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My Life Thus Far
2015-11-03 06:56:33 (UTC)

Blame It On Daylight Savings

I never got around to finishing up our bedroom. Snookums had other plans. Which was fine with me. I love an adventure. Well, it wasn't really too much of an adventure. We just went to Tacoma. I've turned my husband onto LUSH. I needed more perfume (they have one called Karma that I absolutely love. Obviously it's Patchouli). He needed more body wash, and a few other things. I've created a monster! But if it gets him to use more natural, vegan, cruelty free products, it's a good thing.

We stopped by our favorite book store before coming home. Liberty Books in downtown Poulsbo is a little local bookstore, but I swear they have a selection even better and more eclectic than Barnes & Noble. Keenan got a book at the school book fair that has a sequel (which we didn't know at the time we bought it) and he asked us to find it for him. I didn't expect them to have it, but they did! The lovely lady working there was also able to recommend a new series for Kiki (who's only 10, but reads at an adult level, making choosing books for her a little more complicated). I wasn't sure what to get Annie, since the love of reading has been instilled in her since a very early age, she's always got a few books going. She'll tell me if she needs something. I got a new mandala coloring book and some really nice colored pencils. I was using basic Crayola pencils, but they didn't have the saturation of color I wanted. I'd have to push down so hard to get the bold line I wanted. They also didn't blend as well, so Snookums got me some professional grade pencils that are amazing. I'm so pleased with them. Coloring is an excellent form of meditation and stress reduction. I love it.

The time change is kind of messing with me. I noticed today that I've been feeling a little more tired and the afternoon slump is back (that feeling like you can't go on unless you get a coffee or a nap... or both). I don't want to blame it on my ever-present and almost excruciating back pain. Or the possibility that I haven't been eating as well as I should be. I'm going to blame it on daylight savings. Although in the back of my mind I'm a little scared my iron levels may be dropping. I have no sure evidence that it has (or is), but it's something I fear. Mostly because I lack the ability to store it as well as the average person can. It's not about eating more iron rich foods (usually I do a great job of that, just not the past few days). It's about hoping my body is able to hang onto what it's got locked away. My periods have been WAY lighter, which I'm very happy about. It means I don't have to have the uterine ablation. However, that doesn't rule out future iron infusions. That's a lifelong thing. It just hasn't been ascertained how long I'll be able to go between them. I'm hoping for two years. But we shall see. It's only been 9 months since my last one.

My work schedule is easy-breezy this week. I open tomorrow, then have another two days off, then I work the weekend. I should be getting myself off to bed, but I don't wanna. I want to color one more picture!




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