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Uffda. Really, after the uber busy weekend of project fu and working until my hands ached I should have gotten a good nights sleep but I tossed and turned and kept waking up. And it wasn't the waking up for a reason..there wasn't anything on my mind..I'd finished lots of stuff except the grocery shoppping...which I guess I should have gotten up and did but by the time I figured it out all of the shops would have been closed. Eh.

Anyhoo..got up this morning and thought I had had gotten to work without my badge but it was in the bottom of my bag. Yay! Work has been good so far. I delivered the baby blanket.and it was well received. I am now trying to decipher my notes that I left myself. I'm amused by my notations at times.

The weekend was good...Halloween was quiet but fun. We had lots of kids this year and lots of visitors. Please see

scribe_ari's post of her kids and

dverning and

weavedancer's little girl. The kids were a blast. I also got pictures of Holly as a cute lady bug but I didn't upload them yet. Ooops. She was cute chasing the cats around the house. I think they were more freaked out from the costume than her just being 1 years old.

Sunday was good breakfast at Joe's and then projects. I used my studio like a good girl and was very productive. Then we had our first music practice for the Estrella competition. It went well. French is very nasal but the piece is really lovely. I need to practice some. Had a good time hanging with folks and then it was calligraphy till bed time. I have a bit of painting todo tonight and maybe two more scrolls to callig and then my case is empty again. I'm okay with that.

So, busy week getting ready for coronation and then its Southern...busy.

Current Mood: calm
Current Location: Turtle House Brewery

Well, night 5 of sleeping like hell. I should just stay up..seriously. This is getting old. I've gotten such crappy sleep that I can tell its affecting me. I'm twitchy and my response time is pretty slow on somethings. Wow. Kinda scary that.

Course last night during scribble I was trying to remember a song I heard over on Pandora that I was suprised was done by Nirvana but when I finally found it today it was originally done by The Meat Puppets which makes sense now...I'd never heard the Nirvana version.

( Lake of Fire )

I <3 that song. Dunno why but it was fitting for the conversation of Death Cow for Craven and all of the demons we kept finding in pictures. Very funny. Well, I did get my house more picked up with the thanks of Ari's awesome vacuum. They do make the "ball" version which is cool and I will probably be putting in an order on overstock here pretty quick. Just kinda a crazy night all in all. Nothing felt right and I was struggling with my calligraphy something fierce. Dunno, probably the insomnia talking. I think I need to hit the yarn shop and pick up another skein of yarn to finish the project currently on the hooks and just relax. Dunno. It will all depend on what time I get home. I didn't arrive home until just about 6pm last night and I'm not sure what is in store today. Lots of stuff.

We shall see though. I need to start training hard on the bike and that will mean early rides on Saturday and Sunday before the event. I'm okay with that since we have san diego next week and no bike time.

Current Mood: drained
Current Location: the cubical

Well, sunday was pretty odd. I wasn't feeling great but I managed to get out of the house and just do things. Got a bit grumpy at all of the video games and I'm not sure where that came from but eh...it happens. I did manage to get a bit further along on a christmas present and got the supplies to do twila's ornaments this year. Which reminds me that I need to work on her xmas presents soon too. Had nice Zeman's dinner with folks. Gods I luv Ethiopian food. Mel was pretty out of it all day and when I left for dinner he was under orders to take a bath, drink tea and go to bed early.

I did not get my straps on my dress but it got sat on and got sawdust on it, so I put it aside to not get mad. I think it was just that kind of weekend. The body isn't happy and I wasn't stable enough to get out and get on the bike which probably would have helped with things. Course the insomnia has got to stop which I'm sure is adding to the weirdness. Last night I was reading, not sleepy and watching tv...then when I finally went to bed mel was restless and kept waking up. I got a new pillow yesterday and that seemed to help a bit but I'm sore all over ...I saw way to many hours on the clock before I finally fell asleep...then the weird dreams started. This time it was like I was in a video game but then it was real...very weird.

Not sure why this set of insomnia has hit...things are just weird I guess.

Current Mood: drained
Current Location: the cubical

Its a good thing that I drink coffee tan...cause it doesn't stain the carpet when you spill it when you pick up your laptop off of the floor. It could have been worse...I could have spilled it on the laptop. Just a waste of good coffee and furthers my tired and hopeless feeling mood. Dunno what that is about but it just needs to stop.

Yesterday I awoke very poorly. Bad dreams peppered my sleep and waking up crying is never a good thing in my book. Its odd though, I've only had panic attacks in my sleep in the last 10 years or so...so I guess I'm getting better. Got up and moving and coffeed and I finally go up off of the couch to work on my new hangerock. I got the edging sewn on, ironed and pinned for hand sewing and I finished that. Then I realized that I really needed to hand finish all of the seams. I've been lacking in that on everything and its annoying to me. So I just did it. The boys went too shopping and more sawdust ended up in the house. We met Mingo and Tati for dinner and that was nice. Sorry to Thyra for not making the party but things for all of us were moving in the slow relaxing direction. Had a nice dinner at Sweet Tomatoes and then back to the house for zombie board games. I played the nurse and all I was good for was finding all of the townsfolks (per the scenario) and killing zombies with my bare hands. The humans won but it was close. Richard played some mean zombies.

The it was time for bed, or so I thought. I tried to sleep and even after water, drugs and a massage I wasn't in the sleep state. It was well after 1am that I fell asleep. Weird dreams persisted. Not sure what all of this is about. Slept in a while and have been finishing up the hangerock and reading. I have the straps to put on and then the dress is done, not too bad. I finished At Knit's End: Meditations for Women who Knit Too Much by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee which makes #23 for the year. I plan on trying to finish the BFF's novel today too. I'm feeling pretty lousy to do much else. I frogged my knitting on friday and started on a different present but I'm not sure I have the brain power for it or not. Mel is putting linseed oil on the bed and then I'm not sure what else he's got planned. We need to go shopping for various and asundry things. But the motivator is broken and we need to head to Mos Eisley to get it fixed

Current Mood: restless
Current Location: the couch

Wow, looks like lots of people had a bad night last night. I was up until 330am and it wasn't cause my brain was on...I just wasn't tired...until I drugged myself out with good old benedryl. Mel got up at 8am and brought me coffee and then took coffee away so I could sleep. I slept until 10am. Not how I planned to start my day, I can tell you that. Luckily Chill was playing Millenium and Poltergiest: The Legacy so I was entertained.

I think I ate too much at dinner, we went to famous sam's for burgers and an impromptu date night. Then it was too bookmans to get books. I luv the fact that we got 9 books for 25 bucks. I finished reading Strangers in Death and I do luv the back reference to classic Hitchcock. All good. So that would be #17 of the year.

Maybe I should have started reading something else..don't know but I was tired and just couldn't sleep cause it felt like it was noon. Course its almost noon and I think its about 9. I made us a nice brunch of bacon, eggs and cinnamon crescents. Coffee is being consumed and soon a shower will take place and then I will go shopping and come back to bake and relax for the day. I'll probably nap to get back on schedule. Tonights game is gonna be big.

I'm about half way done with blanket #3. My goal is to finish it today. I should be able to manage since I'm relaxing and not pushing too hard. Obviously my body is rebelling.

Current Mood: drained
Current Location: the couch

Yeah still awake

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Last night was good. I got home, made a really good dinner after cleaning up the kitchen and got things ready for steaming of the banners. Raylee and Dan were over and we made a good team to get the steamer (which looks like a tin still) ready to steam banners. I then headed to scribble to chat and have ari help me with my sleeves...the pattern was a bit jacked but in an easy way to fix and we did that and I got my sleeves all pinned on. Got home and showered and then read my book and turned off the steamer after the 3 hours had passed.

So I wake up this morning at 1am in a panic. I'm second guessing my instructions from raylee last night on the steaming and the instructions I remember, don't give with the written instructions from dharma. GAH! So, I send off a panicked email at 130 am and then toss and turn and have leg cramps and a horrible night until I finally fall asleep somewhere about 4am. GAH! So, I sit and wait and see if I'm right or wrong. I hope I'm wrong cause that would be bad and I suck.

We'll see how the rest of my day goes. Mel had a grumpy day yesterday...I have a feeling today will be mine. Don't expect me at practice...I will probably be home smothering myself with my muse. gah.

EDIT: noon I'm a bit less panicked after reading more on the dye itself and having an engineering thermal discussion about relative humidity and the chemical process. So, basically, we probably reached steady state of the system with room temp in about 2 hours after I turned off the hot plate. Which means that since its so dry here, everything condensed out to the pot by that time as well and the towels probably dried out with evap by this am. After reading the dye information, I'm probably okay. They say to let things cool and then rinse. So, here is to hoping.

Edit: 3pmish Just heard from Ray, she does take them out right away but figures everything is probably fine. We'll see in the wash but she's pretty sure things will be okay. I'll be taking them out and hanging to dry when I get home tonight and get the other two in to steam. I just need to use some paper to get jessica's up and running.

Current Mood: drained
Current Location: the cubical

Well, with the headache that I woke up with I was not up for getting on my bike, so I put my 30 day shred dvd in and did the first session....very, very good workout...I'm liking it a lot. I can see how its gonna work for strength training and I need that in the upper body...though I need to get handweights that are 3 lbs versus the 1 lb I could find...I have no idea where all of our weights are at...very weird.

Then I got a shower and now I'm gonna head out for errands and breakfast.

I think part of the insomnia was that I was hungry...but who knows...probably things just messed up with working too hard on projects (but with results) and today I'll be getting things out side of the house taken care of and then I'll get going on painting the last 2 banners and getting the russian stuff cut out. I should be able to get them cut out and maybe sewn tonight. We shall see.

Current Mood: calm
Current Location: Turtle House Brewery

The weekend was packed..I didn't get as much sleep as I needed, which is the nature of the beast when you are busy with getting HEIRS!!! We had a wonderful time having Oslaf and Ima staying for the weekend too. Saturday night was filled with fun at Bill and Sara's watching awful movies and just chatting and catching up with folks. Sunday was busy on the project and baronial business side of things. When mel went to bed last night I was restless and not tired. The feeling prevailed most of the night. I went to bed about 11pm but didn't sleep much more than 4 hours max...I was awake a lot between 300 and 530. Grrr. Not sure what the insomnia is all about but it can hang up its hat soon...I need my beauty sleep.

This week will on the project front will be working on the BTY banners, washing fabric and working on documentation. I hope to hand out the fabric for investiture this weekend if all goes well. Plus, I'm going to go for a short ride tonight to see if I can hold up my weight on my bike. It will probably be 5 miles or so but I need to get out and and stretch the legs and the weather is gorgeous this week for biking.

My goal for the week is to stay focused on projects and get back into the groove of workouts with having the arm almost healed. Should be a good week.

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: the cubical

Yeah...it kinda tries. I was tired when I went to bed last night but I went to bed and tossed for a while and had to go through relaxation techniques to fall asleep. I got up to hit the bathroom at 3am and I almost stayed up. I slept till 6am and the brain turned fully on..so I got up a bit ago. I have way to many things to work on today...and I want a bike ride. So, I need to see if mel is up for a ride or not. I'm gonna try the tanque verde loop which should be a nice 10 miles or so.

My brain is just firing away on many, many things. Gah. So, time to get going on the day but first as requested recipes.

( Cranberry Orange Bread - Makes One Loaf )

( Cider Pumpkin Bread - Makes 2 Loaves )

Current Mood: drained
Current Location: the couch

Weekend in review - Exhausting and too many uses of my rescue inhaler. Did not get enough

public_shaylan but we cope. Event was fun, feast was good..mel was sickish (brain drain and body drain) so I was the brain all day. We left about an hour before things ended cause the drugs for the day had been exhausted and I needed to be horizontal. I slept for 12 hours and was very disorientated in the morning. Had family breakfast with

richarddbrewer and then off to the meetings for the day. Laptop was good minus getting distracted on cuteoverload. Got done and gladly went home after some purchases and had more richard time and got to rest. We went to a BBQ and stayed way later than planned and then my insomnia hit. I finally got out of bed about 230am and read until it was time to go to work. Then I get to work and my PC is dead. I'm squatting in another cube while they hopefully recover my harddrive...I hope they do...I have lots of stuff on there that I need. Not sure when I will leave work today but I'll just have to see how long I last. I'm doing okay but we'll see if I can make it 10 hours. Mel did comment that I looked more myself this morning (without sleep) than I did all of the past week.

EDIT Noon I gots the pc back and it had a bad part of the registry...plus I now have a backup harddrive that I will be loading things onto for saving. I about flipped when I saw that I could have lost the harddrive and we can't have backups here.

Current Mood: blah
Current Location: another cube, then my cube