Apollymi ::||:: Dark Passion Play

I'm definitely having some issues remembering to do this. I'm trying to get better, but sometimes I just plain forget. At least until lunch time. Why it's easier to remember then, I don't know, but it is.

It's been outrageously hot for April-May so far. I've been spoiled on our winter. I want the winter weather back! Not in the least because I hate when warm weather comes with all its attendant bugs. Bugs bugs bugs. Cockroaches, mosquitoes, gnats, fleas, and all the other icky, nasty, mean things.

I've been having some sort of weird issue with my right hand. It wouldn't be a big deal at all, except for that I write with my right hand. It's definitely my dominant hand... and lately when I try to close my hand or pinch my fingers or hold a book page open, it starts hurting then trembling then twitching. It's actually a bit painful and I would really like it to quit. I looked up hand tremors -- and it's one of the early symptoms to entirely TOO many things: carpal tunnel, repetitive stress, calcium deficiency, vitamin D deficiency, thyroid problems, Parkinson's, epilepsy... The list goes on and gets progressively more terrifying. I would much prefer one of the first 4 than the last 3.

I don't know... It's not like it's all the time or anything and it's not like I have great joints. Maybe if it keeps up beyond next week, I'll see about making a doctor's appointment. I just hate going to the man; he always so condescending, and it always takes so long to get an appointment. Yeah, we'll see.

Everyone I've ever talked to has said that if you don't like your primary care physician then fire them. I doubt I'd be able to find a good one, so I'm not sure on the wisdom of bothering.

When I get home, I'm going to install my copy of the Rosetta Stone program and German 1 on Wraith, so I can keep up with my studying while I'm on the go. See? I can be smart sometimes. (Or as Katsuko would put it: I can be a smart cookie for not being a cookie. I forget which one of us originated that expression, but we like using it.)

And now to see about trying to get some writing done before I'm gone for the weekend.

I said I was going to try not to do any more posts where the subject line is directly dependent on the icon. Yeah, well, me do something silly like make sense? Yeah, right.

I went to bed around 9 last night. I read two chapters of Underworld and then went to sleep by 9:15. I had odd but vague dreams all night, till I woke up with my alarm clock at 5:40. I dozed till Doc finished in the shower and stuck her head in at 6:20. That's more sleep than I've gotten in quite a while.

Unfortunately it's over now.

If I could get a few more nights of sleep like that, I might feel a bit more back to normal. Unfortunately, this weekend Oyaji wants us up for a Saturday evening and Sunday morning visit, so I might get a bit of rest of Friday, but he apparently doesn't believe in letting his guests rest. He'll let one of the (now four) dogs in the bedroom at odd hours or something like that. And that is to say nothing of how lumpy and uncomfortable the bed is. So I won't get enough sleep Saturday night.

The coffee is nice this morning. The waffle is also quite nice. Breakfast can be good. Yes, yes.

Now hopefully I won't fall asleep at work.

Well, I'm obviously back in Florida. I'm still not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, I had to come back to earn money. On the other hand, my sister can be a lazy mofo and not stay at a job more than two months. Why can't I? But on the other hand, I know money is good and, if I want to continue to have money and spend money, I can't be like my sister and steal, beg, and borrow money -- I have to earn it. But I really want to be at home or at my grandparents' right now.

This is a dilemma.

In other news, the wank that never ends has made CNN.com. Yep, CNN, late as usual. We've been following it on Fandom Wank since November. Because Cleolinda is cool like that.

I don't know about LJ. I'm still debating on LJ. I might do a post in the next week or two, and determine how much I want to stay there based on said post's responses. In other words, leave it in the hands of the LJ FList. Maybe with a pretty gigantic Friends Cut, I could be persuaded to return on a more full time basis. There is a great deal of venom that circulates that list. Not like here. Here, we have kitties.

Since I was at the grandparents' having fun and stuff all weekend, I got no writing done. In fact, I barely got any reading done. I barely finished Dead Beat, but now I'm finally started on Proven Guilty. My gods, that book is HUGE. Maybe it'll actually take me a bit to finish it.

And I've been typing for a bit over an hour (I keep getting distracted), so I'm going to shut up and bugger off now.

Ciao!

Behold: there is a new layout.
I don't know. I just get tired of green very quickly and very easily. I also kinda missed having calender function on my main page. I didn't want to give up my OT3 though, so it's the same characters, but new colors. And a new journal style too at that! I've moved from Quite Lickable to Bloggish. I'm still working on a new default icon.

My next major project will be a Gundam Wing/Sailormoon mood theme. I'm thinking it will be 100x55 with a black border around the image, and it would mostly be Duo, Heero, and Usagi. Big shock, I know. Any help on this would be most appreciated.

This is an office of sickies. So many of us are ill. That's worlds of not good. B is probably the sickest of us all. She sounds like she's coughing up a lung on a regular basis.

I'm going to be out of town this weekend, visiting the grandparents. That will be nice.

The upside of my father coming to town to have lunch with me is, I get most of a bag of M&Ms. Dear gods, I had forgotten how good they could be. There may not be any left by the time I get off work. Oh well.

Obaabaa came with Oyaji for lunch today. For once, she made me feel good about myself, instead of generally worse. Today she commented that I looked like I had lost a lot of weight. Now granted, I haven't, but still it was nice to hear. Sometimes -- very rarely, but sometimes, nonetheless -- she's good for that.

And now, back to work on that default icon.

Okay, after a lot of debate, I've decided to upgrade my account here from free to Permanent before they take the option away in March.

I'm still digging my new layout, even if it's all green. Actually two of my three journals are green right now: my Tin Man layout on Live Journal and this one. Journal Fen is still blue, for a while, till I find a layout in green that I like.

And I don't even like green!

Lots to do today: go by the GMC dealership and pick up my touch-up pens for my car; go by Sam's Club and get some of our groceries and a new box of my contacts; go by the Parkway Wal-Mart or the Thomasville Road Wal-Mart and get groceries; maybe go by Books-A-Million or Borders and see if either of them have the Sandra Hill books I'm missing, as well as a copy of the 2008 Writer's Market book for less than the cost of my (eventually slightly possible) firstborn child; and WRITE.

I did pretty well last night and got about 1800 words written after I got home, plus the 1000 I did whilst I was still at Grandmother's, for a total of a little over 2800 words. I need to do another day like that, preferably without the staying up till nearly 1 a.m., but I already know I can do that if needs be. I'm running so far behind that it isn't even funny. If I keep writing over 2200 words a day, I might be caught by the end of the week, but the more I write per day over that, the closer I'll be to caught up and the sooner.

So, errands then writing. Game plan.