That's the sound of my exhaustion. I don't know what it is, but I've been dragging all week long, and I feel like I haven't gotten nearly enough done. Change of season? Cooler weather? Something health-related? Who knows, but I can barely stay awake lately. Whatever it is, I'm looking forward to it passing and getting back to normal!
Let's recap the week, shall we?
MONDAY
After running the dishwasher, I had just sat down when the cat projectile vomited all over three blankets on the couch (and now you know one of the reasons why we keep blankets on the couch!). I scraped the solids off (seriously, homemaking is SUCH a glamorous job), and tossed the blankets in the washer immediately, then finished the rest of the basement chores.
Bottom cat is the pukey one. Top cat eats any available people food. Naughty animals!
I unloaded and reloaded the dishwasher, switched the laundry, then my daughter and I did her reading lesson. She's been dragging her feet on these a LOT lately, and each lesson has been taking about an hour. Yikes. After we finished, we ran errands at the bank and Costco, where we bought our super fancy list of toilet paper, baking cocoa, garlic, peanut butter, and green beans (the cocoa and green beans were impulse buys. Do I know how to go wild and crazy or what???).
During naptime, I prepared dinner, which was tofu and veggies (cauliflower, green beans, potatoes, carrots, onion, and garlic) over rice, with a jarred curry sauce from Aldi (if you haven't tried these, they're pretty awesome, and it's a great way to clear out your veggie drawer. The meal would work just as well with chicken or another form of protein), and then I had to wake my daughter up early in order to pick my son up from his music rehearsal.
At home, I read a bit from a book from my Goodreads list, then practiced the piano. I dropped my son and his friend off at school for a dodgeball tournament, then picked up my husband, and after I ate, I drove back to the school to pick up my son and his friend. I did my PT exercises and read a bit more from my Goodreads book before going to bed.
At home, I read a bit from a book from my Goodreads list, then practiced the piano. I dropped my son and his friend off at school for a dodgeball tournament, then picked up my husband, and after I ate, I drove back to the school to pick up my son and his friend. I did my PT exercises and read a bit more from my Goodreads book before going to bed.
TUESDAY
Rain! My daughter and I drove my husband to work, then came home, and I ran the dishwasher. We managed to cram in a full reading lesson before school, and then I drove my daughter to school. Back home, I practiced the piano until my mother arrived, then I passed the keys off to her, got in the other car, and drove to PT. We tried a few things to help my tingly, buzzing foot, but nothing seemed to make much of a difference.
Rain! My daughter and I drove my husband to work, then came home, and I ran the dishwasher. We managed to cram in a full reading lesson before school, and then I drove my daughter to school. Back home, I practiced the piano until my mother arrived, then I passed the keys off to her, got in the other car, and drove to PT. We tried a few things to help my tingly, buzzing foot, but nothing seemed to make much of a difference.
I had NO clue what to make for dinner that night. I'm kind of in a cooking slump, where nothing sounds good and I feel entirely uninspired in the kitchen. Do you ever get like that? I'll push through it, but blaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh. I hate when this happens. My mom suggested soup, since it was cool out, and so I threw together a pot of taco lentil soup and corn muffins. I picked my son up from after school scenery for the fall musical, and driving seemed to make the buzzing in my foot worse. I read some of my Goodreads book before picking my husband up, then read more later after doing my PT exercises. My husband and I watched two episodes of American Vandal before going to bed (and I may have dozed off on the couch!).
WEDNESDAY
Oof. For whatever reason, I woke up in a considerable amount of pain this day. Never a good thing on a Wednesday, since that's my grocery day. We got a late start to the day, since my daughter slept in. I did my basement chores, including cleaning up cat puke, switched the laundry over, brought in the garbage cans, took the kitchen garbage out, cleaned the kitchen, swept and tidied the living room, and did half of a reading lesson, including introducing the concept of the -igh sound (which wasn't part of the book, but it's not a sound covered in the any of the lessons, and she needs it in order to read some other things, so we played around with that). I started the dishwasher, and then it was time to drive my daughter to school.
I ran to Aldi, did the shopping there, came home, put the groceries back, then did a short piano practice before driving back to the school to pick my daughter up. We ran to one more grocery store, where we picked up the things on our list, and we also found five boxes of Kraft Deluxe Macaroni and Cheese for 99 cents each in the clearance section. Not something I normally eat, but my son likes it when he's sick, and I'm all about not having to pay full price if I don't have to, so that was kind of nice.
I ran to Aldi, did the shopping there, came home, put the groceries back, then did a short piano practice before driving back to the school to pick my daughter up. We ran to one more grocery store, where we picked up the things on our list, and we also found five boxes of Kraft Deluxe Macaroni and Cheese for 99 cents each in the clearance section. Not something I normally eat, but my son likes it when he's sick, and I'm all about not having to pay full price if I don't have to, so that was kind of nice.
Since I had grabbed a pizza from Aldi for dinner (thanks to the pain I was in, I had already decided against cooking a full dinner), during naptime I threw together an apple crisp to go with the ice cream I'd bought.
Everyone enjoyed this, including the cat, who ate a crumb of it off the floor.
I folded laundry and read a book from my Goodreads list until my daughter woke up, and then we tackled the second part of her reading lesson. She and I hit the library, where she played and I continued to read my book. After dinner, I did my PT exercises and finished that Goodreads book.
THURSDAY
I did my basement chores, then got a head start composing this week's Friday thoughts post. I cleaned the kitchen, and then I smelled it. What? IT.
If you live in an older home, or a home with a basement, you know IT. That musty, weird basement smell. I have NO idea what IT is, nor exactly where IT comes from, since the basement doesn't smell that way. My guess is either the crawlspace (although it doesn't smell like IT there either) or the ductwork, but every once in a while, that smell seeps up into the house and it drives. me. CRAZY. So I took off, swept and mopped the kitchen floor, swept and mopped the living room, then swept and mopped the entire basement floor. I drove my daughter to school, then sped home to give my mom the keys. She said she couldn't smell IT, but I could still smell just the slightest hint (and fortunately later on, all hints had disappeared, so that was better!).
And then I was off to physical therapy, where my physical therapist found muscles in my legs that hurt (SERIOUSLY, BODY???? I mean, I know it's all connected to my back, but WHY?????????). She had me working with another back patient there; we planked together and tossed a ball back and forth while kneeling on one knee on a balance beam- I was both intrigued and dismayed to find that he didn't have the balance issues that I do, so that's something that's just me and not unique to this kind of injury. Interesting, and off-putting to know that it's just me that's that particular kind of mess). Another patient brought in samosas (a kind of savory Indian pastry), and my physical therapist sent me home with one after seeing my face light up at the mere mention of them. I LOVE Indian food!
My mother and daughter and I had lunch together, and after she left and my daughter went down for a nap, I napped for an hour. For dinner, I made Southwest Pasta. I finished a book from my Goodreads Want to Read list, then started another before falling asleep in my chair.
My mother and daughter and I had lunch together, and after she left and my daughter went down for a nap, I napped for an hour. For dinner, I made Southwest Pasta. I finished a book from my Goodreads Want to Read list, then started another before falling asleep in my chair.
He likes to read with me. He's sitting there right now as I type this. :)
FRIDAY
I started a load of laundry, and then I gave my daughter a choice: we could do a reading lesson from her regular book, or she could read one of the books from the stack of library books we'd chosen just for her to read. She chose the latter, and so she read Barbie: I Can Be A Pet Vet, which was very cute. She only needed help on a few words whose sounds she hasn't covered yet (Barbie's dog was named Lacey, and we haven't covered the C making an S sound yet. Stuff like that). It was the first book she'd read mostly by herself, and she was pretty proud of herself. :)
We ran out to another grocery store, where we picked up cauliflower, ricotta cheese, and a four pound bag of sugar for 99 cents, which is about as cheap as I've seen it, and then stopped by the library in that town to play. After eating lunch at home, it was off to the spine doc, whose office is about a half hour away.
So.
According to my MRI and x-rays (which they took in the office), the buzzing in my foot is caused by...
So.
According to my MRI and x-rays (which they took in the office), the buzzing in my foot is caused by...
...drumroll, please...
They don't know.
Sigh. He said maybe it's piriformis syndrome, but really, he's just not sure because nothing on my imaging stands out as being the cause. Which is pretty depressing, to be honest. He did say that a cortisone shot might help with the pain, and so he scheduled me with a physiatrist in my town.
Who does NOT get good reviews.
Patients are saying things like she yelled at them, she was incredibly rude, they left mid-appointment crying... I'm not so sure about this. I'm going to ask my physical therapist what she knows about this doctor, because she works with all the local doctors and I absolutely trust her, and if she warns me off of her, I'll reschedule with the doc she recommended to me last week, who can do the same thing and who she knows well.
The spine guy also recommended that I do yoga. My hamstrings are about as flexible as a concrete pillar, and so after my daughter and I drove home, I tossed my mat to the floor and we did a yoga video together. Relaxing? Ehhhhh, not so much, when you have a four year old crashing into you every three seconds and the cat is also trying to get you to pet her, but it's definitely something I need, and I like these videos.
We picked up my husband (while my daughter threw a half hour-long tantrum!), and then came home and ate Chinese takeout. I did my PT exercises and then knit a little bit of my daughter's Christmas present. It's going slowly, mostly because I've been too tired to knit at night.
NOT a fan of fun fur, but my daughter will love it, so I knit on...
I read some of a Kindle book before going to bed.
THE WEEKEND
THE WEEKEND
I'm just lumping this all together. This weekend was crazy busy. Saturday morning was my daughter's gymnastics class, where I chatted the whole time with her friend's mom (who is super awesome). We're going to try to schedule a playdate this week, so hopefully that happens. I need more friend time, I get so, so little of that. After lunch, I did the same yoga video, and I had just collapsed onto the couch in exhaustion, preparing to take a nap, when my son appeared and said, "Mom, we still need to pick up flowers for Homecoming."
DANGIT! So off we went, in search of flowers for my son's girlfriend, who is absolutely lovely and deserves flowers. My son picked out some blue flowers for her, because blue is her favorite color. :)
They kind of look like butterflies, don't they???
By the time we got back home, we didn't have much time before my son had to get ready, and then we picked up his best friend and drove to my son's girlfriend's house. They've been dating for eight (I think?) months now, but they've been friends since they were 12, and it's a Homecoming tradition that the friend group meets and takes pictures at the girlfriend's house. So we all hung out there for a bit and chatted and took pictures of the kids in their finery. It's hard to believe this is their second to last Homecoming; I'm sure more than a few tears will be shed next year!
My husband went to a movie with a childhood friend, and so after putting my daughter to bed, I finished one Kindle book and started another, then went to sleep not long after my husband got back. Super exciting Saturday night! I was up from about 12:30 am until 3 am, though, and up for the day a little after 7 am. YUCK!
Sunday morning, I drove my son and two friends to a not-so-local theme park, where they all have season passes. That took about 2.5 hours, so when I got home, I ate lunch and finished my Kindle book, put my daughter down for a nap, then napped for about an hour myself. When we got up, it was time to head to my mother-in-law's, where I chatted with family and knit my stripey scrap yarn blanket. At home, my husband and I finished watching American Vandal.
My husband went to a movie with a childhood friend, and so after putting my daughter to bed, I finished one Kindle book and started another, then went to sleep not long after my husband got back. Super exciting Saturday night! I was up from about 12:30 am until 3 am, though, and up for the day a little after 7 am. YUCK!
Sunday morning, I drove my son and two friends to a not-so-local theme park, where they all have season passes. That took about 2.5 hours, so when I got home, I ate lunch and finished my Kindle book, put my daughter down for a nap, then napped for about an hour myself. When we got up, it was time to head to my mother-in-law's, where I chatted with family and knit my stripey scrap yarn blanket. At home, my husband and I finished watching American Vandal.
So that was my week! Not as productive as it could have been. My foot is still buzzing, although sometimes it seems like it's calmed down. I went off the meds for it to see what it was like without them, and it's about the same, so it seems like they're no longer helping with it. We'll see what this week brings for it.
I ended up taking two books off of my Want to Read list this week. I'd gotten them both from the library, but the first was so heavily academic (it had originally been someone's thesis) that reading it wouldn't have been enjoyable in the slightest, and the second was so out of date that even in the fifty pages I got through, I was already seeing things that I knew had changed drastically in regards to that particular subject. Kind of like reading, "Country XYZ is a great place to travel; you should book your trip there immediately!" when you know a civil war has been ravaging the area for the past three years. So, that's a bummer, but it frees me up to focus on other things. I'm reading some lighter stuff from my Kindle right now in order to give my brain a break. I'm just plain worn out this week.
How has your week gone? Hopefully you've felt more awake than me! ;)
Goodreads Want to Read list: 144 books
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