I will try to get to your comments but I am feeling supremely grumpy today as you will read 
Sicily = archived. That is sad. She's a hot lady. I heard whispers of what happened and it made me sad.
What is your secret for waking up in the morning? Bonus points if you have depression and have found ways to get up in the morning in spite of feeling so icky when the alarm rings.
I was going to look for a program that plays music on my computer as an alarm at a certain time, but in looking around I see you just have to schedule a task in Windows and it will do it. Does XP even have a task scheduler? I'm still on Windows 2000 professional. I was fooling around with mom's computer and didn't see a task scheduler anywhere.
I'm testing it out now and I don't think it's working. Argh.
WOW that was ultra-bizzaro. Coooool!! I was already listening to Chewing Gum, but I'd scheduled it to start again in a few minutes. Well the song was going on and a few minutes were up... so a SECOND winamp opened and started playing it. Two Chewing Gums at once. And it was vaguely synchronized too!! The beats were complementing each other. That was rad!!
Sad to say listening to the song I felt pretty grumpy and all "go away Annie!" Except when two of them started playing at once. That was cool.
Ok it's working now, good. AND I can even set it to play a playlist, not just one song, so I can have the whole album start every morning and it'll play through. If 4 minutes of music isn't enough to rouse me, maybe 45 will be! And that is cool too because I can set winamp to shuffle and/or repeat to switch things up or prolong the listening experience. That way I would never know WHAT I'll wake up to.
I just need to remember to hook up the speakers before I go to bed
See I'm thinking I should start the day with Annie's album, maybe that would get me up and moving a little better than the polite yet incessant chime of my double-bell alarm clock. Then again I might get a bad association with her album as being the thing that rouses me from peaceful slumber. Or I might just sleep through it. Maybe set both the double-bell and the computer. Or turn the speakers WAYYYYYY up. Nah, I don't want to break them.
But with this depression thing it gets to be impossible to get myself out of bed. Bad.
Man I felt like crap this morning when I woke up. Don't know why. It seems the depression is coming back. That's really bad. It was one thing that I felt bad, it was another that my stomach was upset. When I finally got out of bed around noon I had to make some of the soup I make when my stomach is upset:
Hopefully that image is not a red X. That soup settled my stomach this one week I was really sick last year. I was coming off a medication and I swear it was withdrawals though my psychiatrist said it wasn't. I kept throwing up, but then I had some of this soup and noticed my stomach felt a lot better. I think it prevented me from throwing up the rest of the week. Gross!!!
More articles are up. The articles section is coming along nicely. If only Google would be so kind as to recognize my site a little better than it currently is Calum, the fellow fan who sent me the scans, came up with a clever pun, (p)articles in the Annieverse. I love that! I'm trying to think of ways to integrate that into the site. I could just rename that section (p)articles. But then I might have to think up cleverness for the rest of the site. Hmmm.
I had some celery sticks a couple hours ago, with hummus. They were o-KAY. I guess. I wasn't sure what to have for dinner given that I'm not really hungry today. I was looking at the box of falafel mix I've had for forever, but I was feeling too lazy to do the frying thing. We don't even have pita bread anymore.
So in the end I made easy mac. Bleh.
I started a new Anniemal farm in Harvest Moon. I'm trying to do things a little better this time around. I'm trying to upgrade my tools right away and I plan not to make the mistake of buying cucumber seeds and instead grow tomatoes or something that doesn't take a million years to ripen. Cucumbers are for the more advanced farmer I think. Hopefully I can buy a chicken soon and name her Annie. Subsequent chickens may just be Annie #2, #3, and so on.
I still don't know how to feed my horse. In my new game I haven't gotten it yet. Do you, like, have to grow things to feed to it? Or just throw food items at it? I've asked this before but nobody had an answer. Maybe someone's made a new walkthrough for the game on gamefaqs. Maybe you don't have to feed it at all. But the game does explicitly say you have to feed and brush it every day. Confused!
Anyone got a rom of Harvest Moon More Friends of Mineral Town? I give you kisses
Today was a total bust. I was glad to get to talk to Redbeard3 earlier this afternoon, that was a nice break from the grumpiness. (He's sending me a package and a letter!!!) Otherwise it was a crap day.
Did you know? He found a 45 of Chewing Gum on eBay and he's sending it to me!! He's going to rip the songs to mp3 first and they're a little rare!! I don't deserve it!
Meanwhile back in grumpyville, I'm not even really enjoying reading Life, the Universe, and Everything. I guess things were different last time I was reading it. I was still in school then I think? Geez how long ago WAS that? Crazy.
To give you an idea of how out of it and confused I was when I first woke up, maybe around 8am, my phone chose that time to start beeping at me that the batteries were low. In my state at the time, I thought the beeping was an alarm or something. I had set my double-bell clock to wake me at 9:30am and it couldn't have been more than 8:30. I was confused by the phone. So confused. Then when I realized what it was I plugged it into the charger and it shut up. I was still pretty out of it.
I laid in bed feeling bad until the double-bell rang at 9:30. I said "to hell with it" and went back to sleep until noon. Argh! I had wanted to wake up early-ish and make myself some oatmeal since I found a recipe in one of my vegetarian student cookbooks. I never did, and that made me sad.
Hey wow. There's an overnight oatmeal recipe in there too. Maybe I should make that tonight when I'm actually awake so I have something to eat when I get up, whenever that might be. Yeah I'll do that. I feel like cooking anyway.
Ok all done. No cooking necessary, you just put a cup of oats together with a cup of milk and a half teaspoon of cinnamon and cover it and refrigerate it overnight. It called for raisins but we don't have any and I hate raisins anyway. We also don't have any milk but we do have powdered milk so I made some of that. It might be gross but I'll give it a shot. I'll put some cut up apple on top when I eat it.
I REALLY need to start eating some more fresh fruit and vegetables. I'm realizing that my hatred of milk isn't specific to just milk, it encompasses all perishable foods. I had some raspberries and they went bad after, what, two days?? All moldy. What is the DEAL??
I seriously have to get over that and deal with it. I need more fresh produce in my diet. I just hate being required to eat it all within a few days of buying it. Irritating!
In the jungle
it grew a tree
where all the animals
could be................
Shhhhhh! Let's start the record!
Sicily = archived. That is sad. She's a hot lady. I heard whispers of what happened and it made me sad.
What is your secret for waking up in the morning? Bonus points if you have depression and have found ways to get up in the morning in spite of feeling so icky when the alarm rings.
I was going to look for a program that plays music on my computer as an alarm at a certain time, but in looking around I see you just have to schedule a task in Windows and it will do it. Does XP even have a task scheduler? I'm still on Windows 2000 professional. I was fooling around with mom's computer and didn't see a task scheduler anywhere.
I'm testing it out now and I don't think it's working. Argh.
WOW that was ultra-bizzaro. Coooool!! I was already listening to Chewing Gum, but I'd scheduled it to start again in a few minutes. Well the song was going on and a few minutes were up... so a SECOND winamp opened and started playing it. Two Chewing Gums at once. And it was vaguely synchronized too!! The beats were complementing each other. That was rad!!
Sad to say listening to the song I felt pretty grumpy and all "go away Annie!"
Except when two of them started playing at once. That was cool.
Ok it's working now, good. AND I can even set it to play a playlist, not just one song, so I can have the whole album start every morning and it'll play through. If 4 minutes of music isn't enough to rouse me, maybe 45 will be! And that is cool too because I can set winamp to shuffle and/or repeat to switch things up or prolong the listening experience. That way I would never know WHAT I'll wake up to.
I just need to remember to hook up the speakers before I go to bed
See I'm thinking I should start the day with Annie's album, maybe that would get me up and moving a little better than the polite yet incessant chime of my double-bell alarm clock. Then again I might get a bad association with her album as being the thing that rouses me from peaceful slumber. Or I might just sleep through it. Maybe set both the double-bell and the computer. Or turn the speakers WAYYYYYY up. Nah, I don't want to break them.
But with this depression thing it gets to be impossible to get myself out of bed. Bad.
Man I felt like crap this morning when I woke up. Don't know why. It seems the depression is coming back. That's really bad. It was one thing that I felt bad, it was another that my stomach was upset. When I finally got out of bed around noon I had to make some of the soup I make when my stomach is upset:
Hopefully that image is not a red X. That soup settled my stomach this one week I was really sick last year. I was coming off a medication and I swear it was withdrawals though my psychiatrist said it wasn't. I kept throwing up, but then I had some of this soup and noticed my stomach felt a lot better. I think it prevented me from throwing up the rest of the week. Gross!!!
More articles are up. The articles section is coming along nicely. If only Google would be so kind as to recognize my site a little better than it currently is
Calum, the fellow fan who sent me the scans, came up with a clever pun, (p)articles in the Annieverse. I love that! I'm trying to think of ways to integrate that into the site. I could just rename that section (p)articles. But then I might have to think up cleverness for the rest of the site. Hmmm.
I had some celery sticks a couple hours ago, with hummus. They were o-KAY. I guess. I wasn't sure what to have for dinner given that I'm not really hungry today. I was looking at the box of falafel mix I've had for forever, but I was feeling too lazy to do the frying thing. We don't even have pita bread anymore.
So in the end I made easy mac. Bleh.
I started a new Anniemal farm in Harvest Moon. I'm trying to do things a little better this time around. I'm trying to upgrade my tools right away and I plan not to make the mistake of buying cucumber seeds and instead grow tomatoes or something that doesn't take a million years to ripen. Cucumbers are for the more advanced farmer I think. Hopefully I can buy a chicken soon and name her Annie. Subsequent chickens may just be Annie #2, #3, and so on.
I still don't know how to feed my horse. In my new game I haven't gotten it yet. Do you, like, have to grow things to feed to it? Or just throw food items at it? I've asked this before but nobody had an answer. Maybe someone's made a new walkthrough for the game on gamefaqs. Maybe you don't have to feed it at all. But the game does explicitly say you have to feed and brush it every day. Confused!
Anyone got a rom of Harvest Moon More Friends of Mineral Town? I give you kisses
Today was a total bust. I was glad to get to talk to Redbeard3 earlier this afternoon, that was a nice break from the grumpiness. (He's sending me a package and a letter!!!) Otherwise it was a crap day.
Did you know? He found a 45 of Chewing Gum on eBay and he's sending it to me!! He's going to rip the songs to mp3 first and they're a little rare!! I don't deserve it!
Meanwhile back in grumpyville, I'm not even really enjoying reading Life, the Universe, and Everything. I guess things were different last time I was reading it. I was still in school then I think? Geez how long ago WAS that? Crazy.
To give you an idea of how out of it and confused I was when I first woke up, maybe around 8am, my phone chose that time to start beeping at me that the batteries were low. In my state at the time, I thought the beeping was an alarm or something. I had set my double-bell clock to wake me at 9:30am and it couldn't have been more than 8:30. I was confused by the phone. So confused. Then when I realized what it was I plugged it into the charger and it shut up. I was still pretty out of it.
I laid in bed feeling bad until the double-bell rang at 9:30. I said "to hell with it" and went back to sleep until noon. Argh! I had wanted to wake up early-ish and make myself some oatmeal since I found a recipe in one of my vegetarian student cookbooks. I never did, and that made me sad.
Hey wow. There's an overnight oatmeal recipe in there too. Maybe I should make that tonight when I'm actually awake so I have something to eat when I get up, whenever that might be. Yeah I'll do that. I feel like cooking anyway.
Ok all done. No cooking necessary, you just put a cup of oats together with a cup of milk and a half teaspoon of cinnamon and cover it and refrigerate it overnight. It called for raisins but we don't have any and I hate raisins anyway. We also don't have any milk but we do have powdered milk so I made some of that. It might be gross but I'll give it a shot. I'll put some cut up apple on top when I eat it.
I REALLY need to start eating some more fresh fruit and vegetables. I'm realizing that my hatred of milk isn't specific to just milk, it encompasses all perishable foods. I had some raspberries and they went bad after, what, two days?? All moldy. What is the DEAL??
I seriously have to get over that and deal with it. I need more fresh produce in my diet. I just hate being required to eat it all within a few days of buying it. Irritating!
In the jungle
it grew a tree
where all the animals
could be................
Shhhhhh! Let's start the record!
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A good way around this - frozens! Seeing as autumn is on the way, I recommend a steaming hot bowl of sweetcorn with a big dollop of Utterly Butterly or similar butter substuitute on top. Or cheese. With some black pepper.
Plus, if you don't like milk on your cereal, how about cereal bars? Or muesli with orange juice? Get tricky!