Things have been very quiet as of late. Despite the access to multiple high-dollar, fancy cameras, I haven’t shot a picture with one in several weeks. I get up, spend a little time with the girls, go to work, come home, spend a little more time with the girls, and as soon as Finn goes to bed I just want to curl up and sleep. The sub-freezing temperatures we’ve been experiencing through January haven’t helped at all, because the house is so damn cold. I don’t want to attempt any projects in the basement or garage, and the first floor is just breezy enough to warrant a warm blanket.
Looking back through the archives here, I notice that this is a pretty average pattern for us; low temperatures and/or January seasonal blues tend to slow things down around here. I like to think I’d be more motivated in a warmer house, but I think the lack of light and gray malaise of late January has a seasonal, smothering effect on creativity for me.
However, I have started forcing myself to lay down at 11pm instead of staying up later, the positive net effect of which I can feel already. It used to be that I would stay up to “get things done” but in actuality I was just continuing a sleep habit carried over from college which wasn’t doing me any good. I’m feeling rested and fresher this week, and I like it.
Last night I did get some things accomplished: I cloned a brand new 1TB drive for my laptop to swap with the tiny stock drive, making photo storage a possibility again. I’ll be cloning another drive for a friend, who’s been having space issues of her own, and swapping out both drives at the same time, if all goes well. I’ll use some of that consulting money for a TV of some kind for our bedroom, which will be a nice treat. And speaking of TVs, I called Verizon to inform them they’ve been charging us for a set-top box we don’t possess for the past year and a half; apparently when the service guy came to replace it way back when, he never took it off our bill. So next month’s cable bill will be about 1/8th of its normal size. Huzzah!