In many cases, depending on what it is, I'm a three-strikes-you’re-out kind of person. Today I received the third complaint, which doesn’t surprise me in the least, from the AI job requester I love. Below is what I told them.

Okay, I've officially had enough of these complaints, and I'm not going to bother working for you anymore. If you know what you want, why don't you just pick it yourself? And why ask people's opinions if you don't like their answers?

It's so true, and I'm going to miss doing their jobs, but why wait until they fire me, which is only inevitable. Tom is going to give them a try sometime.

The magnetic quick-release for the oral mask came today. I can switch back and forth easily enough between the nasal mask and the mouth mask, but I don't see myself using the nasal mask again unless my nose issues are resolved. Twice, as I was drifting off, I suffocated awake, so I said fuck it and got up and switched to the oral mask. Managed to sleep with it throughout the entire night. No, it's not as comfy. It's not a top-hose, and I can't talk to Alexa with it or take a sip of water, but if it's going to help, so be it.

I still say my sleep is cursed, and therefore, I'm not going to be able to know just how much my thyroid is affecting my energy or how likely I am to have CF if I'm exhausted all the time from constant sleep disturbances. I'm not sure if I dreamed tummy gas woke me up or if it really did. Also, the mask popped out on one side of my mouth at one point. I'm not sure if I woke up during both of these instances, or if I happened to wake up and then realized it was poking out the side. That much is my fault because I had to take the mask out to take clonazepam, and I didn't dry the thing after I rinsed it of spit. This caused it to slip more easily.

I bumped the humidity level up from 4 to 7, and the mouth spray helps. Doubt I’ll ever be able to sleep without the nose clips, although that's no big deal. It's just that I would probably revert to breathing through my nose without realizing it.

I actually slept OK for the most part, but didn't sleep long enough. I got the lower end of the recommended amount of time for REM and deep sleep (90 mins), but I only slept for 6 hours. I'm not sure why I got up too soon, but this sometimes happens after I'm up for 18 hours, as I was the night before. I don't know if I just woke up or if something woke me up. I know I had to pee, but after I got back into bed, I was unable to fall back asleep despite being exhausted.

I've been pretty damn tired all day and am still having trouble cramming acceptance down my throat that this is my life now. This is never going to get resolved. Ever. Whatever is cursing my sleep will just do something else if I fix this or that. Either way, the tentative plan is to stick with the oral mask until and if my nose can be fixed. If it ever is, I will revert to the nasal mask while aiming for a mouth guard or Inspire. The mouth guard and Inspire won't do me any good if I can't breathe through my nose.

I just thank God for this oral mask! Otherwise, I would have to take that horrible hybrid with the very uncomfortable frame/harness and its shitty seal, pinch my nose shut so I didn't try to breathe through it, and hope for the best. AI is literally saving my life (I discovered it through that). Really wish I had it when I was going through the worst of the perimenopause and the Levo terror.

The thing is, I don't know if I want to be saved if I'm going to continue to feel so shitty. I try to tell myself, so what if I don't have energy? I wouldn't have money to use it in any real way, anyway, so why not be tired? Well, because no one wants to feel yucky all day, that's why.

So the first of the Honker's yearly visitors has arrived. From the looks of it, it's the single daughter. So here goes the motorcycle, because she's going to spend plenty of time off by herself in his truck. Be nice if some of these people could skip a year, but of course they won't.

We've been having connection issues, especially with my bedroom computer, which is the furthest away from the router. So he ordered something that we hope will help. I still think part of the problem is Frontier. They're horrible compared to Spectrum.

Began using the LED tooth-whitening kit. I noticed a difference after the first treatment, but none between the first and second treatments.