#407 - A Day in Bed

Finally, a day I could actually sleep in.

And it did.

At least until ten. Robyn was up early to attend an open house at her college. I didn’t hear her leave, get ready or even get out of bed. Something jolted me awake around ten AM and I decided it was time to get up, but not to start the day.

There was leftover pizza in the fridge from last night and I was a getting a little puckish. I went downstairs and heated up a few slices. Normally, I would just eat it cold, but this pizza’s crust was tough the day after. Our new microwave has a nifty pizza reheating mode, and it did a great job of heating the pizza without it getting too soggy. It was definitely a lot softer and made eating it all the more pleasurable.

I put on some YouTube and saw that the guy who’s boat got destroyed and headed back to Sweden, was told he needed to leave the property immediately. This was the property where ehe was building the new boat. I was surprised to see all the things going on in that part of the world as well. I hadn’t heard about the cyber attacks on banks in Europe or that the governments of many of these countries had issued warnings to their people that they should prepar three to five days of emergency food and supplies.

I guess the owners of the land thought that when he was prepping for the worst and that he didn’t trust the government to take care of the people, they assumed he was one of those crazy prepper nut jobs. By the end of video, he had found temporary new lodgings, but the state of the boat build is now in question.

Funny how things can turn on a dime.

Robyn called on her way back from the Open House and asked if I wanted to go to Kelsey’s with her to get some food. They didn’t provide any food for the people helping out at the Open house. Something to do with cutbacks from Premier Doug Ford.

She picked me up out front and we headed instead to Paramount Fine Foods. Not the place I would have chosen; I was sold on Kelsey’s. But I wasn’t terribly hungry after all that pizza and Robyn loves the food at Paramount, so I agreed.

The waitress recognized Robyn from her dinners with her girlfriends and the showed us to our seats. I usually order the halluni salad with beef skweresa added on, but as I wasn’t really hungry, I ordered a dip with bread. It was called Muhammara and was made from fire roasted red peppers, crushed mixed walnuts, zesty onions, authentic spices, and herbs topped off with extra virgin olive oil and parsley. And there was a boat load of it. I wouldn’t be able to finish the whole thing, that was for sure.

Robyn ordered her usual, Fattoush salad with chicken.

The food was good, but I was a bit dopey, like I hadn’t slept enough. Which was odd, because I’d had the laziest day a person could imagine. All I had done all day was watch TV and eat pizza. I’m sure I wasn’t the best company.

We got an invite from our sister-in-law from Muchigan to visit them in December for Christmas. They had two dates that might work, but the second date was when we had my sister’s birthday and early Christmas. So agreed to go at the earlier date. Again, the calendar is filling up with more and more events.

Bah Humbug!

When we got home, we both decided we could use a nap. It was about three thirty by the time we settled into bed. I did feel odd that I needed a nap after doing nothing all day, but I passed out in seconds.

I woke around six thirty and thought Robyn was still in bed with me. I knew she needed to get up to get ready for her hour of work with the gentleman she takes care of. Turns out she was already gone and the lump beside me wasn’t my wife, but the comforter all balled up into a curvy mound that in the dark I mistook for her.

But I woke up feeling so much better. In fact, I felt better after that nap than I did after a week at the cottage.

I was feeling better, but I was no realizing that I need some down time. I watched the rest of the second season of Black Doves and enjoyed it. The writing on that show is really good. And you can’t say that for every show on Netflix. This is one of their shows that they spend some time on. I love all the actors in this show as well. Kierra Knightley, Ben Whishaw (Q from James Bond), and the two newcomers, at least to me, Gabrielle Creevy and Ella Lily Hyland who play two crazy yet adorable hitwomen.

I hope the get another season to explore the storyline a bit more. They certainly earned the right in my mind.

Robyn returned from her work and the kiddo had her best friend over. The two of them were busy making cookies and pop quizzing each other for a test. Robyn stayed downstairs and continued to work on her assignment for school. I watched a bunch of random YouTube videos, mostly by creators that I had never seen before. I guess the people I usually watch have slowed down their production or I have sped up the amount I am watching.

At some point, I felt rested enough to grab my laptop and catch up on some writing. Maybe it was all the butter toffee cookies I ate or the cup of tea that got me going. I was shocked to realize that I hadn’t had any tea up until that moment.

I opened up my laptop and the battery was completely drained. I wasn’t expecting that as it’s supposed to go to sleep after a certain amount of time. The CMOS battery must of also drained, because I had to reset the time and date. It was the same issue Robyn had a little while ago. I guess if your laptop is completely drained the CMOS runs until it dies.

I ordered a new CMOS for my laptop just in case it started acting up for me as well. The last thing I need right now is to have to set the time and date all the time. I made some adjustments to my power settings so that the main battery would have less chance of draining in the future.

I listened to the Dark Symphonic renditions of Coldplay on YouTube while I wrote in bed.

The day had been grey and rainy. The perfect day to spend in bed recuperating. I didn’t get any work done on my assignments, but I was feeling so much better I thought it was worth it.

As I kept writing, the YouTube algorithm started playing a new orchestra video that was doing TV and movie themes, and I quite enjoyed it. They did the Game of Thrones theme flawlessly.

At midnight, Robyn was still downstairs working on her assignment, and I was getting ready to listen to my audiobook to calm me down and prepare me for sleep. After that great nao, there is always the chance that I won’t sleep well, but something tells me I am more than tired enough.

I’ve got a big day ahead tomorrow. I have to write my mentor short story. I’m going to need the whole day for this one, I think.

Tine to listen to my audiobook.

Until tomorrow.