Interesting tidbits I'm processing
Dec. 24th, 2009 06:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tigiraSo, since the panic attacks last week...
Caffeine is out of my system, again. I apparently don't get physically addicted to it as easily as I used to, because there was no headache this time. Fish oil - SAFE fish oil (thanks to my friend the nutritionist!) - is a daily thing for me. I'm starting to manage my fear, again.
These are all good things.
Most of it, I think, was a couple of nights of bad or no sleep followed by numerous stressors, causing me to lash out and assign blame where it didn't really belong.
F's speech is improving by leaps and bounds. This week, while he's out of school, we need to make sure to do the "games" provided by his speech therapist. She was thrilled when she realized that we MEANT it when we said we wanted her to send things home, and she's been responsive ever since. (I wrote up a detailed list of the exercises we were doing at home a bit ago).
Nightshades, even with the Zyrtec, are mostly out of my diet, again, too. That makes my hips hurt less. I enjoyed a couple of months of NOT avoiding them at all. Now I will take a Zyrtec and enjoy them once in a while, but I'll remain mostly nightshade free. The easing of my joints is worth making Mexican and Barbecue occasional things. (I do still have a Groupon to Red Bones, and plan to make it there sometime in the new year).
And increasing my social activity isn't nearly so terrifying as it was a week ago. This is good. I need to get out. It won't be NYE, because that is also a full moon. I may start hosting a craft night once in a while at our house, too. (If folks come to OUR place, then I can't claim being tired to get out of it, and once people show up, I get the charge of being around friends).
So, while I'm incredibly shy, and can be overwhelmed by chaotic situations, I know I do get a lot of energy out of being with people. I have to relearn this every so often when I've spiraled into not wanting to leave my "safe place," (usually my home).
Of course, all this is aided by the fact that F went to bed pretty easily last night, andmeadmaker and I had a nice night of wine, spanakopita, cuddling, and the new Star Trek movie. We geeked out on Star Trek (we both read nearly all the books in younger days, too), then did some of our own things and went to a bed warmed by the electric blanket.
Mmmmmmm.
Oh, and between the electric blanket, the winter duvet, and the yummy beech sateen sheets, bed is SO yummy.
Caffeine is out of my system, again. I apparently don't get physically addicted to it as easily as I used to, because there was no headache this time. Fish oil - SAFE fish oil (thanks to my friend the nutritionist!) - is a daily thing for me. I'm starting to manage my fear, again.
These are all good things.
Most of it, I think, was a couple of nights of bad or no sleep followed by numerous stressors, causing me to lash out and assign blame where it didn't really belong.
F's speech is improving by leaps and bounds. This week, while he's out of school, we need to make sure to do the "games" provided by his speech therapist. She was thrilled when she realized that we MEANT it when we said we wanted her to send things home, and she's been responsive ever since. (I wrote up a detailed list of the exercises we were doing at home a bit ago).
Nightshades, even with the Zyrtec, are mostly out of my diet, again, too. That makes my hips hurt less. I enjoyed a couple of months of NOT avoiding them at all. Now I will take a Zyrtec and enjoy them once in a while, but I'll remain mostly nightshade free. The easing of my joints is worth making Mexican and Barbecue occasional things. (I do still have a Groupon to Red Bones, and plan to make it there sometime in the new year).
And increasing my social activity isn't nearly so terrifying as it was a week ago. This is good. I need to get out. It won't be NYE, because that is also a full moon. I may start hosting a craft night once in a while at our house, too. (If folks come to OUR place, then I can't claim being tired to get out of it, and once people show up, I get the charge of being around friends).
So, while I'm incredibly shy, and can be overwhelmed by chaotic situations, I know I do get a lot of energy out of being with people. I have to relearn this every so often when I've spiraled into not wanting to leave my "safe place," (usually my home).
Of course, all this is aided by the fact that F went to bed pretty easily last night, and
meadmaker and I had a nice night of wine, spanakopita, cuddling, and the new Star Trek movie. We geeked out on Star Trek (we both read nearly all the books in younger days, too), then did some of our own things and went to a bed warmed by the electric blanket.Mmmmmmm.
Oh, and between the electric blanket, the winter duvet, and the yummy beech sateen sheets, bed is SO yummy.