Happy Friday. I tend to feel fried on Fridays. No matter what job and schedule I have, I feel exhausted and drained on Fridays. How some people are energized and excited for the weekend on Fridays…I do not understand. Aren’t yall tired and need to hibernate for a day or two? Maybe it’s just me!

I went to Old Navy today, it had been years since I’d been to one and it’s the same as I remember, cheap junk with a few okay items. I am not much for in-store shopping these days, I get tired and headachey very quickly. I used to spend hours and hours in stores and at malls. I don’t know how I did it but back then we didn’t have the comforts of online shopping that we know and love!

I’m having technology issues. My HP Pavillion laptop has had issues for a couple years now. Sometimes it works perfectly and other times like right now I can’t get it to work right. It worked well for about a year after I bought it. I’ve got it to the point where I can usually get it to behave, but today it is just not working.

My fingers are absolutely ice cold and the rest of me is warm 🙄

Speaking of temperatures…it’s going to be in the 60s soon! I have been enjoying cooler temperatures than I used to and 60s is so awesome especially for February 🙌

My dog and I walked for 45 minutes today so she is snoozing up a storm right now, lol. I have at least 10,000 steps for today, I’m sure I’ll be doing the same thing in a few hours.

Sunday Not Funday

Happy Sunday, I feel depressed! No specific reason. I just feel stuck. In basically all areas of my life. Even little things on my to-do list feel impossibly hard to accomplish. I was going to go out for brunch with a group today but starting yesterday my throat was sore so I un-RSVPed. I don’t even like going out to eat but I know some of the people who were going and it probably would’ve been fun.

I legit haven’t been sick in 2 ½ years. I’ve had plenty of non-contagious sicknesses mostly migraine related. This morning my throat still felt sore. Sometimes this happens and it’s just from the dry air, I am not sure if I am sick or just swallowed too many black widow spiders in my sleep.🕷

It got up to 65° today! Luna and I got all motivated to go on a hike and it turns out all the trails are muddy, slushy, and icy, hooray! We still hiked a little but about 1/10th of what I planned on doing. It seems like all mountain adventures I’ve attempted in the past year have been flops. It’ll be a lot of driving for little if any fun… Usually frustration and stress. Another thing I realized is that my migraine hadn’t gone away and I was INCREDIBLY dizzy. The paths were like 2 feet wide at the most, with ice and mud and pretty high up! Not the best combination for a high dizziness day.

The dizziness is probably from Gabapentin that I take every night for migraine prevention. I’ve been planning on lowering my dosage of it. There have been a couple days here and there where I didn’t have Gabapentin so I couldn’t take it, I assumed I would not sleep well and then feel completely awful the next day but to my surprise I always felt fine. A little off, but not too bad. I will do it responsibly and slowly of course. I also think Gabapentin has caused water retention and possible weight gain. The doctor that prescribed it thinks that’s a possibility as well. It’s hard to know for sure because I already had some chronic swelling. But since starting the Gabapentin it’s gotten MUCH worse and my legs seem swollen as well.

With chronic migraines I’ve started to adopt the mentality of, ‘well, I can either get nothing done while feeling like complete garbage, or I can get some things done while feeling like complete garbage.’ On the days where I can at least somewhat function, that is.

I’m still not feeling great so, that’s probably all I’m writing for now, toodles 🫡