@Driftwood: Hey again. Glad you’re keeping busy.

I’ve been doing much of the opposite. “Busy” is a word I only ever use as a lie, anymore. My schedule has been getting up at 10am, watching youtube from then until 4pm, skyping the s.o., more youtube, and then sleeping. I really need to be a bit more disciplined, as you state, but I just have certain habits that help me arrange my “schedule” around the household a bit better. I know I’ve mentioned it before, but I have an extremely hard time dealing with school before/when her boyfriend comes home. It fills me with self-doubt, and makes me lose my focus. I don’t do school work in the evening, because of the routine skype call my s.o. and I are used to. It’s usually 10pm after that, and by then I don’t want to do anything but either draw, or sleep. So, this leaves no time for anything remotely productive. But I’m usually pretty optimistic in the mornings, which could make it easy to get some cleaning in. (Random side note, but my “bed” consists of a mattress on the floor. It’s a long story.) And for school, I’ll probably catch up on at one point, when I get the time. I hope.

As far as trying to make the most of the visit; I don’t know. The only thing I can think of is to make the most out of the time I’ll have away from everything (as vague and obvious as that is). For example, sure, maybe I’ll embarass myself by trembling like a small dog, but at least it isn’t a household-drama-induced tremor. I’m also planning to log all of our activities in my journal, so I can always look back on it when I’m back home. I might even bring the Canon, to have more visual memories of it. It’d especially help because taking photos always boosts my mood, since I never really get to be behind my own camera. I’m sure more ideas will come up, since it’s gonna be a while until then.

Not sure – she asked what I’m doing currently to help with the tremors, and I told her about my hoard of sleeping/allergy pills (more or less), and she deemed that as fine. I’ve always wanted to get into aromatherapy/tea, though. I saw a youtuber review these drug-free aromatherapy vape things, and they were pretty cool. They had a mix/blend of certain aromas for every mood. Of course it’s 18+, though (for the simple reason that youngins shouldn’t be smoking anything, which is fair). Doesn’t mean I can’t go out and load up on more incense, though. And tea. The only problem is that going to the local herbal/health store thing is a bit of a pain in the bum because everything is a bit expensive, and trying to get my mother to go is inconvenient. Plus, vermilion tea (which someone told me helps with sleep) is hard to find. The closest thing I’ve found has vermillion in it, amongst other things. It’s a sleep-themed mix, but it tastes like some awful perfume. I would just get lavender incense again, but the smell grosses me out. It’s always something.

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Sudden realization. I don’t think I like using the term “boyfriend”, because it makes me think of my mother’s poor choices in partners. Wish I made that connection sooner.

I set out to write this post within 30 minutes, but it’s taken me nearly 2 hours instead. I’m very bad at time management, by the way. (Also, there’s, presumably drunk, people yelling outside. It’s nearly 3am. Wish me luck sleeping.)