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Surprisingly enough, 3:30 this morning did not find me scrubbing my bathroom sink with a wet pumice stone like I've been doing the last two days. . .instead, after writing over my word goal for the day, I decided to indulge in a little creative tinkering.  I'm so excited with how this turned out.  I think I'll call it Inspiration in Green.  Melissa, because it's your birthday, it's yours if you want it.  If not, anyone else can claim  it.  :)

And Tragedy Strikes

I lost a story.  It's missing.  I've searched every computer file on both computers, and looked through every flashdrive I can find.  It's gone.  How can it be gone?  I distinctly remember the witty dialogue, the engaging characters, the convoluted plot.  It was all sorts of fun.  This is tragic. 

Finances

I just got my power bill, and I am now sitting in candlelight.  According to the digital meat thermometer, my apartment has been a comfortable 64 degrees (that's sarcasm - I'm freezing), and the power bill was still twice what I had budgeted.  I've been coveting a pair of wicked good slippers from LL Bean, but they are ridiculously expensive, so I found a cheaper pair on Amazon that have good reviews.  Now I'm just waiting for enough Power Play points from people at work to trade in for another Amazon gift card.  And I'm thinking that I should exercise more.  Like my dad says, "If you're not warm it's because you're not working hard enough."  While I'm whining, my rent renewal is going to be an extra $25 a month, and they raised the laundry prices.  And I just got my car's cracked windshield replaced.

The headaches have been pretty manageable lately, though.  Frequency has gone down, intensity up.  Always a price to pay.  The diet is still effective, although I've been too tired to eat a lot lately, so I've been dropping weight again.  Which I didn't notice, until three people brought it up in the same week.  Maybe that's another reason the cold is getting to me so much.  I've started taking a bath every night just before bed so that my feet unthaw enough for me to get to sleep.  Life is so tricky sometimes.  Luckily, I enjoy candlelight.

Facebook

I don't Facebook a lot.  Every now and then it's nice to cyber stalk someone - just to see what they're up to.  I have a friend or acquaintance (not really sure how you classify some of the random people that become "friends" on Facebook) who I just unfriended.  Not something I normally do, mostly because I'm too lazy, but also because if I unfriended all of the random people then I would barely have any friends left, and then what would be the point of Facebook?  It wasn't so much her stance on gun control, although she's wrong, but that she's constantly inciting flame wars with political statements.  The gun control one was just the last straw.  If the best argument that she has is a photo of a child holding a handgun, I'm unconvinced.  There's my rant for the day.

Frustrations

My sewing machine loves to wad up the bobbin thread.  This is why I only sew every few years.

I've been hating my job. . .

So, I just applied for a bunch of new ones.  Which will probably come to nothing - but I actually like going to job interviews, and one was for a library clerk, so how could I resist?  I'd totally just quit my job, but I have a car to support.

Sick of Being Sick

Going on over a week now.  This morning I woke up before eight with a bad enough cough I couldn't get back to sleep.  Veggie broth sounded good, so I made some.  It is good.  And now I really need to get some more sleep so that I can actually function today.