I’m unfortunate enough to have come down with a pretty nasty cold. Some are telling me that it is bronchitis while others are telling me that it’s just congestion. Either way I’m rather unhappy and when I can start breathing through my nose and not having such a rough sounding inhale through my mouth - things will be much better!

It’s kind of easy to stick to a diet when you’ve spent 24 of the last 48 hours, asleep! I’ve been snacking here and there on 100 calorie packs but I’ve been drinking a lot of tea as well. It’s very hard to get myself to the point of being as active as I used to be considering I’m having trouble standing up.

I managed to get a little bit of exercise in tonight though. Bella hasn’t poo’d in about two days because there is a rabid animal on the loose and it’s already attacked a 70-100lb pit bull, lord knows what it could do to a 18 pound Lhasa who thinks she’s a cat, minus the whole crapping outside thing, naturally. Sean went off to do his own thing, not quite sure what it was but no matter how dizzy I was, Bella was going to take her much needed nightly poop walk. So I threw my sneakers on and high-tailed it out the door. I admit, I was having some trouble and half way down the road I realised that I’d be screwed if something did happen to jump out at us because I’m in no condition to run anywhere, I just know that my dog is not going to be attacked by a cat/racoon with an attitude problem. So the littlest bit of noise that I heard behind me wound up having me walk just a little bit faster. Sean caught up with me just as I was getting back to the house so I’m certain that he made some sort of noise to scare me but either way no one was attacked, Bella got to do her business and now we’re home safe and sound.

It’s been very hot for the last few days, I know previously in the week there have been record highs all across the mid-west. I heard that one area hit the 115°F(46°C) mark. I felt so bad for those people, and then it made it’s way over on the eastern shore. DE hit high 90’s for the last few days but at least I was lucky enough to have the air conditioner in the window and being fast asleep during most of the heat. There was supposed to be some massive storm going through here today but nothing ever touched down. I noticed that my flowers are dead and I have to say I’m really annoyed by it. No one could think of watering them for me and even on top of that - where’s the rainfall? We’re about 5 inches behind this year, many farmers in the are are suffering pretty badly as well considering their crops depend heavily on the rain and I don’t think they’ve got those big booms that shoot water along their 5+ acres of crop like many other farms in the area do. Either way it’s hot and it’s just aiding in making me even more uncomfortable.

I waddled my self over to the office, took me a while to get here too. The AC is on but that trip from the bed to the office after walking her has left me with little to no strength. I’m more than likely going to get myself in bed as soon as possible, no need for me to be up if I can’t be productive about anything, you know?

Sometime’s you don’t realize how fast time can just fly by. This time last year I was just getting to know Sean but I was still mourning over the death of Joe at the same time. Two days from now my father will be celebrating his 59th birthday and 5 days from now my sister will finally be turning 21. Where exactly did the time go? I’ve been living in Delaware for almost 6 months now and it doesn’t even feel as though it’s been that long. It’s been 6 months since I’ve slept in my own bed, it’s just a strange feeling when you begin to look back on things.

A friend of mine believes that the only reason my schedule is so messed up is based on the fact that I’m home sick. I was born and raised in New York and now I’m living in a state where everything is basically backwards to me. Hell, the owls talk to each other during the DAY! They’re supposed to be nocturnal! No one wants to accept a tip for anything they do for you and coming from New York you’d expect to tip someone based on their services. Naturally the UPS guy (unless he’s delivering a huge box to your front door) isn’t going to accept one but down here if you even tip a waitress more than a dollar she freaks out and asks if you’re absolutely sure about it. I’m used to 20%, so I divide any check by 5 and get the tip amount, there shouldn’t be anything wrong with that - some down here will completely disagree.

So no, I can’t say I’m going through New York withdrawal, I’m just having an issue with Delaware adjustment. I admit that for the first couple of nights I was unable to sleep down here because of the fact that I’m so used to excess street noise and now I’m sitting in the middle of hear-a-pin-drop farm life. The tourists coming into the area, while they are annoying during the day, the extra cars on the road at night are helping me to sleep better. In the beginning I wouldn’t crash until about 9am but this was based on the fact that they were building a house next door and all of the machines going off put me back to my comfort zone of New York and helped me fall asleep. Once they were finished with their construction, however, I was kind of left at a stand still. Now it doesn’t matter if it’s noisy or quite if I’m tired, I crash. I just wish I could get it done earlier in the morning than I do now. Midnight should be my limit - not 6am for crying out loud! :ugh:

Last night I was feeling rather sluggish but this is based on my new schedule which has me a tad bit depressed. I go to sleep just as the sun is beginning to rise and by the time I wake up there’s only a few hours left of daylight and I love the sun so that has me down. The thing is, by the time I get up the sun is around the front of the house which makes it seem much warmer than it actually is. While I enjoy the sunlight, I don’t so much like the heat that comes with it in the summer.

I barbecued but no one was really actually hungry when I did. I was just in the state of mind to get it done and walk away from it. I also created a website for Karen because she’d like to get herself into the blogging world. She’s always floating around Sean site, as well as my own, so I threw something together and hopefully she does well with it, I’m going to have to teach her how to use Wordpress but just having her own domain name has perked her up a bit, and her being giddy about something is always amusing to watch.

The next few days are basically going to be cleaning days for us, Sean more than likely won’t help us out but either way things will be done. Vacuuming is desperately needed throughout most of the house, counter tops need to be cleaned off and organized, the tables could use a scrubbing with some windex. I’d like to clean the windows as well considering all the junk that’s building up on them - I’m unsure as to when they’ve actually been cleaned since Sean and Karen moved into this place. So far we’ve got some carpet refresher soaking on the rug because all of the urine spots thanks to the two dogs who are supposed to be wee-wee trained are really getting to our heads, we’re talking straight ammonia. Thankfully Bella does all of her business outside, which makes for a very happy me. Of course when she was first starting out she had an accident here and there, but now that she knows outside is the only place to go then it makes life just a little easier - less to clean and pooping on grass is free, wee-wee pads aren’t. I know that when I’ve got my own house I’m just going to stick with hard-wood floors this way it’s even easier clean-up in case of an accident…Sean and I do plan on getting another dog in the future.

So while Karen is vacuuming I’m getting some work done and I guess this is considered my ‘break time’ so I can just vent a little bit - it’s been a while since I’ve really done it.

I’m still running on about two hours of sleep at the moment. I’m going to push myself so that I can stay up until about 11 at the absolute latest, from there I’m going to be crashing and hope I wake up sometime around 8am tomorrow morning. From there I can get some serious work done and hopefully get myself back on the schedule I’d prefer to have.

Sean prefers to stay up for the night claiming that it’s easier for him to work because there aren’t any distractions. However, right now he’s got the TV blasting because he can’t hear it and he also just woke up from a 5 hour nap. At least he got some kind of sleep in the last 24 hours. I’ve only managed about 2 hours - at the absolute most and I feel miserable. If I could get myself back on a NORMAL schedule then I wouldn’t have to worry about forcing myself to sleep at night if I need to be up early in the morning.

I think, with this change, I’m going to start doing some more work from my laptop instead of my desktop. Even with Princess barking her face off in excess, it’s quieter in the living room than it is in this office at the moment. I don’t know if his ears are clogged or what but this is absurd. I’m tempted to drag him to a doctor to have them cleaned out properly. He claims that his ears hurt when he uses a Q-Tip, have a doctor clear that right up with a few drops and maybe that’ll make things a little quieter around here.

I don’t mean to be badmouthing him. I guess I’m just agitated right now. I’m basically done for the night, minus a few things here and there…I may just go to bed earlier at this rate.

Cross posted from krissy.nu

Sean and I wound up going out to lunch after all. Originally I wanted to stay in because I know he hasn’t slept much in the last 24 hours, he literally just crashed about 20 minutes ago and that was around his 25th hour of being awake. I told him repeatedly that he should just go to sleep but he’s a stubborn man and wound up staying awake anyway.

I did well at lunch. I had a grilled chicken salad and left most of the chicken behind (I’ve been eating chicken almost every night for the last few weeks) I had just a light oil and vinegar based dressing, barely even tasting it for that matter. I requested lemon juice but unfortunately they didn’t have it. I’m still doing damn good with portion control, I left about half of the salad on the plate. The waitress had no idea that I was even done, she kind of avoided the table until we called her over.

I’ve moved myself back to the laptop for a little while, unfortunately I’m no longer used to typing on such small keys now that my desktop has kind of turned into my primary computer. No big deal though, everything seems to be working out just fine. It’s rather warm in the house so I don’t know if it was a good idea to boot this up or not considering it kicks out a lot of heat, even when it’s not plugged in. I haven’t booted this thing in almost three weeks and there’s still over 75% battery life left to it - guess that counts for something.

But since my wrist is locking up from the smaller keys, guess I should shift myself back to the desktop and get some design work done…heh.