Loved the company, but...

After work today I took YKWIA to an appointment, and then we went to his house and I took A to get just a few things from the grocery and stopped by Long John Silver's for dinner. Then it was back to the house and I watched a couple of episodes of 'Haven' with YKWIA, which I loved. We also watched a few YouTube videos, and then we wound up talking for a very long time, so long, in fact, that when I finally went into the kitchen to throw something away, I had to take my phone, whose battery was almost dead, and look at it, because I thought the stove clock must be terribly wrong. It was almost 1:30 am. So I took my leave, came home to absolutely no traffic on the road, practically, finally found a parking spot, and then I got ready for bed. Now it's almost 2:30. I have to be at work in six hours. So it's definitely time I turned in. But it was like old times, staying up late talking about all sorts of topics. That was nice. Good night.

Building up some stamina

I was up for seven hours earlier today; I've been up nearly six now and hope to go to bed about 11:30 or midnight. That's three days of staying up for goodly amounts of time. I am having some trouble with using the walker for fairly short trips, like down the hall and into the bathroom and bedroom without getting winded. I think my allergies are bothering me despite taking Claritin this morning.

I just spoke to YKWIA for two and a half hours on the phone. My poor phone is down to 25% of battery. But it was nice to chat. We both had a lovely Thanksgiving. I have to admit, I am more relaxed than usual during the holiday.

I was planning on working on the game notes tonight, but it's gotten late, so I may for just a little bit and save some for tomorrow, since there's nothing else on my agenda. I have checked and I have everything re-installed so that I can do so.

I've been playing with Windows 8 and getting the programs I need pinned to the right menus so I can go right into them either from the tiled interface or the desktop. I can already tell that if we ever need to upgrade YKWIA's computer, Windows 8 is enough of a radical change that there are going to be issues. I love YKWIA, but he doesn't like change much. He's still using an old copy of Office XP because it doesn't have the tabs and ribbon. Just taking the Start button away may be enough to make his head spin, but hey, I'm sure he'll do fine once he gets used to it. Hopefully that won't have to be for a long time. I will say it would be much easier to use on a touchscreen, but I'm not going to get one of those any time soon, and I already have my Android tablet, which I adore and which I am so thankful to have had during my recovery. I use it several times a day, and while the computer was busy updating, was able to look up several things on the tablet.

Now that we've almost reached the end of the holiday, I hope things went well for all of you in the US who celebrate it. The one regret I have is that I totally forgot about the Macy's parade; I'm usually on my way to my mom's during it. I could have watched it today. It's nice that it gave some cheer to those affected by Hurricane Sandy.

Ten hours up and active

On a day I didn't have to go anywhere, with little sleep the night before, isn't so bad. Soon we may be gaming again and I may be up to a full workday. Granted, the computer frustration helped, but I've also been on the phone, talking to visitors, texting, doing dishes in the dishwasher, writing emails, that sort of thing. Building up my stamina is about as important as building up my muscles. I can't work until I can sit up comfortably for several hours. I think that yesterday and today prove I can. That's fairly recent. Now if I could just walk.

There's still a lot of healing to go through, but I am more hopeful than I have been that there is an end in sight.

It's eleven and I think that I will try to get some sleep. Tomorrow will be a quiet Thanksgiving. I hope it's a safe and happy one for those of you celebrating.

I just spent an hour

trying to deposit a cheque by phone. I've done it before, it worked fine, but I was under fluorescent lights then. But no, did this? Even in the brightest light of the house? At a time when I'm basically homebound and could really use that feature to work, did it? The problem is they require you to write 'for deposit only [bank name] mobile banking' under the endorsement. I was afraid I messed up the cheque so they wouldn't honour it at the branch, although surely this happens fairly often. So then I called my bank and went through a robomenu from hell that wouldn't understand a word I was saying. You'd have thought I had a Scottish accent. :) But I finally got a representative, who gave me the secret (*00) to cutting through that. He assured me that I or someone else could come in and deposit the cheque and since it hadn't gone through already everything was fine. I hope that's the case when a friend takes it in soon.

Grrr. On the other hand, I've been up since 7 am without going to bed once. I've washed hair and self, gone out to an appointment, done physical therapy, talked to friends in person, on the phone, and also texted with Brandon, tried to deposit the cheque, just a whole bunch of stuff. And so far I haven't crashed. That may be coming soon, though. :)

Chalk one up

to productivity. No 'naps' tonight, whether 5-hour or 15-minute, and I'm still going strong. I've also talked to two friends on the phone, one for quite some time. Now my phone's charging because we talked the battery down to almost nothing and I'm going to head to bed, maybe read a bit before turning in. Maybe I'll read some Thoreau--it's the 195th anniversary of his birth. Good night!

Yay! I didn't go to sleep at some insanely early time tonight!

Maybe the holiday weekend 'reset' my inner circadian rhythm. Or maybe it's just a fluke. But tomorrow's 'Tower Prep', so I should stay up at least until 10 or 11 pm then. :)

It's midnight now, though, so I think I'll head to bed. Gee, I've blogged a lot lately.

PS I did get a bit of bad news tonight. Angie, who's been so good as to give me rides three times a week, has her last day coming up soon (she's a temporary employee, and they've hired someone else to take the job permanently because of some sort of issue where it would have been too expensive to 'buy out' from the temp agency, whatever that means). Anyway, I really need to get her a thank-you gift before her last day. The day before we're having a Books Are Fun book fair. That has a lot of possibilities. :)