My Weekend, the list version

[jadesfire]

#1. Wicked! is just as awesome the second time around, even at a matinee. Seriously, guys, the quiet songs are not the cue for you to rustle your sweets or get up to go to the loo. No, really.

#2. SAD not only makes you feel tired all the time, it messes with your sleep cycle so you *are* tired all the time. I managed 6 hours in one go from Thursday to Friday. Apart from that, the longest I've managed this last fortnight is four. Please to be stopping with the weird dreams now, 'kaithanx.

#3. I'm writing 2 fics (with other people) that are making me giggle, one that's making me tear my hair out and two more that have deadlines that I don't have a clue what to do with. I should be more worried about this than I am, because I'll think of something. I always do.

#4. I want more time to read and comment to my flist - I feel like I'm missing all of you at the moment. *waves forlornly* Lurking is fine, but it's not the same as communicating. When my brain comes back online, hopefully I'll be able to get back to that.

#5. Today is chores day, since we were out yesterday, and I am having difficulty expressing how much I don't want to sort washing right now. If this feeling was a sound, it would be spelled "bleugh". But since the other half is off hunting and gathering at Sainsbury's, I guess I have to do the homekeeping stuff. It's better than running brats over with the trolley at least.

Hope everyone's weekends were good and that you're all okay out there. Will catch up once I'm out of hibernation.

Comments

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

#2. SAD not only makes you feel tired all the time, it messes with your sleep cycle so you *are* tired all the time.

OH I have some advice for this, seriously - my other half bought me a thing called a Lumie Brightspark ™, it's a lamp about two feet long that, well, it's a sunlight lamp and if you have that on in the corner during the time when it WOULD be daylight if it wasn't bloody winter, you get a lot more energy. Then when you switch it *off* it's like cutting puppet strings and you're off to bed. It's been an absolute revelation. ;) Definitely recommended as a means of making you not want to slit your wrists through to March.

[miss-zedem.livejournal.com]

#1. I love going to the theatre, but the problem is always other people... Glad you had a good time though - we should organise a London trip sometime and go see a show. Maybe in the New Year...

#2. Have you tried herbal remedies? Bach's are supposed to be good - just something to chill you out before you go to bed. Also, routine might be good - take a bath before bedtime, or meditate, or at least some breathing exercises (I suck at meditating, but I can do the breathing thing). Just something that signals 'sleep time now' to your brain, and makes it start producing the right chemicals.

#3. Of course you will!

#4. LJ's pretty quiet, so I wouldn't worry too much. Everyone appears to have a lot going on RL-wise at the moment...

#5. That reminds me... *goes off to put towels in washing machine*

[roga.livejournal.com]

Wicked! *envies* I am dying to see that one on stage.

[naye]

I second the advice to get a sunlight lamp! It can do absolute wonders for your SAD, I know from personal experience. (November is such an evil month.)

Enjoy the fic writing, and good luck with the boring stuff. *hugs*

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

*throws some instant sunshine in your direction*

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

When you say "hibernation" do you mean until Spring? ::pets you and leaves a pile of berries::

Last week, I was journaling in gmail about my stupid light sensitivity, pondering natural vs. artificial light, and I kept getting this text ad -
http://www.firststreetonline.com/category.jsp?id=47739&promotion=86072&gclid=CPudssSV8JYCFQMCagodIQXDqw

I remember you said you were changing all your bulbs at home to the "daylight" bulbs. Are they anything like the ones in that ad? And are they brighter than regular lights? It does seem like a full spectrum of light could help when your body is craving it. I hope you find some solutions that work for you.

(I'm considering getting a lamp at work so I don't have to use my overhead lights in my office. There's nothing I can do about it in the classroom - I just squint through class - but having something more "daylight"ish and diffuse in my office might help. Weird that *this* gets worse in the winter. Oy.)

[greyias.livejournal.com]

#3 - I'm giggling rather madly as well. This is usually a bad sign.

#5 - WORD.

[smtfhw.livejournal.com]

#4. I want more time to read and comment to my flist - I feel like I'm missing all of you at the moment. *waves forlornly* Lurking is fine, but it's not the same as communicating.

Ain't that the truth! I know just how you feel because that's all I'm doing at present too...

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

#2. SAD not only makes you feel tired all the time, it messes with your sleep cycle so you *are* tired all the time.

OH I have some advice for this, seriously - my other half bought me a thing called a Lumie Brightspark ™, it's a lamp about two feet long that, well, it's a sunlight lamp and if you have that on in the corner during the time when it WOULD be daylight if it wasn't bloody winter, you get a lot more energy. Then when you switch it *off* it's like cutting puppet strings and you're off to bed. It's been an absolute revelation. ;) Definitely recommended as a means of making you not want to slit your wrists through to March.

[miss-zedem.livejournal.com]

#1. I love going to the theatre, but the problem is always other people... Glad you had a good time though - we should organise a London trip sometime and go see a show. Maybe in the New Year...

#2. Have you tried herbal remedies? Bach's are supposed to be good - just something to chill you out before you go to bed. Also, routine might be good - take a bath before bedtime, or meditate, or at least some breathing exercises (I suck at meditating, but I can do the breathing thing). Just something that signals 'sleep time now' to your brain, and makes it start producing the right chemicals.

#3. Of course you will!

#4. LJ's pretty quiet, so I wouldn't worry too much. Everyone appears to have a lot going on RL-wise at the moment...

#5. That reminds me... *goes off to put towels in washing machine*

[roga.livejournal.com]

Wicked! *envies* I am dying to see that one on stage.

[naye]

I second the advice to get a sunlight lamp! It can do absolute wonders for your SAD, I know from personal experience. (November is such an evil month.)

Enjoy the fic writing, and good luck with the boring stuff. *hugs*

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

*throws some instant sunshine in your direction*

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

When you say "hibernation" do you mean until Spring? ::pets you and leaves a pile of berries::

Last week, I was journaling in gmail about my stupid light sensitivity, pondering natural vs. artificial light, and I kept getting this text ad -
http://www.firststreetonline.com/category.jsp?id=47739&promotion=86072&gclid=CPudssSV8JYCFQMCagodIQXDqw

I remember you said you were changing all your bulbs at home to the "daylight" bulbs. Are they anything like the ones in that ad? And are they brighter than regular lights? It does seem like a full spectrum of light could help when your body is craving it. I hope you find some solutions that work for you.

(I'm considering getting a lamp at work so I don't have to use my overhead lights in my office. There's nothing I can do about it in the classroom - I just squint through class - but having something more "daylight"ish and diffuse in my office might help. Weird that *this* gets worse in the winter. Oy.)

[greyias.livejournal.com]

#3 - I'm giggling rather madly as well. This is usually a bad sign.

#5 - WORD.

[smtfhw.livejournal.com]

#4. I want more time to read and comment to my flist - I feel like I'm missing all of you at the moment. *waves forlornly* Lurking is fine, but it's not the same as communicating.

Ain't that the truth! I know just how you feel because that's all I'm doing at present too...