When Your Body Talks Weekend Recap

Yo yo yo party people, it's Monday.  I hope your weekend was a good one and you got some stuff checked off of the to do list.  

It's been a week, again.  Thursday at the chiro after debating Halloween candy, talking of our shared love of a particular vintage of TJ's chocolate where he gave me the most doctor answer ever "it might give a little inflammatory response but it's full of fiber, flavonoids, and protein so it's actually healthy for you", I got a talking to.  I'm regressing on my shoulders because I have kicked my strength training to the curb over the past month and the half assed attempt at fixing it sans weights or bands, has been for nothing.   He said I need the weight portion to work against gravity and while what I was doing was better than nothing, I'm not going to see results quickly.  So the Mr and I brought bands upstairs so that we can do rows in bed at night as well as first thing in the morning.  I'm back to not being able to brush my hair or do a ponytail without pain and it's my own fault.  😔

I spent some of last week going through Mom's laptop only to find she really didn't keep much on it.  I'll have to dig a little more but I only found a few things that I'd probably want to get off of it and they weren't pictures or anything like that.  It still really bothers me that there are things I know darn well she never would've gotten rid of paper wise that her sib's spouse likely burned in an attempt to bulldoze their way through the initial load of paperwork which I was pissed about.  They had no right to do that and not get that stuff over to me to look through.  So it stirred up a lot of shit and added to my inability to think/do anything productive.  Also found out a great uncle died and I tried my best to give an appropriate remark instead of the comeback of  'well, the last memory I have of that guy was him grabbing Mom's boob when she was giving him a hug and the look of horror on her face as she recoiled and was unable to smack him in front of everyone like she clearly wanted to."  Oh the things we all keep to ourselves in the name of  'familial harmony.'  (I'm sharing that to get the point across that if someone dies that you know was not the great person everyone made them out to be now that they're gone, don't feel the need to make a big deal mourning them.  You can say "my heart goes out to their kids" and leave it at that.)

One small thing that probably seems silly but made me happy was I got these amber colored mason jars and I took all of my loose leaf tea bags from Harney and Sons and put them in there.  I have a little chalk pen and labeled everything.  Not only will it keep the tea's lasting longer without sitting in a foil bag but it looks a lot more put together and quaint.  At least ONE area of the house can look cute. even if it's the size of two mason jars. 

Saturday we grabbed some lunch and walked the beach like area which has lovely poop logs/bird 'rrhea that we've watched get plowed into the sand for families to picnic on- hence walks only.  

The Mr had another bad headache brewing for the 5th Saturday in a row and I got an ocular migraine.  What is the top contributor to both of these according to Dr Internet?  Stress.  Throw in that I got my second ocular migraine in two days and I knew it was stress and it was also the kick in the butt I asked my grandma for the night before.  I told her to motivate me to get something done but don't make it life threatening and bam, there it was.  So I got to priming the vanity while in the middle of the migraine which is always interesting when you can't see half of what you're painting.  

Then it was time to tackle the medicine cabinet I'd been dreading because I'm going to be wallpapering the back and I've never done that before.  We measured stuff out and then on a practice piece of wallpaper tried this whole 'booking' technique you need to do.  When we saw after the appropriate time that it didn't stick, then we felt better about proceeding with the piece we cut and modified for the medicine cabinet.

(Love this art deco-y paintable wallpaper from Wayfair- on sale now)

So we've got that drying before I start the next part of it and put on the second coat of primer on the vanity and the shelves inside.  I hope it'll help take the stress off of both of us a little bit.  Though I can say that something that isn't helping is the roofer that came out unannounced to 'fix' the sound that's been plaguing us for over two months seemed to make it worse and now we're back at square one and hoping for the HOA to not give us shit over it.  Sigh.

The biggest joy I got this weekend was I made a sale of my cat lover candle so that felt good.   There's a sale going on until the end of the week if anyone is interested.

How was your weekend?

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