Sleepless in The Long and Winding Road

For the past few weeks I’ve been sleeping surprisingly well, but last night was not a good one. I slept solid until around 2:00 a.m. and never got back to sleep. I’m dragging today and to make it worse, I feel phat. Sometimes I just wish, instead of calling in sick, I could call in phat. Bottom line is, I don’t feel like being here today and if I could have come up with a plausible reason to stay home, I would have. But I didn’t. Come up with a plausible reason.

Funny thing, after writing about Eric in two consecutive entries, I ran into him yesterday. I came home from the store just as he was going back and forth between his front door and his car, unloading stuff. It must be stuff that had been in there at least since he returned last week from his most recent nocturnal wanderings – it looked like a bunch of blankets and quilts. Anyway, he was making several trips back and forth so there was no avoiding him. As I walked up our stairs while he was at his car, I was able to glance into his living room, seeing as how he’d left the door wide open. I’ve caught glimpses of his living room before. I’m careful to be discreet when what I really want to do is poke my head in the door and really look around. This time my impression was the same as it’s always been. He’s definitely not a hoarder. The room is not over-crowded with furniture and it looks very neat and tidy. But putting fuel on the idea that he’s a vampire — it was a nice day. The sunlight wasn’t blinding at all, it was a little bit gray but inside my condo with all the windows I have, the rooms were bright and cheerful with no need to turn on any lights. And on nice days I always have the door to the balcony open. In his place, on the other hand, it was very dark. All of his blinds stay closed, all the time. At one end of the couch was a small Tiffany lamp whose lamp shade was mostly a dark rust color. The lamp was on, with a low watt bulb, providing a small amount of light to the otherwise dark room. Anyway, he came up onto the porch as I was unlocking my door. I said “Hey, stranger! How are you?”. He replied that he was good, asked me how I was, I said “good”, he said “good to hear” and that was probably the end of any conversation between us for the rest of this year!

In other condo/neighbor news, the woman who has been renting the unit below mine, moved out yesterday. That unit was empty for the first 8 years that I lived in my condo as the owner slowly.... very slowly.... went through renovations. Then he rented it to Tammy, whose primary home is in San Diego but she works for a big gaming company and had to be here from time to time, and she preferred renting a condo to staying in an Extended Stay Hotel. This worked out perfectly for me because she was rarely here and when she was, she was very quiet. Not real friendly either but that’s okay. So now I have to wait and see how soon they will rent it out again and to whom.

Keeping with the theme of condo news..... the contractor came out yesterday to take measurements for the counter top and to let me know if the sink I wanted, would work (size wise). Not only did he say it would work, but I ordered it on the spot and got some kind of flash deal good only if I placed my order within 15 minutes. The cost went from $289 to $206. I won’t argue with that! It should arrive on Saturday, and he’s going to come by to pick up the template that comes with it so he can use that when he cuts the slab. I didn’t realize he’s the one who will cut the slab. He said he already picked it up. And, he anticipates installation at the end of next week. I’m really excited about it.

Not much else going on. Or maybe my brain is just too tired to come up with anything. I’ve learned that when I start a day feeling the way I felt when I finally gave up on sleep this morning, that attitude is everything. If you tell yourself “This day is going to suck”, it will. If I tell myself that I can and will do this, and make it a good day, then it will be. But I’m having to work at that a little bit this morning! So I’m going to get my tired phat self into gear here and immerse myself in work so the day will go by!