I see hope again in 2020s

“Congratulations! So and so that you don’t even know has won the contest/sweepstake!” This is one reason I quit sweeping, along with the fact that I don’t stand a chance these days with all the competition. All I do is get congratulated on other people’s wins, as if I had anything to do with it.

Now, for last night’s sleep report. First, Becky replied to me last night, apologizing and saying that she wrote a reply right away to my last message but didn’t hit send for some reason. She and Tom both feel confident that I will learn to breathe even more through my nose. However, after taking the new melatonin, which I decided I shouldn’t mix with Benadryl if I didn’t want to feel groggy the next day and which knocked me out, I woke up an hour later with air escaping my mouth. After I fell back asleep, this happened on and off for a couple more hours.

Finally, I said to myself, This has to stop. I’m going to have to remove the mask and just do without it so I can sleep for more than a few minutes at a time. But knowing that would be almost as bad because I wouldn’t be able to breathe well, I peeled the nose strip off my nose (that I knew I didn’t need with the nasal pillow anyway) and placed it vertically across the center of my mouth—and it worked! Now I was only waking up every two hours, but not due to air escaping. I would simply wake up. I may not start off sleeping with my mouth taped to give Tom and Becky a chance to see if they could be right, but I’ll have it handy nearby so I can tape my mouth if needed. And yes, I can actually sleep on my stomach at times, too! I still have to finagle the hose, and it’s not as comfortable, but it’s doable.

Got my highest score yet on MyAir of 98! My events have been cut in half, too. They jumped all the way up to 19 the night before, and now they’re down to 9. Hopefully, I’ll get under 5 soon enough! My goal is to have anywhere from 0 to 2 an hour. The pressure keeps climbing and was up to nearly 11 last night. The CPAP again says my seal was good and my humidity levels were good as well.

We’ve now got little baby tomatoes sprouting! There’s definitely going to be more than I can eat, so maybe I’ll offer some to Toni. I don’t know how long it will be before they’re edible.

Someone shared an email from management in the park group saying that the water would be off for the third time in a week due to backflow testing. This is starting to feel an awful lot like the old place. My silly husband forgot to turn the bidet off since he was taking a dump when it went off, and the bathroom got a bit flooded. How dumb was that! He first thought something was wrong with the bidet.

Yesterday I got to see and hear something I’ve never seen in an adult community before. I was at the desk by the door when I heard voices and thought it was just people greeting each other in the street. But then I realized the voice sounded a bit angry. Curious, I peeked outside to find a woman who looked too young to be living here walking alongside a slow-moving SUV and shouting at the driver.

I was reading about a case of a 25-year-old woman in the UK charged with “cyber farting” after sending a “traumatizing” video to her ex’s girlfriend of her farting. My first thought was, Oh my god, I can’t believe they’d charge anyone over that. But then again, I can, knowing how twisted the law’s priorities can be. What 25-year-old doesn’t do immature, silly shit like that anyway? Really, I hope she didn’t dignify this bullshit by putting in an appearance. I’d rather a failure-to-appear warrant be out on me than give in to such stupid shit.