Or wasn’t depending on how you look at it.

You’ll recall that I had my sleep study this weekend. I had to be there at 9 pm Saturday night. And since Saturday was cold and rainy, there wasn’t much to get up to in the garden during the day. I opted to do some overdue cleaning of my bedroom and office. Floors got vaccummed, things got dusted, clothes got washed, and I even got three large bags of items together and in the car ready to be donated to Goodwill.

Then came the sleep study. They advise you to bring something to do before lights out (there’s no TV or internet) so naturally I brought some knitting.

Remember these?

A purple sock of my own design that got started last year, set aside and completely forgotten about. Seemed like a good time to pick it back up and give it some love.

Only it wasn’t. I got a few rows in an realized I’d mis-crossed cable. I was up to pulling back several rows, so tucked it away and pulled out a book I’d brought with me just in case.

But I didn’t get more than a few pages read before the nurse came in to hook me up to eleventy billion sensors and wires.

Okay… it was about 20. But it felt like a lot more. Then it was time for lights out. And I proceeded to have the WORST sleep I have ever had in my life. I normally sleep on my left side, but the wires weren’t long enough for me to roll over that way. The mattress felt like an under-inflated air mattress, and while I had two pillows, they were both hard as rocks. I think I slept maybe 4 hours total between 10 pm and 5 pm when they unhooked me and sent me on my way. I hope it was enough for the doctors to diagnose!

Because I was up so early, I woke Dave up when I got home (about 6:30 am) and took him for breakfast.

Dave LOVES going for breakfast, but we don’t do it often because neither of us enjoy the crowed. But we were early enough that it was just us and three other sets of diners. Our waitress told us that on Sundays it doesn’t really start to get crowded until 8:30 am. So we have a nice little window between 7 and then if we decide to do it again.

After that we came back home. Dave tackled the mowing and weedwhacking.

Although I was running on auxillary power – I knew if I went down for a nap, I’d have another night of bad sleep. I can’t nap for a short window. I I fall asleep during the day, I’m out for several hours. So instead I unwrapped the catio windows! Every fall, after I bring my house plants in, Dave puts up some heavy plastic over the screens of the catio porch. It helps keep a lot of the cold wind off the kitchen, and gives us a dry place to store things. That means every spring it has to come down and that’s usually my job. It’s held to the window frames with eleventy billion screws.

Happily, Dave thrifted this diminutive drill that fits my hand much better than his big drill does. It’s also lighter and much easier for me to handle. I still took a long time – it was A LOT of screws, and Dave can hear a screw being stripped from across the yard – so I had to take my time and do it right. I also had to move a lot of the stuff we had stored there. But by mid-afternoon, it was done and there was a nice, fresh breeze blowing through the porch.

I still have to clear out a lot of the stuff stored there over winter, so no pictures yet.

But the boys can at least enjoy some fresh air from the comfort of the cat tree, even on rainy days.

In a couple more weekends, I’ll get the mess cleared out, take some house plants up for the summer, and my happy place will be cozy and comfy once again!

That said, the rest of the day was pretty much a write off. I was completely out of steam. We went out and got some more paint, grabbed dinner, and I spent the rest of the evening vegging in my chair before an early bed! And boy was is nice to sleep in my own bed again!