Enjablog

NewGirl gave me her plants so she wouldn’t have to move them. So, adding to the collection, I now have Faneuil 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea film

the Boston Fern and Aragog

• Pete’s Dragon rip

the Spider Plant.

She also gave me a cactus cutting, but I’m a little apprehensive. I have instructions for planting a cutting though, so it might work. If it takes, I’m concerned that it might grow to the size of hers though. I don’t know that I want to a me-sized cactus hanging around. Sounds dangerous. In any case, I’m going to wait to see how that goes before naming the cactus. Although, I just thought of a name that I like: Spike. ;)

Oh! In other news, my car has a name! Henry. Yeah, that was anti-climactic. Kinda like my car. But a good, reliable name.

And I’m starting to think maybe NewGirl needs a new name… what with working with her not being new or a coworker soon. And she’s moving to the other side of the country. Oh well. I’m out of names for tonight.

Because I’m too short for regular sleep.

I haven’t had microsleeps

sneak up on me in years. The past few years, I’ve been getting pretty regular sleep. At least 5 hours a night, usually closer to 7-8. I get drowsy a lot, but I can feel it starting to overtake me.

Last night, I couldn’t fall asleep until about 4am and then I still woke up before my alarm. I figured I would be alright though. Based on what, I’m not sure. So, I drove up to a meeting I had scheduled in Maryland and I knew I was in trouble when I felt how drowsy I was driving. As soon as I sat down at the meeting, I couldn’t stay awake. This wasn’t like when I fall asleep at my desk and I can feel myself getting tired leading up to it. This was like in college where I think I’m awake right up until I blink and lose 2-5 seconds (at least that’s how long I think it is). Half the time shaking myself awake from a weird dream. I can’t even imagine how crazy I must have looked.

I was scared to drive after that, but what could I do? Got back to the office and realized that I was going to be useless since I couldn’t stay awake unless I was standing. At least that was effective. There were times when I was in school when I would just lean up against a wall and take a little nap.

I explained to my bosses and got the OK to go home. Telling my boss with the newborn that I couldn’t sleep last night and now I couldn’t stay awake, so I wanted to go home… Yeah, that was convincing. I shook myself a little and then drove home. All uneventful, thank goodness. A week and a half until my doctor’s appointment. I hope I get put back on my old meds.

Just finished watching Must Love Dogs and I loved it. I must be feeling sappy or something, but it really matched my mood tonight. There have been a few movies where I really didn’t like John Cusack’s characters, but I found myself rooting for him in this one. Granted, I was supposed to. But that never stopped me from disliking his characters before.

download End of the Line

The Good Night download

Today was a sad day. My godfish died. NewGirl and Skunknut have had a betta in their office for the past four months. Whenever the two of them were out of the office, NewGuy and I would make sure Swbs was taken care of.

He developed a fungus a few weeks ago, but some medicine and a new heater for his tank cleared that up. He was never the same after that though. He stopped making bubble nests. He swam around sporadically, but stayed stationary and rested a lot.

We had some good times… He enjoyed preparing to mate, eating, attacking his reflection, and swimming in circles.

Funeral services were this afternoon at 5pm.

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Swbs (?-2007)

*Not actually Swbs. We’re not supposed to have cameras in the office. But he looked a little like the fish in the picture. Well, he was blue. But darker and not as shiny. He was a betta, ok?

GAHHH!! and a spider just ran across my screen. Now I have the heebie-jeebies.