- Mood:
but hopeful
I’m up early this morning and have some time before I need to get ready for church. Actually, I’m up much earlier than I need to be to make it to rehearsals before the service, but I tend to get there early in case there’s time to chat with Norton and Jane.
I like these mornings when I don’t get up at the last minute. I have time to sit outside with a cup of coffee, smoke a cigarette (or two) and enjoy the morning. It’s a nice day outside – a bit on the cold side, but bright and sunny. We don’t have the seasonal darkness that the people in the northern states have to deal with. It’s seldom too cold to go outside and it generally stays sunny. That’s how I know that I don’t have Seasonal Affective Disorder.
My mood seems to have leveled off. It’s at a lower level than I could have wished for, but it’s better than a continued circling down the drain. I keep waiting for the day that it starts its climb back up to normal levels. On the other hand, I also keep waiting for the day that it starts its downward spiral. That’s part of the life of a bipolar.
Even though I slept late yesterday and started the day being totally non-productive, I did manage to get a few things done. We made a trip to the infamous Wal-Mart and I picked up some items I needed for school. I went with my sister, Andi, who can be a bit frustrating to shop with. Even when she knows we have limited funds and can only get the necessities (at least until we get paid next week), she still has to look at everything in the store.
I finally got a can of compressed air to use cleaning my computer and printer. I have a bad habit of eating while playing on my laptop. It’s mostly things like potato chips and bagels, so I get little crumbs on it that make their evil way under the keys. This makes some of the keys unresponsive – I have to hit those keys several times to get them to register on the screen. That’s very frustrating when I have a thought I want to get down before I forget it and have to spend precious memory time banging away at the keyboard. The compressed air seems to have worked wonders, blasting the evil crumbs out of the keyboard.
I have a real “thing” for office/school supplies – I love getting new pens and notebooks and folders and such. I can spend hours getting exactly the right ones. I lucked out at Wal-Mart and was able to find exactly what I was looking for – single subject, college-ruled spiral notebooks in three colors with matching folders. Eventually I can pick up the right notebook for each class just by the color – in the meantime I made labels for each notebook with the class number, title and location. Very organized of me, don’t you think?
I only got three even though I’m registered for four classes because I’m almost certain that the fourth class is not going to “make” – that means that they’ll cancel the class if there aren’t enough students registered. I’ve decided not to replace it if it does get cancelled – three classes will be enough while I’m working 30 hours a week. I’ll have plenty of homework in all three of them to keep my occupied, I’m sure. If the fourth one does make, it’ll just mean I’ll be that much busier – a good thing for me. I’m lucky that I can do homework at work when it’s slow. I can’t count on it being slow, but it helps to fill the time when it is.
Well, it’s about time to get ready for church. I’ve managed to fill another blog with the mundane aspects of my life – nothing thought provoking here. I guess that’s a good thing. I’m not spending every waking moment waiting for my mood to start its downward plunge into the abyss. I’m continuing on with the little things that make up my life. Yeah, that is a good thing.
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Really enjoy your blog! Hope your kitchen remodel is soon done. Focus on the way it will look - maybe that'll help. (And a trip to Hawaii wouldn't hurt 
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