Tiiiiiired

Oh, I so wish I could sleep like how I nap, most of the time. It was about 5:45pm, I was happily snuggled into a blanket on the couch, Guido was stretched out across my torso, purring away, and I had just started the third episode of My Little Pony for the night. I felt sleepy, and thought sure, this episode will be over in 20 minutes and then Netflix will ask me if I'm still watching. That's a good amount of time to nap.

Ha. Ha. Ha. I woke up an hour later, disoriented and confused. It was "only" 6:48. Guido was gone, and Netflix was asking me if I was still watching, and likely had been for the past 40 minutes. Sometimes, when I nap, I get this horrid taste in my mouth , and sometimes that's the only way I know I even "unplugged" long enough to be considered a nap. The taste lingered for three hours.

And predictably, when it was time to go to bed, I was wiiiiiide awake. I read until 2:30 and decided to try and sleep, where I rolled around for another hour, brain still working a mile a minute, and also anxious about Stuff and Things. The light coming in the window was amplified by the cloud cover (if/when I do sign that lease, I'm putting up curtains. The blinds aren't enough) and I finally dozed off on my tummy head turned to the side. Because I woke up not too long after, with a giant crick in my neck. And when my alarm was going off, it was confusing, and seemed to be made of magic, and of course in between each snooze session, I was back to sleep and dreaming, but eventually I really needed to get up.

Today is going to be a day of MORE COFFEE.

I'm off to a ball!

February snuck up, and it's once again time for the ball*! Last year I made my ball gown in 2 days, and I'd really like to not do that again, so it's time to start thinking about what I'm going to make :D

Sure, I could wear last year's gown. I LOVE it, it's so pretty. But I have new stays, and they're really high on the back, and everything except a wrap gown with too-tight sleeves (and a too-narrow skirt!) shows them.

Oh darn, a new gown :3 And maybe some outerwear?! Headgear! OOOOH IDEAS :D

I'm thinking... perhaps a white gown and a cute little vest? Something bright and fun? I'd really like to make something more challenging than "plain gown, done". Decorations have always been hard for me, and the ball is at the end of the month. Lots of time! But I need to start soon, because my SAD usually kicks in a couple of weeks, so the more I can get done now, the better. I'm also limited to what I already have available to me.

Still super tired but only an hour and a half to go. Maybe gown research will keep me awake long enough to get home :D

*There will be dancing, but my Regency-wife and I vastly prefer the card tables ;) Gotta brush up on my whist! And also YAY another outing for the pineapple!

So... tired...

Finally got home, but predictably was not able to doze for even 10 minutes (I set a timer for 20, realized it wasn't happening, turned it off). And I'm still ridiculously tired, it's messing with my ability to brain. I really want to make a mock-up of the bodice tonight! But I've dropped nearly everything I've picked up in the last hour, tried to enter website addresses as my username on a couple sites, I've misspelled probably 18 words in this post alone, and I should give some thought about supper soon... but I don't know if it's actually all the safe for me to cook ._. I felt really nervous about driving the whole 10 blocks home (made it in one piece, thankfully), cooking is nearly as bad.

I should also take some photos to go with the blog post I meant to post on Saturday. Sigh. Here's hoping I can sleep tonight.

slightly less tired

Managed to drop off for about 18 minutes (I set an alarm again, or else I would have slept until probably 10pm) and I feel much less delirious now. Still a little low on actual energy, but I think can get a pattern and mock-up cut out at least.

I'm so torn. I'd really love a cute little spencer vest but I also don't have a lot of options for a dress to go under one. I suppose I could always make up those IKEA curtains I bought... 5 years ago, but then I'd also need a petticoat of some kind under it. I'm definitely too tired still to be making these decisions right now! Let's just start with the pattern and mock-up, shall we? :)

Also in EXTRA FANTASTIC SUPER FABULOUS AMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZING news, my brain-half raspberrybelle successfully defended her thesis today YAAAAAAY!!!! :D :D :D Congrats lady!!