Friday things

1) Today is the day I usually get my calendar for the upcoming month together, look to make sure I have all the information for any meetings I have, and generally do clean up on anything that didn’t get done yesterday due to the End of Month hoopla. Except I’m tired, man. Bone tired. I’m getting there, but far slower than is the norm.

2) Last night was Halloween, obviously. I have no pictures of trick or treating, mostly because I forgot but also because Henry wouldn’t allow me full use of my arm the entire night. We ended up going with our neighbors to a different neighborhood that is a lot more active, and wow – it’s way more fun when more of your neighborhood participates. I think I’m sold on the whole “bussing to the good neighborhoods”. We didn’t go to a more affluent neighborhood or anything (okay, not MUCH more affluent) but there were so many houses and adults getting into it – they all set up their chairs and tables in the driveway and you could see they enjoyed it as much as the kids. It makes me want to dress up next year (um, maybe). Henry was very shy because we were with a large group, and he never let go of my hand but he had a great time, and I barely saw Spencer because he was running crazy with the other kids so he obviously also had a good time. We go home late and the kids went to bed far past their bedtime and this morning was ROUGH but it was a good time. And hopefully Spencer’s teacher doesn’t expect anything from him today.

3) Today is report card day for Spencer. His first report card – I’m scared! He does great work, but he’s very slow so a lot of his papers come home unfinished and I’m worried that the world (school) doesn’t know how smart he is. Next Thursday is parent-teacher conference time … dun dun DUUUUNNNN.

4) I think I’m the sole person on the internet who is kind of excited about the time change this weekend. Yes, we get tired earlier. Yes, it gets darker earlier. Yes, the children wake up at 5am on the weekends for a little while. You know what else? I don’t have to drag myself out of bed in the morning for a little while. I don’t have to drag the kids out of their beds for school for a little while. I may even feel like exercising before work! Or get up in time to take a shower before work! It’s the little things – all the other things I can deal with. That’s why there’s tv on Saturday mornings.

5) I stuck to my meal plan this week! Life is so much simpler when I already know what I’m cooking. I made lemongrass chicken soup on Monday, peanut butter burgers and tater tots on Tuesday, grilled shrimp, lentil/couscous mix and cauliflower (with a poblano chile sauce) Wednesday, breakfast for dinner Thursday (waffles and sausage for the kids and waffles, sausage and eggs for the adults), and tonight I’m making loaded potato soup. I can’t remember what I have on the weekend, but I do know I have all the stuff for it so things are easy. Woohoo for easy.

6) I backtracked on anxiety pretty hardcore toward the end of last week and beginning of this week. I started new meds, and they were great for a couple weeks until my body got used to them and then WOAH BABY I bottomed out there. But my doctor is great (I know you don’t usually go to a PCP for such things, but I really feel like my NP has a good handle on these things and feels very knowledgeable and I’m very comfortable talking to her) and we decided to double my dosage and give me something for situational attacks and I’m hoping it works. I’ve been taking time to myself when I’m overwhelmed at home, and hopefully things will work quickly.

7) I have been waffling on whether to participate in NanoBloMo. I’m never going to be in for NanoWriMo (good luck to you guys!) but I wonder if I could do a blog a day. Would you read a blog a day? Is it pointless? I don’t want to write a bunch of pointless stuff just to take up space (which is not to say that those who participate DO write a bunch of drivel. I’m just not good at finding more things to write about). Hmm. I think maybe I’ll do NanoBloMo’, which is Blog More. I think I can do that.

Happy November! It’s thanksgiving month! Woohoo for turkey!