After all of Tuesday's excitement--I haven't even gotten to the unpacking part, either--I was glad to have Wednesday off. I was sore and tired and unfortunately still stressed, and in the afternoon I found myself lying on the floor listening to an anxiety podcast. It must have helped, because I fell asleep for a bit. I do feel a bit better now that ( Read more... )

Mom went into the city today to help pack up grandma. Dad and I stayed home. I needed a chill day, plus it was better for me to be away from her anxious energy ( Read more... )

It was nice to get off work at noon yesterday. Come home, have lunch, chill. I'd gotten everything done by Sunday, so it was a matter of remembering to bring my gifts downstairs, which I did after 9 PM. And promptly got yelled at. I'd turned on the dining room light so I could see what I was doing, only dad was perhaps still wrapping gifts, or ( Read more... )

I'm done ( Read more... )

Last night was calmer and more restful than the previous night had been. I've been so tired this week that it was easy to stay in bed until almost 8. I got up to use the bathroom and went to check this zit that appeared on my chin--and got a shock to see the area around my right eye was swollen. Not discolored, not blocking my vision, but ( Read more... )

Last night was our holiday concert for Regular Band. I wasn't sure what to expect since normally our concerts are on Sundays; a Friday night is really rare. Mom usually comes with me, but she opted out since her weekend got busy--not only did she have her Red Hat gathering today, but tomorrow there will be an open house for grandma's place, and mom ( Read more... )

I got home from work last night and the TV sounded weird. Dad uses a sound bar and it was if that was off and sound was only coming through the TV itself, which is unusual. Not long later, he made a comment and I went, ...did you get a new TV?! Which, in fact, he did. It's bigger than the last one, which was not insubstantial, but it was under $250 ( Read more... )

Since I was at rehearsal, I didn't get to see what trick-or-treaters we had at home. I was told we got 10 kids. Owing to dad's diabetes, and that I already stopped eating candy, mom ended up getting Welch's fruit snacks, a 60-count box. One kid did end up grabbing two, but at least one other kid, when given the offer to take more, said no thank you ( Read more... )

Our Halloween rehearsal was...surprising, to say the least ( Read more... )

I had an errand to run tonight, so I opted to go to Walmart after dinner to pick up a few things, and I found myself wandering about for a while getting ideas. Part of that is because I have this virtual credit of about $30 that I can only use online, and I may just end up spending that there. Dunno yet. I might need a wander about Target before I ( Read more... )