Sunday Mellow Day

Meant to do a couple of things, but didn't do much of anything. I was sitting outside reading a Doctor Who graphic book and neighbor Doug (who we went to New Year's Eve at the game museum shop with) came along to do laundry and sat down to chat. He showed me his old high school yearbook from Benson Polytechnic in Portland and some other neat old pictures. I encouraged him to apply as a teaching assistant because he's in between jobs and doesn't wish to return to being a pharmacy worker.

Took a nap. Received our delivery from Safeway of mostly crackers and a few other things. Was going to color my hair but the package had lightener I had to use first and then wash out so I just did that part. It's very uneven and funny looking but I can wear a scarf or hat to school. Tomorrow or the next day is payday and I need to try and be judicious with how I spend it so I have some money for Steve for the holidays and for his birthday later too. Not the easiest thing when you only get paid once a month and need groceries and want to go to Costco and see a few movies and buy clothes...!

I'm getting fatter and plumper as I continue to neglect doing exercises. That makes me sad.

I need to make a doctor appointment about a few skin issues that are bugging me, like the numbing itching on my leg. I am still taking my prescribed back pills but not as consistently as directed. It was easier when I had a sheet which instructed on how many to take at what time of day, and I was checking it off each time, but since my back injection, it's only one pill three times a day, which is for some reason more difficult to do...? A pharmacist said I could break them in half and slowly lower my dosage, which sounds like a good idea, and the doctor said don't just stop taking them, as I had to build up to taking more and more I would have to do a similar method in decreasing it. The only issue is doing it regularly and keeping track of it so I'm not going up and down.

Watching Hawaii Five-0. Made some Red Lobster biscuits from a box mix, even though I didn't have the correct amount of cheese and butter. They are on the dry side, but not bad! Ate three myself.

I packaged up the Jeff Foxworthy holiday CD with book I got from Marilyn to send to Uncle Wolf, so I hope he likes it! I read the book to Steve, it was amusing, there were a lot of  'You might be a redneck if...' sayings and 2 Christmas parody songs.