Didn't sleep as badly as I thought I would. My sleep was a little fragmented during the first few hours, so I got up and moved the phone away from the bed. I started off sleeping without the CPAP and with a nose strip instead, thinking I was going to get thundered awake like crazy. And while I wasn’t snoring or having breathing issues, I didn’t feel comfortable continuing to sleep without the CPAP. Plus, I felt like I was getting one of those sleep apnea headaches, so I masked up and got back into bed. Luckily, I had perfect timing for once because I was still awake when a loud boom of thunder occurred. No power failures or anything, though. 

So I slept relatively well for the rest of the night with the exception of another nightmare. Funny, too, because I didn’t have cheese before bed, which is one of the things I read can cause nightmares. In the nightmare, I was being held hostage with other people in a building that had multiple stories. We were on the top floor, in the room next to the end of the hall, and there might have been half a dozen to a dozen of us. Tom wasn’t in the dream, and I don’t even know if I knew him. 

At one point, I was entrusted with the task of being brought into the room on the very end, next to the one where the rest of the people were, to order us all pizzas. When the pizza guy arrived, I quickly told him what was going on and asked that he call for help. In a split second, he was gone, and someone else—also a hostage—was in the room with me. The gunman suspected something was up, and although we put the chain on the door, he was shouting at us through the gap, and I feared he would force it open before help could arrive. That’s when I woke up.

This can’t be good. Between last night’s dream and the one before, I don’t see how that could be a good sign, but nothing unusual is going on at the moment. 

When I recently read that an enlarged tongue was a symptom of Hashimoto’s, I was surprised because I thought I knew all the dozens of symptoms, yet this is the first time I’d heard of that one. It makes me wonder if it’s connected to why and how I got sleep apnea, since my basic throat structure has always been the same. Still, I think age and weight gain are the most likely culprits, along with the fact that my sleep is cursed, of course.

I was thinking about it, and I miss having a Mac. The only feature I like better about Windows is that it’s easier to arrange the windows, but Mac has more features I miss, like being able to right-click on an image and automatically have it in the body of an email if I wanted to share it. I also liked its universal text reader and how convenient it was to have notes and calendars on the desktop, as opposed to Windows. Lastly, I loved being able to tag photos in files.

However, long gone are the days when we could just buy whatever we wanted spontaneously. There are so many things we want and could definitely use, but so little money to get them that we’re forced to prioritize. It takes time to save for just one thing, depending on its cost, and we never know what’s going to come up and set us back. Energy or not, I don’t see how we could ever be in a position to move unless we unexpectedly won money or sued someone. It’s not like we can save thousands of dollars a month.