dirtylibrarian

I always think of myself as a good sleeper. I generally fall asleep pretty easily (often on the couch watching a DVD), and sleep soundly with good dreams. I've believed for a while that 5 or 6 hours was plenty of sleep for me. When things changed, I could not say. Lately I've been waking up after 4 or so hours. It used to be this was a time when I would quickly use the bathroom, then fall back asleep for another 2 or 3 hours. Now it often involves laying in bed trying to fall back asleep for another hour. Then finally, after laying in the dark, waking up again in another hour. Repeat a few more times. And my dream recall is WAY down.  I'm hoping getting back into exercising will help.

Last night, or rather this morning, I slept for 4 hours. I went for my mile swim yesterday, then capn_jil came over and I fell asleep watching on of my all time favorite movies, which she had not seen: M.  After she took off, I decided to finish downloading a backlog of photos off my camera and up onto flickr.  I also did a bit of research on plumbers.  There is nothing like waking up in the dark and thinking about how much it is going to cost you to be able to get back to normal laundry, shower, and consistent flushing, for not falling back to sleep.  But this is a bullet that must be bitten...putting it off will only kill future sleep.

In an hour I am going snowshoeing.  Hopefully that will exhaust me enough for a full 8 hours tonight.  Wish me luck.

I am so happy with my glass brick window.  There is some orange that comes through (paint on the opposite wall), that you can't see in this photo, but looks lovely.  The best present ever for me, would be if someone could find this Urban Outfitters shower curtain.  This one desperately needs replacing, and it goes great with my vision for the bathroom, and I have not been able to find it again (this one is the second I've gone through).


I really do need to get a frame for that Loch Ness Monster painting above the toilet.

Earlier this month I went to Second Use and scoped things out.  There is so much cool stuff there, but so little that I really need or can justify putting into my place at this point.  However, this weekend I went back and bought 14 glass bricks.   I took my time and really tried to get nice ones without chips or scratches.  I think I only need 12, but 2 extras can't hurt, just in case.  The plan is they will go above my shower, bringing in some natural light to my bathroom.  Now I'm in the process of cleaning them all.  Whew!