Welp

The heat is here.  I wish I could say it's the last of the season and turn out to be right but I doubt that..... so the first heat wave of the season.  We had a warm day or two a few weeks ago but this is a full week at least.  And they're making a huge deal about it (as they do) while promising us it's not like the heat dome of 2021 (was it really that "long" ago?  Covid really did make time weird eh?)

I didn't sleep well last night but it's hard to know if it was heat related or just me related.  I went to bed about an hour earlier than "usual" because oh man work-life is draining me something fierce right now and I felt ready to not be awake any more.  And I took "sleep helping" stuff (doctor says I'm ok to use melatonin which I've avoided for years due to fear of "addiction"/reliance) and I promised myself that I would try to use a fan at night, with earplugs in because I'm apparently weird in my inability to be soothed by "white noise".  But for the hour I had the fan programmed to run I tossed and turned.

I don't think it was related to the fan, I think maybe it was going to be a bad night no matter what but this next week of me trying to sleep will tell....

So yeah, didn't have a great sleep last night and woke up early (due to warmth I assume) and today's not even the hottest predicted day or night and I'm really really really really trying not to lose my sh*t about it and telling myself that I can work with it and be more ok than I have been in previous years.

So my "cave dwelling" days have started.... blinds down, blanket over big window... I feel so sorry for my plants who were just starting to enjoy the longer days!

I can't remember if I wrote about getting window film on my windows but I did that a few months ago and between that and my blinds and running the air conditioner I bought a year ago (two?  WHAT IS TIME?) I hope to manage.

But I'm also trying to just deal with today.  And then tonight.  And then to do my best tomorrow and not think over and over about all the hard times last Summer.....

So yeah, the heat is here.  I'm trying!  And I'm very glad that for some people this is the best thing ever.  I prefer things a little less toasty and/or a building that actually has the ability to manage temperatures.