Ookings of d00m

While in Ktown for the weekend, we stayed with the Lizrents. The Lizrents have a cat. A sweet, pretty, stupid cat with long hair. This means that my allergies start to overwhlem whatever anti-allergen I throw at them after a while. To survive, I bring out the nuclear option - stimulants. Pseudoephedrine and caffeine keep me perky and breathing despite the cat.

The downside is that I don't sleep well with all that in my system.

Sunday, I loaded up with tea and advil cold+sinus to get to "normal". Then we left and headed home. By the time we got there, I was bouncing off the walls. My stomach is also unhappy, whether due to turkey or caffeine (or egg nog) I am not sure.

I only got about 4 hours of sleep last night.

Yule vigil (staying up from sunset to sunrise tonight) is going to be *fun*! I'm hitting caffeine now to make it through the day. I don't want to touch stimulants after sunset, since it feels like cheating. If I start nodding off, though, I may cheat with some absinthe.

Tired due to almost too much weekend.

Friday and Saturday during the day were low key. The excitement started with dinner with the LizRents at Terroni. Next was Dark Rave, getting to bed around 4:30am. I was up at around 8:30, and down in Chinatown for dim sum with olletho and crew for 10:30. By 2pm, I was at the Toronto Steampunk Society meetup for photoroaming the Distillery District. We are a bunch of hams. Also, steampunks + segways == hilarity. We are considering going back at some point and renting a pack of them. The five step rule was in effect for a good chunk of the roam - take five steps and another group of people with cameras materialize and take aim. My pics will be up... eventually. This set needs some photoshopping to insert the zeppelin and lasers.

Dinner at Fionn's rounded out the weekend. An early bed time produced extra sleep, though not quite enough - still wiped this morning.

On the plus side, I have learned a valuable skill - making weak tea. If I make tea with 1 tsp of leaves per cup, the tea is weak enough that I can still sleep at night. Before, my habit was to use 1 tbsp or more per cup, and I used to steep it longer.

So, neeuqdrazil is sick. Boo!
I drove us back from Kingston, and was drifting to sleep, so I stopped for awful, awful Horton's coffee. How can people drink that stuff?

Since getting home at around 5, I have gone to the store, and bought a large quantity of vegetables.

I've also hit the LCBO and stocked up on cheap whisk(e)y from Ireland, Canada and America.

I've run a load of dishes through.

I've installed a set of shelves including a wine rack in the boot closet. I've also torn my right knuckle open, but the bleeding has at least stopped.

I may want to get to shopping up that basket of carrots and the bunch of celery, and maybe consider dinner that is not made of distilled malted barley.

Spent my Saturday night at work doing a contingency flip. Miraculously, it went off without a hitch.

I consumed way too much caffeine, because I expected that something would go wrong and I'd be working well into the daylight hours.

So now I am home, and can't sleep.

And now I kill time until the lattes wear off enough to let me sleep.

Point form post!

• Spent time sewing last night. Made myself a pocket full of fail. The snaps were too loose (apparently they need a reinforcing layer of fabric), and I mounted them too low on the pocket back. And the straps I made, planning to turn them inside out, did not turn inside out. I cut a new pocket back, straps and reinforcing strips, and will take another shot at pouches tonight.


• When I'm waiting for code to compile, etc., I am geeking out about White Wolf's Scion. Anyone know of a good site for Norse words/phrases?


• Yesterday, I woke up at 4:30 am with a splitting headache, and couldn't get back to sleep. I woke up at 4:30 again today, but no headache, so I passed out again. My body is trying to recalim the lost sleep from yesterday. Horrible chemistry has been invoked.


• I also need to remember to go through my sarongs some night this week and see which ones need to have ties added.


• According to the Weather network, the forecast temperatures for Fest is now NaN C, for the entire 14 days.


• As further evidence of my neural degredation, I find I am growing to quite like Old Krupnik.


• I need a vacation.

Weekend scoring:

WIN:

• Got some sleep Friday, got enough sleep Saturday.


• No caffeine since Friday.


• Brunch on patio Sunday morning.


• The riding boots are actually quite comfortable if I leave the orthotics out.

FAIL

• Was on at Saturday night event for maybe 20 minutes; long enough to change clothes, so a single circuit of the place, and decide that the light and heat were making me feel like puking, so went home to bed.


• Got sunburnt while having brunch on a patio Sunday morning.

I'm going to try to detox a bit this week; no alcohol, no caffeine, easy on the sugar. My kidneys/liver are kind of sore after the beating I gave them in the past three weeks, so a little time to recover seems like a good idea. This also means, of course, that I have to actually get enough sleep if this is going to work...

And now, back to the work I don't want to be doing.

Went to bed a little late last night. Slept better than I have in a while. Naturally, work woke me up early with the pager. On my third cup of tea now. doom!

The clock claims that it's almost 5am. I think that chocolate cake had caffeine in it.

Regardless, I've finished my first attempt at modifying a modern dress shirt to give it a more Victorian/steampunk edge (by no means historically accurate, but it works better with a cravat). I also finally cleaned up and edged my cravat, and tried it out after pressing it. The neckline looks much nicer when its been pressed first, and the neck is much more comfortable with the modified shirt.

I still can't sew straight, but that'll come with practice. I also picked up a couple more vests and a nice tie today, so I'm getting to the point where I actually have a few neovictorian/steampunk outfits, particularly once I pick up my Gentleman's Emporium order next week.

It may just be time for a photoshoot, if I can get someone to take pictures for me while I run around and change clothes frequently.

I went to visit my riding boots today, too. The stretching didn't add enough room, so they're going to add a slit and a couple of buckles so I can adjust the top five inches or so. This should give me enough room to tuck various pants into them.

Due to the Snowpocalypse, my date for tonight got cancelled, since neither of us had the energy to leave the house again. Hence the sewing.

Tomorrow will be date rain check, and laundry. Of course, if I don't go to sleep soon, it will *be* tomorrow.

There must have been something in that cake...

I've been worn out all day.

I had a big mug of tea.

Naturally, now I cannot sleep. Even a bit. Even booze has failed me! Between the coughing and the caffeine, there is no sleep.

A spoonful of honey has been taken. Let's see how round two goes...

Tomorrow will hit me like a fist in the face, I fear.

I am burned out on fun. Since I got back from camping, I've been going to bed earlier and earlier, and waking up still tired. I had a very full weekend of excitement planned, but as the weekend progresses, I continue to be exhausted, and am considering bailing on both Castle in the Sky and Dark Rave in favour of crashing at home. Part of it, I suspect, is that in the previous two weeks I used chemicals, mainly a vast amount of caffeine, to keep myself going, and my body hasn't forgiven me yet; I pushed the caffeine limits too far, and have the chest pain (on the right side) to prove it.