No tuna? The world is ending!
Well, the doctor's visit yesterday went mostly okay - the kids were kind of impatient and really difficult to deal with in the waiting room, but at least we got seen. The doctor increased my anxiety medication (double the dosage of what it was before) so we'll see if that does any good. As it is, I'm to the point where any undue stress (anything from sudden noises to kids bitching at me) has my heart palpitating, my hands shaking, and if it continues long enough, results in me curling up and crying. So I hope this does some good so I can function to get everything else I need to do done.
They also switched my back medication to something called Flexeril, which is on the four dollar generic list which means I can afford it. What I don't like about it though is that it makes me tired and disoriented. Maybe that will change when I get used to it, but if it doesn't I will just have to take it when the pain is excruciatingly bad only or else I'll never get anything else done.
Jeanette is complaining that we have 'no food in the house'. Of course, this translates to 'nothing she feels like making/eating'. I was making hot dogs on wheat bread and corn on the cob for dinner, and asked her if she wanted that - and she said EW NO, I can't eat a HOT DOG, that's gross! So I asked if she wanted corn and a sandwich of some sort (tomato on toast with mayo, or peanut butter and jelly) and she looked at me like I had grown a second head. We also have soup, macaroni and cheese, spaghetti, hamburgers, cereal, ramen, various cans of vegetables, eggs, pancake mix, ground meat, frozen sausages, oatmeal, popcorn chicken, rice, and probably a few other things that I've forgotten to mention. Yes, we don't have as much variety as we usually do and yes, we are OUT OF TUNA (which was said like it was the end of the world) but right now this is the best we can do. She knows how to cook, so she could easily prepare any of those foods if she didn't want what we were having for dinner. She then proceeded to harass her grandmother to share some dinner (grandma was making meatball sandwiches and soup) and then proceeded to tell her she didn't want any of the 'icky old brown gravy' or 'that soup with the gross beans'. Grrrrr.
Other than that, things are okay. I need to make a few phone calls tomorrow (to the kids' school, to see if I can find any more resources for us at the moment, to social security about that missing card, and Aus should probably call /check in about the unemployment thing). I need to write a book review for Superdove now that I finished it (good book!) on Gather. I could stand to write a column too, but it's hard with the laptop being dysfunctional and with my back pain being so high (using the big computer for long periods of time is difficult). Plus depression saps my creativity. I also need to gather our paperwork and such for the appointment on the 25th, and make sure we have everything we need while there's still time to figure out how to obtain anything we might be missing. I also need to make Eben's fan page on Facebook, and do some other assorted little band things. Aus has been doing a lot of that but there's some things (like making things pretty, and such) that are my job.
I need to check in with Bev and see what's new with the comic, and talk to her about the webpage and such for it.
On the upside though, I managed to make a couple of posts today and even put up some pictures of my Sims on vacation (I need a few happy distractions!).
So how's everyone else doing?
They also switched my back medication to something called Flexeril, which is on the four dollar generic list which means I can afford it. What I don't like about it though is that it makes me tired and disoriented. Maybe that will change when I get used to it, but if it doesn't I will just have to take it when the pain is excruciatingly bad only or else I'll never get anything else done.
Jeanette is complaining that we have 'no food in the house'. Of course, this translates to 'nothing she feels like making/eating'. I was making hot dogs on wheat bread and corn on the cob for dinner, and asked her if she wanted that - and she said EW NO, I can't eat a HOT DOG, that's gross! So I asked if she wanted corn and a sandwich of some sort (tomato on toast with mayo, or peanut butter and jelly) and she looked at me like I had grown a second head. We also have soup, macaroni and cheese, spaghetti, hamburgers, cereal, ramen, various cans of vegetables, eggs, pancake mix, ground meat, frozen sausages, oatmeal, popcorn chicken, rice, and probably a few other things that I've forgotten to mention. Yes, we don't have as much variety as we usually do and yes, we are OUT OF TUNA (which was said like it was the end of the world) but right now this is the best we can do. She knows how to cook, so she could easily prepare any of those foods if she didn't want what we were having for dinner. She then proceeded to harass her grandmother to share some dinner (grandma was making meatball sandwiches and soup) and then proceeded to tell her she didn't want any of the 'icky old brown gravy' or 'that soup with the gross beans'. Grrrrr.
Other than that, things are okay. I need to make a few phone calls tomorrow (to the kids' school, to see if I can find any more resources for us at the moment, to social security about that missing card, and Aus should probably call /check in about the unemployment thing). I need to write a book review for Superdove now that I finished it (good book!) on Gather. I could stand to write a column too, but it's hard with the laptop being dysfunctional and with my back pain being so high (using the big computer for long periods of time is difficult). Plus depression saps my creativity. I also need to gather our paperwork and such for the appointment on the 25th, and make sure we have everything we need while there's still time to figure out how to obtain anything we might be missing. I also need to make Eben's fan page on Facebook, and do some other assorted little band things. Aus has been doing a lot of that but there's some things (like making things pretty, and such) that are my job.
I need to check in with Bev and see what's new with the comic, and talk to her about the webpage and such for it.
On the upside though, I managed to make a couple of posts today and even put up some pictures of my Sims on vacation (I need a few happy distractions!).
So how's everyone else doing?