Madness In My Method

Roommate Tom was a huge help this weekend getting me motivated with the window A/C unit. Once we got it opened up in the garage, I was more than a little unsure of moving forward with my project. There was an inch of mud in the base of it, and of course gunk and debris all over the thing. A little more coaxing from him got me over my mental hump. The unit was washed out with a hose and sprayer. The main areas facing into my room were dunked into a water/bleach solution to soak. We left everything out to sun dry, and then he got it put away into the garage yesterday evening to do some extra drying out over night. I vacuumed out the window sill of dead leaves and bug debris. Most of that comes from the top outer window panel not reaching to the very top of the sill, thus allowing stuff to find its way into the space between the outer and inner panes of the storm windows. My cleaning umph continued a little while longer and prompted me to clean out the computer cpu filters and do a bit more scrubbing in my shower before finally giving way to tiredness. We went to lunch at Mexican Inn, and rather than come home and take a nap I decided to get some cross stitching done while putting myself through a movie. I have decided that Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is schizophrenic. The best part of that movie was Wonder Woman.

Hopefully this evening I can get the A/C unit put back together and reinstalled. The nice outside temperature right now combined with the central A/C keeps my room decently cool, but that couple degree difference provided by the window unit is the difference between me waking up in the middle of the night covered in sweat like I did last night versus me having a pleasant night sleep.

My new year's resolution is to quit my job.

No, wait, that was last year's resolution.

So, then....I'm done. Yipee!

First hour awake for the year and I've already eaten a hearty breakfast, I've got my coffee, I've sent off a nice ex-work reminder email (look at me being all helpful), and my new year's resolution has already been taken care of.

I feel like one of those feel good commercials for online banking where the person is happily paying bills via their online banking and "freeing their time" to "focus on the more important things in life."

Tuesday night was about 4hrs of sleep due to staying up late and then having to wake up really early for work.

Wednesday night was a bit better. I stayed up with Mom watching Torchwood, went home, got about 9-10hrs sleep before heading back over for gift unwrapping with the nephews.

Thursday night was the torso cramp, so I got about 4hrs that night as well.

Yesterday I got a phone call at work, and my eldest nephew was having trouble getting his new laptop to connect to the internet. They said it was different from the others and they just didn't know how to work it. I assumed it might have Windows 8 on it and they couldn't find where to go on the system for networking. So I went over there after work. They had spent the day watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy I got eldest for Christmas and were about an hour into The Return of the King, so I stayed and watched the rest of that with them. Incidentally, it's not a Windows 8 machine, but Windows 7, so first thing I did was look for a WiFi switch. Yep. Once I had the laptop on, their "not connecting" issue was solved in less than 30seconds. Now they know to look for a WiFi switch.

I got home last night earlier than usual, around 9pm and spent close to an hour running two newbie players through The Christmas Conspiracy mission in The Secret World. Me and one other guy kept getting kicked off the server, so it took longer than expected. I also learned that if one person moves forward in the mission, that person will have to get out of the instance and wait for the others to go in an catch up before you can all meet up again and get full credit (you can still join with your group, but no credit for the mission will be given for whoever is behind).

I logged out of the game to go to sleep because I was completely exhausted and still not caught up on sleep. I'll be damned if the torso pain didn't come back. I spent the next few hours taking various levels of pills, attempting to sleep, and then waking up again within the hour due to the pain. Eventually, 1pm was the last time I saw the clock time before finally going to sleep.

I didn't wake up today until 4:45pm. I almost couldn't believe it when I saw the clock upon waking. I guess I was a heck of a lot more exhausted than I thought. Of course, I woke up with a bit of a headache from sleeping so long. Joy.

Hooray for extra Bromfed DM in the house!

It's yet another cough suppressant that contains Dextromethorphan. It does it's job of getting the niagra falls to stop pouring out of my nose, but also causes me major hyperactivity, excitability combined with euphoria, and slight hallucinatory distortions (I'm not going to call them full-on hallucinations, because I've done enough acid to know the difference). Even Kevin stopped and stared at me for a while when he was feeding the dog as I stared out the window because my eyes were pretty well dilated.

In other words, I'M HYPER, BITCHES! (and apparently a little high)

I don't want to be high, but I sure as hell didn't want to keep feeling as absolutely fucking miserable as I had been all night and all morning long blowing my nose every 2 minutes. The Bromfed DM is the only thing that has provided me a reprieve from the soreness that is my nose and upper lip right now. I just hope the NyQuil does its job equally well and allows me to get some sleep tonight, because waking up every 30-60 minutes because it's Snot-Party-Time in my nose is no bueno.

Nothing makes you question the point of your existence like another high school reunion reminder.

20 years. Sheesh.

I'm scheduled for jury duty for Monday morning, but by the time I went to sleep last night my throat and sinuses were killing me. The world is covered in layers and layers of sleet outside, and I still had to come into work this morning, as expected. The sleet hitting my windows kept me awake most of the night, and by midnight I was taking NyQuil because my head and sinuses were feeling so horrible. The tonsils were starting to swell yesterday before leaving work, but now it hurts to swallow in general.

I'm biting the bullet and requesting a deferment for my jury duty for Monday. The doctor's office won't be open between now and then due to the weather, and I really can't tell if this is something that I'm going to be able to shake or if I'm going to come down with a full-blown sinus or throat infection in the next 24 hours. Plus, I'm still playing catch up at work. I really can't think straight, and getting all stressed out over having to do jury duty on Monday just isn't happening.

Now to wait for them to respond telling me that they've approved the deferment (assuming any of the court folks even go in to work today).

OMG, today is going to be such a good day.

Now, that's saying something coming from me, because of the mood I've been in recently. That's also saying something considering I found out my friend's grandmother passed away yesterday. My heart goes out to him. He's going through the same exact thing I went through two years ago, and that another friend went through about this same time last year with her father's passing. There's a lot of sadness, but also a lot of relief when someone you love no longer has to suffer their illness.

In a way, that's kind of how I feel about today. This week with old friends has been good for me, and the weather change is so much of a relief in and of itself. This summer has been associated with some very bad emotions and remembrances for me. It felt like a trial by fire - almost literally. Fall hitting right now feels like a cooling baptism. I'm definitely in fall cleaning mode. My room's a mess, and my head's been even more of a mess. Time to clean it all out again.

iClean

Oh, and it's Little Bit's b-day, and again they want Mongolian. I hope the owner-dude is there today so the boys can see him.

( For added giggles, image under cut )

( And random hobby talk again... )

FINALLY!!! - and, and, and, Totally much more interesting than what I figured I'd find right off the bat. (I'm still annoyed that this is such a difficult art form to search for. I still don't have a name for it to go by.)

Lastly - WOW - what a fascinating website! Yes, please. That would totally be a wall in a reading room for me.


EDIT: A-fucking-Ha! It's called paperolle or quilling. (That took all morning and lots of round-about winding through side-web-surfings to find.)

( Because I clicked on more links )

I decided to spend this morning having some quiet time to myself. That didn't really work out as I planned.

( I was accosted at every turn. )