Y2 D137

Had a bad night last night. Went to bed at around 11, woke straight up at 1 with my heart racing. I don't know why either. I remember the dream I was having - I was riding a horse up a stairwell of a parking garage trying to get to the third floor. That's it. Nothing scary or freaky. I mean sure it was weird, but it wasn't anything that should have caused me to bolt upright like I did. I managed to fall back asleep but woke up no more than an hour later in sheer pain. My right shoulder was on fire. I guess I laid on it wrong or something but damn it hurt. The other day one of the comics I read had a similar theme. It was about how even though we sleep every night of our life, every now and then we have these freak out moments -- "Where do these arms go?!?!". It was one of those weird moments. Got my shoulder to stop hurting and fell back to sleep again. I woke up one more time a few hours later freaking out about what day it was. One of those "It's Sunday right??" moments. Ugh. Very tired this morning. Feel like I did a marathon between 11 and now.

Yesterday itself was uneventful. I obsessively cleaned like I planned. By that I mean I not only did a normal cleaning, but all those things you say you're going to clean if you can just find the time: baseboards, carpet runners, picture frames, etc. Took me 5 hours to do everything including hand washing dish towels, a couple of shirts, and the carpet runners. But damn if it wasn't worth it. I look around right now and everything just *feels* clean. I like that.

After that I went to the store, got some Rockstar, paper towels, and cat food. Whoo hoo. Came home, played video games, worked on a puzzle, had the leftover weird rice veggie burger thing I made Friday night, went to bed. Nice and boring. I did have one odd thoughts while I was cleaning. I need to tell X2's brother and sister to tell their parents not to send me a Christmas card this year. They sent me one last year and it had a newsletter in it. I don't want to see that this Christmas. I don't need to know what X2 has been up to this year. Can you believe I am thinking about Christmas already? It's not that far off. This year is almost over. So far I have survived. We are close to the 18 month mark in my writing/life since the event. Amazing.