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Ready to go back to bed
Apr. 8th, 2023 09:18Part of it is the rain and return of dreary winter weather, I'm sure. Part of it is the high mold content which is one of my allergy triggers. And part of it is for two nights I've not slept well. Absolutely no reason, just woke up after three hours of sleep and couldn't go back to sleep.
Fitbit agrees with me although it is impressed at how much I walked this week.
I just got back from walking Zoe and I'm ready for a nap. It is 9:20. If I go back to bed this early it is more like extending my sleep from the night.
There is nothing I have to do today. Maybe go by the store and pick up dinner. Or send Dana and go back to bed.
The grass is too wet to cut but with all the rain it will be ready as soon as it dries out.
We received our house appraisal yesterday. The appraisal it exactly 10% more than last year. That is the maximum increase allowed by law in the state. We get a senior discount but our final bill will also go up 10%. That will likely happen every year until the state thinks they have reached the market value of the house (which will be another 8 years or so). Basically another $50/month. Drip, drip, drip.
I did go to REI yesterday as well as InStep so I've got some Prolific time ahead of me to make up about $100 of that trip. I don't much mind. I can do about $15 a day and make it back pretty quickly. I bought two sun shirts with hoods to wear while working with the dogs and while playing pickleball. And bought a replacement pair of sketchers, the ones that advertise you can just step into them. Perfect for me. Replaced the interior with a good pair of orthotics and bought some arch support socks to wear playing pickleball. I could have bought more old person stuff but it would have been hard.
I started an English procedural mystery by Joy Ellis titled Their Lost Daughters. Free on Audible and number one in a series. So far it is good. Not riveting but has potential. She does not hold back from English idioms so even with my extensive vocab I'm having a hard time with some of the lingo. Learning a foreign language is always a little challenging.
We're only halfway through the Midsummer Murders series. It is mindless and occasionally not very good but mindless is OK and it is nice to have a long series we agree on without having to look every day.
Fitbit agrees with me although it is impressed at how much I walked this week.
I just got back from walking Zoe and I'm ready for a nap. It is 9:20. If I go back to bed this early it is more like extending my sleep from the night.
There is nothing I have to do today. Maybe go by the store and pick up dinner. Or send Dana and go back to bed.
The grass is too wet to cut but with all the rain it will be ready as soon as it dries out.
We received our house appraisal yesterday. The appraisal it exactly 10% more than last year. That is the maximum increase allowed by law in the state. We get a senior discount but our final bill will also go up 10%. That will likely happen every year until the state thinks they have reached the market value of the house (which will be another 8 years or so). Basically another $50/month. Drip, drip, drip.
I did go to REI yesterday as well as InStep so I've got some Prolific time ahead of me to make up about $100 of that trip. I don't much mind. I can do about $15 a day and make it back pretty quickly. I bought two sun shirts with hoods to wear while working with the dogs and while playing pickleball. And bought a replacement pair of sketchers, the ones that advertise you can just step into them. Perfect for me. Replaced the interior with a good pair of orthotics and bought some arch support socks to wear playing pickleball. I could have bought more old person stuff but it would have been hard.
I started an English procedural mystery by Joy Ellis titled Their Lost Daughters. Free on Audible and number one in a series. So far it is good. Not riveting but has potential. She does not hold back from English idioms so even with my extensive vocab I'm having a hard time with some of the lingo. Learning a foreign language is always a little challenging.
We're only halfway through the Midsummer Murders series. It is mindless and occasionally not very good but mindless is OK and it is nice to have a long series we agree on without having to look every day.