Egads It’s Friday

It rained all night. I don’t think I mentioned before, but our gutters totally ripped from the house in the big Snowpocalypse in February. The icedams and snow ripped it from the house. It was a pretty scary sound. Last night the rain fell from the roof onto the gutter now leaned up against the house, awaiting repair or replacement once we find a contractor available. Tap tap tap tap tap. Not exactly soothing. Then waking up to a grey morning by your five year old at 6am after not going to bed until 3am.

The snow is almost gone though. Only one small sad patch remains in the front. Where the snow once proudly sloped all the way up to the tops of those bushes, it’s melted back into almost nothing.

Some places up the block are still fairly sizeable, but they’re hidden behind big bushes and things and don’t ever get sun. I wonder how long some of those will last.

Anyway, Yeah I’ll be crashing by mid afternoon. If you need something from me today I recommend getting it to me immediately because after lunch I’m gonna be a hot mess.

I wish I could find something that would effectively perk me up in the afternoons. I know it’s coming. Right now I’m ok, but I feel it. I know that by 12 my brain will start shutting down, and I might even fall asleep at my desk by 3pm if I’m still sitting here. I’ve tried all sorts of stuff to keep me awake and functional but nothing really pulls it.

Coffee sometimes keeps me awake. More likely I lay on the couch groggy unable to keep the children from jumping on me, unable to react while some weird PBS Kids show flys by on the television. Maybe I pass out and then it’s 5pm and i smell dinner cooking.

I tried Sudafed. yeah it’s speed. Yeah it doesn’t work for me. It certainly dries out my sinuses and it wires me up, and I certainly won’t fall asleep but my brain is turned off. i can’t really compute things. It’s like part of my brain falls asleep but my body won’t.

And that 5 hour shot thing that is all over the hulu’s now in advertising? I tried it. it’s an espresso shot mixed with a B-12 shot, mixed with sweet and low. Not only did it taste disgusting, but it didn’t do a damn thing for me.

I think maybe there’s really only one thing that keeps me from totally shutting down at 2pm.  A minimum of 6 hours uninterrupted sleep, a decent breakfast, and sunshine. Give me a grey damp day, 3 hours sleep, and coffee and I’m as good as comatose.

What’s the point of this? Meh i don’t know. I think my brain already shut down. At least I’ve had a productive week. We’ll see what I can get accomplished today, but I’m looking forward to kicking ass on the new OrcaPack site next week, and getting it live hopefully sometime next week. Then moving onto the product sites. oClubhouse first after OrcaPack, then oDaycare and oFitnessclub.

I have even more things on my list after that.

For now though… I think I might just veg.