November 4, 2022 - Friday




Today could have/should have been a very good day, but AGAIN I was up super duper early. I didn't handle it well. I just have been sleeping like crap, so I'm not falling asleep until 2am and then I'm getting up a little after 6. It sucks. I'm tired. I've even been taking sleeping pills and not falling asleep for hours. I have no idea what's going on! I wouldn't be surprised if it's dietary though. I've been eating so much candy since Halloween. 

Anyway, we went to Jenny's and hung out this morning and got home in time for lunch. After lunch, I worked for a little while and kind of wasted time for a while. I don't even know what I did. How did I fill the time between 11:30 and 2:30?? No clue. I had a hair appt. at 3, but Brienna texted me and asked me if I could come at 3:30. I agreed because she has no other openings for forEVER, but I knew it was going to cause some stress because Ben was just pacing around, waiting for me to get this hair nonsense out of the way so he could leave for his camping trip. Nevermind that I made my appt months in advance and he just decided like 2 days ago that he would go camping. I'm still the asshole, because I didn't cancel my appt. When I got to Brienna's, she was still behind and didn't actually start doing my hair until 4:15. Ben & I decided that it would be okay for him to leave the kids on their own for a little while today, since he was anxious to get out and I wouldn't be gone too long. He left at 4:15. I should have started getting my hair done 45 minutes sooner, so I would have been home within like an hour, but that's not the way it happened! I wasn't actually home until 6:10, so the kids were alone for 2 hours. I had a hard time relaxing at the hair dresser. As a matter of fact, I was a ball of anxiety, desperate for her to finish so I could leave. The kids were, of course, perfectly fine. Jonas even got a pot of water waiting on the stove since dinner was going to be late! Everything was fine here, just like I knew that it would be, but it was still tough for me to have no real way to reach them. They can call me on Messenger, but I can't call them and Jonas's iPod he uses was dead. We'll need to plan better next time. So sad to spend so much money to get my hair done and then just be a worried, stressed out mess the whole time! I am happy with my hair though. She did some purple streaks through it that aren't obvious at all, but are just little hints of lilac. It looks mostly the same as usual, but a little different and I do like it. She also gave me a 10% discount for making me wait. 

Things have been pretty smooth since I got home. We had dinner, cleaned up, watched a little TV and got kids to bed. We had some lost Baba panic for a while, but Ben saved the day by suggesting that Baba might be in the wagon in the garage. He was right! Looking forward to a fun day tomorrow. Really praying I sleep better tonight. I'm about to go lay in bed watching cooking shows until I fall asleep.





Ollie was bored, so I asked her if she wanted to do a jumping on the bed photo shoot. Not surprisingly, she did! It was nice just taking pictures for fun, with no vision in mind. I love the projects I've been working on, but this was really great too. 

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