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Live From Morningside

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Morning GloryI honestly don’t remember what I did yesterday. Is that bad?

I think I didn’t get much sleep the past couple of nights, a combination of staying up too late, being sick, the cat catching a mouse, and kids waking me up to goll darn early.

I mean really. Why can’t my five year old just get up on her own and go downstairs. She knows how to turn the TV on, she just hates to go down there alone while everyone is asleep. It’s killing me. 6:30am after I stay up till 3am and she is poking me in the eyes telling me to get up.

Not cool.

Anyway today I managed to get her to go wake up her mother who was sleeping on the bed in the baby’s room from whenever he woke up last, I think he got up four or five times last night. Another issue.

Then I managed to sleep till after 10am. Lazy? Maybe. Still if I had gotten up at 6:30 I wouldn’t still be awake now, and wouldn’t have been at all productive today. Better to get a good 3-4 hours in than nothing at all.

I decided for the afternoon today to head back down to the Morning Glory Coffeehouse here in Morningside. Fresh air, sunshine, coffee. Good stuff. Made some progress on the OrcaPack website. I think it’s going to take me longer than I thought, but I’m progressing. I have all the content written, but getting it into the pages, along with graphics and images is taking longer than I had expected to start with. I think though that once I get really going it’ll be faster. It’s mostly just getting the right stuff prepared at this point. I still hope I can get it live by the end of the week and we can start showing it off to people. Our current sites are just horrible compared to these, and I’m really enjoying working on our own stuff, rather than on stuff for other people.

Normally I blog in the morning, but since I woke up at 10 that was kind of shot, and i’m doing it now. I’ll do a few more things, and finish up my day and head home. I have to cook dinner tonight. Orange Cheek’AN. I’m not sure what the actual protein will be. Probably those veggie chicken strips.

Egads It’s Friday

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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 uAlmost Gonentil 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.