Very nice!

YAY 5K!

so 11 hour Saturday. ugh. and I really pissed off one contractor. oh well. onward and upward. taking break to get food in me and then I'll start on the schedule for Monday.

Oh before I can work on the schedule I have to get on mac's computer and adjust the parental controls for 2 hours of activity/per day, plus get Khan academy bookmarked on there with his log on, plus get his band music program on there and bookmarked, plus change my master password. Today sucks.

That does suck, msbelle.

Good lord, msbelle. That's way too much for one day. Especially a Saturday.

After trying on fifty gazillion bras, I got two, as they were having a buy one get the second for 60% off. I saw myself naked in the dressing room mirror, had the usual "Oh my god, I am hideous, fat and old and I can't believe Jason would ever want to touch me" reaction, but unlike usually, I managed to cool myself out. So I am kinda proud of myself.

I was so proud of myself I treated myself to a cardigan and a cool shirt with birdies on it.

Ugh, msbelle. Are you off the clock (well, the work bits, anyway) tomorrow?

My nurse came a day early because I was in so much pain. Bless her.

I'm going to use Uber to get home from the procedure Monday (well, and to--I've sworn off taxis for the nonce), and I hope they consider having a car come for me better than a taxi.

Their expectations are unreasonable.

More hellos and and thank yous and glad to be back a little (not glad a little, back a little--I'm only in Natter for the nonce) to the new old people.

Nice numbers, -t!

I've started doing a million things for my insomnia--I got a new mattress, get offline and turn off the screen two hours before I try and sleep, etc. My latest thing is hypnosis/meditation tapes. My current fave is Mindifi, which is pretty effective, although my mind has started wandering like a mo fo.

Anyone else use these? Do you have any recommendations for good programs for calming, getting to sleep, getting back to sleep, etc? And in back of it I have either rain or sea sounds. So far, due to audio considerations so it doesn't overpower the words, I'm using some quieter pitched rain sounds. So my bedroom always sounds like water.

Excellent, Scrappy!

I'm pretty sure water sounds would make me have to pee, to the detriment of my sleeping.

get offline and turn off the screen two hours before I try and sleep

I'm trying that, too, and I think it's kinda-sorta working?

The other non-medication thing I've been trying for insomnia is focusing on one image in my brain while I'm trying to fall asleep. It's the image of the swoopy golden bar of light that signifies Will is doing his ~empath~ thing on Hannibal episodes, but it's strangely soothing and relaxing. [link]

I heard some good things about magnesium supplements for insomnia, but they haven't really been helping me a whole lot.

I use a disc that I got from a fancy schmancy hotel I was staying at. It has a physical relaxation section then a mental one then just music. It's this guy: [link] but I don't see any links to audio stuff from him.

I really do need to improve my sleep hygiene stuff, because I am terrible about that.