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Angie is all moved in now. It was a flurry of a day. I mostly helped by entertaining Angie's family members whenever they took breaks from the heavy lifting. ;)
Somehow I pretended to myself that Angie's move-in day was a good enough reason to throw all my eating rules out the window and eat like crap. Tomorrow, we get back to business again. But tonight, we sought out places on this side of town that deliver food and ordered from a new-to-us place. My food was super yummy. Dave got pizza and it was only so-so. But their menu excites me - lots of traditional Italian/Sicilian stuff, and some things I can't find in other places around here. So I plan to order from them more and try out a few things. I'm really picky about marinara sauces because my family has this excellent homemade recipe and not much lives up to that standard. But I actually enjoyed the marinara sauce that came with my apps (fried zucchinis, fried eggplants, and fries), so that's exciting. They have other yummy dipping sauces, too. I tried one that's oil and garlic and red pepper and pepperoncinis and I'm not sure what all else - but it was yummy.
Dave and I ran some errands today: returned the keys to the old place, got some groceries, dropped some stuff off at Vinny's, Walgreens run, etc.
There were a LOT of garage sales all over town and I wanted to stop so bad, but Dave said no. Maybe I can get someone else to take me rummage saling sometime soon. To get the good stuff, you have to get up in the morning hours, though, and that's not my most favorite thing to do.
Other things I got done today: cleaned the bathroom, organized some massive piles of papers (I'm not much of a hoarder in general, but I have trouble throwing out old papers like bills and bank statements and medical stuff) that I packed up with me but which I really need to downsize if I want to fit it into my filing cabinet and the two plastic file totes I have, and cleaned out our microwave to make way for Angie's (hers is bigger, so ours is going in storage).
Last night we started working on training Cleo not to go into Angie's room. She was hilariously stubborn about heading right for it every time we let her out of the bedroom. Every time, we'd stop her and say no firmly and divert her to some other area of the apartment. Eventually, we put up something that blocked her way but was easy enough to move aside so people could go in and out. Her eyesight isn't that good these days, so she wasn't about to attempt jumping over it. Hopefully that continues to divert her until either a) we can train her to stop trying to go in or b) we come up with a better solution.
Also, last night, I managed to get Dave to sit and watch all four Big Brother episodes on the DVR with me! Now we're all caught up, and since we have Showtime back, I can watch After Dark! Yay!
Right now, it feels like the apartment is just bookshelves and chairs all piled on top of one another. Which is kinda true. But I know we'll sort it all out soon and make it work. [Do you hear that OCD?! It will work. Be patient. :P]
Oh! I got rid of all my boxes and bags of packing paper yesterday. Ended up with two different visits, both from LJ people who seemed very nice. I think I sort of pressured the second person into taking all the boxes, even though she only really wanted the small ones. She said she knew other people who were moving who might need them, so hopefully they won't go to waste!
I'm still doing a lot of "this can go there for now - just for now" reassurances to myself in order to at least find temporary homes for things when I don't have the energy to do all the work involved with completing a task all at once. I am slowing down a little more each day, I think. Which is okay. I'm still getting a lot done.
Maybe tomorrow, I'll go sit in the hot tub again. I want to get into a routine of doing that at least 2-3 times a week and since we've moved in, I've only gone the one time so far. I'm finding it generally difficult to get into any kind of routine right now. Life still feels so strange and up in the air - like I'm on vacation or something. But I have to start getting into a normal schedule and such soon. I don't function well without a lot of boundaries and structure. Of course, they also have to be self-imposed boundaries and structure or I rebel against them. Sometimes I rebel against my own rules and regulations, too, but at least I go back to them after a day or so.
I don't know why I keep rambling on. I think I just still feel keyed up from all of the activity all day and everyone else in the house (cat included) have calmed down and settled in for the night and I'm still all hyper and needing to talk. So, hello LJ! Listen to me ramble!
Actually, it's more than just today's activity. I've been crazy active for weeks on end now, and I've finally hit a point where I don't have to be anymore and I think it's freaking me out. There's still a lot left to do, but no more days where I have to get up early and do specific things at specific times or whatever. It's all just a matter of getting things done when and how I'm able to, and it wouldn't kill me to just stop for awhile even. And my whole being is like "WTF?!" But ... we're supercharged and ready to go! I'm still going to keep taking advantage of that as long as I can, but I think I'm just in a little bit of a mental mix-up about what's required of my body now.
Half hour to go before meds time. Maybe I should go make friends with the sofa and try and get situated so the meds can work their magic quicker once it is time to take them and calm down. Okay: message to brain and body - the day is done. Nothing to do until we wake up tomorrow. No, this doesn't mean to stay up all night making lists of things to do tomorrow. We already have the lists. We've rewritten the lists every day for the past few weeks and the most recent list is still valid and nothing new needs to be added. Except to remember to order meds. But we can do that without making a whole new list. Seriously. A whole new list is not necessary for one little thing. Relax. You have lots of TVs to watch and nothing else to do until tomorrow. And you can sleep in tomorrow, even. No rush on anything. You could take tomorrow off if you wanted to. You don't have to, but you could. That's how not-rushed we are right now. So calm down. Okay? Okay. Maybe. Try. Just try. Okay.
Twenty minutes until meds time. Is there some button to turn me off? *spins around trying see back of self* Hmmm. Oh, I know. How about deep breaths?! That works sometimes. Okay, sofa, television, deep breaths. NO PAPER AND PEN ALLOWED. No Lists. Not tonight. I swear to Isis if you start making lists I will ... do something you don't like. Except I'm you, and I wouldn't like it either, and that's not fair.
Seriously, who gave me caffeine today? Maybe I should sort through some more boxes just to get some more energy out of my system. Except that I'm exhausted and this is all just fumes. Hyper, tense, crazy fumes.
Fifteen minutes until meds time. I wonder if I can ramble here until ten? The cat is out! I bet if she joins me on the sofa with the deep breaths, I can calm down for real. Maybe I should try that. A snuggly cat is one thing that always get me to calm down. Hope she's feeling snuggly!
Proofread my post (yes, believe it or not I do that and still end up with all the typos!) and killed some more time. Five minutes until meds time now. And it'll take that long to shut down the computer and get my meds and settle in. So ... I've done it. I've killed time. Now to see if I can my body to relax after taking the meds. Woot.
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