Wednesday: meh

Today was fine.

I got groceries.  My foot hurt.

I came home, put away the cold stuff, got a load of laundry started, put a new bottom sheet on the bed and decided it was nap time.  It was a wonderful nap.  It always feels weird to have a morning nap, but sometimes it's what I need.

I woke up in time for lunch and did a few more chores.  I had to push my way through some.  I didn't get as many done as I had been hoping, but I also remind myself it's ok.  The cats were surprisingly cuddly today and every time I sat down one was in my lap.

After picking up the kids I had a doctor's appointment about my foot.  The doctor wasn't worried about it and gave me some recommendations and told me to come back in four weeks if it wasn't better.  I'm not even on any activity (karate/rock climbing) restrictions, which surprised me.  He said it might take a little bit longer to heal if I'm active, but it's also important to be active.

Karate was good.

I lost the board game.  I haven't won this board game yet, but it is Isaac's favorite.

Today's lovie story:
I made Creeper join nap pile today because it was his turn to be special lovie.  He was not happy about this and kept threatening to explode.  Since we have a strict "no explosions in the house" rule, I told him to take it outside.  So he did.  HOWEVER, that made Grey Bear really upset because he loves going outside and never gets to anymore.  Joshua is their adult, so I made him deal with it.  He made a new rule: all lovies can now either choose to go outside during nap pile or enjoy nap pile.  Grey Bear will have a hard time deciding.

Tuesday: rain

I thought it was supposed to rain all day, but it didn't really start until mid-afternoon.  That was fine with me; I was in windowless rooms most of the time until mid-afternoon anyway.  There was some small hail scattered in too.

Classes were fine.  The kids only had a half day of school, and it is so nice that I could pick them up and drop them off at home without needing to arrange care for them.  

I had an annoying amount of things to do after work.  Usually I just call it a day, with the exception of maybe a few small things and dinner, but today there was more.  I modified a pair of Ben's pants to hopefully fit over the boot.  I started a new loaf of bread because the one I made this weekend smelled weird.  I did a load of laundry.

I also went rock climbing with a partner.  It was a rather easy session but it was nice.  I needed an easy session as I pretend to take it easy to heal my assorted issues.

Monday: life fishing

This morning Cheryl and I volunteered at Kids' Food Basket.  It was nice to have someone there that I knew.

I had a dentist appointment: no cavities!

Dad came over and fished with Joshua for a little bit.  They didn't catch anything, probably because it was too cold, but they had a nice time.

My back still hurts a little bit, although things are getting better.  My toe was hurting a bit more than normal though, so that was annoying.  It's been hurting for a few weeks now; I finally put "contact the doctor" on my to-do list, but if it gets better over the next few days I'll take it off.

Sunday: there have been better days

Today was ok, but I've had better.  My back was sore from yesterday.  It was an exercise sore, but there was one point this morning where I twisted wrong and suddenly couldn't move.  We ended up doing church from home.  It did get better, but by the end of the evening it still was there.

We had dinner with friends, which was nice.  However, we were in charge of dessert and it didn't turn out well.  There were some peanut butter cookies that weren't very peanut buttery.  My backup was brownies, but I must have messed up the bake time because they were not completely cooked.  As in, they were barely cooked.

Saturday: rock climbing

Isaac's team took an optional field trip to a new climbing gym in Grand Rapids.  Since he needed a ride, I was also going to climb.

The reason they went on a field trip is because the rope walls were twice as tall as the ones at Scrapyard.  Oh!  They were!  I could tell when the wall was supposed to be finished and found myself only half way up the wall.  

Unfortunately, there were only two auto-belays.  However, the coaches kindly belayed me a few times too!  I also bouldered a little bit and sat around watching and talking with people and the three hours went by really quickly.  

I'd like to reiterate that I love his coaches.  They're cool people.

The trips back down were extra fun because you kept going down and down and down.

Friday: storage room

I am steadily working on cleaning the storage room in the basement.  I'm not sure I would say that I'm close, but I'm getting closer.  At this rate I'm hoping to finish before Christmas.  I was especially glad to have so much time to work on it today because when I looked at all the other stuff that also needed to be done today I wasn't sure I'd have any time to work on it.

I did have to get one thing out from the "we'll rarely need this stuff" shelf today, but I was glad that I knew right where the item was!  The step ladder was already in the correct place too, which made it even easier.

Wednesday: exercise

There was a fair amount of exercise today.  I went for a walk with Cheryl.  Joshua and I went on a bike ride around the neighborhoods looking for Halloween decorations.  We saw a lot of fall decorations, but only a few Halloween decorations.  I went to karate this evening - although we did a lot of self-defense which isn't very intense.

The rest of the day was only ok.  I got a few chores done, but not as many as I hoped.  The dust bin in the vacuum finally filled up and it took a while to clean it and get all the Lego out.  It took about a year to fill up, so I was rather excited about that.  I was also very ready for my nap by the time I got to it; I feel like I've been more tired lately but it is probably due to the changing seasons or something like that.