March 8, 2012

  • Not Much To Say

    Not much to say.  Rehearsal was adequate last night.  Our pianist was not there.  Don't know why.  Don't care at this point.  Got through Act I without any major disasters, but we are still extremely stymied by lack of continuity.  Got home at a reasonable hour.

    Was ridiculously warm last night, so I had the windows wide open, but was awakened around 3am by monstro wind gusts and was forced to close the windows because of it, which I hated because it was still too damn warm.  Which combined to have me wake up with a migraine.  yay.

    My Tempurpedic mattress is very comfortable, but I had it on a futon frame for years with no box spring underneath.  I finally decided to be an adult and buy the box Spring for it about a year and a half ago.  That also required my buying a real bed frame.  What I found out about the hard way is that Tempurpedics are known for absorbing your body heat and keeping in the mattress around you.  When I did not have the box spring, this was not an issue.  As soon as I got the box spring, I would wake up feeling like I was in an oven.  I was sleeping with the windows open in Winter.  I would still wake up with my face nice and cool but the rest of me was burning up.  So I read online about the mattress and discovered that they do this.  Wish I'd known before I'd bought what it turns out I didn't really need.  But I did find something called the "Hot Or Cold Pad".  About the size of a single bed, goes on the mattress under the sheet and you can adjust the temperature.  The one drawback is that the thermostat is in the cooling unit, so if the window's open and the thermostat is reading 65 in the room, it stops cooling me off.  Wish they had a way to instead check the temp of the water as it circulates through the pad, rather than the air.  But still, it made it so I could finally sleep.  Only it stopped working a month ago - and was just past the one year warranty, of course.  It was heating up, even though I had it set to cool.  Luckily, the manufacturer said they'd repair it free of charge since it was so close to the one-year cutoff.  But I sent it to them 4 weeks ago and haven't heard back nor gotten it back yet.  Need to contact them.  Because without it last night and with it staying in the upper 50s outside, it was miserable having to close the windows because of the ridiculous wind gusts. 

    After calling in sick because of the migraine, I had to get out the fans and turn on the ceiling fan in the living room and even turn on the air conditioner for a while so that I could go back to sleep after taking my prescription meds.  My migraines have been more frequent lately and I think it may be a combination of the complete change of diet after getting the super high cholesterol diagnosis along with the almost complete NON-Winter we've had.  Four years ago yesterday I moved into my new condo at the start of a three day blizzard that left almost 3 feet of snow on the ground.  Yesterday was 70 degrees with that very warm night.  The warmest winter on record and now also one of the least snowy on record.  Not that I'm complaining, but since this is my 18th Winter, I think my body adjusted about 15 Winters ago to the cold and snow and without it, I'm tensing up - something like that to make the migraines come more like every two weeks instead of once a month.

    And now that the migraine's gone, I may have another one because I'm getting ready to take Fazio to his first vet visit to get micro-chipped.  I don't think he's going to like it very much!!