That's when I haven't been curling up in bed in the foetal position and pulling the covers up over my head. I still think I should be doing that more often, but, oh, well.
So, what's been happening since the last time I was in here? I didn't even check to see when that was, but for sure it was before my stepfather had either a stroke or something else happen while he in a rehab facility and was in the ICU in a coma and woke up from the coma a shell of his former self. My mom's Alzheimer's is progressing nicely, thank you, although not enough to declare her incompetent, so that's a maze I'm trying to make my way through, too, along with all the financial stuff. And, speaking of incompetent, I'm pretty bad at all this, especially since I do that curling-up-in-bed routine way too often. Of course, it's not like I'm sleeping really well, either. That doesn't help.
On the plus side, I've started to lose weight again, although I'm not exercising anywhere near enough or even as much as I'd like to (yeah, those are two different things, ha-ha!). I'm doing well in tai chi, even though my knee still hurts--ya gotta keep moving, really, or you just get frozen in place. That would just make things worse. There's a recital on Saturday for the school and I've promised to be there with my class and I've got a couple of friends coming and possibly my physical therapist. I'm hoping it goes well enough and I don't, like, fall down or anything.
So, there's stuff to look forward to and stuff that's making my head spin, so I try to avoid that as long as I can, until I remember to just bite off a little at a time and that makes it easier.
At least I'm building up the frequent flyer miles. I'm going to get a real vacation out of this one way or the other, dammit. I'm thinking maybe Vegas...
