Rabbit Style News

Tomorrow: shepherd’s pie and homemade-without-a-recipe fruit tart!  If successful I will post pictures.

I spent some time this evening going through scrapbooks from college and it was such fun.  I had forgotten how great my friends were and what delightful times we had during the College Years.  I was reminded of my desire to create a scrapbook (or several) for the years since graduation.  I have hundreds and perhaps thousands of digital photos from which to choose a sampling of pictures to get printed.  This is sounds like something I could do next week when I’m giving myself a full week vacation from work.

I accidentally slept until 4:07 yesterday afternoon.  I had been up late, not falling asleep until around 3 a.m., and then I slept solidly for 13 hours.  I never woke up to use the bathroom, or rolled over in bed, or glanced at the clock to check the time before continuing to sleep.  I was solidly unconscious for 13 hours straight.  When I woke up and saw that it said 4:07 I wondered if that meant a.m.  The sun peaking through the curtains suggested otherwise.  Another clock confirmed the information.

It was disorienting.  The day was more than halfway over!  There weren’t any messes in the house so my dog must have been able to hold it, the poor thing.

I am delighted to report that I have been off caffeine for a week and a half. Kind of two and a half weeks, with a small relapse in there. I’ve been actively cutting back for months, and then they took away free coffee at work last month and replaced it with a coffee vending machine. (Something about saving $300,000 or more per year across the enterprise.) I’d been drinking decaf — the supply lasted a lot longer than the regular after the orders stopped coming — and Diet Coke.

One day I realized that I hadn’t had any caffeine in over 24 hours and wasn’t yet experiencing any of the usual withdrawal symptoms so decided to wait another day. Still nothing terrible, just some excess sleepiness and cravings for the sweet fizzy taste of Diet Coke.

My name is Amy and I am an addict. It has been 10 days since my last drink.

Now I’m afraid to have any, even just a soda at lunch or a very small cup of coffee in the morning — I could fall off the wagon pretty easily.

I finished watching the second season of “The Wire” tonight.  Good show, that.