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Nearly a month since my last post. Here are the things happening in the realm of me:
*Still reading biographies. In the first bunch I mentioned last time, I forgot about the books by Mindy Kaling, and James Garner. Also read Jimmy Walker, and Gene Wilder. I definitely prefer an autobiography, even if they're helped by somebody. I want to hear someone tell their own story.
I went and got myself a library card, I haven't had one since I was a kid. But I'm pretty bored these days, and I have no patience for fiction, so biographies do it for me. Randomly scouring the shelves at my neighborhood branch the other day, I grabbed Marty Feldman, Garry Marshall and Roger Ebert.
*My parents, who both lived in Madison their whole lives, decided a couple years ago that they were sick of winter. They go to Vegas for a week every February, but it wasn't enough anymore. They wanted to try being "snowbirds" - people of cold climes, who travel south (or west) for some or all of winter. Mom and dad like Arizona, they have friends there, and also relatives on both sides of the family. They did a lot of research, checked out some senior snowbird communities during previous trips, and settled on the town of Bullhead City, where my uncle lives. They rented a furnished apartment, and they'll stay for a month. If they like it, maybe next year it'll be for longer. I'm so glad that my folks are able to do this.
My biggest concern is for the house back in Madison. They have some neighbors they can trust, who will keep an eye out, and shovel the drive when it snows, but I worry anyway.
When I want to know what the weather is like in Madison, I can look here- Madison traffic cameras
The camera for Truax, is about a block from mom and dad's house. I think it's cool that I can watch real-time road conditions of a place so familiar, yet so far away.
*My never-ending issues with sleep are the worst they've ever been. Sunday, I got up about three in the afternoon. I don't get tired at night. Luke goes to bed before midnight, I watch TV till one or two, then I surf the rest of the night. Stupid games, LJ, Facebook, Buzzfeed, IO9, Cheezburger, Slog, world news, local news, email, etc, round and round, over and over. I'm not tired. If I were to go to bed now, I'd toss and flop like a dying carp for hours and hours. Luke has to get up early for school, so I let him sleep. He leaves at 7:30, I surf some more, make some breakfast. Read a bit. It's 11am, and I finally feel a little bit drowsy, so I turn on some mindless daytime TV and doze on the couch. I get all of 15 minutes of sleep. I take a shower, and go to the library. I tidy the kitchen and bathroom, start some laundry. Around 4, I doze for maybe another 15 minutes. Tend the laundry. Luke gets home after six, I don't remember what we had for dinner. I dazedly watch TV. Of the past 33 hours, I've had maybe 30-45 minutes of sleep.
At 11:45 I take two Tylenol PM pills. I force myself to turn off the TV and the computer. I go to bed around 12:30, and sleep deeply till about 4 Tuesday afternoon. I have bizarre dreams and feel disoriented upon waking. I can only take Tylenol PM once or twice a week. Too many days in a row, and it stops working.
Luke and I have our Valentine's dinner out a couple days early (Wednesday is his regular movie night with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fringefaan, and on Thursday, Valentine's day proper, the restaurants will be too busy, so I'll make a nice dinner at home)
After a lovely dinner, we come home, I plop myself in front the TV once more, and am wide awake. Another night of TV and surfing. I went to bed around 5:30, but I didn't sleep. Luke got up at 6:30. I hoped to settle down after he left, but I didn't. I'm so awake, it's hard to even close my eyes. So I get up. Make some toast. Tidy the kitchen. Surf and play games. Start typing this. I'm finally starting to feel a teeny bit drowsy, so I'm going to try for a nap. Here's hoping for an hour of sleep! Everything else on the "list of things I could post" can wait...
*Still reading biographies. In the first bunch I mentioned last time, I forgot about the books by Mindy Kaling, and James Garner. Also read Jimmy Walker, and Gene Wilder. I definitely prefer an autobiography, even if they're helped by somebody. I want to hear someone tell their own story.
I went and got myself a library card, I haven't had one since I was a kid. But I'm pretty bored these days, and I have no patience for fiction, so biographies do it for me. Randomly scouring the shelves at my neighborhood branch the other day, I grabbed Marty Feldman, Garry Marshall and Roger Ebert.
*My parents, who both lived in Madison their whole lives, decided a couple years ago that they were sick of winter. They go to Vegas for a week every February, but it wasn't enough anymore. They wanted to try being "snowbirds" - people of cold climes, who travel south (or west) for some or all of winter. Mom and dad like Arizona, they have friends there, and also relatives on both sides of the family. They did a lot of research, checked out some senior snowbird communities during previous trips, and settled on the town of Bullhead City, where my uncle lives. They rented a furnished apartment, and they'll stay for a month. If they like it, maybe next year it'll be for longer. I'm so glad that my folks are able to do this.
My biggest concern is for the house back in Madison. They have some neighbors they can trust, who will keep an eye out, and shovel the drive when it snows, but I worry anyway.
When I want to know what the weather is like in Madison, I can look here- Madison traffic cameras
The camera for Truax, is about a block from mom and dad's house. I think it's cool that I can watch real-time road conditions of a place so familiar, yet so far away.
*My never-ending issues with sleep are the worst they've ever been. Sunday, I got up about three in the afternoon. I don't get tired at night. Luke goes to bed before midnight, I watch TV till one or two, then I surf the rest of the night. Stupid games, LJ, Facebook, Buzzfeed, IO9, Cheezburger, Slog, world news, local news, email, etc, round and round, over and over. I'm not tired. If I were to go to bed now, I'd toss and flop like a dying carp for hours and hours. Luke has to get up early for school, so I let him sleep. He leaves at 7:30, I surf some more, make some breakfast. Read a bit. It's 11am, and I finally feel a little bit drowsy, so I turn on some mindless daytime TV and doze on the couch. I get all of 15 minutes of sleep. I take a shower, and go to the library. I tidy the kitchen and bathroom, start some laundry. Around 4, I doze for maybe another 15 minutes. Tend the laundry. Luke gets home after six, I don't remember what we had for dinner. I dazedly watch TV. Of the past 33 hours, I've had maybe 30-45 minutes of sleep.
At 11:45 I take two Tylenol PM pills. I force myself to turn off the TV and the computer. I go to bed around 12:30, and sleep deeply till about 4 Tuesday afternoon. I have bizarre dreams and feel disoriented upon waking. I can only take Tylenol PM once or twice a week. Too many days in a row, and it stops working.
Luke and I have our Valentine's dinner out a couple days early (Wednesday is his regular movie night with
fringefaan, and on Thursday, Valentine's day proper, the restaurants will be too busy, so I'll make a nice dinner at home) After a lovely dinner, we come home, I plop myself in front the TV once more, and am wide awake. Another night of TV and surfing. I went to bed around 5:30, but I didn't sleep. Luke got up at 6:30. I hoped to settle down after he left, but I didn't. I'm so awake, it's hard to even close my eyes. So I get up. Make some toast. Tidy the kitchen. Surf and play games. Start typing this. I'm finally starting to feel a teeny bit drowsy, so I'm going to try for a nap. Here's hoping for an hour of sleep! Everything else on the "list of things I could post" can wait...
