W@KING UP

{crash-note:} I've just accidentally deleted the headnote & 4 days of entries
(beginning on my 70th birthday, 21 MAY 2012.), so I'll just begin again.

[HeadNote:] Would you like to read & comment on a daily blog that includes
what I see & think soon after waking up? If so, this is it. - Bill Costley

(24 MAY 2012, 7:05 PST) I put my morning glass of cold water aside to shave
& then write this, glancing briefly to the N. at a pure blue sky. I'll be taking the
V V van to Kaiser Hospital @ 8:45am.for a 10am audiology appt., back by noon.

(25 MAY 2012) Anita forwards me a poem about her garden; I call her back &
listen to her talk about what gardening is for her & can be; it is for me, too, now,&
like a succulent, need a cool drink as Reggie waits beside me patiently, so I take him
out for a while as it slowly  gets colder outside. Ginny appears & walks Reggie; we
sit on the green bench until we're too cold & Reggie heads back to my apt; I make hot
cocoa for us, butter&mayo on a 1/2-slice of sourdough bread for myself..

(27 MAY 2012) I wake at 6:15am with Reggie on my chest, purring, stroke him,
get up & pour myself a tall glass of cold water. All night I'd been thinking of the
French surname Chouinard (cabbager), why, I really don't know.

(03 MAY 2012, 5:20am) I had the strangest dream last night of auditions for Hamlet
that bore no resemblance to the actual play; so I left w/out doing mine, which would have
failed miserably; I was simply not up to it. Now I'm going back to bed.

 ....2 mos gap

(07 JULY 2012, 08:11am) A few fingerfuls of thick oats microwaved 1 min have just made a satisfying start to my currently diatetic day. Next: cold sour fermented juice. Wt. 279

(10 JUL 2012) After a day of painful constipation, I now realize I'd better drink that tall glass of water every morning & take some psyllium. Wt. 279.5  BP 127/672

...5 days gap

(16 JUL 2012)  [Yest.] I weighed-in at 277 BP 119/6~  I'm thoughtfully drinking a cupful of cool water every time I'm at the sink because I've had no bowel movement in the last few days. FINALLY! a soft green substantial dump!

(17 JUL 2012) Took my fallen crown to dentist for reseating; no chewing on that side today, so I put my sloppy salad into the blender & will eat it at room temp.all day.

 ...3 days gap...

(20 JUL 2012)  rode black Shogun to Safweway for 4 delicious qts. yogurt@$1.99, gave 1 to Ginny

(21 JUL 2012) woke to spoon 1/2 cup of vanilla yogurt, drink small cuppa water w/acidophilus wafer, fish oil, vitamins: B complex, Centrum, etc.