More Sleep Issues - Yawn!

8:26 am
    I can’t stand this! It is already 8:30. I stayed in bed until 8. And that is after going to bed at 9:30. I also can’t stand that all I seem to write about is my sleep habits. How incredibly dull. I suppose it is because I write just after I get up so that is the most on my mind. Still, how dull. And WHY WHY WHY am I sleeping so much? It of course does not help that even though I went to bed around 9:30 by 10:30 I had not fallen asleep. I was trying counting breaths and it sort of works, at least it keeps me from thinking arousing thoughts, but it didn’t really work. I would doze off enough to lose count, then be awake again. Oh brother. I didn’t read just before bed, but I did read a bunch of the Taking Woodstock book which I am very much enjoying in the evening after supper. Then we watched a Living Earth video, and I did read a tiny bit more. Hmmmmmm. I don’t know if I’ll have time to meditate this morning. I still have to feed buns, and myself, and then at 9 leave for town because I am meeting a friend. Yay!! We’re supposed to talk fair stuff. And I am going to walk in to get at least a tad of exercise, which in general I think might help with the sleep thing.
    Yesterday afternoon was crummy. I was so happy at work to think of having the whole afternoon. I went in a bit early and did some work with the computer/video set up, and talked briefly with the prof to get signals straight, then we had 1st day lecture which was mainly logistics. I was able to leave pretty quickly after that because I had to be back for these guys coming to do the air sealing in the house. Only that turned out to be kind of sucky. They got all worked up because the holes I had cut were not sealed. Well how can they be sealed if they need to be open for them to get in. I guess usually someone comes in and cuts the holes then makes the doors to later seal them up, and these guys can put the doors up temporarily. It makes a huge difference when they do their blower thing which involves putting a blower in the front door and sucking air out of the house to find the air leaks. Plus the holes I had made were not big enough for these big hulking guys so I had to cut them bigger. Somehow all this took time, and they are only allowed 2 hours. So they did not finish everything that they felt could have been done. I have some idea of what else could be done, and I suppose what I will do is buy some of that spray foam stuff and do some of it myself. Anyway it was all very annoying and discouraging. I thought it was going to be so nice – they were just going to come in, apply their expertise, make a big difference, and I would not have to pay anything! I guess too good to be true in reality.
    What in the world cheerful can I think about? When it comes to deliberately thinking cheerful thoughts (and this often happens at night, too) I usually resort to fiber… So I rinsed out the solar rainbow dyed batts and they look quite lovely. And there was very little excess dye – mostly yellow. I left them to dry, perhaps I can take a photo. Fiber Twist is coming right up, and I got thinking while driving that one idea could be to actually sell batts there. Lots of people sell dyed roving of various kinds. I could sell these kind of dyed batts, plus batts that I card with layers of colors. All with angora in them, which would be different from what a lot of other people sell. It means I have my work cut out for me in terms of carding carding carding for a while. And this weekend we will have to go to the farm to pick up hay.
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