Watching Battlestar Gallactica. I'm not so into it anymore but this episode, they revealed to Athena that her baby is alive and I'm curious if she'll see her. I like that cylon. Hehe!

Jake made dinner last night. He likes cooking. I'd probably end up doing the baking and desserts. Need to get more recipes!!

Anyway, the adapter ring I ordered from Hong Kong arrived yesterday so I started using my Cimko lens. At first I thought I got a defective piece because I could not zoom in or out, then I figured it's a fixed zoom lens and the dial I was turning is for the focus area. Basically, it has a 2 ft to infinity focus so it's not for macro shooting. Bummer. One other thing is that I had given up on setting f stops because it was not responding, it was always wide open. Only later that evening did I find out that there was this aperture pin that needed to be locked in place to get the stops. I researched online on how to fix it and they say to open up the back piece of the lens, but I'm not going to do that. No way because I don't trust myself that I can put it back together, so I just super glued it to its depressed state. Woohoo it worked!! I still have to play with it more because I am not used to manual focusing and locked zoom and f stops. But Yay! I kind of want to get more M42 lens now. I noticed that this particular lens gives me a more subdued image... more soft, compared to the kit lens which has high contrast and vivid colors. (see below)

We made french bread pizza today. Yum!







I love my new camera!!

Sooo... I will be trying this OTC sleep-aid pill tonight. I hope it works. Haven't been getting a good night's sleep and rest this week. I'm having killer back aches on top of that. UGH!

I felt it working a few minutes after I took the pill (a little like what the dentist gives you when you get your wisdom teeth out). Anyway, I had trouble breathing at first and it made me really anxious so I went online to check what was going on. It's supposed to be one of the "severe" side effects and thankfully it didn't last long. When I went back to bed to actually sleep, I was breathing normally again. (THANK GOD!!!) The product did say that you'd be sleeping throughout the night but I woke around 3am. I immediately fell back asleep though. Also, I'm a little sore still and don't really feel fully rested. So my conclusion: it helped me fall asleep but not stay asleep. I was hoping to have at least full 6 hours. I'd probably take it again on nights I can't sleep only to "aid" me to go to bed, like maybe when our upstairs neighbors are being noisy.

I know they have another product with some ache reliever mixed in. Maybe I should try it next time.