Friday, March 29, 2019

rigged up and wasted



Another gorgeous day out there perfect for working outside and there is still plenty to do but I'm not very motivated because I'm sleepy. I'm sleepy because I was wearing the 24 hour heart monitor and I found it impossible to sleep with it on, waking about every hour and a half to adjust the position of the monitor or to rearrange the folds of the shirt that got all twisty and just having to wear the shirt when I haven't worn bedclothes since I was 16 and the air conditioning went out in our house and it was so hot I stripped and slid my naked body between the sheets and it was heavenly.


I went in Thursday morning and the first thing the woman asked me was where was my front button shirt? Um, didn't know I was supposed to wear a front button shirt. It was the first thing on the preparatory list they gave me at my last RNP appointment when she ordered the monitor she tells me. Oops. I didn't even read it. I don't think I have a button down the front shirt I told her (Marc reminded me later that I do, my western style long sleeve flannel shirt which would have been too hot anyway). No problem as they have some very stylish shirts there for those of us who don't know how to follow instructions.


It's a good thing I wasn't wearing a necklace or body lotion and I don't wear a bra in any case, number 2 on the list that I read when I got home, so I was good there. No baths or showers, no problem since I took one when I got up. Try to do as much of your normal activity to get a true test, well I didn't want to do any gardening work since it's dirty work, at least the stuff I still have to do, and the monitor was hanging in a little pouch outside my shirt so I worked on cleaning up and rearranging the garage now that the plants have all been moved outside and got less than half done. So because I've been having two episodes a day 5 out of the last 6 days, yesterday, all rigged up, went by almost without a hitch just to show how perverse the universe can be, until 9:45 PM when the afib kicked in and then out sometime after I went to bed.


Something wreaked some havoc outside last night and not a peep out of the dog. I went out this morning to find that the little boy with the pot of violas on his head had been knocked down backwards breaking off a gorgeous poppy at the ground. Of course it was this one


which I knew would be different from the common red ones I have because the foliage was more silvery and the leaves more pointed and the bud was enormous. I was hoping it was a purple version of the red ones I have but it opened yesterday to the gorgeous frilliness of above. Well, no matter, there's at least 5 more plants. And then I spied this variation among the reds...



I went out a bit ago, thinking not to waste this day but soon realized, I am wasted. I'm headed to the couch with my book.





9 comments:

  1. I AM JEALOUS OF YOUR POPPIES!
    I don't think I have enough sun to grow any. They are so beautiful.
    What a pain in the ass that monitor sounds like. I remember when Owen had to do a neuro monitor overnight at home and it didn't stay connected. Poor child. Didn't show anything anyway. I hope that you at least get helpful information.
    Do you get to keep the shirt?

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    1. I could send you some seeds when they make and you could try.
      alas, no I did not get to keep the shirt. shucky darn!

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  2. That's a bonafide scrub shirt! Do you get the pants, too? Both in the correct size!

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    1. nope, no pants. but hardly the right size, just the smallest one she had available.

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  3. I LOVE POPPIES! Our neighbor in Ohio had some & I loved them in all their stages - so Seussian :)

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  4. I recently learned there's a red version of the native white prickly poppy. That knocked me out. I knew there were yellow, but red was a revelation.I got to see a whole field of red poppies like yours up at Wildseed Farm in Fredericksburg, and it was something to behold. They're really a glorious flower.

    This is a good time to find a book and retreat. I don't know exactly how cold it is outside with the wind and all, but it's surely a change from last week's glorious weather. Ah, well. Spring in Texas.

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    1. winter is being a sore loser. red prickly poppy! I would love to get some white ones established in the yard. and yeah a book and the couch and a blanket for the next day or two. real feel out here is 44˚.

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  5. So wise you are to listen to what your body is telling you. Sounds like you had a sleepless night with the heart monitor. Beautiful poppies!

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  6. I can imagine that monitor is pretty uncomfortable. Keep your eye on the goal -- a better understanding of what's going on! (You probably have it off by now anyway.) The poppies look amazing -- I've never seen a frilly one like that.

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