TheSeaCat, I'm glad you're back from the hospital!

tecomsin, it'll be nice when things calm down for you.

Christina, safe travels!

The only thing I did other than minor tidying is to make Linzer tart cookies. It was a LOT of work. I went a little nutty towards the ends. Most all of these cookies are filled with raspberry or red currant jam. But I had the little mini cut outs (from the middle of the top cookie of the Linzer tart cookies) that I didn't know what to do with. I had the brilliant idea of putting a dot of Nutella sandwiched between them. They look cute! They are like baby cookies.

So today's cookies means that I'm up to five varieties (and counting). Tomorrow I have a psychiatrist appointment, so if I make another type it has to be a really easy and fairly quick one. I'm thinking of either marzipan cookies (aka Bethmannchen cookies) or a coconut cookie with salted caramel chips dipped halfway in bittersweet chocolate with toasted coconut decoration (on the chocolate).

About a week and a half ago I decided to lower my Seroquel XR from 600 mg to 500 mg. I had been sleeping almost 12 hours per night, and though my mood was fine, I felt a little sluggish during the day. Well, after about the reduction, my sleep reduced to 10 then 8. One night I only slept 5.5 hours, but it's been about 8, for the most part. The difference is that I am super duper motivated with great energy all day until about 4 pm (several days), or about 6 pm (these last couple of days). Initially, I wasn't worried about my psychiatrist getting angry about my reducing the Seroquel XR on my own. Now I'm thinking that he'll not approve. Maybe he won't be angry, but won't approve.He'll likely roll his eyes or shake his head a bit. Or maybe he won't if I don't tell him about my recent activity level.

Though my mother-in-law easily baked 12 to 13 varieties of Christmas cookies during a two-week period, that's not usually my productivity level anymore. [Used to definitely be in the past, but no more.] But I think that my current productivity level would be considered "normal" for a "normal" person. I don't feel hypomanic, but at times I wonder if I have proper insight. I asked my husband about that last night and he made a comment that implied that maybe I am very slightly hypomanic. But what if he was just kidding. Now I don't know. The question is:

Should I even mention my cookie making bonanza to my psychiatrist? I could mention I'm making cookies, but maybe I won't mention that I plan on making 8 varieties. But again, my mother-in-law made 12 to 13.

Another great thing lately is that my appetite has been reduced a lot. Would you believe that I have eaten on average only one cookie per day? A couple days two, but mostly one. Yesterday, none. Today I only sampled two cookies (little cookies). At first I wasn't going to, but both broke and I said to myself "Shouldn't you at least see what they taste like?" Well, they are pretty yummy!