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I am having a bad week. Nights filled with extended periods of sleeplessness. Days filled with attacks of self-doubt, second-guessing myself, and being overly sensitive to the ignorance and injustice in this world.

I think I need at least one day off the Internet. A bit hard to do that when my job is to do content writing for websites. I need the Internet to do my work. But Sunday is a day off and would be a good day to stay offline. I have plenty of unread books that need attention. I could pull out my paper journal and do some writing. I could even go pick up a small craft project and do that. The possibilities are endless.

Also - I need to think about planning a day trip for Lance and myself for our wedding anniversary. It's about 2 months away. There are so many places we could go. I thought about a day up at Deception Pass or something, but since the weather is so iffy that time of year, I don't know. We should plan to go someplace where there are both indoor and outdoor activities. We really lucked out last year and had a gorgeous day for our trip to Snoqualmie. We might not be that lucky this year. We keep talking about going to Leavenworth, but I think I would rather go at Christmas.

Anyway, I haven't gotten any work done today. I had a rough night last night. I was sleeping fine until Reece woke me up at 1:30 to go out. Afterwards, I couldn't get back to sleep. My brain turned on and I couldn't shut it off. I had to get up for an hour and 15 minutes or so and read until I felt tired again. And then I ended up sleeping in late this morning. So this day hasn't gone as planned. But the work will get done. Even if I have to put in a couple of hours on Saturday, it will get done.

Twice as fortunate

What does it mean when you get two fortunes in one fortune cookie? Is that a good sign?

I just finished lunch. I was out at the post office and I stopped at Himitsu Teriyaki to grab takeout.

When I bit into my fortune cookie, two fortunes were sticking out.

"You'll accomplish more later if you have a little fun this weekend."

and

"Remember one month from this date. Good things are coming!"

I mean, it's not like they really mean anything at all, but given the week I've been having, they add a little needed frivolity.

Completely random thought - but I'm wondering why a bunch of local news personalities have recently started following me on Twitter. I have a few followers from channel 5 and one from channel 7 as of today. Really, my tweets are not that interesting. In general, I don't think I'm all that interesting. I'm flattered, but mystified.

oooooh...

THUNDER!

ETA: LIGHTNING!

Crafty

I'm looking for a craft project to do on Sunday. Although the weather is supposed to be nice, so I'm probably better off being outside most of the day.

Anyhow, I'm not really that crafty, but this project appeals to me. Probably too difficult for me though.

http://www.michaels.com/art/online/projectsheet?pid=e08209

And I'm sure the materials are expensive.

Or something like this:

http://www.michaels.com/art/online/projectsheet?pid=h00085&categoryid=63886

Those are probably easy enough to do, but I don't like the personalized beads. I could use something else instead.

And this most obvious project:

http://www.michaels.com/art/online/projectsheet?pid=23240&categoryid=63886

I would have to do these as gifts because I already have a ton of bookmarks.

I'm sure I'll find something!

ETA: A HA!

http://www.craftbits.com/project/butterfly-candle-holders

2 things...

Forgot to mention a couple things today:

1> Reece finally learned how to catch a frisbee.

2> I discovered the greatest streaming classical music station ever, and it's local. They have 4 classical channels, so you can choose everything from symphonies to opera to soothing classical to their usual programming. They also have an arts channel. This is what I'm going to listen to from now on whenever I'm working.

http://www.king.org/

I can deal with the minimal commercial interruptions, for now.