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My sleeping pattern is all out of whack yet again, and I’m not feeling well. I don’t know if the two are related. Either I’m sick because my sleep is messed up or my sleep is messed up because I haven’t been feeling well. Either way, I’m not overly thrilled.

I feel like I’ve lost several days because of it, and that’s never a nice thing.

I was up until 9 am this morning. Then I fell asleep until around 4. Not good.

Tomorrow I have to watch my nephew for a couple of hours while my sister’s at work and my grandparents are getting my niece off to school and they go to get their flu shots. Here’s hoping I can either stay up long enough to watch him or go to sleep early. I think there’s about a 50/50 chance either way.

I do, however, know that I’m getting too old for this kind of stuff.

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I just hope I can stay focused, regardless of anything else that comes up. That seems to be my biggest issue. I get distracted or stressed out and just seem to lose sight of my goals. Also, the fact that food is often my go-to for comfort probably doesn’t help the situation any.

It’s probably going to take a bit of time to get myself back to where I was before I fell off the Weight Watchers wagon, but hopefully it won’t be as hard as starting was in the first place. I want to lose this weight. Then I need to learn how to keep it off. I think that will be hardest part, but I’m not going to concern myself with that just yet. Getting to my goal weight is my main objective. Everything else, I can deal with once I’m there.

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It’s baffling to me that failed-to-say.net will be seven years old this December. Furthermore, in the seven years since I bought, I’ve owned three more domains and purchased and hosted two others for a friend. Two of the domains I owned are actually up for renewal in August. One of them was a gift for a friend that I won’t be renewing, and the other is one that I bought a few years ago and have decided to let expire since I haven’t put it to much use.

It was a difficult, but necessary, decision. Parting with a domain that I loved, but haven’t really used, makes me sad, but I’m happy with the other three that I will still have.

I’ve come a long way since I bought my first one. I really had no idea what I was doing when I bought it, and most of my friends were pretty clueless as well, which is unfortunate. Maybe if I’d had better references, it would have been an easier process.

I think the most difficult part was choosing a good vps web hosting service. The first hosting service I used was not the best by any measure. There were a lot of problems and getting help wasn’t always easy. I found a new hosting service eventually, and while the move to the new server was a bit tedious, it was definitely for the best.

Like anything, of course, there has been the occasional issue, but getting help or having my questions answered has always come very quickly, which I truly appreciate.

Anyway, I’m hoping to make some content changes very soon. Failed-to-say.net has gone through several changes since I bought it, and while I’ve ventured away from my initial uses for it, I would like to whip it into shape and add some things to make it better.

Normally, quiet bothers me. I usually have to turn on some music, even if only just as background noise.

Today, I’m basking in it.

I know I touched briefly on this, but I really didn’t go into much detail about the situation, but my sister has been staying with us for the last month. She had only planned to be here a couple of weeks because she had to be out of her old place and her new one wouldn’t be available right away.

When she went to see about getting into the new one, she was told it would be another week because they were still working on getting things ready for her to move in. Then, this week she went to see about getting in and she was told it would be another week, after she made the down payment.

Now, she’s reluctant to hand over somewhere around $500 when she isn’t sure that come next Friday the place will actually be ready. I understand her hesitation. I would be wary as well.

However, there is a part of me that is just ready for her to move out. I love my sister, niece and nephew. Truly, I do. But I just really want my home back.

Since my sister has been here, her stuff seems to have taken over the living room and kitchen. The living room looks like a baby’s nursery threw up all over it. The baby’s pack and play takes up most of the room, which was small to begin with, and there’s really nowhere to sit in the living room, so I’ve essentially exiled myself to my bedroom because if I wasn’t claustrophobic before, I may very well be now.

It’s just a frustrating situation and made moreso by the fact that there’s really nowhere to place the blame.

Regardless, today, my mom had the day off from work, and she is watching my niece and nephew while my sister is a work. It’s been a nice reprieve because nephew is almost seven months old. As of yesterday, he started crawling and got his first tooth. While these are both exciting developments, the teething has been anything but fun. I’ve heard my nephew cry and throw more fits this week than I have in the seven month since he was born.

So, for now, I shall enjoy the blissfulness of the quietude; at least, until the young ones return.