Am fighting with my current muscle relaxer regimen.  The Doctor and I are trying to get the dosage correct as well as the proper time to take it so I can function without being messed up and unable to think.  It doesn't really work to pay all of this money out and be in debt for school and not be able to make the needed, and wanted grades.  Getting it *right* is very important.  Last night I took it at 8:33 p.m. and was able to sit up and watch a movie and still was cognizant, but when I went to lay down for the evening I slept hard and fierce so that I didn't wake up on my own and probably would have slept on until 11:30 a.m. when DH called to stir me from the peaceful slumbers.

Tomorrow I am going to take the medication in the morning so there will be an entire day of being awake and functioning.  If this works I should be able to take it of the morning and be likewise able to sleep at night.  This is important with all of the things I need to do for the house as well as getting everything organized for school, which begins on Monday, June 23.

Monday.  It would be lovely if there was just one more week where I could rest and get the necessary sleep and do what I needed for my body and brain, as well as for the house in getting it even more organized and ready for the coming quarter.  My time for lazing about and being quiet and at peace with everything is practically over.  Lucky for me ST got me some more yarn and I can actually begin working on the knitted cotton top currently running around in my brain waiting to be made.  There are also a number of other knitted projects as well as books to read to keep me relatively sane for the coming quarter.  (I discovered last quarter that, as long as I had something to do other than study, I could knit and read and somehow this let me rest and be at peace in a different manner.  I am going to continue this practice with the new quarter.)

Yesterday I began a very interesting short story.  So far there is a nice word count of 779.  It isn't finished - I was going to work on it some earlier, but had company, so didn't get to continue - and I am not at all certain what is going to come next.  See...there is a *reason* why it isn't finished!    It isn't as if I don't have any clue what is going to happen next, but the exact happenings are quite fuzzy and not readily visible.  Writing is like that sometimes:  You know the destination, usually, but not necessarily the route you are taking to get there.  The route is usually the middle portion of the story.  This isn't always the case, however; sometimes you don't even know the destination, you just know where you are leaving from and are quite surprised when you see where you have ended up!  Isn't it remarkable?!

Although this little story may not be absolutely perfect now, it is going to be polished and prepped and will be submitted.  Hopefully it will be able to be submitted in electronic format, because it would be nice to save some paper for the short stories.  If it *must* be submitted in hard copy format, that is exactly how it will be submitted.  Who knows, this may be the piece that begins me getting my name out there, or at least my pseudonym.  Don't worry - if it gets published somewhere you all will be the first to know and just where to find it.

It is time to begin making daily lists of accomplishments I'd like to make for the day as well as for the week and such.  At the moment everything is moving in a relatively orderly fashion, when classes begin there will be problems, of course, with keeping everything moving, but that is why I purchased a brand new planner and refills for it.  Yes, there were pages in the thing.  Pages you filled out yourself.  I don't have time to sit there and plot each and every day for the entire year, so I went ahead and purchased a refill kit.  Surprisingly, having purchased the planner and then the refill kit, the planner was still less than what I would have paid going to Barns & Noble and purchasing an entirely new planner for the year!  Turtlewoman has *serious* shopping fu skills!