Bipolar check in #73

I've been sleeping crazy good since turning off the vent in my room. Now that its not boiling hot. I turned it off Monday night and since then I've been falling asleep between 5:30-7 and waking up at 6-6:30AM. I'll be up for an hour maybe at night but I've been getting back to sleep which I haven't been able to do before.

Mood wise I've been ok. I've been kind of crabby though. I'm kinda lacking energy still. Anxiety wise I've been fine. Food wise things have still been hard with the restriction.

Overall I'm doing better then I was a week ago.

Has anyone seen those tik toks where the kids are pranking their parents and saying a celebrity died and then their parents freak out? I don't do that kinda stuff or wish that kinda stuff because I believe in omens.

We went to our property today. There was indeed quite a bit of progress. The estimate of two or three weeks is likely a sure thing. Maybe even just the two weeks.

Unfortunately, the renovation manager informed us of a theft of our property there. There was an underground cable that someone pulled all the way from the ground and stole. It's not a very costly cable, but it was supposed to be underground. Now the replacement will need to be routed through the house's attic. Plus, who did it? The renovation manager thinks it might have been one of the workers. He talked to them about it, but of course no one fessed up and its hard to blame any one of them without evidence to do so. So, if it was a worker, they continue on the project. If it was an outsider, then the question is whether they were just an ordinary thief, or a disgruntled person from the village who doesn't like outsiders. If the latter, I worry they could also strike again. We'll be glad when we're there to have a hopefully preventative presence. So sad that this happened! We just can't get a break and so wanted to move there feeling good and hopeful about neighbors. Not suspicious.

We might just get a security setup because of the above. As a deterrent. At least most thieves in CZ aren't packing heat like so many in America.

So I'm glad and proud that I wrote my mother an email advising her to stop gossiping about our finances. She has always been abusive and I'm not taking it any more. Honestly she acts like I'm a criminal because I ran up a few thousand in debt after my husband lost his job (and my hours were slashed) during Covid and we couldn't meet our expenses. It doesn't even matter to her that we have now paid off our apartment, because we still have a minor debt. I never would have told her but she grills me... but no more. The funny thing is that she has handled her own finances abysmally but ended up well off due to the insane inflation of property prices in our city.


The really hard thing has been that she has all the sympathy in the world for total strangers who are in debt due to hardships. Just not her own daughter.

You did well sending your mother that email!.

Never had a reptile so it's all new to us. So it's nerve wracking. We had to buy a heat lamp, calcium and crickets, and heat gages. The cage is to small for him so we need to save to get a larger cage

I just want to sleep. I went to the ER to get my respiratory infection looked at, make sure it was nothing serious. It wasn't, but the fact remains is that I am stuck in a Catch-22 of coughing attacks so uncontrollable and forceful that I've bruised a rib (and lost part of my voice, if we're counting January) and congestion so bad my nose can't get any air or mucus goes down the wrong pipe (usually in my sleep,).

I got prescriptions from the hospital, Tessalon Perles for the cough and Prednisone for the clogged airways. Of course, I can't pick them until tomorrow when the pharmacy opens. Sleep until then? Fingers crossed, though I'm on day three or four (honestly don't remember) without a consistent eight hours.

Thank goodness it's my weekend!!