Thursday May 15th

Nausea

First of all, starting last Friday through this Tuesday I felt extremely nauseous around the same time every night. Back when I had significantly more GERD issues I would feel crazy nauseous and sometimes throw up about once a month. Always at night. I am 99% sure I know happened. It wasn’t something I was eating or from a medication but it had to have been me being out of my magnesium supplement. Nausea is very closely tied in with migraines via the cranial nerve that affects the stomach.

To learn more about how migraines affect your 12 cranial nerves, click here!

I purposely go without supplements every once in a while to see if I feel any different or if I’m wasting my money. I ran out of magnesium for multiple days and when I got it again I felt better! Wow, I actually would have forgotten all about this if it wasn’t for typing it out right now. That’s a big reason I love writing. I am very good at forgetting things and this helps me keep track and sort out my thoughts!

New Job

On Tuesday I found out that I got a new job! I was a bit shocked, there have been more times than I’d like to admit that I interview for jobs and do not get them so… it’s easy to assume that was going to happen. Luckily it was a long interview process and they really got to know my skillset and learned that I was definitely the right fit.

I am very excited for this much needed change and life upgrade! Because of this, and getting ready for (my first) Art Market this weekend, I was not prepared for it being as big as it will be… I have anxiety – hooray! It’s honestly good anxiety aka eustress. Basically, eustress is good stress.

Art Fest

I am creating brand new art pieces that I have never made before. I convinced myself not to do that and focus on getting the paintings that are already finished (there are a lot!) ready and make my booth look cute or at least somewhat professional. But these art pieces are just too darn cute, I couldn’t not make them.

I have been creating and preparing those, attaching hanging hardware to the back of all my paintings. I realized that screwing them on by hand was too time consuming so I bought a drill. I’m way too excited about my drill! I have owned drills before but one of them was stolen from me… The drill is fun and makes it much faster. I’m sure I won’t have those attached to every single painting by Saturday but I can probably work on it the day of. I prefer to keep my hands busy, I don’t like to just sit in a chair all dang day…

Anyways, I am not used to having all these new ventures and tasks I need to accomplish in a short period of time so I have had insomnia! It started Tuesday when I found out I got the job. It’s because of excitement and knowing it’ll be a big change in my life (a very wanted change for the better). Tuesday night I slept maybe 4 hours. I couldn’t fall asleep and an alarm that I recently changed went off an hour too early and after that I was just up.

Yesterday was a little rough but being so busy meant I rarely had time to tune into how tired I felt. I assumed I’d for sure zonk out early last night but hey, guess what. That didn’t happen. Worrying about sleep makes it harder to sleep. I slept in later than I planned today but not crazy late. I swear some of my alarms just do not go off.

Crazy Travel Weekend

Fast forward to May 23rd, I had a trip planned to fly to Iowa. I had bad luck for 2 days straight so my family and I concluded it wasn’t meant to be. I’m going into all the fun details in the next post. I really need to write about it… It was one hell of an experience. Besides the immediate frustrations, I really really wanted to see family and friends. The trip will have to happen another time. 😞