Happy Leap Year!

It’s February 29, and a Friday to boot! I forgot to call in my prescription for my pain meds yesterday, and my fibromyalgia is eating me alive. Mr. Borealis and I had a pretty strong argument last night, which I believe was the impetus for my pain and exhaustion today.

This isn’t what the argument was about, but he’s gone next week. All week. And then he’s gone for another two weeks around the start of April (coming home for the weekend in between), and then gone for a good part of the last week of April. Yikes, am I going to be lonely. I’ll probably be splitting the time between my parent’s house and Q’s (as long as that’s okay, Q—I know you’ve been pretty hen-pecked lately and I’m partly to blame for that, and I’m a strong believer in alone time as a healer).

My guest room is coming along—still no pictures yet, but I’m hoping to figure out how to upload from Mr. Borealis’s camera soon. I’m putting out all of the artifacts from my travels (and some from family members’ travels) that mean a lot to me, and it’s turning very much into an “inspiration room.” I haven’t been able to find the canopy for my canopy bed since moving out of my parent’s house, so I’m going to make one this weekend, and hopefully get another few boxes out of the basement. I put up a clock on the wall, but unfortunately didn’t have any batteries in the house for it; they’re on the shopping list of things I need to pick up tonight.

I have midterms next week, so I’m probably going to take some time off from work to prepare for them, though I’m doing pretty well this semester. Better than last semester, anyways—that was three months of disaster.

I’m struggling to get myself back into the gym to lose some weight. My doctors pretty well agree that working out is good for my fibro and even better for my BJHS—I can already tell the difference in the reduced pain in my knees just from the weight I’ve already lost. I kept telling myself I would get back in the swing when I lost enough that my knees stopped hurting just from walking down stairs, but now that’s almost happened and I just feel so tired and achy all the time. I’m really hoping it’s stress from midterms, and maybe I’ll be able to get back in week after next.