I'm having a good today so far today. I feel so much better after a good night's sleep. Good sleep is the best medicine out there for bipolar. When I don't sleep well, I start getting hypomanic and then full-blown manic and then psychotic, just a downward spiral in no time flat for me.
I did a pilates video this morning with a pretty challenging bridge and plank sequence, but I must be improving a bit at beginner level pilates because I made it through without collapsing or stopping the video because it was too hard. Reading with the lamp was so much better today. Either my book has gotten better (and I think the plot may finally be starting to move along), or I just could concentrate better overall. I drew for a good while and am pretty psyched because while my squirrel monkey picture is not that great, it FINALLY looks like a monkey! I tried that thing 4 or 5 times before getting it; it's the head that gave me so many problems. Anyway, all pics in the Creative Corner as always.
After lunch, I paid off the credit card bill, always nice to have that done for the month then I made morning glory muffins which have carrots, apples, raisins, walnuts, and shredded coconut. A bit of work, shredding carrot and chopping apple, and they are not very pretty to look at but taste awesome! I've started to like baking muffins or something like banana bread to have for breakfast in the morning. Since I exercise a lot I do need the calories even though the tiny ED voice claims I don't but I do my best to not listen and lately haven't felt too guilty in that regard.
I might experiment a bit with oil pastels, doing some of the basic processes blending and drawing in a book I got for beginner oil pastel art pictures. We'll see. I need to get more familiar with using them, the blending stumps and see I how like it. I'll probably also read some as my fiction book has seemed to improved greatly overnight.
HUGS to everyone having a hard time right now. I hope everyone has a fantastic day!
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Bipolar 1, PTSD, anorexia, panic disorder, ADHD
Seroquel, Cymbalta, propanolol, buspirone, Trazodone, gabapentin, lamotrigine, hydroxyzine,
There's a crack in everything. That is how the light gets in.
--Leonard Cohen
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