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Thursday was not pretty....
Apr. 9th, 2024 04:30 pmThursday I did manage to get the gym after a very long day and lots of stress. I hit the gym for a combined body workout. I did full bar squats, dumbbell deadlifts, overhead weight high steps, calf raises and then a walk. The squats is where I was dumb. I loaded to the middle of the range of weights I used last week and it was weird and hard and I did 3 sets before I went down in weight to discover I had loaded 45 lbs on one side (my bad side) and 40 lbs on the other. This made my ankle not happy. I had issues walking on the treadmill but I did it. Got to the dojo to pick Benton up and then things got weird. I was tired, boy was tired. I will say he is my child in this and when I asked a simple question he exploded with a vehement answer in his tone. I exploded back cause I wasn't thinking and that got us both in foul moods. Got home and it got worse. I needed him to send an email to his teacher about a missing assignment and I yelled so loud after 3 times asking him to come out of his room to do this task that my left eye started to get the sparkly halo of a migraine coming on. My heart was pounding and it was not good in my head. I finally calmed down enough after more yelling and him doing the simple task I asked him to but I did not feel right the rest of the evening. I was upset (partially irrationally partially not (work)) and couldn't express to mel what I wanted to say. I was additionally stressed by ahving to fill out the same paperwork again for school that I've sent in twice and that was just annoying AF for Benton's trip to DC. I seethed for quite a while before getting a shower and falling into bed with a huge headache. I did drink water and take meds. I woke up with a screaming headache. Determined to ask the school WTF on the paperwork.
Dropped Benton off and talked with the school and their issue was they couldn't figure out why he had two inhalers and well he does. And I was confused with the same paperwork electronic and paper. The electronic was for the org doing the trip and the paper was for the school. But we got it all figured out since they had made a photo copy of only one of the sheets I sent in and missed the second and it disappeared. As Benton said he expected the school to have their shit together? I got home with burritos and curled up on the couch for a few hours playing a game with my head still on fire. Teh meds did nothing of course I left them on the counter. Ugh.
But I took them and then started in on painting before picking benton up from school. Then it was a quick dash to the DMV to get him an ID. Which I had everything but a letterhead with his name and address listed but with the awesome guy he helped me get soemthing from the school screengrabbed to email in. So soon Benton will have his own official travel ID. Next will be the passport and I need to get my passport renewed soon too. But all good. THen I get to my massage about 10 mins late getting Benton home but I had called ahead and told them and it was nice to walk in and walk right back.
Joseph and I talked and we realized that I probably had a panic attack Thursday and that is basically your body having a siezure response so everything was locked up...thus my headache and my body not calming down and going weird. So yeah. I had even taken my blood pressure on Friday cause it felt high...but it wasn't. Stress responses are fun. So after my 75 min massage I was much better. Then I headed home for a quick bite before heading to get drinks at Kon Tiki with Ari. I had not been there since Chani and Dan and I and Matt all went after scribble. Its been so long. The fun thing is it hasn't changed at all. PLus the food is still good and the drinks which I thought were expensive when I first moved here are now reasonably priced. For two appetizers and 4 drinks our bill was $55. It was nice to chat and commiserate and my stress level came down more just getting time to spend with Ari.
Got home and was able to give Wander hugs before she had left. Then Mel and discussed and decided we weren't going to St. Felix's event. I had to paint, Benton had a project due for school and he had to teach. He thought the event was on Sunday and he had to teach at the dojo Saturday. So yeah. We made the righ decision and Friday was so windy it blew down a section of the fence. I need to make phone calls again. sighs. I really want that done and dusted but people need to call me back.
So Saturday I was up and painting and working on the scroll listening to Disney movies. I got a good ways before I finally stopped and did some spinning. We had family dinner at Paco and Mom's for Ari's birthday and that was nice. Good food and fun times. Mason is now taller than Mel.
Sunday I went to yoga and then to Costco and CVS. Mel is on travel this week to Florida for work. So it was good for me to go to yoga since I will be not going to the gym until next week. I then painted until it was really a need to paint faces and stopped. I had asked Poe for help with drawing them on Monday and she did that so I can paint those today. I also sat Sunday night and started working on writing up the text. Its going to be fun and in pseudo old english like a recipe. The girls liked what I had written up to now.
Work front I finished book #13 and started "Making it So" a Memoir by Patrick Stewart as the 14th. Yay.
So things are moving, I'm still feeling behind and I picked up a mulit vitamin to start to help me. All good.
Dropped Benton off and talked with the school and their issue was they couldn't figure out why he had two inhalers and well he does. And I was confused with the same paperwork electronic and paper. The electronic was for the org doing the trip and the paper was for the school. But we got it all figured out since they had made a photo copy of only one of the sheets I sent in and missed the second and it disappeared. As Benton said he expected the school to have their shit together? I got home with burritos and curled up on the couch for a few hours playing a game with my head still on fire. Teh meds did nothing of course I left them on the counter. Ugh.
But I took them and then started in on painting before picking benton up from school. Then it was a quick dash to the DMV to get him an ID. Which I had everything but a letterhead with his name and address listed but with the awesome guy he helped me get soemthing from the school screengrabbed to email in. So soon Benton will have his own official travel ID. Next will be the passport and I need to get my passport renewed soon too. But all good. THen I get to my massage about 10 mins late getting Benton home but I had called ahead and told them and it was nice to walk in and walk right back.
Joseph and I talked and we realized that I probably had a panic attack Thursday and that is basically your body having a siezure response so everything was locked up...thus my headache and my body not calming down and going weird. So yeah. I had even taken my blood pressure on Friday cause it felt high...but it wasn't. Stress responses are fun. So after my 75 min massage I was much better. Then I headed home for a quick bite before heading to get drinks at Kon Tiki with Ari. I had not been there since Chani and Dan and I and Matt all went after scribble. Its been so long. The fun thing is it hasn't changed at all. PLus the food is still good and the drinks which I thought were expensive when I first moved here are now reasonably priced. For two appetizers and 4 drinks our bill was $55. It was nice to chat and commiserate and my stress level came down more just getting time to spend with Ari.
Got home and was able to give Wander hugs before she had left. Then Mel and discussed and decided we weren't going to St. Felix's event. I had to paint, Benton had a project due for school and he had to teach. He thought the event was on Sunday and he had to teach at the dojo Saturday. So yeah. We made the righ decision and Friday was so windy it blew down a section of the fence. I need to make phone calls again. sighs. I really want that done and dusted but people need to call me back.
So Saturday I was up and painting and working on the scroll listening to Disney movies. I got a good ways before I finally stopped and did some spinning. We had family dinner at Paco and Mom's for Ari's birthday and that was nice. Good food and fun times. Mason is now taller than Mel.
Sunday I went to yoga and then to Costco and CVS. Mel is on travel this week to Florida for work. So it was good for me to go to yoga since I will be not going to the gym until next week. I then painted until it was really a need to paint faces and stopped. I had asked Poe for help with drawing them on Monday and she did that so I can paint those today. I also sat Sunday night and started working on writing up the text. Its going to be fun and in pseudo old english like a recipe. The girls liked what I had written up to now.
Work front I finished book #13 and started "Making it So" a Memoir by Patrick Stewart as the 14th. Yay.
So things are moving, I'm still feeling behind and I picked up a mulit vitamin to start to help me. All good.
