Just another day

Today was another lazy day. No walking again because it was cold and windy. It also looks like it's going to rain. Jayda's head start teacher came and then we went to the library. The librarian had her dog there today and Jayda ran around playing with her the entire time we were picking out books for bedtime reading. As we were about to leave, Jayda went to hug the dog and stepped on her or something and the dog nipped at her. She didn't bite Jayda, but scared her pretty bad. Didn't scare her for long though. She was right back to wanting to pet the dog, but the librarian sent her son to take the dog home. I go to the Dr tomorrow about my back and hopefully he can do something for the spasms. They are beginning to annoy me a lot. That's about all for today.

a little etsy love: The Busy Bead Lady Giveaway!

a little etsy love: The Busy Bead Lady Giveaway!

Can I scream now?

No exercise today because my back is still hurting. I go to the Dr Thursday and hopefully I can get some meds for the muscle spasms.

Well, today has been a rough day. It started off on the wrong foot and has went to hell. Matt woke up and got Jayda ready for school, as usual. She got dressed and watched some cartoons, as usual. They got ready to go outside to wait on the bus, as usual. Well, Jayda opened up her backpack and handed Matt the papers that were in there from yesterday, since I forgot to do it yesterday. In my defense, Jayda had a good day at school yesterday and got a green piece of paper, but it turned into a red piece of paper on the bus because she kicked a boy on purpose. The aide on the bus told me about it when I got Jayda off the bus, so I was focused on talking to Jayda about that and completely spaced getting the papers out of her bag. Anyway, Jayda handed Matt the papers and one of the showed that they didn't have AM classes today due to staff development. OOPS!!!! At least they didn't go outside and wait on a bus that wasn't coming, right? Well this day off was also on the school calendar, but we don't look at it very often.

Well, this weekend, I happen to have run out of one of my mood stabilizing meds and it has me thrown off really bad mood wise. I meant to call it in Friday and pick it up, but I forgot. Well, our pharmacy isn't open on the weekend except a few hours in the morning on Saturday and by the time I realized I forgot to call it in and get it, they were closed for the weekend. Since I missed 2 days of this medicine, my mood is all whacky. When my mood is off, my OCD takes over. I have been fighting it all day today and I have felt like I was having a nervous breakdown. This is why the day went from starting off on the wrong foot to hell. When I get like this every small thing gets escalated to something major. I hate the feeling, but there is nothing I can do about it. My mood will be out of whack for a few days and I will feel like I am on a roller coaster for the next week or so. I just want to SCREAM when I feel like this.

Taking it easy

I'm taking it easy today to allow my back to rest. It's still hurting a lot and spasming often. We didn't go for a walk today because of my back. I figured I would take at least a day off and let my body rest a little bit. Jayda had a dentist appointment today. She had no cavities again. YAY!! Matt cooked dinner tonight. We had baked chicken, stuffing, and corn. That's about it for today. It's was a lazy day really.

I think I over did it...

I think I over did it this week. I know I should gradually work towards exercising 5 days a week and 30 minutes a day, but I didn't think just walking could hurt so bad. I have walked 3 days this week. We walked about 45 minutes the first day, about 2.5 hours yesterday total between 2 different walks, and about an hour and 15 minutes today. My back has been spasming for about a week now, but today it was killing me. By the time we got home today from the hour and 15 minute walk, I had to lay down for about an hour so it would stop hurting. I am going to the Dr on Thursday about it. Hopefully he can give me some sort of muscle relaxer or something that can help. I think I will skip walking tomorrow to let my back rest and try it again Tuesday if it's nice outside. I do think I'm doing a good job at making an effort to exercise, even if I do say so myself.

Two long walks in the same day!

Mom (my MIL) called us and asked if we would walk with her to the store. Mom is disabled and in an electric wheelchair. She wanted some cigarettes and since we refuse to buy them for her she wanted us to go with her. I'm fine walking with her and her buying them, but I refuse to. There is a bit of a story behind why, but I won't get into that right now. Anyway, we went for another hour and a half walk. I've walked a total of 2.5 hours today!!! I am SO proud of myself!! My back hurts right now, but I just took some pain pills, so it will feel better in a little while.

Nice day for a walk...

It is a BEAUTIFUL day outside although it is very windy. We went for another long walk today. We made a detour to the ice cream shop at the beginning of the walk though. We don't do ice cream often, so it was a treat for all 3 of us. At least we ate the ice cream at the beginning of the walk and not at the end, right? Jayda dropped her cone in her lap and dripped chocolate ice cream all over her shirt and jeans. We went to the lake and saw 4 ducks. We have very stuck up ducks! We were tossing them bread and they came over to it, pecked it once, turned their tails up in the air, and swam away! We were out and about for an hour and a half. About 20-30 minutes of that was spent at the ice cream shop and the rest was spent walking and feeding the ducks. I think I'm doing pretty good at working my way up to the 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week. I've walked 2 days this week for about an hour each day. Before this week, I wasn't even trying to do any type of exercise. Now I am putting forth a conscious effort to work towards my goal.