Posted on April 24, 2011 - by Ashley Jackson

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter, everyone! My eye is twitching, but other than that, it’s been a fine day. I did some cleaning and then went out on the patio to work on fixing my self-watering plant containers (they got a little busted up in the move). But I needed my purple duct tape and it was gone.

So I drove to Target to buy some more, and also to buy some more drink mix, because it comes in these tubes that are perfect for fixing my self-watering containers. But when I got to Target, it was closed.

I went to Lowe’s instead, ’cause it’s right next door. I found tomato and pepper plants outside. Then I wandered around looking for duct tape. I finally found it and bought a huge roll; I may never buy duct tape again. Then I went outside and spent an hour wandering among the plants.

…I bought a couple.

Did I need to spend $60 on plants? No. But I’ve been wanting some plants for my apartment since I moved in–one of the reasons I love my office at work is that the windowsill is full of plants. Rooms seem more alive when there are plants.

All the plants at the top of the photo–the two anthuriums, the little orchid, the cactus/succulent in terra cotta container, and the spider plant–are from the clearance section. I also got a bromeliad, a wandering Jew, a sweet pepper plant, and two tomato plants–one Big Boy and one that will produce small tomatoes (like the kind I eat for lunch).

When I got back, I set to work fixing one of the self-watering containers. I only had enough drink-mix-tubes to fix one. Heath came outside with me and finally laid down on the patio.

Also, a slug crawled onto my foot.

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Yesterday I went to my brother’s house, where there was food.

Potato salad, broccoli casserole, crescent rolls, and chicken. I only ate half the chicken, but I made up for it by having two crescent rolls.

And there was banana pudding.

Which counts as a fruit.

I can’t believe it’s 7:30PM already! That means that it’s only a little more than 12 hours until my appointment with the oral surgeon tomorrow to talk about my wisdom teeth and their fabulous plan to vacate the premises of my mouth. Do not want.

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And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here. — St. Augustine

Posted on April 22, 2011 - by Ashley Jackson

Is it 10PM yet?

I told my sleep specialist that I think most of my problem now is that my sleep/wake schedule is so out of whack thanks to years of poor sleep, and that I was going to try to do better with that over the next couple of months. She suggested that if I want to get up at 5AM I should go to bed at 10PM. Staying up until 10PM is a lot harder than it used to be, back when I couldn’t sleep. (Was that really only a few months ago?) Especially since I downed 50 mg of doxepin, 3 mg of melatonin, and a combo with 3 more mg of melatonin and various sleep-promoting things in it at 9PM. The past two nights I’ve gone to bed at 9:30 or 10PM and fallen asleep within a half an hour, but I’m still having trouble getting out of bed in the morning. This morning I managed to get up at 7AM, and I have my alarm set for 7AM tomorrow morning, too, even though it’s a Saturday. No more sleeping for 10 hours just because I can now…!

I’ve been craving Chinese food, so I planned to call and order take-out from the Chinese restaurant near work and then pick it up when I walked over to get my new prescription during lunch. It turned out several co-workers were planning to go over there for lunch at the buffet, so I joined them instead. I’m kind of proud of how different my plate looks now versus a few months ago.

Veggies, veggies, everywhere…and some salmon (most of which I didn’t eat–it was hot!), a few bites of sesame chicken, a cream cheese rangoon, and an eggroll. And some fried rice–not as much as it looks like, since it was all on top of the veggies mixed with crab (which I didn’t eat, I just wanted the veggies).

My plans for tomorrow are to get up at 7AM (I hope!), take Mr. Heathcliff for a long walk, get some early morning work done, and then walk to the store to pick up a few things, including the broccoli and cheese for the broccoli casserole I’m taking to lunch at my brother’s house.

15 minutes to go….

Posted on April 20, 2011 - by Ashley Jackson

The Spicy Clucker

I really hate dislike restaurants where you have to order things by cutesy names. For instance, I’m not a big fan of Moe’s. I also don’t like going to Moe’s because when you walk in the employees all yell “Welcome to Moe’s!”, which I find to be annoying both when I walk in (because it calls attention to the fact that I’ve just walked in) and while I’m trying to eat.

Therefore, I find ordering at Tomato Jake’s to be slightly annoying. This is the Spicy Clucker with fries.

It’s good. I’ve gotten it on my last two trips to the restaurant. But it’s a spicy chicken wrap. Why can’t they just call it that? Why?

Oh well. They have trivia, so they’re still cool.

Also, I felt a little awkward taking a photo of my food, because on that episode of Criminal Minds I watched last night (the one I’d already seen twice), one of the victims, unknowingly being watched by her soon-to-be murderer, takes a picture of her breakfast at an al fresco diner and posts it online along with “MMM! Scones!” Fortunately, I haven’t been strangled by someone seeking facial symmetry yet.