Spring is like speed

Spring makes me crazy, but in a good way. I start scurrying around like a gerbil, frantically cleaning, sorting, moving things from one place to another. I'd get a lot done if I could just focus. My appetite drops in general, and I start craving salads and fruits instead of things like Swedish meatballs and beef stew. And I can't get to sleep. I don't sleep well under the best of circumstances, but even less well during the Spring Change. Fortunately the methamphetamine-like action of the spring air keeps me going, sleeping or not. Somehow I managed to go back to work the week after Minicon and work 10-hour days all week without getting a single full night's sleep until the weekend. Did the same thing the following week. I think I'll go take a bike ride before this wears off!

Upgraded to paid status - now what?

I finally decided that I kinda like this LJ thing and I'm going to stick with it, so I upgraded to paid status. I seem to remember people telling me that I could do all kinds of cool additional things with a paid account, but the descriptions on the website are completely cryptic. In fact the descriptions of what I can do with a free account are too cryptic for me, but I'm pretty sure I'm not doing any of them.

What are your favorite "advanced" features on LJ? (In this case, advanced includes anything more complicated than compiling a friends list and posting occasionally). I'm trying to figure out how to create filters for reading just a subset of my friends list, but I don't know where to start.

Have I mentioned that I am GUI-impaired? When faced with an easy-to-use graphical interface for almost anything I run into brick walls. I often have a hard time figuring out where to start and almost always have a hard time figuring out how to finish things up. F'rinstance, I had put off upgrading to paid account because I was sure it would be hard, and sure enough, I stared at that page for about 5 minutes trying to figure out how to say "Yes, I want to do this, ask me for my credit card info." Turned out there was a button that said "Add to account" or something like that, but it was directly under some option I wasn't interested in, so I didn't even SEE the button, much less intuit that this was the one I wanted. *sigh* I like linear text.

I'm going to try to figure out how to add an icon now. Wish me luck.