Of Shopping and Schlepping

14,776 Days Alive

9.75 Hours of Sleep Yesterday

2.5 Hours Spent Grocery Shopping

Thanks to the new job at the eyecare clinic, I can afford to make French onion soup for dinner tomorrow! It’s really not much more than beef broth, 3 1/2 pounds of mandolin, sliced onions, and a whole lot of patience.

I got really good rest last night. Between the anti-anxiety meds, the muscle relaxer, the pain, relievers, the melatonin and magnesium balm from Dr. Teal’s, and a very snuggly Mr. Spock I got almost 10 hours of sleep. And I actually woke up not feeling like I got hit by a truck. Which is new. I often wake up feeling like a bruise.

I was trying to find a heated blanket on sale around the post Thanksgiving weekend time. Nothing really caught my eye, nor was on sale enough for me to be able to justify the cost, but I did find out there is such thing as a heated mattress pad. Now, during the summer? I need it as cold as humanly possible so I don’t die of heat stroke. But during the winter? I would absolutely love just a low but warm heated blanket. I also need to get like a massage for my shoulders because they’re murdering my comfort levels.

I have work tomorrow at the eyecare clinic. I am supposed to be going to see the second Wicked movie with Lucian after work. I got free tickets, a pair of them, out of my AARP membership. It is only $16 a year and they have multiple free movie events, as well as random other things throughout the year that make it worth the less than $20 it is annually. A large popcorn and two drinks, however is like 30 bucks and I don’t know if I can justify it. We can always just train a movie here at the house.

Maybe something…Christmasy? I still haven’t bothered to watch the movie of “It’s a Wonderful Life”. And, of course, there is always the Jim Carrey version of “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” or the “Muppet Christmas Carol”.

If you have any suggestions for holiday movies, please leave them in the comments or message me! I’d love to find joy in fun traditions.

I am going to head to bed because it is almost midnight again. I am really bad at the whole getting to bed early most days.

Take your meds, folks.