Thank You!

Thank you to everyone who left lovely birthday wishes in the comments, or emailed me separately. I really appreciate all of your thoughfulness. 🙂

I took Tuesday off from work, so we just hung around the house for most of the day. I stitched and relaxed while Terry napped, then we went to Joann for some brocade fabric for my oriental tops. Yes, I wrote tops, plural. I’m going to do one in the short sleeve version and one in the long sleeve version. I chose colors that are different enough that it probably wouldn’t strike anyone as being of a similar pattern, or so I hope. One is a dark, hot pink and the other is an ice blue that’s nearly white. I can’t wait to start one of them!

We then went to Red Lobster for dinner. Seafood is one of my favorite foods. Especially crab legs. Mmmmm…. crab legs. *drool*

But I digress. My parents are coming down to visit this weekend and hopefully are bringing my favorite German Chocolate cake with them. 😀

Other than the purple guitar (I did mention that already, didn’t I?), Terry also got me a stand for the guitar, a microphone and a stand for it. Plus, he got me a Nintendo DS lite in red. I have a thing for red right now. I have a red Razr phone, a red Ipod Nano and now a red Nintendo DS. It came with the game Brain Age 2, which I’m very into and it doesn’t take much time out of my day to do a little bit of brain training every night.

Speaking of my brain, I was supposed to see the psychiatrist today, to discuss meds and side effects, but apparently he had an emergency and had to cancel. I’ll see him on Monday and am hoping to get off of at least the Abilify. I’d almost like to get off of both of the anti-psychotics and get everything back to normal before starting another drug. I’ve gained a few pounds, which is significant for me, so one of them is definitely causing weight gain. I also have had a lot of trouble concentrating and keeping myself motivated. My self-control is nearly non-existent and I can barely even read a book. As soon as I look at a page full of text, my eyes want to cross and I have trouble focusing on the words. I feel so much less effective in my job in the past few weeks. Things that used to come easily to me are more of a struggle now. All in all, I’m still not in balance and it has to end sometime, somehow.