March 19, 2014

“There is no problem so bad that you can't make it worse.”

I made it about two hours last night before my throat woke me up. Then I was up for another two hours before falling asleep for about four hours. Goddamn my throat. This morning I decided to try an allergy medicine instead of a cold medicine. I was forced to cough a few times during the day but I would like to say it worked. Although my throat is really only a bother in the morning and the middle of the night. We'll see if the one pill was enough to cure me or if I'll once again be awakened in the middle of the night. If that does happen, I'm going to pop another pill and hope for the best.

I ended up pulling out all the knitting I did yesterday and started over with larger needles. I could probably go even bigger but I won't. The herringbone stitch takes so much time. It is fairly simple but also complicated, requiring a little more concentration than I'm used to, and there are just so many steps for each stitch. And it looks good but not as impressive as the work requires. Unlike cabling or something, which is really simple but looks super complicated. But I'm still only a few inches in and I can easily see this becoming another aborted scarf.

On the way to pick up my car from the body shop today we passed a car accident. There was a car that looked a little crumpled and then there was a pickup truck in the middle of the road, perpendicular to traffic, and on its side. Based on all the crap that looked like it was one in the pickup truck, I would say it was a possibility that the truck even rolled. I live in the world and drive a car, so I've driven by a lot accidents, but I don't think I've ever seen a car on its side.

As for my car, it looked brand new, unlike the truck. The rear bumper looks perfect, they completely cleaned and vacuumed the inside, and washed the outside. It looks awesome. I don't know about $500 worth of awesome but for the sake of my bank account, I'm going to say it is. And that'll probably look like nothing after the hospital bills start coming in.

And that was pretty much my day. Now I'm going to try and go to bed because it is still a decent hour and maybe I can sleep through the night. That would be sweet. I just want to get back to a normal sleep schedule, although that will be thrown off by working at the theater this weekend, so it really won't matter.