Nineteen Hours. I received a letter from my editor about typing help yesterday at 4:00 PM. Also in the mail I received five paperbacks and ended up finishing Christina Dodd’s "Almost Like Being In Love" sometime in the wee hours of the morning.

It is now 10:30 AM and my laundry just came back. Right before the return of the laundry, commissary was delivered and I have already munched down a 400 calorie Drake’s Apple Fruit Pie. I ordered a few extra M&Ms so I will be able to splurge a bit over the next three days. Friday will bring another bag of goodies.

So for now I have three mackerel pouches, two 1.5 ounce bags of pretzel, five 1.74 ounce bags of M&M peanuts, one 2.75 ounce pack of Lindens big oatmeal and raisin cookies to spread over the next three days.

The way laundry works is you get two net bags, one for white stuff, and one for green stuff. They pick the bags up at 6:00 AM each Tuesday and in today’s case, return two slightly damp but fresh smelling and clean bags back at 10:30 AM.

Since I read all night, this morning would have been a great time to sleep in, but since my sheets, blanket and towel used as pillow were all in the wash, lying down on the naked vinyl foam mattress was not an appealing option. Now that I have gotten my laundry back and the commissary has been delivered, once I am done writing this I will catch up on some much needed sleep.

The activities of the last nineteen hours have sort of exhausted my "outside sensory experiences" till Friday. One other thing. I finally got through to my Mom and Dad on the phone and was able to exchange Christmas greetings. So now it is back to bed and more reading. OK, it’s probably a little tough to read through closed eyelids.

Actually it is now a little after 11:00 AM and lunch is on the way so I will add that to the end of this post and start on more musing from my humble abode.

Well, lunch was two hot dogs, two slices of wheat bread, one pack of mustard, sauerkraut, and a scoop of baked beans. Yum Yum!

So as the second Jerry Springer show of the day drones on in the background, I will do the read and doze thing till around 3:30 PM when my three hours of out of cell time starts.
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