Friday, June 8, 2007 9 AM   I have been up about two hours and I am already dead tired.  I can blame my caregiver for that.  He was supposed to put me to bed last night at nine o'clock.  He got here about 10 minutes before midnight.  By the time I had got to bed, and then to sleep, it was probably around 1 AM. Before I got up this morning, I sensed that someone was in my apartment.  I opened my eyes just enough to be able to see that lights were on all over the place.  I figured that if there were a robber, the only thing he could get would be a dried out mop and a stale bucket of water.  I doubt if anyone in his or her right mind would want that. Still squinting through my eyes, I finally saw my caregiver.  It seemed as if I had just gotten to sleep and now he was there again.  Something seemed to be wrong.  I looked at my watch and saw that it was 5:50 AM.  I had gotten about five hours sleep, which is way too little for me.  He can get by on three or four hours sleep, but I need at least twice that many.  He said he would be here at eight o'clock tonight.  I call that going from one extreme to another.  He is going to kill me yet. My sister is supposed to come here this afternoon and bring my new microwave oven, which has been riding around in the trunk of her car all week.  I figure it will either work or be ready for one of those scratched and dented sales.She is trying to get me to move to an apartment closer to her.  I am doing everything I can to avoid that.  I live about a half an hour away from her now, and if I moved, it would only be about a 10-minute drive.  I need to keep more distance and time between us.   A Daily Thought: “We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.” -Benjamin Disraeli