It'll probably be Sunday by the time I finish writing this post.

Friday was a very sneezy day for me. I took the last two pills of my prescription antihistamine (need to remember to refill it) but was still sneezing a lot. Finally I stopped sometime in mid-afternoon, but the drugs left me feeling kind of sleepy. I went to Starbucks after work and did some writing and got some caffeine, and then went home. I went to bed at a reasonable time, slightly before midnight, and then took some Benadryl and went to sleep.

I slept like a log.

It seriously felt like I was pulled underwater into a world where all I wanted to do was sleep. If you've ever taken something like NyQuil or Benadryl or anything else that causes "drowsiness," maybe you understand. I woke up at 9 AM and then fell back to sleep. I finally talked myself into getting out of bed at around 11:30, but probably could have easily slept for another 8 hours. In fact, all day today I was kind of tired. Not in the "I'm going to pass out now" sense, but in the "I'm too tired to speak" sense. Ever have that, where you're too tired to speak? Moving is okay, doing is okay, driving is okay, but speaking seems like it takes a ridiculous amount of energy. Thankfully, I didn't have to give a speech!

My right hand is tired and achy from all the cross-stitching I've done lately. So I'm not going to do any tonight.

I had a lot of dreams. I don't remember most of the details. Here are some highlights?

I was going to my book club meeting. But there were some people there that I didn't know and there were some other people missing. Then I remembered that we were supposed to be having the baby shower and that was at a different place, and then I felt like a colossal idiot for having forgotten. Also, I was hungry, like horribly hungry because I hadn't had anything to eat, and I was trying to eat some things, because there are usually some munchy snacks at the book club meetings, but this time there wasn't, there was just drinks. 

There was a LOT more, but I don't remember it anymore. Oh well.

Today, I went to Marty's and at last got some new sandals, with only a little bit of a heel. They are not the most wonderful things in the world, but they're nice enough to wear to work, they fit well, and they were reasonably priced. Also, went to PetSmart, mostly because Mum was almost out of Josh's dog food, and got some other random cat treats also for Squirt. And then to AC Moore, where I (at last) found the Christmas Ornament frames that I could have sworn I got at Joann's. Well, now I know where I got them! I bought six, for now. There's an AC Moore closer to my apartment, so I'm fairly certain I could get some there as well. They also have some smaller ones, some oval ones, and some square-shaped ones, so maybe at some point I'll branch out into other shapes.

Tomorrow's plan is to do some desperately needed vacuuming, perhaps laundry, and food shopping. Also reading, since the book club meeting is Tuesday and I haven't even started the book for this month. Monday I'm off, and I have to take Squirt to the vet at ten AM. If I don't do laundry tomorrow, I'll do it on Monday, and same for the food shopping. Might also do some other random shopping. I haven't been to the mall in ages. I thought about driving out of the county tomorrow to do some random shopping, but I dunno. Oh, and definitely reading because Book Club is coming!!

Oh, right, and I have to figure out what little gift I am getting for the Baby Shower thing. Can't forget that!!

Anyway. I'm sleepy again, so I think I'll probably take some more drugs and go to bed. After I pay attention to the cat for a bit. He's getting antsy because he'd like me to stop looking at the glowing rectangle box thing and start looking at him.

It is raining. Again. It must be the rainy season because it has rained a lot lately.

For dinner I am having leftover Jasmine rice. And a bowl of frozen soup; lobster bisque. It is not awful, but there's a bit of spice to it that I don't like. I find that sometimes frozen dinners have a little spice to them, I guess the company things this "improves" the taste. It does not. Chicken Alfredo, for example, should not be spicy. Just sayin'.

Also, you know what goes well with jasmine rice? Dill pickles. No, I am not pregnant. I am not 1,000% certain of that, but it's highly unlikely unless something happened recently that I don't know about. Awwwwkward.

Work today was more boring than usual. There was only some stupid things to break up the monotony.

Our usual Thursday & Friday work was delayed due to some form of IT problem that prevented The System from functioning as it was supposed to. So I had to find some other things to keep me busy.

I had another email conversation with a guy I used to think was smart, but has lately become stupid. See, each morning, when necessary, I get an email about items that they can't ship because nobody put a price on them. Nobody put a price on them because the item wasn't authorized for the stores they were trying to send it. So I forwarded the email to the guy who can fix that problem, saying "Please authorize if this is correct."

His reply was to tell me the retail he wanted. So I replied. "I can't do that, it's not authorized." He ignored me.

Several hours passed and then some people in another department (Supply & Logistics) emailed him telling that there had been an error in attempting to ship the item, and could he get it fixed? He then finally sent the email to the Giggle Club asking them to authorize the item. Sigh.

This was after I had spent yesterday afternoon explaining to him that the BONUS item is supposed to be the same price as the regular sized item...especially when the box specifically says something like "20% MORE FREE." Yeah...

Head, meet desk. Oh, you're friends now? Meet again. And again.

Damn, I'm not unconscious yet.

My neighbor and I have been "bonding," by which I mean she has been attempting to engage me in conversation somewhat regularly, usually to commiserate about stupid people. I dislike this. By which I don't mean I dislike her, because I can't say that I do, but I don't trust her, and I don't trust her reputation, and I wonder if associating with people such as that might be something of a ding in my character. Not that we're best of friends, or ever will be. But I am wary of being too friendly with people.

I got paid today. :)

This weekend I will need to come up with a little gift for the baby shower/book club meeting on Tuesday. Via emails, the rest of us agreed to purchase some sort of baby carrier which will be less than $20 each for the six of us, which is awesome, and we all also agreed that we would get her something little individually. I have been such a slacker that I have not even gone on the baby registry to see what we are purchasing, nor what other little things might be suitable.

I also have not obtained or read the book. This is normal for me. I did, however, finish my last library book today, so I might just whip out my Kindle this evening and download the book club book. I thought about going to the library this evening but that didn't happen. I might stop by on my way home tomorrow night, but I'm not sure how late they're open, and I'm pretty sure they're not open on weekends in the summer. Okay, I checked the website and they are only open until 5 on Fridays in the summer, so I'll definitely download it.

I do have Monday off. So I plan to spend at least some time reading on Monday.

Also in the plans for this weekend, aside from a trip to some baby store (by which I mean a store that sells things FOR babies, not a store that SELLS babies) or some store which sells baby-related products (supermarket?), is a trip to a shoe store because my current pair of high-heeled sandals is starting to fall apart.

See, I used to have umpteen high-heeled sandals, but at some point in the recent past, I purged a few that were beloved but falling apart, or rarely worn. So now I have one pair of high-heeled sandals and one pair of not-really-really cheap flip-flops that are not nice enough (in my opinion) to wear to work. So I need to buy some new dressy sandals.

So far I looked at Kmart, which in the past was a good place to buy shoes (not this time) and DSW. I might look in Payless, but in my experience Payless sells two kinds of women's shoes: cheap, flimsy flats that will fall apart the first time it rains, and 4-5 inch heels that will break my ankles omg ow I can't even look at them. X.x

The Plan, I think, is to maybe go to Marty's, which has sensible but also nice-looking shoes, since there is a Marty's near my mothers. If THAT doesn't work out, well perhaps I'll just go barefoot all summer.

Anyway.

Tomorrow is Friday and I don't have a theme for a Playlist yet. I think I had one, in my head, but I have forgotten it. Ah well, this procrastination is normal as well.