Hi, welcome to week 16!

I tried to sleep in today, and I got up around 9, then I moved to the sofa and fell asleep there for a little while. I called and chatted with my Parents, who were doing well. Then I switched to watching Bones until it was time for my eyebrow appointment. I went and woke Fiks up to ask if he wanted to go with me or if I could borrow his car, and he opted to go with me to get his hair done while I was getting waxed. After I was done I waddled down to Starbucks and got him a Chai latte and I got a strawberry lemonade to drink. We went to See’s Candy after Fiks picked me up, hit up Panda Express for lunch, and then came home.

Fiks jumped onto the computer and started playing Minecraft and I watched more Bones and worked on last weeks post. We just hung out until it was time to go to my Parents house for family dinner for my Brother’s birthday. I got the presents in the right bags (they threw the wrong books in one of the bags), put on my back brace because I was really hurting, and then we left.

We got to my Parents house and my Mom was taking a nap, along with the dog. Fiks and I helped my Brother with cooking, and then I helped Poppa with the BBQing. I went and said hi to Mom when she woke up, and then my Niece and my Brother’s Wife showed up. We got them settled, and then not too long after it was time for dinner. Steak and pasta with a white wine sauce, and then we had some garlic bread with it. My Niece was super excited to play a new game, so we did that. And it was a lot of fun. Lots of antics went on, and it keeps you on your toes.

It came down to me and my Sister, and my Brother put a timer on because we had his ice-cream cake to eat. Hmmmm….. Ice-cream cake…

We haven’t had ice-cream cake in long time. It was chocolate chip ice-cream and a chocolate cake base. So good. Afterwards we came home, and Fiks was amazing and did the recycling and garbage for me, because I was moving very stiff. I ended up flopping on the sofa for the rest of the night. I saw a lightning deal on Amazon about keyboards, so I started browsing. I ended up getting a Asus keyboard for the proper computer (I’m currently tying on the laptop still). No 10 key pad, but my current keyboard doesn’t have on either, so its no big deal.

I woke up a few times last night. Mostly because Fiks wasn’t in bed any of the times I woke up. I got up at like 4 or 5 and he just was standing in the hallway staring at his phone. I told him to come to bed, and he followed me in even though he said he wasn’t sleepy. I went back to sleep and Fiks crawled into bed next to me. When I woke up he was snoring away, so I decided to let him sleep.

I watched The Simpsons for a while, until my appointment with my nutritionist happened. I’m going on the FODMAP diet for 2-4 weeks, so she took away certain foods, like garlic, onions, soda, broccoli. And I’ve tried like 20 gifs and none of them will load. Grrrr. But I get to keep my iced tea so at least that’s a plus. The Nutritionist said she’d email me some papers on everything that I’m meant to take with me to the store, so I waited for a while before going and waking up Fiks so we could go to the grocery store.

First we hit up Starbucks to get Fiks some caffeine and then we went to my parents house for a quick visit. We sat and hung out with Mom while we waited for Poppa to finish his taxes. When he was done he came out and talked about the roof with Fiks, and I chatted with Mom. We jumped in the conversation a few times, and then we went to the grocery store. It was hard and sucked not having the list, and so I was looking at food lists and going off what I remembered her telling me to get and to avoid.

We came home and moved the laundry and then I went and got my keyboard from my Sister who I had asked to pick it up since it was electronics, and then I came home. I just expected to plug the keyboard in and have it work. Nope, because it’s a light up keyboard it had drivers and software that it required. Fiks helped me figure out what was going on as to why it wouldn’t light up, well, he did all the work. I sat with him for a while, but then I had to lie down with an ice pack on my back because I was getting stiff. When he got it up and working, we tried playing Baulders Gate III together. Apparently I need my own account, because using his I get kicked out within 5 minutes with him playing.

Fiks jumped onto the computer and started his Monday night group, and I ordered some Poke because I was hungry, but neither of us wanted to cook dinner and clean the kitchen. I ate dinner while watching Bones and just basically relaxed the rest of the night. I eventually switched to The Simpsons and scrolled through Instagram for a while.

I woke up at 130 and told Fiks to come to bed. I woke up at 230 to him crawling into bed. I tossed and turned the rest of the morning. I got up around 8, afraid that I had missed Fiks saying goodbye to find him on the sofa. He said he didn’t sleep at all, couldn’t get his mind to focus enough to go to work, so he was going to stay home today. I let him have the sofa and I crawled back into bed and watched The Simpsons for a while, dozing off an on. I came out around 10 and he was still on the sofa. I jumped onto my proper computer and did a few things over there before getting up and just moving around. Fiks eventually got up off the sofa and got changed out of work clothes and went and made himself some lunch. He jumped onto the computer and I turned on Bones and watched that for a while. Then I started reading so I put it on The Simpsons, and worked on this.

Today was a very lazy day. I read or watched TV. Fiks played video games with his friends for most of the day. We only got up to go get dinner (quesadilla for me, taco and burrito for Fiks). We went and got him some beer and met a dog who’s shoulders came up to my hips. We think he was a newfoundland. Big, black, handsome, and a sweetheart. Just came over to us for pets at one point. And then there was a white terrier mix who I wanted to see better, but I turned around and turned back and he was gone.

I read and watched TV the rest of the night. I did go to bed on time, but I couldn’t sleep, so I moved out to the sofa and turned on the Simpsons and slept to that for a while. Fiks woke me up and said that it was time to go to bed, so we made our way to bed where I turned on my audio book and passed out.

I woke up enough to give Fiks his mumbles and grumbles before he left for work, and rolled back over and went to sleep for a while longer. I got up and initially watched The Simpsons for a while before putting on Bones for an episode or two before trying to read with Bridgerton on in the background. I haven’t been very productive at all today. Oh, wait, I went and moved laundry, and brought up the stuff that Fiks had pulled out of the dryer this morning.

I stayed home all day, bouncing back and forth between reading and watching TV. Fiks came home early, so that was nice. He hopped into the shower and shaved, finished and episode of Bones with me. Then he got up and warmed up some pizza and hopped on Minecraft. We chatted for a little while, and then I move back to the sofa and Bones and he joined back up with his friends on the server.

I didn’t sleep the greatest. I woke up at 1 and Fiks was still at his computer, I told him what time it was and then went back to bed. I woke up at 5 and was going to tell Fiks to come to bed when he snored right next to me. I was awake for a while afterwards, so I moved to the sofa and turned on The Simpsons to sleep to. I dozed off and on, getting mad at my alarms. I kissed Fiks goodbye when he left, and snuggled down to get some more sleep. When it was time I got up and got dressed for work, thinking I was only working a half day so I just got my Gatorade bottle full, not making lunch.

I get to work and I feel like no one is happy to see me. I knew they would be that way tho, so no big surprise that they proved me right. I started working on the callbacks because no one else was willing/wanting to do it, so they just leave it for me to do. Maybe one day I’ll just ignore the list, see who steps up. Anyway, I go to help G with a nail trim and she goes over to S for the nail trim. I just am frustrated and puzzled, but I figured it was the passive aggressive bull shit they do to me when they’re mad at me. Basically they only let me room and do call backs. They wouldn’t even let me draw up vaccines for fucks sake. Like literally taking the syringe out of my hand won’t let me do it. G, S, S all went up at different times to my manager and asked what I can and cannot do. She said I was on light duty. No holding or bending and twisting, but if I felt like I could do something, let me test it out and see. They also went up to say I shouldn’t do surgery next week. My manager asked me if I could stand and I told her that standing doesn’t hurt. If I’m working on my surgery day, I’m not giving it up.

When it was time I went and left for my doctors appointment, which took me longer than expected but whatever. The doctor said that I was doing better than when he last saw me, and asked me about restrictions. I wanted to say I was good to go, just to show the girls. But I said I’d still like to do light duty, still not feeling back to 100%. He said that was the smart move and gave me another week of light duty. I ordered some Togos and picked that up on my way back to work.

I got to work with my lunch and punched in, and the manager said that I would be going up front at the end of the day. Woohoo! I just had to deal with the girls in the back for a little over an hour, totally doable. I roomed some clients, cleaned some ear cones, muzzles and flea combs, made some medicine for the doctors and then I went up front. T told me about the girls coming up to bitch at the manager about me, and said the manager gave them all the same answer. I guess they weren’t happy with that. I vented my frustrations about work at T, which I probably shouldn’t have done, I was just so hurt and upset that the girls were being that petty again.

When it was time I said goodbye to T, and made my way home. I called Fiks to let him know I was in town, and he moved his car for me. I told him my frustrations of the day and asked how his day went. He had a good day (for him) and was just tired. I went and took a hot shower for my back, and then between the both of us we were able to clean the kitchen and make dinner. I’m working on this and Fiks is playing Minecraft, no, wait, now its Baulders Gate III, with his friends.

Today I got to sleep in, so that was nice. I woke up and called my parents and said good morning, then Mom asked me to come over and keep her company while my Sister took Poppa to the optometrist. I agreed, and got dressed and headed over. I passed my Sister and Poppa on the road, so Mom was maybe alone for a few minutes. Lumi greeted me at the door, without barking or bouncing up off the door, which is totally out of character for him. But he ran and got a toy and played keep away with me, so he was fine.

I sat down and chatted with Mom for a while and then the text messages from my Sister started coming in. I was going to get a call from one of Mom’s nurses because they think that she has a UTI. I talked with the nurse and they told me to take her to urgent care, so we went and got her dressed and then loaded her up in the truck and went to urgent care where we met with my Sister and Poppa. Poppa went and got her a wheel chair and we loaded her up into that and took her inside. We got her vitals taken, tried to catch some urine, and waited for about an hour before we were taken back for the doctor. He said she did have a UTI and he was going to put her on antibiotics.

Mom and Poppa got loaded up into my Sister’s car, and I went to the pharmacy in CVS to pick up Mom’s medicine and Gatorade. I also got myself some chocolate, because I’m naughty. After getting all checked out I went over to Mom and Poppa’s house and delivered the medication. They were having lunch when I got there. I made sure they didn’t need any help with anything before going and heading home.

I lied down on the sofa and watched Bones until Fiks got home a few hours later. I asked him to pick up some Chinese for dinner and he said sure. I figured he’d come and pick me up and take me with him but he didn’t. He just waited at Chinese until it was ready and came home with it. We sat down and ate and watched some YouTube videos before he jumped onto the computer and started playing Minecraft.

I couldn’t really sleep last night, and I couldn’t find my Ambien, so I took a second melatonin and that seemed to work. I woke up when Fiks kissed me goodbye for the morning, and then I just dozed until my alarms went off. I got up and had some yogurt and filled up my Gatorade bottle and got dressed for work and headed my way down. I got there a few minutes early, but I wasn’t working with T, I was working with F, and it wasn’t too bad of a day. A, L, and G were working in the back with the doctors, G wouldn’t talk to me until both doctors were there, and then she told me that Costco had a R2D2 for sale, but that was about it. One of my favorite clients/pets came in, Bobbie, and she had something going on on her back. Ended up being a cyst that we popped, so that was good it was nothing serious.

After work I swung by the station because Fiks was there and he got me some lunch from Panda Express. We sat together and watched videos on his phone while I ate lunch. I had poor posture while sitting and hanging out with him, so my back started to hurt. I left at came home and called my parents, Mom just getting home from doing an excursion with the nurse they have a few days a week. I turned on Netflix and fell asleep to what I was watching there for an hour or two, then I watched some Bones, for a while and then Fiks came home. He hopped in the shower and we watched some YouTube for a while before Fiks fell asleep and I ended up watching an episode of Bones. He watched an episode with me when he woke up and then he jumped onto his computer after making some chicken nuggets for dinner.

I went through my books about going through the low FODMAP diet, trying to decide what I want to try and eat. This diet is going to suck. I mean I hope it helps, but its a lot of cooking and meal prep from what I’m reading, and I’m not really good at that.

Alright, I’m going to leave it here for this week.

~Just Keep Swimming~