My balance has been off and so I try getting at least 20 minutes of Tai Chi each day. I didn't do any Tai Chi on Sunday as I was feeling under the weather. I don’t know what time I fell asleep on Sunday night. I do remember hearing Jai come home after midnight and then she left again. I had two things on the charger and got up to check on their status and to text Jaime but noticed she had left a note by the TV.
I have made several references to NOT having the best sleeping habits. Yesterday morning was no exception. I had tried returning to my slumber but just wasn’t getting there. I read a chapter in the Book of Mormon and 10 chapters in the Little Christmas Book. At 3:00 I finally left my room and played on my tablet for a while.
I don’t remember what time I returned to bed or how long it took me to finally fall asleep. I did not wake up until almost 8:00 a.m. When was the last time I ever slept past 5:30? I was dumbfounded that I had slept that long. And yet, when I count the hours I still didn’t get enough.
I was so groggy. Richard said that he wanted to take some watches down to Ashland but I knew that Jaime would be returning and wanted to be home for her. I really wasn’t up to spending three hours in the car. Again, I was out of it.
I did clean the microwave and the yard. I unloaded the dishwasher and filled it back up again. I heard the beeping of what sounded like the garbage truck – but the garbage doesn’t get picked up until tomorrow. And early. When Jaime was in school the garbage wasn’t collected until after she left for school. The last two or three years they have been collecting long before the dawn.
Turned out that a neighbor two houses down had rented a dumpster which the sanitation was either dropping off or collecting. Okay. Glad it was an outside sound that didn’t need my attention.
But then I could hear the sound of a school bell being rung – you know like they had on the set of “Little House on the Prairie”. Our school bells do not sound like that – nor are any of the schools close enough that I would be able to hear it. What the heck?
I finally had that one figured out also. The sound was coming from the dishwasher. One of the pans was clinging against the water. Great. I was so disoriented for about four hours. I really don’t like being that out of it.
