I am so tired. I know I'm getting up at 5:30 in the morning now, which is a good reason to be tired. I'm trying to go to bed earlier, but now that The Hub is part time at Depot he often doesn't get home til 11:00.

Of course, they love him at Depot. They put him in the plumbing department, and since he has infinite patience to stand there and organize all those little valves and screws and fittings they now ask him to work later and later at night so the place starts out organized looking in the morning....

If I had to do that job I'd probably just throw box loads of little tiny parts right out the door into the garden department. Of course, he deals with big stuff too. Pipes, etc. And, for someone who hates to do plumbing as much as he does, he knows a great deal about it, so his department manager is glad to have him. He has great sympathy with men who come stomping into the department, grinding their teeth and generally conducting themselves as if they're about to have a stroke any minute, and sputter out a question. "I've been there myself" he says, sympathetically. And cheerfully, too, because he knows that when he gets done talking to the guy he can go back to organizing shelves - it's the customer who is going home to the water leak.

But, really, I notwithstanding that I have to get up so terribly early, I am still WAY tired. In contrast to my normal problem of not being able to sleep at all, I now can - and almost do- fall asleep anywhere. Twice at work I've had to devote most of my lunch hour to a nap in the car. Thank God my cell phone has an alarm function. When I went to Mom and Dad's to help out at their yard sale, I crashed in their guest room for almost 3 hours and slept right through lunch. Last night I sat down on the sofa to read and fell asleep for two hours.

At the same time, my hair is falling out in drain clogging clumps, so I guess this means my thyroid is up to no good again. Darn thing. It's done this to me twice before - at least it got caught doing it twice before by the doctor I had in MA. But then, each time, it had self corrected on follow up. And when I asked what made it go kerfluey in the first place all I could get was a shrug and some mutter about "hormones". Very enlightening, that doctor.

15 days til health insurance! I hope I can stay awake til then.