Likalia’s Labyrinth

I seem to be experiencing some technical difficulties, let’s call them Blue Screen of Death Moments, BSDMs. They are annoying me and making using my computer difficult at the moment.

Now I have to go look at Windows Debugging crap – gah! Sure it is probably nothing or it’ll be fixed in no time but really sometimes computers are such a pain.

I know of nothing worse then lying in bed knowing you need to go to sleep and being completely unable to convince your body to do so.

Yes I keep mentioning lack of sleep but really it is what is on my mind at the moment. For instance you would have thought after yesterdays excursion I would have fallen into bed and been asleep before my head in the pillow. When in actuality I barely slept at all.

It is times like this when my insomnia truly drives me crazy.

Tomorrow morning it is back to work and I am hoping tonight does not turn out to be similar to the rest of my weekend and lack sleep.

If it does I am seriously considering calling in sick tomorrow morning, because frankly it would be better than me going to work and being completely grumpy while I sit around and do nothing because my brain can’t function properly.

Now I am going to go relax in bed, read a little bit and hope I drift off sooner rather than later.

Good Night! (I hope.)

Indigo Eve and I were supposed to head out today to go for a run, well we were really supposed to go a few days ago but then there was more snow and ice and well it just wasn’t the best weather for running.

Today we thought we would go out but then we had a thought – why not head up the mountain and take in some snowshoeing.

We grabbed Evil Monkey and headed up the mountain on a lovely afternoon for an hour or so of snowshoeing.

FOUR AND A HALF HOURS LATER!

I collapsed into the front seat of Evil Monkey’s car completely exhausted and literally frozen from head to foot.

Back home I drenched myself in a lovely hot shower for 1/2 an hour then ate some dinner.

All in all I have to agree with Indigo on this I am done with snowshoeing, snow  and mountains for the moment.

What might you ask was so bad? Well it was all good at first, then there was the following Evil Monkey while he made his own trails through the back country. When we hit the very deep ravine we decided it was time to turn back, of course it was already getting dark  and cold by then, and I’d already found about four or five waist deep holes to fall into. I was pretty damn cold on the way back, climbing back up the very tall mountain we had descended.

Just a small note here, it is best to not climb down the whole mountain because inevitably you are going to have to climb back up.

Tomorrow I have the feeling getting out of bed is going to be quite painful, probably the day after that too. I guess that’s why you shouldn’t go on too many adventures. I can say I’ve had my fill for a good long while. A non-cold, non-mountainous life is perfectly fine with me. Now I’m going to take my very tired self to bed. Night!

Being on holiday totally throws off my schedule, especially my sleep schedule. I have pretty erratic sleeping patterns as it is, or rather lack of sleep patterns, but throw in a holiday and they try to fall into a rhythm that just doesn’t work in the normal world.

I’ve always been a night owl, an insomniac to a degree, and able to sleep through anything (assuming I fall asleep that is.) It has never been too much of a problem, I have developed the ability to function on very little sleep.

When holiday time comes around though I find myself staying up much later than I should, and sleeping in much later as a result. As if my body knows I don’t have anywhere to be and takes advantage by keeping me up late and sleeping longer. I always know I should be trying to keep my regular schedule, but it is easier said than done. Nights when I can’t get to sleep until past 3AM I know are going to be followed by long days. Sometimes I wish my body would realize that my normal schedule starts at 7AM, as much as I wish it didn’t.

I still have another two days off but I think I am going to have to try to get up early and force myself out of bed. Otherwise going back to work on Monday is going to be very difficult. Which means I’ll have to try and exhaust myself during the day too so that by 10PM I can just throw myself into bed and sleep. I’m not sure how I’ll accomplish this, but I’m sure I’ll find a way. Like say cleaning my entire house from top to bottom and finishing re-arranging it.

I thought that I would try to start off the new year on the right foot, at least in my attempting to blog daily. I did so well the other year, then last year I was good for the majority but dropped off at the end. This year we’ll see how it goes. As with last year I am not going to hold myself to it, but I’m really going to try.

Glancing back over some posts the other day I remembered how much I used to enjoy blogging, well writing in general really. I spent so many years thinking calling myself a writer, then the last new years I’ve felt like calling myself that was a lie. Can you really call yourself a writer if all you write is a few blog posts?

Perhaps because of that feeling the last little while I’ve felt as if writing was more of a chore. It is only worsened by other people calling me a writer, then I think I am letting others down when I don’t write. Of course I know that is all  undue pressure I’ve been putting on myself.  I am going to try to not do that this year, I apologize in advance for post which may not live up to expectations, mostly my own, but I do hope you hold some expectations of my writing.

So like the title says here we go again, let’s see what comes of this New Year.