Ugh I slept terrible. I fell asleep at 7pm, I’m so tired by like 3. I slept for two hours so of course I couldn’t sleep again until like 11:30. Then I drank so much water I had to get up twice, and my son came in at 1am to tell me he threw up on his bed. There’s nothing like cleaning up your kid’s vomit in the middle of the night, I’m sure the parents here know that. He threw up on his mattress topper so that’s just going straight in the trash. I honestly barely cleaned it up, there’s no cleaning up memory foam!

I’m in pain this AM, now both wrists hurt, and my knee has been getting worse and worse. Bending it at all kills me! And of course my regular back pain/stiffness. At least my back doesn’t hurt much, I was only in bed from 11-6am. The less time I spend sleeping the better my back feels. Which is unfortunate.

That dr was full of crap though, there’s no way it’s arthritis, I don’t know what it is but given that both wrists hurt now I can only assume I hold my phone too much. My knee, I don’t know, I think it’s associated with my back pain.

Anyway I’m not gonna let my pain and tiredness affect our good day. It’s going to be really nice today and I really want the asparagus and garlic kielbasa we got from the market so we’re definitely going to grill. I’m going to make these shortbread cookies my grandma gave me the recipe to as well. Very easy, three ingredients and then whatever pie topping you want on top. I chose strawberry. We didn’t get fruit at the market yesterday, we should have but my bag was full of vegetables instead. We’re also going to take a nice walk in a different park. It’s called mountain lakes but it’s not really much of a mountain, most of it is pretty flat. And I don’t have to work today!

I have whittled down my meds to just three, sometimes four if I need the seroquel, and some vitamins so that’s awesome. Now that I’m three weeks off the vraylar my mind is a lot clearer and I definitely am not nearly as hungry anymore. I’m still overeating if I want to lose weight unfortunately but at least I’m not gaining any more weight. My biggest problem is eating at night, I get bored laying in bed trying to sleep and start thinking about snacks. I did buy little individual bags of baked chips though so at least I can sit there and mindlessly eat a whole bag.

So yes, I may be tired and in pain but we’re going to have a wonderful day anyway.