I am not going to do the grocery shopping today. I drank my Full Throttle Energy Drink, and now I am wired on top of being fatigued. It’s not an altogether unpleasant sensation, but it isn’t going to help me walk around a store for a few hours buying foodstuffs. Not going to get groceries today is going to cause two somewhat serious issues.

First there’s the fact I just poured the last of the kitten kibble into the precious darlings’ bowls. It’s enough for today, but they may get a little hungry in the tonight or in the morning. Their inner demons come out when they feel the slightest bit of hunger, so tomorrow morning I expect they will be plotting how to burn down the house as soon as they notice the food bowls aren’t filled to overflowing. The only other cat edibles in the house are a few cans of venison and peas, and they have already let me know in no uncertain terms that they will not eat it, no matter HOW hungry they may be. I am not even going to bother trying it again. So problem one is starving kitties.

Then there’s the fact that there really isn’t much food in the house for humans either, which means I will have to pull one of my amazing kitchen cooking miracles out of my butt for dinner tonight. We have two chicken halves, which I should have started thawing yesterday if I wanted to cook them today, and we have about a half pound of thin cut pork chops. I do have veggies though. I’m thinking some pork stir fry with rice and veggies. It’ll be meager, but at least it will be dinner. I’ll just have to make some cookies too. I have discovered that if I serve Lin anything other than “man-sized” portions for dinner, a plate of cookies fends off any complaints. Doesn’t help his diet much, but well … no one makes him eat all the cookies!

Who knows, maybe once my energy drink high mellows a little, and maybe even after a little nap, I may feel like I can handle hauling a load of food around a store and bringing it home. I wouldn’t bet on it, especially not since Lin asked that I do his laundry today, and I think that alone will wipe me out.

I don’t know why I have been sleeping so poorly. Oh sure, there are a few stressful things going on at the moment, but nothing of the enormous crisis variety. I mean, I have slept better during more stressful situations. Maybe it’s just a combination of a little stress, a change in the weather, and the dratted beginning of Daylight Savings Time all working against me. I don’t know. Sometimes I’ll have a stretch of serious insomnia and never figure out exactly what was causing it. It could very well be that I have simply been on this day schedule for far too long without a break. I do so much better when I day-sleep and get things done at night, but alas, my household gets up early these days, and therefore, so must I. Yuck.

One last thing … I worked on the second sock last night and got down to the heel already. For some reason, the stripes are now ever so slightly off. Not so glaringly that I think anyone but the most anal among us would notice. Still, it’s a little annoying. Not sure what happened. My stitches seems to be the same size as the other sock, and everything else about the second sock is exactly like the first one, but now the stripes are about one row up from where they should be. I am trying not to get upset about it, because, you see, I can be pretty anal about things like this … which is a silly and useless waste of energy really, and I don’t have any extra energy to waste.

Time to move to more comfortable seating and sit and be wired and tired at the same time. I guess there is a point where even an energy drink can’t really pump you up enough to do any good. Oh well, I needed a quasi-day-off anyway.