I don’t think I found more than two hours of sleep last night. It was a long night! Sure wish I could figure out what causes nights like that and what to do about it. Sleep is not something that comes easy to me.
Kathy and I went to Emporia a little after noon today to attend a Celebration of Life service. The service was beautifully done. We both wondered on the way home how people that have such a difficult beginning in life can turn into one of the most caring, loving people you would ever want to meet. What an act of courage that takes!
Ellexia texted me last night and asked if I still have a salt lamp that she could have. I felt like a hip grandma when I was able to tell her yes. Not every grandma has a salt lamp!
There is a rhythmic pounding sound that is happening in the house. It is coming from the aluminum pipe above the furnace. It doesn’t happen every time the furnace turns on but some times. Sometimes it keeps hammering even when the furnace has turned off. It sounds like water dripping on an aluminum pipe or else someone taking a hammer to it. It is very rhythmic. Lasts for 30 seconds to a minute. There is some sort of wire box hanging from the pipe with a wire from it leading to the furnace. I can’t find any evidence of water dripping somewhere it doesn’t belong. Anyone have any ideas what is going on and how to make it stop hammering? I am going to have to call the heater guy Monday if I can’t make it stop.
It felt dang cold when I went down to take care of the chickens today. Some of them were huddled together on the roosting bars inside the coop. They gave me 20 eggs today for my troubles.
We had a light coating of ice this morning that thankfully had melted off by the time I went to town. Come on warmer weather. I am ready for some 40’s and lower 50’s next week. Sure hope it warms up a bit tomorrow so Tagen and Jason can get the chicken coop cleaned out for me.
I was talking to Jason last night about the exercise class and was telling him the four different options that I could be placed in. Before I told him which class I was in, he said I hope you got put in the core class. Hmmmm….. there is obviously something to this class that I don’t understand. Trusting it is the one that will be most helpful to me.
Still haven’t gotten to my tax problems. I was going to work on them this afternoon but without much sleep last night I’m not sure that is a good idea. I may possibly get to them in the morning, if I get sleep tonight.
Trying to decide if I should go take a nap or just wait another couple of hours and go to bed early. I am starting to feel very sleep deprived.
I am beginning to realize my life is going to get busy in the next two weeks and stay that way for a bit. Between doing taxes several days a week and going to the gym three days a week I am going to be out and about much more than I have been for a long time. Trusting I am ready for that and can handle it all. It will be a good test for me to see if I can maintain my consciousness level at or above neutral for days at a time even when I don’t have stay at home days.
Grateful for the love that was shared at the Celebration of Life Service today, grateful I had a salt lamp for Ellexia and she can consider me a cool G, and grateful I can go to bed when ever I chose to today.