Journey through Faerieland

It's strange... early this evening I felt extremely tired (and I still do) -- about the same time as I did yesterday. Maybe it wasn't "just" the Klonopin? I have heard of Neurontin making people tired, though it never made me tired; I take it shortly before I've been getting tired. I really feel like I could just go to sleep for the rest of the night -- not just take a nap. That's pretty much what I did last night... I'm going to run a load of laundry, though. I'm freezing! My robe and one of my blankets needs to be washed.

Today has been a good day and for that I am grateful. Michael and I woke up a bit late. My mother apparently textmessaged me about her dog, whom she was supposed to drop off for me to take care of and then take back to her house before we went to the UU church for our "Spirit in Practice" class. Well, fussy Rasputin didn't want to come over. She was texting me to take him out to pee before the church. I texted her back that I was "in a meeting." O_o Okay... I have no recollection of doing this and have never really been "in a meeting." So it must have been related to a dream I was having... So, sleepwalking, sleep-eating, sleep-talking, now sleep-texting. Unfortunately I did not take the poor dog out to pee:( I'd assumed my mother took him to work with her, which is allowed where she went today:( Oh well, he was okay.

Church was fun! We made lists of what we thought prayer were and what we thought meditation were and how we thought they were similar and different. Then we did a quiet meditation and then an eating meditation (a tangerine). We did a hymn and a reading. We did a couple of worksheet/readings, too, and were given Unitarian Universalist prayer beads. After the church thing we bought cheap cocounut hair conditioner and I read The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis.

I bid on ebay>_>. I allowed my auctions to all end with me losing except the one that was the sweater that reminded me of Mary Margaret Blanchard from Once Upon a Time. I followed Michael's advice and bid my max bid at the end of the auction. I tend to be very impatient and lose the auctions at just a dollar to two above the maximum I'm willing to pay! Very frustrating! I also put in a higher max bid for the mint Anthropologie floral top I love so much that I posted a picture of in here. It will end tomorrow during the day when I will probably be busy, so I just put in the bid and got it over with. The last one ended this morning just $2 past my max bid-_- I should have just paid more. It wasn't worth the hassle... I could have saved elsewhere. If I don't win this auction hopefully there are yet more tops.

Amber (surprisingly) left me an ebay message so I called her, but she was eating. She said she'd call back later tonight, but I want to go to bed early so I will probably call her soon.

My uncle just adopted an eight year old rescue Silk Terrier who is not house broken. His name was Binky (really??) and my uncle re-named him Ernie, after Earnest Hemingway.

I went to bed at 10:30pm last night and talked to Michael on the phone for a bit because I couldn't sleep. I finally took a Klonopin to fall asleep since I need to fix my sleep schedule. I had some pretty intense dreams. However, going to bed early did no good and I woke up after 12:30pm. I slept almost 14 hours! I don't know why. I haven't been sleep deprived -- just getting up late and going to bed a little late (midnight-ish). Hopefully I will be able to fall asleep early tonight and not sleep as much. I'm still tired...

My goals for today:
1. Read 2 Edgar Allan Poe short stories
2. Do 2 sketches
3. Do yoga/stretching
4. Watch Ai Yori Aoshi
5. Clean up the house
6. Wash the bathroom sink
7. Write a poem
8. Write emails
9. Do a tarot reading

I didn't sleep as much last night, even though I went to bed late. Maybe my insomnia isn't as bad when I go to bed later when I'm more tired. I got up earlier than usual today. That's all very good as I generally sleep too much (though even when I'm not medicated at all I usually need more sleep than average). My neck really hurts because of how I slept on it, I think. I stupidly pre-ordered a book twice on amazon so I got two copies of it in today:-( That was a waste of $13... It's not really worth it to return because I have to pay for shipping and then $3.99 will be deducted from my refund, even though I had free shipping. Hopefully I will find someone to give it to (it's the fourth Unicorn Chronicles book by Bruce Coville).

I just managed to get out of bed. For some reason I was incredibly exhausted (I still am, but not as much). I felt like I had overexercised and hardly slept, though neither of those were true. I did have a few troublesome dreams I snapped awake from, though. Maybe I didn't eat enough yesterday or didn't eat enough of the right foods... I kept waking up towards the end, or not even sleeping, but I felt too tired to move. I will try to make sure I eat better today to see if that helps.