So frigging tired all the time

[wiseheart]

Which can be because of serious sleep deprivation. My nights are seldom longer than 6 hours, and in the last three days I didn't manage to take my usual afternoon nap. I'll try to do better from now on!

That said, it was a relatively quiet day. In the morning, even before Mum would get up, I quickly iced my cinnamon-and-nougat cookies and put them out on the balcony, so that the icing could harden out. By the time we had gone through our morning routine, the cookies were ready to be boxed. Yay! Two sorts done, four to six more to go. But I won't bake again until next week - or, at the earliest time, till Sunday.

After breakfast I had to clean out the lowest shelf of the pantry cupboard (literally, as it serves as a sorry excuse for an actual pantry in the kitchen), to sort my packages of flour by their 'best before' date. The same with cans of pineapple, mango, pureed tomatoes, green peas and sweet corn. Now I have a general idea what we have in reserve and what has to be used up first.

Writing-wise it was a good day, too. I've dug out my Enterprise DVDs and re-watched "Rogue Planet", thus getting the necessary details for the description I needed to write. My total is almost two full pages, which is fantastic progress, after the dry spell of recent days.

No actual crafting was done today, but I finally managed to take a halfway decent picture of my little felt box (after three failed attempts). You know, the one that started as a failed pincushion and got repurposed. It still isn't entirely finished (I need to fix the front loop), but I think it looks nice enough.



For lunch I did some express cooking: Tütensuppe (10 minutes), fried fish fingers (another 10 minutes) parsley potatoes (about 12 minutes, since the potatoes were boiling while I did the rest of the dishes). I sliced some cucumbers in lieu of a salad, and that was basically it. But Mum liked it, and I didn't have to waste half my day in the kitchen.

After lunch we went for a walk with Mum, and after that I talked to some friends on the phone (3 out of 5 actually answered the phone, which counts as a good percentage). So yeah, it was a good day. I'm just falling asleep on my feet every ten minutes. Every five minutes if I sit down. *g*

Comments

[meathiel]

Pity that the weather was not as good as forecast ...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Mother Nature in unpredictable.

[red-day-dawning.livejournal.com]

Yeah some days are so exhausting. I wake up exhausted. I think it has to do with sleep quality as well as sleep hours?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I always wake up exhausted, no matter how many hours I've slept. It takes at least an hour (and a nice, warm shower) to feel even marginally human again. Of course, the fact that I haven't been able to sleep as long as I'd like for the last, oh, six years, might have something to do with that. But I've always been a night owl. Getting up at all is terrible for me. *g*

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about the sleep deprivation. I hope you manage to catch up soon. The little box is beautiful! You are so talented. Like you, my pantry is a cupboard in the kitchen. The only difference is that mine is an upper wall cupboard. I envy people with a real walk-in pantry.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me, too. A real pantry with nice, shallow shelves is the best thing there is. The dratted kitchen cupboard is deep and does have a lot of storage space, but I always need the thing that's in the back, and things drown in chaos shortly after each rearranging.

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It´s always interesting which sort of canned food people have in their pantries. Just recently I did a checkup in mine, and it was canned tomatoes, coconut milk and adobo-ed chillies. Lots of them. No clue where those came from. My guess is that one of my sons needed to get rid of them- all DiLs hate spicy food.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Your sons must be mourning Mummy's cooking then. ;) I remember my cousin mourning Granny's cooking. Sometimes he came to us to rediscover the tastes of our shared childhood, as I learned from Granny a lot. I'm a fairly good home cook, I just don't like cooking. Not on a daily basis, that is.

[mirasaui.livejournal.com]

I love your failed pin cushion, it is turning into a lovely gift box. Really like the color combination.