Day 86/365 Need to recharge

I'm happy that I didn't have anything to do today because I am WIPED OUT.  I'm not sure why, but once again, I took sleeping pills, slept until almost 11am this morning and then pretty much got up, ate, watched a movie, slept again, went out to eat, slept again, and now I'm posting this in a hurry so I can go back to sleep. 
Anyway, I love to go out and do things and keep busy and never sit still, but today is one of those days that I'm happy to have just laid around.
Of course, laying down for me means ibuprofen because my neck doesn't do well laying down.  I hope I am more alert for tomorrow- it's back to school.

Day 69/365 Painful night

So you can tell that this picture isn't actually at night because of the window in the background, but this is me on a lot of nights- at first propped up on pillows with the bed raised, later holding my neck and head sitting up.  I'm not going to go on about it again- I just wanted to use this pic tonight because I thought the special effects in this picture were cool.  I took the picture a while back, but I hadn't had the chance to use it yet because I've had so much other stuff {like celebrities :) } to take pictures of.
To get this picture, I had to take 2 pics- one of me laying down, one of me sitting up.  I made two layers from the pictures, used the overlay button and reduced the opacity of the top layer (sitting up).  I put it in black and white by desaturating, going to duotones and playing with the color levels. I added a bit of noise to add some frustration and "night time" appearance.
I am still on a high from the successful concert 2 nights ago and today I got some really AMAZING news!  I have a photo shoot coming up Saturday and I am going to get PAID for it!!!! $$$$$  Woo hoo!  Pretty exciting stuff!  I'm also really nervous too.  When you're doing stuff for free for people, if something doesn't go right, it's kind of like, "oh well, you didn't pay for it", but if I'm getting money then it needs to be GOOOOOOD!   So- wish me luck!

Day 65/365 Half Awake

So this picture represents how I feel most of the time.  I lay down and I start hurting, wake up in the middle of the night, take medicine, fall halfway asleep, take pain medicine that lets me only be half-alert...it's never ending.  I feel like I'm in a fog 24/7.  I wish I could sleep like normal people and boy, think of what I would accomplish!  Today I was in such a fog that I went to take pictures with my friends, had all of my lenses, but forgot the camera.  Nice.  Of course, I had quite a bit of medication in me, so I'm lucky I remembered to get dressed.  Sure wish I could find a solution.
EXIF: f2.8, 1/40 sec, ISO 400, 100mm, no flash, shutter release cable
This is a 2-shot combo also.  One was a picture of my eye open, one was a picture of my eye closed, I made 2 layers out of the shots, played with opacity a bit until I liked what I saw, desaturated the picture, went to duo-tone mode with some black and a light blue shade, then went to RGB color and saved it as a jpeg.