Ahh... good weekend.

I haven't had any stimulants in almost 2 weeks, and I've only been drinking about half as often. I went 5 days without phenibut and only had rebound anxiety the 3rd and part of the 4th day which is better than I expected, so I'm taking this opportunity to reduce phenibut usage to once a week or special occasions. I went to 2 shows, Friday and Saturday, and had a ton of fun, Friday I saw Todd Snider with my girlfriend and friends, my second time seeing him (solo, not with Hardworking Americans) and let me tell you, he puts on a wonderful show. He reminds me of Arlo Guthrie a lot. Saturday I saw Toubab Crewe (kinda local/regional, world music/jam band, they're really cool), followed by Keller Williams (Grateful Grass). Took some AMT and AL-LAD for that and had a fantastic time, great combo, really great. My girlfriend was quite upbeat and fun this weekend, even though her stomach started bothering her (she has chronic stomach issues, but usually she keeps them udner control but for some reason it started coming back out of nowhere). This would normally get her really upset, but she wasn't. She also was really into sex this weekend which is great since she's been depressed and not very into sex for a good while now.

She got some free tickets to the Biltmore from a coworker, and we went yesterday to look at the gardens.
She's really into orchids, like it's her main hobby (I think it's helped her to get inspired/passionate about something again), and some of them are at my house, along with a variety of other plants of hers. I've been buying ferns and other plants, and my office is full of plants everywhere, and now in my kitchen there are also a lot of plants, there are some ferns interspersed with orchids on top of the fridge and behind them there are plants in the high windows, and on the other side there's my biggest fern and some smaller succulents. I love having plants around, it's so much nicer to be inside.

This week/weekend I'm going to start working on my garden again, I thinned out the saplings from about halfway down the yard (my yard is a sloping mountainside), to no trees up next to the stream next to the road. The last two years I've been digging out pathways and terraces up the slope, and planting increasingly shade plants as it goes up into the forest. I'm trying to do mostly native plants that are perennial. This year I have to find a bunch of stone and actually build retaining walls and stone pathways.
Basically, it feels good to be alive right now.

This winter was really hard, but Spring is finally here and it feels so much brighter.
