When I cooked Sunday's dinner early Monday morning I got some grease in the air and have had a hard time breathing ever since. I should try to remember to have the stove's overhead exhaust fan on when frying potatoes. And then of course I ate too much, so the whole fiasco was a double disaster. I'll soon be going to sleep (don't ask) bloated and ( Read more... )

This being in bed all night, sleeping or not, just feels weird. When I was a little kid it was required, but now it just happens, no routine, no rhyme, no reason. After eating dinner Saturday I felt okay... not great, not especially good, just okay... but didn't expect to spend most of the next ten hours prone, about three of them with my brain ( Read more... )

After putting groceries away Friday evening I just collapsed into bed without eating dinner. I had a couple of slices of bread and butter, but that was it. I slept until three o'clock in the morning, then got up and eventually microwaved a bowl of ramen. Later I had some coffee and a donut, but I'm not feeling great. My neck is about as bad as it's ( Read more... )

I just spent the morning ordering groceries online, and now must wait to see how badly Safeway screws up my order. Nothing about shopping is ever fun for me, except having the job finished and the stuff put away. And maybe eating it, but not always, since the main reason I eat is because there is a point at which being hungry becomes more ( Read more... )

Wednesday we got morning almost fog. Sunrise came and went without any clue other than the gradual growth of a diffused light, which remained dim until afternoon. It wasn't like the fogs of old, when the opposite side of a street would vanish, but just a relentless grayness that brought an oddly cozy feel. It burned off a couple of hours after noon ( Read more... )

Tuesday night I'm pretty sure I overate, and I'm still feeling queasy. I want to go be unconscious as soon as possible. As I'd feared, the Safeway ad for this week is disappointing, and now I'm really wishing I'd bought stuff last Friday. The stores used to have pretty good sales for Christmas, but for the last couple of years they've been mostly ( Read more... )

Monday turned rainier than expected, and I didn't get my afternoon nap because the FedEx driver left my package at the wrong address and I had to deal with their reporting system. When I got the text notification that it had been delivered, I opened the door and there it wasn't. I checked the doors of the two apartments next door, but it wasn't ( Read more... )

I got through Sunday alive, then failed to die in my sleep, and have endured the morning so far without a donut. It's been more than week since I've had a donut. Donuts have long been my compensation for waking up. When I realize I've woken up again, my first thought is usually, well I'm still alive, but at least I have a donut. Now I haven't had ( Read more... )

The last full moon of the year rose Sunday evening, but I didn't go out to see if it was visible here. I'm pretty sure it wasn't. Although the rain has been slight and intermittent for the last few hours, the overcast never broke up all day. I napped until sunset, and woke thinking it was pale morning light leaking through the blinds until I saw ( Read more... )

Friday night I slept a long time, but then woke up with a bad stomach ache. It must have been from the microwaved frozen entrée I had for dinner, but I don't know why the onset of the ache was delayed so long. Just lucky, I guess. Anyway, I finally had to get up because I was too miserable to get back to sleep, and I had to check the floor to see ( Read more... )