Seasonal journal flip!

[annathepiper]

One of these days I will either whip up a new stylesheet theme for my journal and my personal web page, or at the very least figure out a way to have my journal flip round to the next seasonal style in the queue when my web page does. Regardless, it's spring on Anna's journal now!

Also, I did exercise again tonight, but took care to try to do a less strenuous treadmill walk than usual since my system's been so wonky lately. But I didn't want to fall out of the habit of exercising entirely. So I did 40 minutes again tonight, but kept it slow and easy, and totalled only 1.44 miles (deliberately timed to get rid of the fractional part of my recent Rivendell tallies). Thus:

Miles on the journey: 27.0
Miles to Rivendell: 431.0

Comments

[damara.livejournal.com]

Spring? *laughs* We got inches of snow today - it's not spring yet. :) Well, not here anyway.

[annathepiper]

I hear rumors of snow in Kentucky today, too. Feh. We've had distressingly little snow this year--and I'm not even talking about the snow we hardly ever get in the Seattle urban area. We've got distressingly little snow on the surrounding mountaintops, and we need that for our summer water supplies. :/

[chamois-shimi.livejournal.com]

That's happened before- it was... what was it. '94? '93? When the mountains got hardly a flake of snow, the reservoirs were nil, and Seattle when on water restrictions in April. Wheee.

We're pretty dry down here, too, though we've had rain today and yesterday, the first rain in weeks. Hopefully that means it was snowing in the mountains.

[annathepiper]

I was here in Seattle then... hrmm. I don't remember this too well. solarbird says she remembers, though. Guess we'll have to see if it happens again this year.

[damara.livejournal.com]

*snugs* Weather is strange, yes.

I'm told we normally get around 90something or other snow, but this year we're already up to 108... Millimeters? Probably. Not sure.

Anyway, we probably could use the extra - it's been a long, long time since I remember snow drifts this high in March!

[annathepiper]

Millimeters are teeny! 90 millimeters is just under a single centimeter, and there are 30-some-odd centimeters in a foot... so I'd think that centimeters would be the measurement you're looking for?

[damara.livejournal.com]

*laughs* I don't know - they talk about rain in millimeters, but I know we got 20cm of snow yesterday. So, probably centimeters.

Seems reasonable to me anyway.

[annathepiper]

Heh! Weird. Guess this is what I get for not being raised somewhere where they use the metric system. :) Rain or snow, it's always inches with us in the States.

[damara.livejournal.com]

Yes, there's that. It's just bizarre. I'll see if I can find out for you, because now I'm curious.

[annathepiper]

Cool, let me know. :)

[damara.livejournal.com]

Some info on measuring Precipitation in Canada (http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/mainmenu/faq_e.html#weather1a)

[annathepiper]

Ah, I see you did let me know. Thanks! :)

[damara.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. I was having some difficulties copying and pasting, cause I was trying to get the pertinent info into my post, but my computer wasn't cooperating with me at the time.

In any event, I learned something new when I checked it out, so that was cool. Hope it helped explain the confusion! :)

[annathepiper]

It did, yeah. :)

[annathepiper]

The insomnia's only been a problem in the last week and a half or so, and I've been exercising since the middle of January. Now, granted, this has been after a long dry spell of erratic weights workouts over the previous many months--I fell hard out of exercising when I broke my arm, and when I had the thyroid surgery. The thing that may be more of a relevant factor is that I'd only just recently started trying to lengthen my treadmill workouts from 30 to 40 minutes, and gunned the treadmill up to a faster speed. I got it up to running speed a couple of times. It could perhaps be that I was trying to accelerate too quickly up from the more 'brisk walk' sort of treadmilling I'd been doing before that.

I can't exercise earlier in the day, though. There's no time to do it during my work hours, and I'm already getting up as early as I can stand in the morning.

[annathepiper]

Yeah, I always do my treadmilling pretty much right when I get home. :)

And thanks! I'll be trying the Melatonex again tonight. I figure hell, even if I get only five or so hours over the next few days, I can start regaining lost ground. It'll help if the cat settles down, too.

I'm still half-wondering if I'm fighting something off, too. I've had similar sleeplessness when ill in the past, and I distinctly remember that sudden "ping, I'm awake now" feeling hitting me the last time I was ill enough to have to take Nyquil to knock myself out at night. Once it wore off, boom, I was awake. And I've had a couple of odd bouts of hard sneezing and weird temperature sensititivies. When I had my massage appointment with Liz on Sunday, and she had me face down on her table, I actually got a bit of a nosebleed... which all leads me to wonder if I'm wrestling off some sort of sinus infection or something.

[chamois-shimi.livejournal.com]

I hope you're able to work your insomnia out without too much hassle. I suffered a weird virus in college that my body fought valiantly, and in the course thereof I couldn't sleep for 3 days straight. Just couldn't. Laid in bed, not sleeping. My doctor's best guess was that my immune system was cleansing "fatigue poisons" in addition to everything else, as weird and hand-wavey as that sounds. It took me more than a year after that before I was able to fall asleep and stay asleep properly. Bleh.

Anyway, the dr. I saw about my sleeping problems had me keep a journal of when I went to bed, approx. how long it took to fall asleep, how often I was waking up, how long I was awake for, and when I would wake up in the morning. He took a look at it and said that yeah, definite non-normalness. You might want to start keeping track of that kind of thing a little bit- if nothing else, as improvement gets made you'll be able to see there has been improvement, and maybe that'll make you feel better. Sleep's a weird thing like that- stressing about how you're not sleeping only makes it less likely that you *will* sleep. :P

[annathepiper]

I've kind of already been noting trends as they happen with this insomnia thing, in my LJ... which is why I was pretty pleased with five hours of sleep night before last, vs. two the night before that. That's the incredibly frustrating part for me. It felt like the Melatonex was making a dent, and then I turn around and have it do NOTHING last night.

Yesterday evening was almost normal for me, what with easy exercise and trying to write... I felt almost back on my feet. And then WHAMMO.

I've had it suggested to me by a couple of people now that stressing about insomnia only makes it worse, which is why I was hoping that having a massage appointment on Sunday would help work some of that out. But that didn't seem to help much either. This is why I'm beginning to be a little paranoid that what's left of my thyroid might be acting up. :|

[shikyrie.livejournal.com]

I wish it was spring... it
s freezing here... brrrrrr

Snow in Kentucky

[(Anonymous)]

Here in Lexington,anyway,it snowed a little-a light dusting,really, today. As far as Lexington goes, it's been a very mild winter-hasn't snowed enough to cover the grass.I think Louisville and Covington got hit with a few snowstorms, though. Scott

Re: Snow in Kentucky

[annathepiper]

I know for a fact Louisville got hit with at least one storm--during Christmas, while Dara and I were there. :) My older brother lives there, so he told us all about it.

Anything since then, couldn't say.