Midge's Blog

Success!

Thanks to the sleep tea, I finally had a good sleep last night!!! Yay me!!! Just in time, I was starting to go a little psycho from the lack of sleep. Who knows if it was really the tea, or if it was just a placebo, but I'm happy either way. Woot!

tonight is the night

tonight is the night that i'm going to have a good sleep. i have had shitty sleeps all week, likely due to some extreme school induced stress, and am starting to feel weird. i think more than anything, my sleep cycle is all screwed up, because i'm not really that stressed anymore, and still didn't sleep well last night.

why will tonight be any different? i'm going herbal. after some google-aided research, and consulting some of my more herb-saavy friends and acquaintances, i decided that i should try some valerian tonight. it's a long used herbal relaxer, and is supposed to help a lot with sleep problems, especially stress related. from what i could find, there isn't much potential for negative effects, and its quite reputable. i even read stuff on wikipedia about it.

so i went out looking for celestial seasonings sleepytime extra tea (that has valerian in it) that a friend recommended, but couldn't find any at the health food store, so i bought this straight valerian tea that smells like socks, and also traditional medicinals nighty-night tea (no valerian). i decided to try out the safeway just incase, and they actually had the celesial seasonings tea, so i bought that. i think i might return the sock tea cause it was expensive, and if it tastes like it smells, i'm not sure i'll be able to handle it.

so, tonight i'm going to try the celestial seasonings sleepytime extra, and hopefully it will do the trick. wish me sweet dreams!

now if only i had something to keep me awake through dinner...

midge.

last week/end

HonC was out for a visit, so we had a poker night on Friday night after I finished my paper, and stayed up much too late. Then we stayed up much too late on Saturday again, getting into wild philosophical discussions. It was great.

Me and HonC:

Scott:

Today was productive. Did laundry, cleaned the house, bought toilet paper, cleaned garbage from car, revised ethics review (for masters research), set up meeting with supervisor for Wednesday, cooked healthy supper.

midge.

today

look what i woke up to this morning!

lots of SNOW!!! as pretty as it is, i'm a little affraid because it's gonna shut down the city--potentially going to do this for 10 DAYS! let's hope not, for the greater good!

since we got back it's been cool, but sunny and gorgeous weather as far as i'm concerned.

guess who i caught yesterday...

a little friend!

but as i was saying, the weather's been sunny, and months ago when i was cleaning up my garden stuff, i noticed my peas had re-seeded themselves, so i put them out on the front stoop to get as much sun as possible, and they've been growing, albeit slowly, all winter!

what's that i see?

that's right, it's a pea! it's taken weeks to grow to that size, but can you blame it? i think that's about as big as it's gonna get, may as well taste test!

chomp!

mmmm! not quite as sweet as a summer pea, but it's still home grown and yummy!

and there seem to be more slow-growing peas to come!

midge.

arg.

i'm fucking pissed off.

scott and honc went out for dinner and to climbing tonight, and i didn't go because i didn't feel like climbing and wanted to go to yoga tonight. i left a little late for yoga, but with just enough time to get there, but my friggin winshield kept icing up and i couldn't see shit. i drove around the block and parked the car. by the time i de-iced the winshield, the class would have been starting, so there was no point in going anymore. now i'm fucking mad.

fuck fuck fuck fuck. i think i need antifreeze. and before you make any snide remarks, it's been consistently below zero here since getting back, so shut the hell up or i'll be forced to snap at you.

fuck.