Random Monday-ness

I am a good sleeper. It's one of my skills. My fitness tracker says I have slept an average of 7 hours and 59 minutes over the last 3 years. As I get older, I hit some challenges. My nose gets clogged and then my mouth gets so dry it wakes me up. (I probably snore like a buzz saw, too.) I often wake up and adjust the adjustable bed - I did a couple of times last night but then went right back to sleep. And, my fat or old age or something prevents me from sleeping in the same position for very long so there's a lot of waking and moving around but I can generally go back to sleep easily.

I don't like to sleep in. Any sleep about about 6:30 makes me feel groggy and late, like I've already missed some of the day. But, I'm perfectly fine missing it at the other end - going to bed early. After I listen to my audio book while playing games on my tablet for a bit, I turn out the light, crank up the bed and tell Echo to shuffle the Sleep Songs playlist. This is a play list of from Amazon Music's Healing Sleep Songs. They actually have a bunch of different sleeping sounds/music - waves and rain and yoga/massage/chime things - but these are some actual lullabies and some lovely piano pieces and just a really random selection. I rarely hear the second piece.

I totally get that being able to sleep comfortable, successfully, peacefully night after night is something to be very grateful for and I really am.

Tomorrow I will be out most of the day but today is just a regular day of sewing and piddling and baseball and stuff. I do need to go down to the garage and clear out the car. I have a tendency to use it for storage. I now there are some Diet Dr. Peppers in there and some boxes of Kleenex that I didn't bring up after a grocery trip.

It's another cloudy and beautifully cooler morning again. I saw a report yesterday about temperature predictions for areas of the United Sates in the next 20-25 years. 1. I have no intention of being alive anyway BUT 2. Seattle was one of the few places in the country that isn't expected to fry. Nice.

Ok, time for me to get started doing nothing. hahahahahah

Ham and apple

I just made a ham sandwich and added thin slices of apple to it. This is now officially my Favorite Lunch Ever. I was raised on sandwiches for lunch and I cannot break out of the mold. I've tried. I go on a salad jag for a while or cheese, crackers and pickles but pretty much my goto, my default, my standard is sandwich.

I used to have a work husband named Kenny. He was the best. Young and hilarious. We ate lunch together nearly every day. He was raised in Hong Kong and could not, for the life of him, wrap his brain around the value of a sandwich. He tried. But no go. So once in a while when I try to break the sandwich habit, I shoot for What Would Kenny Have. Honestly, I don't have enough leftover rice to make that a going concern. So sandwich - and, at least for a while, it's going to be a thick slab of ham, thin slices of apple, mayo and rye bread.

Someone on my friendslist today had an entry about Live Journal as a social media. I've always been aware that people wrote posts 'to' other people and often or always explicitly asked for feedback. Heck I've even done that myself but I've never thought of the medium as social media. I think of Live Journal is the electronic equivalent of a diary that I don't care if people read. I love comments and value feedback but that's not what I'm here for. Interesting to think about.

My first journal entry was in March of 2002. Since then I have made 19,157 journal entries.

I kept paper journals on and off until I was about 30. I had a boyfriend who, behind my back, read most or a lot of them, didn't like what he read and so confessed that he'd read them so he could argue with me about the content. That relationship came to an abrupt end and I quit writing journals.

But, I missed it. When I found Live Journal, I decided to start again but this time no one would be able to read my journal behind my back because - ha! - I'd make it so the world could see it. And so here we are 19,157 entries later.

My brother has the password so when I drop dead, he can get in here and finish this out.

More Monday

Two dolls, load of laundry, edited my brother's newsletter, piddled around. Oh and cleaned out the car. I'm cool with that list.

Yankees in town tonight. They have completely changed the lineup since we last saw them. Should be interesting.