Random Bits

So the next few weeks are going to be crazy here at chez etakyma. Reg packet creation for Ascendio this weekend, travel to Florida next weekend, Ascendio the weekend after that. Get home and I'm onstage in a one-night musical review the next Saturday and the week after that I go to Vancouver for eleven days.

That takes me in to August. All is quiet for a couple of weeks and then I get one week of Real Honest-to-Goodness Vacation where the most taxing thing I'll be doing is deciding whether or not to go outside to fly a kite.

And then Summer ends.

On the one hand it is going way too fast, and on the other it will be relief when August 17th rolls around and I can finally rest.

Tonight won't be like last night. last night I couldn't sleep and around four AM I realized I hadn't brought my recycle bin back from the street so I hauled my ass out of bed, dressed, and wandered out to get it. One less thing to worry about. Took another forty minutes, but I did eventually sleep for a while.

Gonna try that now. Hopefully this recitation of everything future will calm my mind enough to sleep like worry dolls.

How pathetic is it I have a "sleepless nights" tag? Ugh.

The things you think about while trying unsuccessfully to fall asleep...

My brother's new laundry room is only slightly smaller than my small bedroom. His laundry (once complete) will be 9x9 feet. My small bedroom is *almost* 10x10.

I need to do laundry myself fairly soon.

If I rip out the whole front wall of the house in the living room to take out the in-wall air con unit and replace the window I might be able to fit in a bay window.

I need to take my car in to get inspected... it was supposed to be inspected last month - oops.

The grocery store was out of a ton of stuff tonight and I am not sure why Tuesday night is a night when a lot of shelves were empty.

We are getting a Wegmans "near by" - where "near by" is about fifteen miles away. But I think it is the first Wegmans in Massachusetts.

I've got to make tracks for my 40th birthday gift to myself. Hello big four oh! I am looking pretty much straight at you!

Don't pack away the summer clothes too soon - remember Taipei is coming up in less than two months, and currently their daily highs are still in the high eighties.

I wonder if I should try to get a flu shot before I go galavanting around the world.

And thinking of travel, California in two weeks and Florida the weekend after that - all still mid-eighties during the day. So just because the home temps are low sixties does not mean summer has passed by completely.

Okay. I think maybe I can try to sleep now.

G'night!