Christmas Shopping Already??
Tuesday was a "THREE Star Day"
Anxiety Range: 1-3
Depression Range: 1-3
Impulses: 3
Activity Level: 3
Light Time: 1 hr
Waking up Tuesday morning, I had the urge to get out and go to the gym (WOW!). I didn't have to wait long before the monster woke up, but it still took us 1 ½ hours to get ourselves fed and clothed and decided what we were going to do for the day. Instead of the gym, we went to the mall (Mall of America) to start looking around for Christmas gift ideas. I did three whole laps, one on each level, and I think I reached my goal of 5,000 steps doing this. I wore my basic, normal pedometer to get an idea of how far I went (which seems to be a little inaccurate, counting less than it should), it read 2.5 miles, which is about how far I estimated it takes to reach 5,000, so hopefully I passed this with room to spare.
I bought a few things for Christmas, for my one of my sister-in-laws and my nephew. For SIL, I bought a really nice, personalized ornament. Since she will be pregnant over the holidays, I got one that depicts a pregnant woman with space to write across the big belly (a name or something) and she is holding a small purse that will state the due date. Since she has not gotten a definite due date, and we haven't decided what to write on the belly, so I had them leave the entire thing. SIL is big on collecting memorable ornaments, so I think this one will go over well. For my baby nephew, I got some of those heavy duty wooden puzzles and an ornament as well. This one is for baby's first Christmas, there is a baby carriage with room on the side for his name. There is a little baby bunny in the carriage holding balloons which I had the year written. I think the cutest part is that the little wheels turn.
I am tired of my hair color, and decided to dye it using that wildfire red that I bought last Friday. It did not turn out the way I wanted. The roots that have grown in did not color at all, just the leftover from my last dye job, however, the color is about where I want it. I have a kit to remove the color from my hair, which I was going to use Tuesday night, but the directions looked scary, and will wait for my MIL to help me with it, since she used to be a hair stylists, she has the know-how to get things done right. We will see her this weekend while a lot of family will be visiting, but I don't know if she will have time for it.
The kitchen was in a pretty bad state when I woke up, but decided to do absolutely nothing to help the situation. Besides, after a long walk at the mall and nap time, there really wasn't time to do anything about it. Usually this is a trigger for anxiety, but it didn't really bother me much, I just avoided the kitchen the best I could. Being out of the house and then napping, there wasn't much time for anxiety or depression either. Things stayed low, especially since there was little time for Monster to run around crazy-like and stress me out.
Daughter started complaining about pain in her side. By the end of the night, I determined that it was her hip joint that was hurting her, and as it got later in the night, the worse the pain, she was barely walking by bedtime. Fast forward note: Husband took her to urgent care this morning (Wednesday). They are still gone, so I have no idea what, or if they found anything yet.
On on upbeat note, Monster, all of the sudden started going up the stairs walking upright, no more crawling for him. I would have thought his little legs were still too short considering the difficulty he has coming down. I could tell by about 2/3 the way up he was getting tired, he started slowing down and almost went into a crawl again but I was there to help.
