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Kat ([personal profile] wildvision) wrote2017-01-02 04:42 pm

Busy Weekend

I swear, I've been feeling short of sleep for about the past week or so. Normally, you'd think I could catch up a bit over the weekend, right? Yeah, not this time.

First off, I was late getting home from work on Friday night. (See previous post.) This resulted in my staying up a little late, since I wanted to have time to eat and watch a little TV before going to bed. Next, since Mom wanted to visit Rich on Sunday to exchange Christmas gifts, we had to do our weekly shopping trip on Saturday. And, since it was New Year's Eve, we had to go earlier than usual, since some stores were closing early that day. So, I was up late Friday night, and then unexpectedly woken up early on Saturday. Bleh.

Plus, spending the day running around shopping is tiring. After we got home, we went out to dinner, at a restaurant that wasn't close to home. I think I fell asleep on the drive over, so I can't say how long it takes. I usually like this place okay, but for one, I was tired and would have rather stayed in for dinner. Plus, the food just wasn't as good as usual that night. So I wasn't thrilled about that. By the time we got done and went home, I was barely awake, so I took a little nap.

Once I got up, I got started working on my computer. See, while Mom and I were shopping, Dad got my new desktop set up for me. <3 This was his Christmas/birthday gift to me, and it's a really nice one. Lots of new parts, bigger hard drive, faster processor, new OS, the whole shebang. I was way out of date before, so I needed this. (I'll probably be upgrading my laptop myself, sometime soon.)

So, with a fresh install comes the need to put everything back on it. That means copying all the files from my backup, plus installing my old programs and re-entering any settings that I need to. And let me tell you...when you hoard media files like I do? That takes a while. ^^;; So I worked on that until late into the night. (Didn't finish, either.) Wound up staying up later than I should have. (I know, I know, I'm an idiot!)

Then Mom made me get up at like, 1:30 on Sunday. Which is way too fucking early. While we drove down to see Rich, I tried to sleep. I did get some, I think, but I kept getting jerked awake by jolts in the road, or by the freaking seatbelt shifting around to cut into my neck. =P

It was nice seeing Rich, though. We exchanged gifts. He liked what we got him, and got us some nice things. Then we went to dinner at Sugarfire. I'd wanted Italian, but it turned out that we didn't have time to go to the restaurant we'd planned to. Because we were going to go see the new Star Wars movie after dinner, and it started earlier than Dad had initially thought. So, we picked Sugarfire, since they're right across the street from the theater. And the food was good, as usual.

Honestly, I was really impressed by the theater! We'd never been before; just walked by. But it's really nice. They have stadium seating, with big, comfy chairs that rock a little. And they have little side tables, since they sell actual food (and beer!), besides the usual popcorn and soda. I still got popcorn, because come on. Dad got a Guinness and was well pleased. XD And the movie was really good! I liked it a lot. I didn't quite expect the ending to be so bleak, but maybe I should have. Either way, it was a really good movie, and I'd happily watch it again. (And it made me want to watch the original trilogy again!)

After the movie, we went back to Rich's place. We played with his dog, and just talked a bit. I think we left around 8:30ish. I tried to sleep on the ride home, but again, I kept getting jolted awake. So I took a nap when we got home. Then I got back to work copying files for the rest of the evening.

I tried not to stay up so late this time, but I still wish I'd gotten to sleep earlier. Because I had to go to work early today, which means getting up early. This sucks anyway, but then I had to wake up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. And did I go right back to sleep? No, that would be smart! No, I stood around and talked with Mom for a bit. I completely forgot I had to get up early. When I was lying back down to go to sleep, it occurred to me. I looked at the clock, and it said 12:30. I had to get up at 1:00. =P

So, I'm running on somewhere between 3 and 4 hours of sleep right now. I'm barely coherent at this point. I do get to go home earlier, since my shift started early. I think I'll come home, have my bath, and then try to get to bed somewhat early tonight. *Crosses fingers*