Along with trimming the cypress trees and tweaking my bike, Tom installed the new bathroom light, and of course I helped. :-) It casts a slightly yellowish glow but it’s much easier on the eyes and I really love it. Much more stylish and modern than the other one. They still sell that exact model too, which I could have gotten for less than half of what we paid for this one. I might have gotten it if we were only going to be here another year or so but since we have many more years left, I thought I’d get something nicer.

Slept much better the last time around for 8 solid, dreamless hours. Tom said there were 3-4 loud vehicles to go by while I slept which is an encouraging sign that I really am adapting to city noise little by little. Also, drinking Sleepytime Extra before bed seems to help me sleep better and not wake up as easily.

Heard a couple of semi-loud vehicles since I’ve been up (even some of the golf carts can be a little loud) and a few car stereos, one of which was in the park. Probably a visitor.

It’s a 24-hour world these days and things definitely aren’t what they were 20-30 years ago or even since the last time we lived in the city a little over a decade ago. I even hear things at night and this is a retirement community. I hear semi-loud vehicles go through here every 1-2 hours throughout the night, including a motorcycle that is a little more than just semi-loud and sometimes visits someone for an hour or so. Why you would do this at 2 AM is beyond me but the park told me ages ago that they’re not doing anything wrong since a motorcycle is a form of transportation. You would have to be joyriding under management’s nose for them to do anything. Otherwise, everyone has a right to the transportation of their choice no matter how loud it is and no matter how late it is.

At night I also hear the vehicle that delivers the paper to those that still get it, car stereos on the freeway, and more small planes than anywhere I’ve ever lived before. If I can hear all this here then I’m guessing it’s the same almost anywhere in any city. Way back when, all I would hear at night was a passing train in the distance, but very rarely did I hear loud vehicles or even car stereos. The car stereos were bad in Oregon but they usually stopped in the evening.

So the long weekend is over, but at least he only works 4 days this week and then he’s on vacation!

Dyed my hair medium brown this evening and waiting for it to cool down so I can go bike riding. Was thinking I would ride down to the lake and give the ducks the rest of the rats’ bread from last week.

Aly shared a picture of herself and even though she was all broken out from her eczema I didn’t think she looked bad at all.