2 posts tagged “tiredness”
I'm not sure why. Possibly the hours and hours I have spent doing research... and eating donuts. Top Pot has become our "office" due to a conflagration of internet/ seating issues in our apartments. So, yeah, fried sugary things and staring at a screen. Pretty much melted my brainmeats.
And I have become weirdly obsessed with Dr. Who. The new one. David Tennant. I have a big nerd-crush, and I can't stop watching the show! Sadly, I just finished watching the most recent season last night, and now I have to wait until next year for new episodes. Woe.
The wine-guzzling probably increases the tiredness too. And I plan to do more of that tonight and tomorrow. Tonight: Lily's birthday at Cafe Presse. I am already hungry. All I had for lunch was spicy vegetable juice. I want frites! and baguettes! and duck! and creme brulee! Tomorrow: my biz partner invited me to dinner at my favorite Greek restaurant with a couple of successful writer types and their amusing boyfriends. Meeting new people! Yay! More wine!
This weekend I also plan to start learning Shiva Nata (google it or check out Havi's site: http://shivanata.com/). This should be interesting as I am hopelessly uncoordinated. But I guess that's a good thing, because it makes my brain work harder. All this practice....
I've been getting really really accustomed to hanging about my apartment on my own and finding ways to avoid cleaning it. Like surfing the Interwebs, making funny noises at my bird, reading any of the two books per room I have lying around half-read (and so far none of these 8-12 books is Harry Potter - I think I'll do a marathon in the fall and get caught up so I can renew my status as a member of the human race). I've been too exhausted by work and yoga to really do much. I'm watching that Planet Earth series. It's awesome. And I use that word in all seriousness.
This past weekend I had to do things outside my apartment with other people, and now I am completely wiped out. I was in bed not much past midnight both nights, but I feel like I am totally sleep-deprived. When I think about the amount I was going out until all hours a year ago I can't understand how I did it. It's no wonder I was a moody mess. Now I'm content with being boring, sober, and stable. Life is better this way.
One of the occasions for leaving my house was a visit from my mom. Her boyfriend of 20+ years, the inimitable Jack, brought her over for his daughter Pippin's wedding on Camano Island. His daughters are both younger than me, and when I was a teenager and they were 8-12ish we would go to movies and such when they visited. Although I haven't seen them in years, this wedding was a nice reminder that they really are part of my family. They know my mom nearly as well as I do, and it is great to see how they cherish her and accept her eccentricities. Jack's two grandson's are probably the only children who will ever have my mom as a grandma-figure. And they love her. When my mom had Cancer the older boy went to visit her in the hospital with Jack every day when he was only 2 or 3 years old.
I don't have any siblings, but I've realized that in a way I do. I have my cousin Shay who was really as good as a brother when we were young. I have my friend Patrick, who was a part of my extended family for 12 years and is still someone I see whenever I can. I have Pippin and Hannah who have been long-distance sisters for more than 20 years. I have my ex-sisters-in-law who were family for ten years... and once you're in someone's family you can never really leave. I also have some new friends who have become like a part of my family.I don't fell like an only child at all.
