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While we were in Lockdown v.2, my sleep patterns weren't great, but they were certainly improving. i.e. I wasn't waking up at stupid o'clock and then not being able to get back to sleep (or thinking it wasn't worth it).

The day I returned to work, I woke up at 5:30 am. You know, because why not.

I haven't been able to sleep till seven since. I mean, I did last night/this morning, but I was awake for an hour (or more, because who knows how long it took me to fall back asleep) during the night, and only woke at seven because the heating came on.

(I woke from a dream in which Aoife from Eurogamer was teaching me Irish. Which is quite possibly one of the most "me" dreams I've ever had. Except I'm not really familiar with Irish apart from what I've picked up following theirishfor for the past several years, so my brain was probably making stuff up!)

I'm sure things will settle down again, but it kind of felt like it wasn't fair, you know?

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It snowed on Thursday night, which made me gleeful, although it wasn't a lot, and it was already melting by the time I left for work on Friday morning :(

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One benefit to being awake at five bloody thirty on Wednesday morning was that I could work some more on the acrylic painting I'd started the day before, and I have since finished it!

( pic here! )

I am really pleased with it! It's the first finished acrylic painting I've done in about nine years! \o/

I am also pleased that I am nearly at the end of one of the sketchbooks I made! I have one page left! Normally, I would have abandoned it by now (I am bad at leaving blank pages at the end of note/sketchbooks), but I feel like because I made it, I have to use it all up. So that is what I am doing!

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Finally, in case you're interested, I have also added two more prints to the thread I made of things I have available for sale, and you can find them in this tweet.