Month: April 2024

Marathon Monday 2024

Today is the Boston Marathon. My friend from my hometown is running his 26^th consecutive marathon. I haven’t seen him post his results yet. He should be done by now. I love seeing him run. It is also the day we remember the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing from 2013. Hope they continue to rest in peace.

I canceled my therapy appointment. I didn’t feel like going and there was nothing I wanted to talk about. I texted her for a time next week as the rest of my week is pretty busy but she hasn’t texted me back yet. There is a high pollen count today and I want to open the window in my room but I don’t want to sneeze my head off. I already have been sneezing since early this morning. I had a hard time getting to sleep last night. I kept feeling hot and cold. Today is in the 70s and is so nice out. I took a shower at my sister’s and I forgot what water pressure felt like. My shower is just a trickle of water compared to hers. It was a nice shower. I felt weak and thought my foot would act up but it didn’t. My back did though. It still is cramping up. I sweat a lot afterwards and had to put on a shirt as I was just dripping. I am wearing my new PJs but they are much too warm for this weather. I don’t think I will sleep with them on. I might change to shorts.

I wanted to go to the pharmacy to get my meds but I never did. I will tomorrow after class. Maybe they will have my favorite Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. I managed to finish chapter 8 and will start chapter 9 after this blog. I finished the read of my book edits. I have to organize the document a bit. I won’t be able to work on it until Saturday. I have given myself that day to work on my book and the rest of the time to focus on school reading. My psych professor got back to me about the final. It is going to be cumulative. I hate that.

I haven’t eaten a meal today. I have been wanting to eat one of my microwave dinners but the freezer has been blocked by the vanity my brother in law is working on. I don’t want to order food as I don’t really know what I want to eat. My back is still cramping from the shower. I have been trying to drink fluids but it has been a challenge. I have had three cups of coffee today and that really has been my only fluid intake so far. Some days I can drink without a problem and other days, it is really hard.

High pollen days suck

Today the pollen count is again at a 10+. I am sneezing a lot and my sister has the damn door and windows open. My brother in law is painting the bathroom so the smell from the paint is not helping. It is low odor but still has a scent to it. I haven’t brushed my teeth yet. I probably will later or before bed. I need to use listerine because I had some food stuck in my broken tooth and it irritated my gums. I see the dentist on Wed. They are probably going to yell at me because I only brush my teeth once a day. I have been more consistent with it, which is an improvement. I haven’t showered yet. Probably tomorrow.

I was reading the Paraguayan book for my Anthro class and I had to stop mid chapter because it kept talking about how the men abused the women, raping them and “owning” them. I can only read so much about it before it bothers me. This book is terrible, I mean the reading of this stuff not necessarily of the writing. There is an article I need to read and then it is all this book. I will read it later. I just looked for it and it isn’t on the damn blackboard. Fucking fuck with this class.

My sister ordered pizza for lunch. They were going through my mother’s things. I was calling around to nursing homes to see if they took clothing donations. Most of the people weren’t there as it was Sunday. I will call tomorrow for a few more places. I wish I could take a bag and bring it to the hospital I was staying at in 2022. People often come in with just jonnies on and have no clothes to change into when they get discharged.

It’s nice out today. I read for a bit outside but the wind made it chilly. I finally slept through the night. I got up before noon as I wanted to read before the game. It’s going on now. Sox have taken the lead but there was a 1^st and 3^rd with one out situation when I last looked at the game. I love that baseball is back. It is my top favorite game. Sox win 5-4.

I have therapy tomorrow. I don’t really know what to talk about. I forget what we last talked about. I got so busy with studying I really didn’t do much for therapy stuff. I don’t remember what we talked about last week. This is why I blog about my sessions because I never remember them otherwise. Baseball and my psych class took precedent. If it wasn’t for the fact I had it in my calendar, I don’t even think I would remember what day we met. I just looked at my past blogs and I don’t think I wrote about my last session. I had to study. I know I went to reading the book after session.

I had my meds delivered but I still need to pick up one more from the pharmacy around the corner. I will pick it up tomorrow. I don’t know if I will go out or not. I have a lot of reading to do this week. I only had two slices of pizza but I am so fully even though it has been at least four hours since I last ate. I should eat something but I don’t know what. I had some cheese with my coffee earlier. I wanted some crackers but I think someone ate them.

Saturday Blog 13042024

I had a shitty sleep. My sister woke me up around 630 looking for some ibuprofen. I gave her some and then tried to sleep. I woke up again around 830 to pee and took my meds. It was too early to be up so I went back to bed. I should have gotten up. I woke up feeling so tired. I had a couple cups of coffee but I didn’t make anything to eat. I wasn’t really hungry. My book edits came in. I spent some of the afternoon going over them but for some reason, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of editing. I am just going through the document and then I will go through it again more slowly. I don’t like the format of the book and I have like three blank pages. Some of the pages just have a paragraph on it and nothing else.  I need to fix it.

I laid down about an hour before game time and I think I slept for a bit or at least snoozed. I was hungry but I didn’t really know what to make. I ended up heating up some chimichangas. It was good. My sister is installing a new vanity in the bathroom and has bathroom stuff on the kitchen table. She also took off the toilet paper holder, which I am not happy about. I guess tomorrow she will paint it.

I have been in a grumpy mood all day. I don’t really know why. Yesterday was my aunt’s birthday and she misgendered me the whole time. Then her best friend pulled me aside to show me her niece who is trans. I don’t know why she did this. Like it was a big secret or something. I just felt like a misfit most of the night. My cousin got weird on me, telling me I have a “good ass” whatever that means. I should have stayed home but I hadn’t seen my aunt in a while as she is never over the house anymore.

The other day I sprained my foot/ankle. It has been killing me. I have been taking pain meds and ibuprofen to settle it down some. I have no idea how I did it but it hurts. As long as I don’t move it, it doesn’t hurt but as soon as I bear weight, all hell breaks loose. I’m not sure if it is getting better or worse as the pain varies. I know staying off my foot completely helps. The xray was clean so that was good. I just hope it clears up without having to see an ortho doc.

I am still tired even though I snoozed for a bit. I am getting a headache. Ugh. I actually woke up with a few headaches last night. Had some weird dreams. Hope this doesn’t turn into a migraine. The migraine med has been working really well and the number of migraines I get has dropped to almost zero. Tomorrow I will read something. I am not sure if it will be Anthro or psych. I still need to finish chapter 8. Yesterday I didn’t get up till 1 and I was not in the mood to do anything. I have been waking up in a bad mood lately. Being in pain sucks.