This is the second day in a row I’ve been shorted an hour or so of sleep. Yesterday, my mask slipped, and today it was my nose. Otherwise, I slept well between half a clonazepam and melatonin. The only downside to the days I have energy—and even some of the days I don’t—is the difficulty falling asleep after being up a reasonable amount of time. Hopefully, I won’t always have to take something to fall asleep, but if I do, I will.

I still worry there’s a curse on my sleep and that there’s no getting around it. It would be totally awesome if the procedure, which they still haven’t called to schedule—assuming they’re waiting on approval from my insurance—could eliminate the nose issues, and then a mouthguard could eliminate the CPAP issues, bringing it down to just storms, nightmares, power failures, and potential projects. It will be interesting to see if replacement disturbances occur once these are eliminated. There are no guarantees I’ll ever be able to get a mouthguard, though. That’s going to depend on how well the ENT can open my nose and if insurance will pay for it. Hopefully, I won’t wake up until my body is ready the next time around.

I’ve always hated being unable to work and make money, yet at the same time, I’m so glad I don’t have to be forced to be awakened by an alarm most days and then forced to interact with people I probably wouldn’t like, since I don’t care for people in general.

Since it was on sale for just $9, and I was at least making pretty decent money on Prolific, I got one of Woodwick’s Precious Metals candles, which is fairly new. There are eight in this line. I got the Marine Amber. It’s kind of hard to describe. I guess it’s mildly flowery.