Wednesday, June 13, 2007

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For the past couple days blogger has been acting a little whonky and I haven't been able to sign in, but that seems to better now.

The weekend was quiet. The weather was awsome and we stuck close to home. Did a few chores, fussed around with aquarium stuff, finally got some tangle foot on my fruit trees to keep the ants off.. that kind of thing.

The dogs have both already brushed up against the tangle foot so they will be needing a bath this weekend to get the stuff out of their fur. No point doing it yet, because it takes a few days to wear it down enough to wash it out. The stuff is nearly invulnerable and I'mm be glad when the trees are big enough that I can start putting it out of dog range.

I think post show despression may ave set in because I'm feeling generally bored with my life. It took a lot longer to set in this time, probably because the show was so draining both physically and emotionally, I needed to recouperate before I had enough energy to get depressed....hahaha.

We are still dealing with ich in the tank, and Darrell is still obsessed with the tank in general. I think it's the frustrated scuba diver in him that's causing the obsession. He hasn't been diving since we moved here 8 years ago and he used to spend almost as much time in the water as he did out of it. At any rate the problem with the ich and the fact that we can't afford to upgrade to a larger tank at the moment, coupled with the new problem that there are half a dozen pistol shrimp hiding out in a piece of live rock that we need to get rid of, are dirving him to the brink. He is not a patient person and the marine aquarium hobby requires a lot of patients. I think an intervention is in the not to distant future.

4 comments:

Lisa said...

I was feeling a little blah last week, and I think it was also due some belated show blues. It's weird that it took so long to hit; I was depressed for weeks after "Noises Off!" but I think you hit it on the head - it was exhausting!

Sorry to hear that you're still having such a hard time with the tank. Give Darrell a "hang in there" hug from me. I'm sure it will all work out eventually.

Blaine Le Roy said...

The Pistol shrimp thing is pretty much solved now, and Darrell has gone ahead and ordered a 130 gallon tank, so he's in a much better frame of mind where that is concerned.

Heather said...

I've heard of 'decompression' after-events for other major events(BurningMan comes to mind, and weddings, for some reason) - would something like that work for the Stage-Musical industry?

The theory was that you'd spent all of this time focussing and planning and working towards one great goal, with no time for other things, then all of a sudden it's gone - "now what do I do?"

The solution (or one of them) was to plan a mini-event - something that provided a goal to look forward to, without the full stresses of the original project - close enough to be on the horizon, yet far enough that "life" could be brought up do date in the meantime. A little anticipation, a little *easy* work to make it happen... maybe?

Or maybe just some serious self-pampering in the meantime, until the drive to get involved builds up again! Whichever path you choose, take care of yourself!

Blaine Le Roy said...

The decompression theory has some merrit. It is hard to get resettled into your routine when you're away from it and wrapped up in something else. Not to mention you spend everyday for two months with this huge group of people then they're basically gone overnight.