December 13, 2009

• White Wet Noise...

  Late night here on a Saturday. I just came upstairs to bed which isn't really "going to bed" since I am on the laptop. The light is on, the ceiling fan is on low casting shadows around the room. I also decided that I needed set up the humidifier tonight.
   
  I have woken up the past few nights now with a very dry mouth, cracking lips and a nose which is completely crusty! NOT ATTRACTIVE! Stupid me also kept forgetting the chap stick before bed too so without any help or moisture things have been rough. Instead of just complaining to myself about it in the mornings, I decided to cut to the chase and just get it set up and use it for the rest of the winter. I mean, really there is no getting around it when it comes to an old house with radiators for heat. DRY HEAT! Happy wonderful toasty heat... but dangerous to my skin. I have dry skin to begin with so this is a bad time of the year for me on top of my genetics. I used to put a bowl of water on them but it dries out so fast/or the cats try to drink it or knock it over...sigh. So I just leave pretty smelling pine scented candles sitting on little glass plates and let the house smell lovely- and just turn on the water machine! Did I mention it is loud? Yes-a truly strong fan. BUT it is perfect white noise. It is like being in a plane. Ready for take off which always puts my right to sleep. All and all it is a potentially good situation. Unless the alarm doesn't go off or I don't hear it... White noise for me can be a bad thing- since I sleep soundly. Haaa...damned if you do...

  As I am typing this little note, I am starting to feel really sleepy. Good considering I was feeling fussy to begin with. Why? Well I guess I feel like I didn't get enough done today. I wanted to clean and straighten the house. Instead I seem to have just made the house look a little more messy since I was out buying things today. Mostly Tupperware for the basement for sorting clothes. The Walmart had two very specific colors of containers- Orange and Purple. I wanted something which was colorful and would stand out. Something so I know what is in them. Sadly they only had 4 orange and 6 purple. I guess my clothes will have to go in Purple since there were 6. Thomas will get orange. I will go downstairs tomorrow and sort and arrange. Or so I hope. That was today's plan-and Poof! Didn't happen. Instead I took a nice nap this evening and woke up tired. Did a few things around the house, ate leftover pizza and watched SNL which was irritating and made me even more fussy. I then just decided to cut the loss of the unproductive day and come upstairs.

  Now it is 1:30am and I feel terribly full from leftovers. GOT TO STOP EATING COMFORT FOOD! I am noticing I am gaining a belly back. Ugh! Also-I thought perhaps I should shake things up in life and start eating a breakfast in the mornings. WELL-I have been doing that since September and - screw that. The moment I eat something I get sleepy. This morning I had 2 pieces of toast and coffee and wanted to go right back to bed. It is just me. The moment I eat I slow down and want to nap. What I have been used too in the past is going going going without eating in the mornings until about 1pm or 2 and then crashing after having something to eat. AT LEAST I can get a bunch of stuff done before my body slows down. I now can say I have tried it both ways and I think I just like it my way. So I think I am just going to do what I need to do. Stop eating so much bread and look at eating more veggies and protein. Goodness! HA! Wait until the first hint of SPRING. That is when I really get sick of myself and start shedding the poorly distributed weight of winter. Sadly- winter has not even begun...

  And so, I am going to shut this down for tonight and just give into the White Wet noise. Tomorrow will be a better more productive day!
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