sleep no sleep

This is the only photo I took on the night of the worst adventure ever- just one box of three that were on my chest to carry with me to  try to sleep. Wired from all over my head to the bottom of my legs, around my middle and boobs- so many wires the technician put a scrunchie around it all so that I did not strangle myself in my supposed sleep. I may have slept about 45 minutes in all. It was cold and too bright , uncomfortable.  All of that was to be expected, of course, but I had not counted on the technician guy to be Mr. Personality from the circus of "have I got a story for you!"! Actually he was a very nice man AND he was like popcorn, and Tigger, boing boing - Chat chat chat loudly- I may have said a total of six words. it took him three hours to wire me up - then he left me standing in the middle of the room with the  too bright lights on full blast. WTF, dude. What am I supposed to do now??? I turned the lights off , got on the bed with a thin blanket and froze a little bit before, what seemed like hours later, he came back.

It gave me time to consider the decor. The walls yearned to be painted, they were probably nice in the seventies, a  sort of Puce beige grey yellow- chipped and faded to Un-color to match the un-color stripy carpet.  His voice came into the room to "wake" me up in the morning- - "lllliiiiiinduhhhhh".

Anyway, I did not sleep , had to come home at about 5:00 am and take a long nap. The data collected , he said, was enough to determine that I am normal and do not need a device. 

 I will not be doing that again and if I die of a stroke or heart attack because I forget to breath  - the onus is on the so called sleep clinic. 

Moving on to better news...

This is Stella the Bella of Books at AL. She's a darling , no doubt, and very knowledgeable about all things booky. We have our plans planned to go to Palm Springs in October for a week, not long enough probably

Tonight I went over to Flora's house and held her baby brother for a longggg baby fix. Delicious! She will be going to school in September- Fresh three year old already going into the world of academia...She will show them all how it is done! 

Here is the gate that is for sale along with it's house- you may remember this gate and the sweet little garden it protects from older posts.  I hope the new owners keep it.