Spring Break-Ish

[alexandraerin]

Folks, there has been and is going to continue to be updates for everything this week, but I've just realized it's Thursday (I mean that literally... I just checked the computer's clock to see if it was Tuesday or Wednesday) and I'm not going to hit the planned number of updates for the week. I should have been able to see this in advance and said so: my roommate's off work this week, my insomnia was in full force coming out of the weekend and I haven't been able to catch up on sleep by crashing during the day like I did last week because they've been working on the parking lot right outside and we've had painters in to clean up the results of the bathroom renovation and people in the hall... basically, it's spring cleaning time for the apartment complex.

Basically, I am so bone-tired mentally and physically but I can't sleep, for internal and external reasons. I should have declared this a vacation week and just tried to relax through it as best as I could. Gah. I said at some point (last summer, I think) that I'd do that once a quarter. I don't think I've ever managed to hold myself to it except semi-retroactively.

The writing I have done I think has turned out surprisingly pretty good, so I'm not going to take today and tomorrow off. My goal for the week is just to get as much as writing done as I can, make sure every story is represented since they've all got sponsors and people rooting for them, and then get my sleep sorted out on the weekend.

Melatonin has been suggested to me... as I recall, when I tried it before I didn't enjoy the side effects the next day, but I think if I take it Friday and Saturday night to ensure a night's sleep, that might work since what it's supposed to do is reset the circadian cycle. With that done, there's no reason why next week can't be like last week but without the updates drifting into Saturday.

Comments

[akailaughingman.livejournal.com]

I'm going to get you a glogg recipe. It's my official "puts you out like a light" version, filled with fun exotic chemicals!m (including esthers)
As in drinking one cup of the stuff in the middle of the day puts you out for more than an hour...
It's some seriously crazy shit.
we made it for cough medicine, if you can believe it...

[akailaughingman.livejournal.com]

I used dried sour cherries (yum!), and there's no need to teabag everything (they're tasty to eat too, but you'll want to pull the orange peels out)
http://www.drinksplanet.com/glogg-recipe-something-special-for-this-year-132.html

And you will want to light the brandysugar on fire.

[hnmic.livejournal.com]

Oooooo that looks goooooood

[akailaughingman.livejournal.com]

tasty cough syrup.
good for guests who want to stay up all night, too (if, you find that rather inconvenient)