WRITER'S BLO(G/CK)

Welcome to the third installment of my posts about insomnia. I initially wrote about my insomnia issues on February 16 th , then wrote a follow-up to that first post on August 21 st . I’m not even going to attempt to write a recap or summary of those posts. So if you feel that you need to read (or reread) them, feel free. The C-PAP Arrives! After months and months of waiting for the C-PAP to be delivered, it finally appears on my doorstep on August 22 nd . The day after I posted the second part of this series, which I believe I ended by complaining that the machine hadn’t arrived yet.   I tried to get it all set up shortly before I was ready to try and sleep that night, but realized that I needed more time than I had allotted myself to get the job done. The next day I put it all together, and then tried to get it up and running. But, as with what seems like everything else in this day and age, it requires downloading an app to your phone to be able to function.

The post that was on the schedule for today is not happening right now. In order for me to write that post, two things have to happen. The first of those is that I have to do some research, which I have not yet done. The second thing is that my brain has to return to its usual level of semi-competence. My CFS has been more problematic than usual for the past week and a half or so, and a large part of that involves sporadic stretches of brain fog. So, I’ve pushed today’s original blog topic to somewhere after the new year. Not exactly sure when. But that left me looking at a hole in the schedule for today. There wasn’t anything on the schedule that I felt I could move up into today’s slot. And nothing I saw in my list of unscheduled topics really appealed to me. However, there was an idea that had been floating around in my brain for a week or so. It was floating in an area of my brain that I usually try very hard to ignore, but on this occasion it seemed like it might just have t

In exactly three weeks it will be Christmas day, so I figured I’d do a full-on Christmas post. (Is it possible that I’ll be doing another Christmas post in exactly three weeks? Quite possible, yes.) In previous posts here on the blog I’ve already covered Christmas music and Advent. So now I just have to tackle all of the other assorted Christmas topics. This post is also an example of how much happier I’d be as a blogger if I had been regularly taking photos throughout my life and then making sure to keep those photos in a safe place. I was able to find one photo of my old traditional holiday scene. No photos of any of my old Christmas trees at all. This post should be far more visually representative of my Christmastime history than it is. (Deep sigh.) Anyway…let’s talk about Christmas, shall we? Christmas Shopping I used to love Christmas shopping. When I was young, my Aunt Grace would take me out shopping every year so that I could buy Mom’s presents for her birthday (Dece