Weather Worries

It's such a gorgeous cool and sunny day this Tuesday that I can only hope it stays this way for a while (24 hrs?) 

I have always been obsessed with the weather. As a child we had a school dress code. Girls wore skirts or dresses only, no  pants.If it was really cold girls were allowed to wear long pants UNDER their skirts. In fact the year I graduated from high school (1968) someone from MCPS changed the dress code so starting September 1968 girls could wear pants, slacks, jumpsuits or jeans.
Too late.

Then I went to Syracuse University. Syracuse was cold and snowy 10 months a year and nobody cared what you were wearing. Classes were never cancelled. Ever.

When I first started teaching school weather again was a major concern.Indoor/outdoor recess.? Lots of outerwear that didn't fit in cubbies or lockers. Wet shoes and socks. As the weather prediction technology advanced the forecasters then started promising 12 inches (no school) when in fact it was 2 inches ...not even a delayed opening. Early release, no school.....

Now that I am retired you would think that I wouldn't be so anxious about the weather but this is where the PARKINSONS comes in.
Heres the list of problems I face (and maybe you do too)
1. RAIN.....*getting in and out of the car with an umbrella. (opened    
                   or closed)
                   *puddles
                   *slippery surfaces
                    
2. SNOW.....*same as above plus can't walk in unplowed OR               
                      plowed snow 
                     *totally unbalanced walk

3. PERFECT WEATHER....** must go outside and walk in the woods and pick up sticks and stones and weeds and twigs and rocks and pinwheels and move displays and chairs and bird feeders and squirrel feeders ......risks of tripping , falling, tumbling, slipping, stumbling.**

I will take a perfect day any day.
And so far as rain only go to places that have underground parking.

Whatever
Diane
                         
                   

Last week's Parkinson Support Group topic was SLEEP....and it sparked much conversation  of sleep difficulties. Going to sleep and staying asleep were the most common. Help with sleep distress included prescription and OTC  meds, breathing and meditation,

eating, not eating, sound proof rooms, dark rooms....

There were a couple of folks who have movements during sleep  so severe that their bed partners complain of being punched and  kicked. People have thrown themselves out of bed .Pretty exciting, huh?

My pattern of sleep is NO pattern (it seems).Doesn't matter where I sleep...upstairs, downstairs, bed, chair, couch.....lights on, TV on, complete silence and darkness.....sometimes I sleep okay which means to me NO more than 1 bathroom visit and sleeping til 5:30 or 6. There have been times when I wake up at 2, COMPLETELY awake and I get up and work on a project or do laundry or watch shows I have recorded. I DON"T pull weeds or move rocks in the dark (although I want to !!)

And the other day when I woke up I became very confused because the TV cable box showed the number 906 and I thought what channel was I watching and then realized it was in fact 9:06 am.

I had been asleep for 12 hours. WHATEVER!!!

This is what I call SLEEP.

Wish we could all be this comfortable.