I’ve been cranky lately. I’m trying to put my finger on what it could possibly be, and I’m actually having problems doing so. So let’s list everything that’s been going on in my life and what they could be doing to me.
Sleep
This is possibly what’s been causing it. I’ve been going to bed at 11:30 pm and waking up at 6:00 am. I get out of the shower at 6:15 am and finish dressing at 6:30 am. I need to, ideally, leave at 6:40 am, but I’ve been leaving at 6:55 am and coming in late.
Yeah, this doesn’t sound good.
I’m TIRED. I’m convinced my lack of energy stems from not going to bed soon enough. I should ideally be under the covers/not reading manga/lights out by 10:00 pm, and I should be waking up at 5:30 am with Sky. Just that in the morning, I’ve gone back to “screw this” when the alarm clock rings, and sometimes I can’t even drag myself out of bed until 6:20 am (making Sky late in the process).
The obvious solution is to go to bed earlier, but the problem is that at 10:00 pm, I’m NOT TIRED. I sometimes drink tea with no caffeine (rooibos) at night to make sure I don’t have any stimulants in me, so I’m not sure what it could be.
Health
Well, I just came off a really bad cold. I feel like crud (possibly due to the above) and my super awesome exercise routine got rudely interrupted. I’ve been wanting to work out, but I keep forgetting my gym clothes at home.
Renovations
This is going slower than I thought.
We just put the baseboards in on the walls that have the bookcases, and it took us like three hours to do so. Two walls. That’s it. I’m really discouraged at this point, mostly because this is way more work than I was expecting and I know zilch about tools. We ended up renting a nailgun and an air compressor yesterday because we couldn’t hammer the baseboards in manually, and that cost about $65… I estimate that so far, we’ve spent about $2500 on these renos, but about $600 of that is just tools (because we barely had any).
I know it’s going to look incredible when it’s all in, but until then…
Money
Well, the renos cost more than I thought… the credit card’s a bit on the heavy side now, and that’s kinda stressing me out. I KNOW things will get better soon, but when?
Also, I hate shopping with a passion, but it was getting to the point where my clothing was becoming unacceptable for work… so I bought three blouses and two vests and spent $220. Ugh.
FFXI
I need to make a ton of money. This used to be cake (hurr hurr I made a funny), but the consumables market is more competitive than it used to be. I’ve trying to diversify, but I still have to do some pretty heavy-handed undercutting to be able to worm my way in.
The lack of money is stressing me out, mostly because I need money for DRG, and I really, really, REALLY want to get a Seveneyes (there’s an endgame shell on my server that sells the drop for 4 million, which I think is reasonable). The problem is that I’m now doing other things apart from crafting, which includes levelling, which also costs money, which also stresses me out… argh!
I think I need to focus on getting sleep, first… I think it’ll help a lot.
Current Mood:
Sleepy
Sick
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