start with 3+ hours of intermittent exercise doing laundry! Two washers, 3 dryers, 5 wash and 4 dryer loads. I had to share the laundry room with NO ONE, one reason I got it all, shorts for coming hot days and travel laundry all done at one sitting! I think not eating late in the evening really also helped. That seems to be a hard discipline but it also really seems to matter. The other path to virtue: I FINALLY got my kitchen floor mopped. Finally and we will not even count how long I have been fussing about intention. Unfortunately I also learned that my supposedly new bottle of ammonia has a spectacular leak all over inside the bucket I was storing it in. So buy more ammonia and see if I can make it a weekly ritual with some other needed rituals on other days. As for more efficient living via Amazon orders: I need distilled water regularly. I think I should just buy a distiller. I am not quite up to the HS chemistry class DIY piping.... PS One wa...