averygoodun42 | Ooooooops

I woke up this morning and realized that despite my intentions, I never did take my meds last night. Normally, that wouldn't be too much a big deal, except I also forgot them the night before, too. So, I took the full dose this morning, despite that meaning I'll be drowsy for the rest of the day. Ach well. Better than going into withdrawal.

My not so great mood was not helped when I came down to discover that Page had somehow managed to strew jello ALL over the computer area. I have no idea how he did it, but it was disgusting! So, joy of joys, I got to supervise his clean-up, which took three times longer than it should have because he was being a ham and or resistant. Grrrr. However, he did do a decent clean up job, even if it did take me raising my voice and telling him I was getting angry and then watching him for the entire time. And perhaps, after a few more of these cleaning lessons, he will start actually seeing what needs to be done.

School is killing me. (Figuratively speaking.) I need to figure out how to read faster with the same (or better) sink-in-ness (drowsy brain is not linguistic brain), or I am doomed. As it is, I'm spending a good 20 hours a week reading for my three classes, and still not catching up.

However, I seem to be doing relatively well in all of my classes (97% on my accounting test) despite that, though this group project in management is freaking me out a little due to the lack of focus. Once I have something concrete to do, I'll be all over it, but right now I'm just floundering as I chase red herrings.

Despite being behind in my reading, I took a break yesterday afternoon and painted, as I have promised to have this done by November 6th. It was an unfortunate decision. While it wasn't a complete loss in terms of paint and time, most of yesterday's work was painted over this morning so I can start over on those sections. On the plus side, it will be better because I've also corrected some color, shading and placement mistakes I made in the rough-in. However, I am starting to get a bit panicky about getting this painting done in time. To my satisfaction, that is.

But that's a lot of whinging, isn't it? I bet I can think of good things...

Good thing - Page's attitude has been much, MUCH improved this week. Despite more chocolate milk. :-/

Good thing - my sciatica is getting better. It turns out that too much of a good thing is definitely a bad thing! I've cut down my exercises to the minimum, threw out a couple of them completely, and my hip and leg are doing much better. I think I even went without pain pills all day yesterday! First day in a few weeks. It still bugs me a lot, but it's better.

Good thing - My energy level is way up. Despite having to split my time between homework and housework, we managed to get the week's (plus a few days?) main dishes cooked, and a lot of chores crossed off the list. Of course, starting this week there was motivation! Sunday is now our play day, as long as everything is finished up on Saturday. Geoff did the majority of the cleaning (I did all of the cooking, and, as I said, there was coursework to be read), but even Page pitched in (eventually) and cleaned up his messes.

Good thing - Geoff got our tuner working again. Kind of. Maybe. It's still got personality, but at least we can use our CD player again.

Good thing - It's beautiful out. And the colors are finally starting to turn. It seems like it's a bit late this year, but it's nice.

Good thing - my dream last night, while weird, did not feature any really disturbing aspects, unless you count inadvertently buying an unstringed piano disturbing. Which some might, I'll admit. To me, the most disturbing part of the dream was that the majority of it took place in Costco.

And the last good thing is that even though I'm skipping church today, I'm not missing choir. However, even if there had been choir, I would have stayed home. Too much left to do, and not enough quiet time to do it in!

Which means I need to get to it. Cheers!