And Now It's 9am

[blue_meridian]

Despite having been awake since 6am, I am not ready for this morning. The past week has kind of blurred together between paid work, socialization (twice in one day!!), housework, and allergy stupors. Thankfully I have tomorrow "off" - as much as any day is off - but there's an exercise class, cleaning to be done and food prep to happen, and mostly I'm just hoping to finish the last 5% of the September rec list so I can jump through the hoops to get it posted with all the correct internal URL links between sections. Bits of free time have been spent scrolling through Tumblr in a fugue and staring at the pretty pictures. I haven't even opened DW or LJ in a couple of days because I'm afraid it will result in a bunch of posts I want to interact with but don't have the mental energy for, so that's a thing to be caught up on. (*waves at reading list* Hiiiii there...?)

The irony here is that I'm really bad at relaxing in periods when I'm not busy, but it doesn't take much to make to me feel too busy and I end up cranky and mentally rubbed raw in short order. There's no happy medium and I swear that annoys me more every year.

Things to be happy about this past week:

• I really don't get poison ivy the way I used to, thank all that's holy.
• The neighborhood did not burn down and neighbor's under construction house was untouched. Yay.
• Tea with honey for the regular sinus drainage induced sore throat. Usually with bonus caffeine.
• NEW tripod with $50 rebate!!! (<--!!!!)
• I have leftovers for lunch this afternoon.
• The Starbucks in my part of the country now have coconut milk. Ordered as a mocha latte, it comes with chocolate and caffeine.
• My still new-ish, good office chair. It continues to make a world of difference.
• The fact that I may have just figured out one of my allergy meds is more side effect than benefit. Hmm, experimentation is in order.
• Running days, because it means there's ~45 minutes when I should be doing literally nothing else except moving forward.
• Coffee. Just... coffee.

(I swear I'm not drinking as much caffeine as that list might suggest since that's guaranteed to backfire on me. I'm pretty damn happy about it when I am consuming it, though.)

Crossposted to Dreamwidth. Comment here or there. ♥ Blue :)