Today is the last work day for me before I take nine days off. I don’t go anywhere of course, not having anybody to take care of my four dogs, three of them with very special needs. But my friends, topsurf, perpstu, cajunvegan, citizenjaney, andrealdaigle and justjen, all of whom I’ve never met in real life, but dear friends all the same, are coming to NYC for their vacation from different parts of the country. I plan to go meet and play a few times next week. But that would account for only a few days out of nine. And I thought I’d let you in on what I plan to do during my staycation.
- Sleep. Yes, I’m still sleep deprived during the week and I usually take long naps on the weekends to catch up, but one thing or another led me to miss my precious day time sleep at least one of Saturday or Sunday for the last several weeks. As a consequence, I’m in need of much more sleep.
- Nap. What? That’s how badly I need more sleep.
- Go see my friends I have neglected for the last 5 months after Grizzley’s death.
- Slumber. Cause I’m certain that I’m supPOSed to get enough sleep while on staycation.
- Re-caulk the shower stall in the master bathroom. I fixed the shower drip, but I’m yet to take a shower in that stall because I’ve noticed that about one-fifth of the caulking wasn’t there any more. Of course it didn’t happen overnight but I thought it’s prudent to use the other bathroom until I re-caulk it.
- Catch forty winks. I’m terrible at winking and I’d like to be better at it.
- Get the car fixed. I have spent a couple of thousand dollars in the last three months because of car troubles. But I still have some minor problems like going through a bottle of coolant a week WITHOUT a slightest trace of a leak anywhere, etc. My wallet has been bleeding terribly because of vet bills and aforementioned expense and such, so I’m trying to get to a mechanic, a friend of a friend, so that I can’t trust a little that he doesn’t bleed it to death.
- Rendezvous with the sandman. I’m in love with him.
- Pull out all broad-leaved plantains from the backyard. They seem to multiply faster than rabbits, and I have patches of these odious weeds, which become stiff like celery stalks when fully grown, thus making my dogs avoid the area. I’ve gotten rid of three such patches so far by pulling them out one by one whenever I can for the last two weeks.
- Get some shuteye. Once my mom told me that my eyes are not shut completely when I’m asleep. So I need more practice.
- Upgrade the blog. It’s still on version 2.6.2. Upgrades take a long time for me because of all the customization I made including the smileys, and I don’t like it very much because, well, you know, I feel like I’m back at work or something like that.
- Cop some Z’s. I happen to like Z’s.
- Last and least, optional even, clean up the house. Cleaning up is so very very much needed. But you see, it’s my staycation. I shouldn’t do something I really really loathe and despise, right? RIGHT?
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I guess all this anxiety over the financial troubles and lack of sleep as a result is getting to me. I woke up early so that I could get to the car dealership by 7:30 when they open the door and be the first one in to get my car serviced and hopefully not have to wait too long. I was feeling as dizzy as I was exhausted when I got up and let the dogs out in order. I still felt dizzy when I made myself comfortable in the waiting room of the dealership. I thought maybe it was the empty stomach because I felt really hungry, so I walked to the nearest diner to get breakfast. That didn’t help, and I drove back, picked up cat food, did grocery shopping, took two naps one after another just interrupted by potty breaks for the dogs. I still feel dizzy whenever I move my head around. What to do…?
I’ve been sleeping a lot for the last few days. The amount of sleep I’m able to squeeze in astonishes even me. Having dogs prevents me from sleeping 3 or 4 days and nights straight waking up just to drink water or take a leak, as I once did long time ago. But I have been able to wake up, take the dogs out, eat something, go back to bed, and repeat a couple of times. I used to have the problem of not being able to sleep at night if I took a nap during the day, even a very short one. Now I seem to have conquered that problem because I lay my well-rested self down, and I can fall asleep… well, nowadays anyway.
I hope the sleepfest is warding off the exhaustion I’ve been suffering from so that I can start the week anew all refreshed. Well, gotta go now to take a nap.
Hardly slept last night. For some reason, I couldn’t fall asleep even though I was extremely tired and sleepy. After tossing and turning for more than a couple of hours, I gave up on the idea and got on plurk again for a couple of hours.
Well well… and I found and killed three spiders crawling on the couch I was on. Yes, that exact couch I’ve been sleeping on. The one on which I have to sleep until I can get a new bed. So you could imagine how that might have affected me. I mean, I’m not such a sissy drama queen who screams and tries to climb up the wall upon seeing some nickel size spider *coughMJaecough*, and I have no trouble whacking a spider with a shoe or squishing it with a paper or whatever is handy. But I found them ON my sleeping establishment! NOT ONE, mind you, but THREE fucking spiders!!!!!!!!! THREE!!!!!
After every single time I killed one, I tossed everything around the couch with murderous intentions and malice in my heart to see if there were more, and none could be found. I’m so fucking sure there are at least a few dozen more and I’m going to find them one by one just like I did last night, casually crawling on the couch a few inches away from me. Naturally, I felt something crawling all over me every time I tried to get some Z’s and here I am, sleep deprived, trying to take a nap and miserably failing to fall asleep. Not only that, somebody on plurk kindly told me something like “If it’s not the biting kind, don’t worry. It’s just an itty bitty bug” and after reading that, why do my limbs suddenly seem to hurt here and there and feel kinda numb, you know?
Yeah, don’t expect this blog to be about something pleasant any time soon. But hey, you all love me because I’m grumpy and cranky, and I aim to please.
Wow. I just realized that I only put 3 blog entries up in August! That’s so not cool. I don’t like it. So I’m going to try harder to update this blog more often.
Today is the last day of my minivacation, 3 days in total. Three days plus the long weekend, that is… well… except for Sunday when I had to work a couple of hours… So what did I do? I slept!!!! I slept and slept and slept. I woke up every morning, took the dogs out for potty, then went back to sleep, then woke up and took the dogs out for potty, then took a nap, then woke up and took the dogs out for potty, and depending on what time it was, I either took another nap, or fed the dogs.
Oh yeah, I did go outside from time to time after at least one nap, but I’m mostly excited about sleeping. Sleep deprivation is a terrible thing, you know. I tell you being able to sleep is wonderful although sleeping on the couch is not doing my back any favors.
So today is the last of my sleeping days for some time. And I’m celebrating it with another day of sleeping! Good night y’all!
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