Domestic Geek

For some reason, I was wired last night. I think you can tell by the late hour of my previous posts. I was hyper and my mind was racing. I ended up not going to sleep until well after midnight. I don't know what caused it as I didn't consume any caffeine or anything late in the evening. I had some tea with dinner before 6pm. I consumed a peanut buster parfait right after dinner and if I'm going to get a sugar rush, it happens within an hour. Then I took an hour long soak in the tub to relax before bed. I should've been out like a light since I only got six hours of sleep the previous night and was pretty sleepy after the bath, but no such luck. It was strange. Then, after I was finally tired enough to sleep, I started having some sort of allergy attack or something. I got stuffy, was wheezing and then the coughing set in. It was so weird. So, I'm on 5 or less hours of sleep. I hope this doesn't cause me to make any critical mistakes at work today. I'm seeing an after work nap in my future.

Bah, I'm still up and I should've been in bed awhile ago. I don't want to go to work tomorrow...not because I don't like my job, but I have so much I need to do around here and two days in a weekend is just not long enough to get everything accomplished. *sigh*

I'm finally getting a little inspiration for a blog design I want to work out, too, but having to go to work everyday puts a little crimp in my design time. I also am a little brain fried by the time I'm off shift and have been at a computer all day. Doesn't really put one in a creative design frame of mind. Why, oh why can't I be independently wealthy so I can pursue my hobbies?

Getting out of this park has been topmost in my mind lately, too. I'm really wanting to have a garden and get dogs, again. It's just not right to be a dog person and have no canines in your life, y'know?

This is more of a note to self, but I watched two movies yesterday and I must remember to tell you my thoughts on them tomorrow.

OK, making myself go get ready for bed.

Sorry I was so down and dramatic yesterday. I hate it when I get like that and I just feel like crawling in a hole and hiding. Fortunately, I feel a whole lot better today. The snow we're having right now stinks, but at least I don't feel as depressed as yesterday. I'm definitely not looking forward to driving to work in the morning, though.

I finally found that book, The Ultimate Gift, that I wrote about a few days ago. I went to two separate Barnes and Nobles the day before yesterday and although both stores said they had one, neither clerk could find it. I stopped in at The Tattered Cover on my way home yesterday and I couldn't find it, either. The clerk pointed me to the Christian section. Hmmm, I wonder if that's where it is at B&N, too. I read a couple of chapters there in the store and I started bawling. I don't know how much was me being overly emotional anyway or how touching the story was, but I decided to go ahead and purchase the book right then. I had intended to just read it there and purchase it later on Amazon, but I wanted to finish it and didn't want to keep bawling in public. So far, it is a really good story. It's a fairly short little book, so I'll probably finish it up this evening. I can't wait to see the movie now.

There were promotional posters all over for the 7th Harry Potter book. I realized that I only have a little over four months to knit my Hogwarts scarf to fulfill one of my 101 Things in 1001 Days goals (goal #15, to be exact). I've got the supplies, I just need to do it! It's knitted in the round and I'm not quite sure how that works. I'm assuming you mark your rows the same as if you're crocheting in the round. I'll have to ask my friend Cass about that and see if she has any tips. I also need to design that site. That placeholder template I put up sucks monkey balls. I don't know why I've been putting off web design so much lately. I used to spend every waking hour tinkering with my site code. I hope that passion and desire returns soon. I miss it but I'm easily distracted lately.

OK, since the Thursday Thirteen has new owners and is going to continue on with no interruption, I'd better go think of a topic for this week. Be back in a bit.

Well, as you probably guessed by the previous post, I'm awake early for a Saturday morning. I didn't go to bed until almost midnight, so this stinks. I awoke with heartburn and a horribly sore throat a little before 5 am. I just can't shake the sickness totally and it's really pissing me off. I am hoping that after a bit of web surfing, the ibuprofen will soothe the pain in my throat and I can sleep again.

It also snowed as expected last night and it's a bit windy right at the moment. Yuck. It's a little chilly back here in the craft room where my computer is and the power keeping flickering. *sigh* I need to head to WalMart, but I guess that will wait until tomorrow morning since I don't feel like driving in snow or clearing off the car. I'm certainly not fighting Saturday shoppers later in the day.

I'm kind of annoyed with my bank right now. Their customer service really blows. I'm not going to share what happened, but I'm fed up. I think I need to start shopping for a new bank.

I'm supposed to be to work at 7 am every Monday through Friday. I knew I was going to have to leave early this morning because of the freezing drizzle we had last night. Well....imagine my dismay when Marcus woke me up at 6:45 this morning. Yep, I was going to be late for work. I don't know if I forgot to set the alarm and or if I turned it off in my sleep (like I sometimes do). The good news is I slept soundly for the first time in weeks. The bad news is traffic is worse at that time of day than when I usually leave. That so sucked. Good thing we're a little slow at work and my boss wasn't really upset that I was late. It sucked to lose that hour of pay on top of the day I was out sick.