This and That

Good morning.

Our 1st head of broccoli is forming.

Mornings are not my best time. Some people wake up wide awake, and some people have sleep latency, where their body wakes up slowly. That would be me. It usually takes a few hours before I feel totally awake. And more often than I like, I wake up with a migraine. And that would be this morning. Add to that a phone call that my father-in-law went to the hospital this morning, and I wouldn't be what you would call chipper.

But it's almost time for work, and I will be doing storytime this morning with preschoolers. May is National Mental Health Month, so I'm doing a storytime on feelings. This is my version of tying into that because, of course, three-year-olds are not ready for a big discussion about mental health. Storytimes are always fun, so that, combined with time to wake up, should have me feeling okay soon enough.

After a long time of talking about it, we finally got a new mattress. We found mattress shopping intimidating because so many variables and unique branding made comparisons difficult. Thus, we would start researching and shopping, become overwhelmed, and move on to something else. Memorial Day is traditionally the biggest mattress sale of the year, so we took advantage of that and bit the bullet. Last night was our first night on the new mattress. It will still take time to get used to, but I think we made a good decision. We also got an adjustable base because of the variety of setups it lets us have. I'm not sure how much we will be using it at this point, but we shall see.

Times up for now, so I will finish this later.

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Well, it is a day and a half later now. The rest of yesterday was busy and intense with a visit from a friend I hadn't seen in a long time and, later, more disturbing news from another. Both made for a busy mind and too much awake time last night. Good thing that today is a day off with nothing really pressing to do. 

Begonias that didn't get planted.

Ward and I spent our wake-up time this morning playing with the different settings on the bed frame. It has way more settings than we will probably ever use, but they were fun to play with all the same. There are under-the-bed night lights. I'm not sure what we need those for, but we can change them to four different colors. The head, foot, and middle all raise and lower to several heights. Raising the head of the bed is what I thought might be the most useful, but we haven't figured out the right setting for that yet. We got the giggles as we tried out the different vibration settings. They might be good to go to sleep by, but for now, they just seem strange and funny. And even with all of these features, believe it or not, we did not get the deluxe version of the bed frame. Ours has no charging ports, and we can't operate it from our phones. Neither is a problem since we don't take any devices to the bedroom.

We have had several straight days of rain, so my hopes of doing some needed yard work were not met today. Instead, we made progress with some of our financial papers, which always seem to need some kind of attention.

That's about it for now. What kind of this and that have you been up to?

Until next time...