Last Week
I survived another week with minimal carnage.
Monday night - I painted at Spirited Art with some of my new friends. It was fun and I was happy with my painting.
Tuesday night - I went to a "Personal Growth" meetup. This was a first for me, but I felt pulled to it for some reason. I'm not sure what I think of it after going. I don't know what I really expected but I'm not sure this was it. I might give it another try next month, but I'm not sure. It was basically just a group discussion, in this case about the stresses of the holidays. The most interesting aspect was a Middle Eastern guy who was there who doesn't celebrate Christmas but says he's up for any festival and will gladly join in anyone's festivities. He and I seemed to be about the only ones who didn't fit into this very Christian group.
Wednesday morning Paul woke up and decided he was going to take the day off work. We went to breakfast and then he went with me to my Drs appt. I've been having stomach issues for the last month or so. This was my second visit for this problem and the doc decided to refer me to the GI dr but also suggested that I try a food elimination diet to see if I might have a food intolerance. So, starting Thursday I have been dairy free. I'll keep this up till Christmas and see how it goes.
Wednesday night, I went back to Spirited Art with Dawn. She had a Groupon that was about to expire and I'd told her that I'd go with her when she picked a class. This was one of those paintings that seemed so easy but it was hard for me. It was candles, really nothing more than circles and lines and yet that is what made it so hard. It's funny how the things that seem so simple are often the hardest.
Thursday I had the ladies from the Bra Project over and one of them, Barb, showed us how to do some copper art. She pre-cut some Christmas tree shaped ornaments and we hammered in the details. It was fun and I'm sure my neighborhood was wondering what was going on with all that pounding. It was a good time.
Friday, Paul was off work. He ended up switching his days off so he'd have a 3 day weekend for my birthday. We did breakfast out and after that I can't really remember. Except that I sent him away Friday evening to go play pool so I could rest, partly because I knew I had to make it till Sunday so I could enjoy my birthday and partly because my energy issues started kicking in. Sometimes it's like I'm a magnet and anyone else near me is also a magnet and we have the same poles facing each other. That energy that is created that pushes the magnets apart is what I feel. The closer people physically get to me the more I feel it. He was laying up against me and I had to tell him to move away because it was affecting me so much. I could still feel it with him on the couch but not as much.
He's been playing pool a lot more, which I'm happy about. Not that I want to get rid of him, just that I like that he's enjoying it again. He has a good team with players who actually motivate him to play better and to have fun (at the same time). That's something his last team didn't give him. It got to where he hated to go and I think he really started to think he disliked pool over it. Now he's playing better and more often and is actually excited about it and hopeful of going to Vegas to play, either with his team or on his own (at some point). The team he was on in Nashville won their way to Vegeas the last season he was with them, but we couldn't go because it was within a month or so of a trip we'd already planned to Vegas (bad timing), so he couldn't get off work.
Saturday I woke up still feeling like crap so I didn't really do anything. My mom came over and watched a movie with me for a little while and Paul made us steaks and salad for dinner.
Happily, Sunday I was feeling better. Paul brought me doughnuts for breakfast and we hung around the house in the morning. He gave me an Amazon gift card for my birthday, so I could use it to get books or apps for my Kindle Fire. Just because I wanted to get out of the house, we left and went randomly shopping, ended up in Jones Valley. Last night we had plans with David and CoreyAnn and Candi for my birthday dinner and a movie. We went to Cantina Laredo and then to see The Muppets. Dinner and the company were great. The movie was awesome. I had a smile on my face the whole time and drove Paul nuts all the way home with Mahna Mahna. Ended up downloading the soundtrack to my phone before we even got home.
Today, I'm hurting again. I should have had my third (and probably final) workout with the personal trainer today, but I skipped out. I also just wasn't up for the hard sell I knew I was going to get afterward. Since this was my last workout that was covered by the Groupon. I actually asked them last Monday about the pricing and the girl I've been working out with was like "well you'll have to talk to Jeremy about that. He'll probably have a sit down with you after your next workout to go over all that". I've heard from a friend that they do a pretty hard sell there with a lot of "but if you buy today....." crap. I wasn't up for that. Part of me would love to continue going and i really liked the girl who was training me. I just don't like being locked into something and losing money if I can't go. I did buy a Groupon last week for 20 yoga classes for $20, so I guess I'll give that a try after the first of the year.