Unnizone

Was up at 7am. Had a shower, brought order to a catastrophic mess of a kitchen, did the dishes, fed the dog, did a couple of hours of school work, did the NYT games with Bjørn when he got up. Also vacuumed the entire house and tidied up everywhere. Made dinner, deep cleaned the stove and walked the dog. What I did NOT do, was sit down on the coach and fall asleep. The damned annoying hate object of a CPAP is undoubtedly working. I do not yet dare believe that this is my life from now on, but oh my is it promising!

This is how AI thinks it must be:

Aro was neutered a while back and today he had the stitches removed. Bjørn had an appointment with the eye doctor for himself, so I took the furball to his appointment. He was sooo well behaved, and did not move a cm when our vet Kjetil too out the stitches. He was rewarded with snacks from Kjetil, and all was well. We did a weigh-in also. He was overweight (Aro, not Kjetil) half a year ago. Now he is down 6 kilos and has reached his target weight. To make the trip a little nicer for Aro, we had three stops on the way home. First by a war memorial. I wanted a cute dog-on-bench picture of Aro, but he was not cooperating.

He was thirsty, so our next stop was by a lake. We walked down to it and he drank quite a bit.

Our third stop was by anther lake. Aro was far to busy sniffing to care about looking good on photos....

Then home where the rest of the day was spent nursing a head ache.

Losing some. May it continue.

I have been a little disappointed with the CPAP. I have heard so many stories of people who feel so much better from day one. Their energy return, and they are a hundred percent awake. I have now had the mask for two weeks, and it has not been a miracle cure for me. I still feel tired and sleepy. So, I searched for user experiences online, and that made me feel better. It was so clear that experiences vary. Some felt better after day one. For some it took weeks, for others it took months. And it seemed that for those with severe sleep apnea, it took longer time. So, no longer quite as discouraged. And though I still feel far from being my old self, it struck me that this last week I have not fallen asleep on the sofa in the evenings. And I have been able to drive to work without taking breaks to sleep. I have not needed the 15 minute sleep in the car before I went in to work. And one of my colleagues told me I look a bit healthier now.  So though I still feel sleepy and tired, I am, after all, less sleepy and perhaps even less tired.  Baby steps. I will just keep at it.

My turn to lead the evening course today. Two pupils, both of them Thai women. I kept it going for the allotted time from 5pm till 7.30pm. What fun we had!

I left work at around 8.15  pm and went to Joanna's place. She was walking her dog, so I locked myself in and had a nice little rest on her terrace.

We started a new evening course at work today, not really knowing who would come. The course will be two evenings a week. On Mondays the teacher is a colleague of mine, on Wednesday the teacher is me. Since it was the first evening, I had offered to stay there, and help with registration of potential new pupils while my colleague was teaching. We had one pupil attend class, and ONE who came for registration. The new one was not on the same level as the one in the class, so we now have two whole pupils, but they need to be in different classes. Yay.

Left work at around 7pm. Went to sleep over at Joanna's.  She and her dog Mia are such a sweet couple!

Brother-in-law Kjetil and his girlfriend and cohabitant Kari Mette were here today. Very nice indeed.

Painting the stabbur

Meanwhile I am tidying up a bit

Difference in colour from what is painted and what is not