Things for me to work on

I'm in a fix-my-life kind of mood. (I guess I'm mentally getting around to New Year's now that I'm feeling a little more human.)

I can think of a few things I'd like to improve. Some of these can probably be done with minimal time or effort -- I just need to DO them.

1. Social life
We now own dishes and crock pots and stuff. We could throw parties. Because work deadlines appear on my schedule with very little notice, and in my personal life I make commitments far in advance, I will need to learn how to deal with schedule conflicts.

2. Finances
I badly need to update Quicken. (Did some of this tonight: checking and savings up to date!) I also want to pay better attention to saving and investing. Any effort at all would be a huge improvement over what I did last year.

3. Feet
Call Stanford. Duuuuuh.

4. Fitness / becoming active
I want to attempt to bike using my heels or arches. Bicycling is cheaper, less loathsome, more time-efficient, and far more flexible to schedule than swimming at the Y. It also requires about 1/4 mile less walking, unless the bike breaks down.

There are a couple more, but they are complex enough to deserve their own posts. I'll think about those later.

REALLY tired

I'm absolutely exhausted, but there are enough good reasons for it that I'm not 100% sure whether or not I'm still sick.

I didn't sleep well Thursday night (the late work night). See, I was an idiot and drank a mug of caffeinated tea. I'd been wanting ten-plus hours of sleep lately, so staying up until 1AM was a serious challenge. But once I'd had the caffeine I couldn't sleep.

Friday was pretty much a loss. I was in the office, but I wasn't really present. I did some random work chores requiring no brain. Then I came home and passed out. I've been doing an awful lot of that lately: come home and pass out. So very tired!

Today I have spent most of the day alternating between "I can't keep my eyes open, so maybe I'll close them" and "I'm not sleeping, so maybe I'll open my eyes and read something". Now, at 11:30pm, I am perking up a little.

If this past couple of days doesn't make me relapse, I may be healthier than I thought. The cough doesn't mean much because those always linger for me. Now if only the exhaustion would go away I'd be content. Right now that is really the only remaining "symptom" I care about.