I survived the Benedryl coma.

It's almost noon now. What's for lunch?

We're out of Benedryl.

Sonic gave me coconut in my banana cream pie shake. I'm allergic to coconut. *sigh*

- I have been really flustered lately but I seem to be finally working through (or maybe around) it. - I did a snow shoveling today and didn't die! Proud of myself! But don't want to do it again! But also kind of do want to do it again to get stronger! 💪🏼 - Got two cute scarves at the dollar store. My doctor said you can never have too many scarves! So I'm just following his orders. - Paper journaling is hard after you haven't done it for a while. - Back on the self care wagon. Here's hoping I stay on for a long time!

On desktop tumblr for the first time in at least a month...

...and I thought the app was bad.

You want to drive us away, don’t you @staff?

I feel guilty today. Variety of reasons. None valid. Thanks, brain. I want to jump start my drawing stuff. At the very least I have to start practicing. So I want to do another month challenge type thingy. I haven't seen any, so I'm going to try to brush up on pencil during January. It'll be like Inktober except it won't have a catchy name and it'll be pencil. I will likely complain about it and want to quit the whole time too, but I hope to actually finish. I have this idea for like a combo don't break the chain type calendar and journal. Trying to figure out exactly what I'm trying to do with it and get it going. Hoping tomorrow is nice and quiet and I eat like a normal person 'cause Holiday snackage is getting me down and making my body mad. Anniversary tomorrow. Nothing planned as we already had our NYC trip. 8 years, though!

Also Olive throughly enjoyed her present and had a good birthday.

So I got alllll the art supplies including the Making Comics book by Scott McCloud that I wanted. It's the only book I've found so far that actually helps make comics, not teaches you how to draw. I got the drawing part, thanks. And you can see the fabric of my Christmas skirt there. It's fitting, no? I kept saying I was gonna have someone take a picture of my outfit, but also kept forgetting. I think I want more skirts in that cut though. One day we will get a full length mirror. One day. We got Mom the Deluxe version of Scrabble and it went over pretty well! But I actually won this time! Not pictured: Home made cinnamon rolls and Christmas sushi. Both were lovely, but I eated them. All in all we enjoyed a quiet day at home and it was good.

Hammy Wallymas!

We are ready for Wallymas morning. Olive is 4 today. She is our little Christmas ham. We have from scratch cinnamon rolls in the fridge ready to proof/bake in the morning...well, later in the morning, I should say. If all goes right they should proof while we present, then bake as we start the board games. We just have a quiet day planned. Hammy Wallymas to all! Or Merry Christmas! Or just have a nice day!

Woke up at 6am with a craving for those circus animal cookies? You know the pink and white ones? I haven't had them in so many years, maybe not since I lived in California? Maybe not since I was in high school even? Do they even make them anymore? Not going to run out and get them, the feeling will pass (I hope). Just curious.

The Giant Mall of Doom was actually suspiciously not crowded and Star Wars was excellent. Also I took some too small pants back to Torrid and got a cute little clearance dress instead. The shopping center with Petco in it though? Crazy insane crowded. I got the dogs some special treats for Wallymas. (Olive's birthday is on Christmas. She will be 4.) All animals also get a new toy for Christmas. The dogs are getting chew toys, Blueberry gets a snowman treat dispenser thing she can bat around. Now Jerome doesn't have to go to work tomorrow and I haven't wrapped his stuff yet. I was gonna wrap them today but he came home early. And he already got Mom to get me out of the house so he can wrap mine tomorrow. What a butt. Guess I know what I'll do when I wake up bizarrely early for no good reason.

Jerome called me while I was still asleep and asked if we could go to Star Wars today with a coworker. I said it'll mess up our plans for his birthday but whatever. Then after I hung up I realized I just agreed to go to the Giant Mall of Doom three days before Christmas. 😰😰😰

I woke up in our big fancy hotel bed at 4am. Now looking at Seamless and strongly considering ordering breakfast...buuuut Jerome's asleep and I don't want to wake him. ☹️

Here are things we did today. I'm kinda tired, so just a quick rundown. 1) Train station. 2) The Four Seasons statue? I think. 3) Lunch size margarita. 4) Avenue Q set. (Before the show.) 5) We found a full length mirror on our way out of the theatre and selfied in it. 6) My sushi had GOLD on it! (Also it was very good.) 7) Tempura cheesecake. (Again, very good.) 8) We found a pretty tree on our way out of Grand Central. Pretty sure it was technically a different building though. Now I attempt to sleep. Going to try to go to The Strand tomorrow.

Pre-Fun Weekend Five

1) I did sleep in today. I did I did! But my body is still angry about the unwellnesses and not exercising, so now I'm very stiff. 2) Wow. Not only did I have the date wrong in my head for the show (I originally thought it was last week) I also had the time wrong. Glad I looked! 3) I accidentally ripped off a chunk of skin on my neck when pulling off a band aid. It is not pretty. Guess I'm wearing scarves for a while. 4) Figuring out how to go without a bag in the city is difficult, but I think I got it. (I just didn't want to carry it.) 5) We have Sunday pretty much free. I think it will be a play it by ear adventure.

I was not hospitalized! Rational brain wins! ...I do have three new (short-term) medications though. And I don't really feel better yet. Going to try to do my exercises in the morning (because the meds should kick in by then and I should be okay) and see if that helps a little. This week has felt so so busy and I haven't been sleeping well on top of being various kinds of unwell. Tomorrow the only thing I *have* to do is pick up some holds at the library, so if I can I'mma sleep in. Still looking forward to the weekend! Trying to decide what to wear! Someone teleport me an outfit that I will magically like. How fancy should it be anyway? No one knows!

I seem to have a lot of anons all of a sudden. Become less active get more popular? What? My brain is trying to convince me that my doctor will hospitalize me tomorrow (because the little thing I'm going in for might not be so little you know!) and we'll have to give up all or reservations for the weekend and stuff. Rational me is 90% sure this won't happen. You know that thing where you lose time and all of a sudden it's a week later than you thought and stuff wasn't planned right? That.