The end of an era
Well, I guess this is my last official NaBloPoMo post. I still can’t believe the month went by so fast! It was a whole lot easier than I thought it would be, despite a few writing blocks and a couple of late night oh-shit-I-forgot-to-post-today moments.
I’m really, really grateful for what this month has given me. Namely, a swift kick in the ass! Like I’ve mentioned, I’ve been meaning to do something with this site for years now. I’ll write for a bit, then give it up, come back months later for a couple random posts, then give it up again. This time, thanks to NaBloPoMo, I feel like I’ve created a habit that I can stick with. Thank you, thank you. This, combined with the new computer, must mean a brighter future for somefatchick.com. And that’s something that makes me very happy.
Originally, I wanted to to NaNoWriMo, but J convinced me that I didn’t need to kill myself in a month! So I focused solely on the blogging, but a funny thing happened – the more I wrote, the more I wanted to write (it always works like that with me), so now I’ve not only got a solid month of blogging under my belt, but a whole lot of pages of other writing as well. It’s time to celebrate!
Because I wasn’t quite tired enough already…
I spent the last 8 hours helping my best friend move. Aye. In one way, it’s really cool, because she’s moving to my neighborhood. I haven’t had a friend within walking distance since middle school. In another way, it sucks because I just had to spend 8 hours moving stuff! And she’ll be living upstairs, which made it even more fun! Actually, I was pretty impressed with myself because I was not out of breath the way that she and her skinny boyfriend were. Ha! I may be fat, but I’m in better shape than you’d think. I love it when I outwork the supposedly fit people.
Is there a there a trick to this?
I haven’t been sleeping much at night. Not only have I been staying up way past my bedtime, but when I do go to bed, I just toss and turn and toss and turn, for hours. And then I stress because I’m not going to be getting enough sleep that night, and then I toss and turn some more, worrying about how shitty the next day is going to be because of my lack of sleep. It’s a vicious cycle, and I don’t know how to end it.
On Sunday night, it got so bad that I started thinking that there must be something that I was never taught, some important step to falling asleep that I just never heard about. Like a button to push to turn my brain off, or an intricate dance ritual that I’m supposed to be performing with my eyelids? Something. But no. I just suck at sleeping. I’d like to say it hasn’t always been like this, but that wouldn’t be completely true. I can say, at the very least, that it hasn’t always been this bad. This week sucks. Also not helping? It’s freaking cold!
Not only is work much harder on no sleep, but I have no energy to cook, no energy to do much of anything. All creativity has been sucked from my system, leaving me at a complete loss for writing. Lovely timing, right? So I get no sleep, I wake up early, I suck all day, and then I have to stay up late to catch up on everything that I didn’t have energy to do during the normal hours, and then I’m completely exhausted, up past my bedtime, and then finally in bed just in time to spend a couple more hours trying to go to sleep. Lather, rinse, repeat. Why is sleep something I have to try for? Why can’t I just fall asleep effortlessly like everyone else?
Note: Rescue Sleep from Bach’s does help me sleep. I raved about it for awhile, and then I ran out. Rescue Remedy is not quite as effective, but it does help some. Perhaps I will be smart enough to use some tonight, since I just remembered I have some. Cross your fingers!
Wait, really? Really?
REALLY? We only have 3 more days to post for NaBloPoMo? Like, I have to write something tomorrow, then Thursday, then Friday, and then it’s done? Really? REALLY? Whoa. Umm…that kind of flew by. Why am I just now noticing this fact? I mean, I used today’s date several times today. My birthday is in December, and I knew it was coming up on Sunday, which so obviously means that November will be over by the weekend, but I didn’t put together the facts to understand that NaBloPoMo is almost over. Huh. Wow. Just…wow. Three days to go. I really CAN do this thing!
Eeeeee!
Why am I squealing? Oh, I don’t know. Maybe because I ate Chipotle for dinner, maybe because the dog and cat are currently living in peace, or maybe, just maybe, because I am typing this from my BRAND NEW LAPTOP! Eeeeeeee! Um, sorry, but I’m a bit excited!
Like I said, I got my birthday present a bit early. Apparently J got together with my parents and his parents, and the five of them went in together for a laptop! A nice one! J went and picked it up last night, and just couldn’t keep it to himself for six more days. Lucky me! So here I am, on my very own computer, which I haven’t had in about 4-1/2 years. I mean, we’ve had two computers this whole time, but no room to actually set them both up. So we share. Which has made NaBloPoMo a bit difficult, because I’m suddenly on the computer all the time. Before this, I would usually only get on when he wasn’t home, but this month I’ve been getting on it a whole lot more. Hmm. Maybe this laptop thing is more for his own benefit than for mine? I kid. It’s awesome. I can finally, finally start writing. Wonderful. (My writing may suck tonight, but that’s only because the husband and the dog are playing football, yes, playing football, at the foot of the bed, down the hallway, and into the dining room. A wee bit distracting.)
Thank you, sweetie. I love it! Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Being lame
I can’t post much today. Between my horrible, horrible (HORRIBLE) migraine and an utter lack of sleep, I just can’t do it. Plus, I’ve got J has some setting up to do. My birthday present came early (WOW!), and it’s going to change the way things are done around here. Very exciting! (No, I haven’t switched hosts yet, guess again.)
Unfortunately, it’s hard to be excited about ANYTHING tonight (see: horrible, horrible migraine from hell). I’ll be better tomorrow…I’ll make up for it.
Guest post
Dear J,
I’m sorry I make your wife crazy. Better luck next month.
Sincerely,
Crazy Hormone Monster
A word about hosting & domains
Because this was too long to post in a comment box, I thought I’d just write it up as a post.
I’ve got Yahoo hosting right now, and I use WordPress to power it. In theory, all I have to do is choose a theme and start posting & the domain forwards to the wordpress site (currently www.somefatchick.com/blog, because when I installed it, they convinced me that /blog would be the most boring best). In reality, I’m not 100% happy with any of the themes out there, so I end up getting into the CSS and trying to fix things.
My other problem is that somefatchick.com was not always a blog. Because of this, my directory is full of extraneous files. Every previous version of this site is somewhere in there, along with random things that just don’t matter. And now I’m not sure which files are important and which ones can be thrown away. I’m sure that, at some point, I deleted something crucial for my RSS feed. Heck if I know what it was or how to get it back.
The cost of the Yahoo hosting is $9.95 a month, and it’s billed straight on my phone/DSL bill. I think it may be a couple of dollars more for non-customers. I’ve kept my host for so long just because it is just added to my phone bill. If I had to pay for it separately, I’m sure that I would have given up the site long, long ago as an unnecessary expense. And then I wouldn’t be here now.
I want to switch to AN Hosting. I’ve wanted to for quite some time. It’s $6.95/month and seems to be pretty cool. Of course, I went to their site just now to confirm the URL and discovered they’re having a super holiday sale, with twice the bandwidth, storage space, and subdomains, for only $4.95/mo. Today only. Damn it. I really wanted to wait until after NaBloPoMo, but that deal is awesome. What to do, what to do…
Also, if you just want a domain name only to forward to your blog, you can register that for about $10 a year.
I’m sure I missed something important. It’s just that I got very distracted by that holiday special and am now fixated on whether or not to switch today. I mean, I was going to switch in a week anyway. Arg, indecision.
ignore me
testing. here is a link for you. and a link for me. and another.
i’m testing link colors, seeing if my css code changes are doing anything. i’ve already accomplished one thing. look! at the very bottom, there’s FINALLY a “Next Page” button. It’s in a horrible color, but it’s there. I’m working on it. As for a working RSS feed, that will have to wait until December. I also want a new host. I don’t want to chance any big changes until after NaBloPoMo though. back to work…
UPDATE: I gave up – the “Next Page” link will remain a too-dark-to-really-see color. I’m still ignoring my feed. I’m trying to get the blogroll going, but am having issues. Sites may pop on and off until I’m done. Forgive me. Soon, I’ll get back to editing that graphic/logo/banner that goes at the top of the page. Maybe tomorrow or next week. For my theme, I’m keeping Felt Attack (YAY!), but I’m trying to slowly fix all the issues I have with it. I went back to Purpling briefly tonight, and it just felt so blah. Not what I want anymore. Plus, it shows my posts as written by “admin” instead of “somefatchick”. That always bothered me. I thought about looking for another theme, but I really do love Felt Attack. Call me crazy, but I love felt. What else? Oh, I need a new favicon. So, lots of work to do!
