Well, Saturday was a sleep most of the afternoon away day. Perhaps it was aftermath of the day before? The only thing truly accomplished was getting, bagging, packing and unpacking groceries and cleaning the kitchen. I really do not know when I fell asleep, but I woke around nine in the evening. I tended to the accumulation of dishes in the sink and stayed up. I ordered the shirt I decided to get my eldest brother. The only gift left would be for my second brother. Like my sister I think he doesn’t deserve anything, but have given in when it comes to him as well. I’m getting him socks. Heh.
Sunday I slept until about one since I was up all night. My dad put up Christmas decorations, my mom readied recipes, I watched a movie. My eldest brother and his girlfriend, Eryn, came over and they helped decorate the tree while hanging around and talking. My other brother came over and eventually dinner was cooked up and served. It was a big meal. Minestrone soup, corn on the cob, chicken breasts, salad, monkey bread and scalloped potatoes were the menu. I noted before we all sat down that I doubted I’d be able to eat all the things I liked.
Well, we said grace and then commenced. The meal was good. We talked, laughed and it was pleasant. I ate like how most people eat on Thanksgiving – I ate until stuffed. I even ate dessert which is something I rarely do. After that, I started to feel the effects of a food coma. Mom started cleaning up. My second brother helped her and eventually I did the big dishes when Mom was called away by my eldest brother, his girlfriend and Father.
Once I had that done I began to go into dozing mode. I struggled to stay awake at least until E. brother and Eryn left. They went out and my parents saw them off. Soon my other brother needed to go home so my mom left with him to drop him off. My dad decided to settle into bed and I decided by then it was safe to do the same despite it was only seven thirty.
I rested then and let my body continue in its pursuit to gather all its energy into dealing with the considerable difference in food consuming. My mom returned and was either shocked, peeved or something that Dad and I already headed to bed for the night. After that, I drifted off and didn’t wake again until midnight. Yeah, since Thanksgiving I’ve been mainly sleeping during the day again.
Monday my mom started her vacation, which really isn’t much of a vacation as it is a week to catch up on things she couldn’t get done during the year. She worked on ironing old clothes to be sent off to be resold; she did her exercising, met with a sponsor from her meetings and what not. I was up briefly in the morning to clean the kitchen and tend to some laundry, but eventually went back to sleep to wake up later around evening. I didn’t vacuum her room either since it was full of boxes of old clothes to be ironed. I was awake most of the night.
Tuesday was much the same. I slept until eleven thirty. I got up, tended to the kitchen, started the laundry, saw my mom come in, and took a moment to eat some cereal. My mom had another busy morning. I cannot remember the first exactly, but she did have an appointment with Cindy, my old therapist and then had to take my second brother to an appointment, was dropped off and then I saw her. She got ready to go out for exercising and I meandered back to my room. She left, I read and did a few things and eventually went to sleep again.
Mom returned home and woke me up around four; we watched recorded shows as she worked on more ironing. I vacuumed my room and my brother’s during a break and she kept ironing. Dad came home and the night pretty much went into the usual schedule. By nine I leave and head off to my room after tending to the dishes acquired from evening meals.
I tried to sleep around midnight, but after an hour and a half of no results I rose again and piddled about on the computer. A few hours I tried to sleep again but only started to dose a bit by five or so. I woke around eleven or so. I took a shower, did some chores and waited on my mom. We were to go shopping for gifts for her co-workers. During this time my brother came over as did my father. I think my brother was carpooling. Well, they eventually left and soon Mom and I leave.
She stopped by that shop she was ironing so many clothes for. We hauled in tons of clothes but they only took six things. Poor Mom. They said most of her things wouldn’t sell, which pretty much perplexed both of us. They were worn at most a couple of times and pretty expensive and yet not eligible for sale as far as they were concerned. My mom was pretty angry. We took the rest to the Salvation Army then and headed out of town. After about thirty minutes we arrive to the shopping district. Freaking cold it was.
My mom has three main stores she goes to for shopping there. We stopped by the first a place called “Remember Me, Too”. My mom found things for gifts, but decided we’d return later since there was no reason buying and lugging them around with us when we’d pass by on our way back to the car. So, we continued on. After that we headed on to another store my mom likes. It is pretty damn expensive in there, but they have some really lovely things. Sadly I’m not buying a hanging hand blown glass ornament for thirty bucks much less the crystal statues or glass art that goes over a hundred. Mom did find a small decorative piece to buy though and then we headed out again.
There was an Earth Bound in town and my mom liked sun catcher/wind chime I got in the previous one, so checked inside. I looked around per usual, and eventually pointed out the wind chimes to Mom. She grabbed a few and I got another one to equal out my other two. Our last shopping stop was unsuccessful at a place called “Hen Feathers”. It never interested me to go in there since the things sold were not of my tastes and the shop rarely changed. My mom found nothing in there either, so while we head out I asked Mom about stopping for something to drink since I get dehydrated easily anyway.
We stop at a place called “Java Ranch”. I got a Diet Coke and my mom had some hot tea. We rested there for a while and then headed out once her tea was at the right temperature and what not.
We stopped by the first store again and my mom got some different kinds of soaps she intended to get at the beginning and then to my exasperation she decided to look through the store again. Usually I am patient over such things, but we had already looked through the store and now she was piddling. Well, she got a few more things. I think a candle and two ornament-like items were her finds. Well, before we get to the counter a woman gets there right before us, so we wait. I’m still holding my mom’s drink and my own but am too leery to set them down on any of the display cases. We finally get out of there though and head for the car.
We left the town around three thirty and returned home near four. My mom then got ready to go to the gym and I did my chores. Since I hadn’t eaten lunch at all I cooked a meal and vacuumed while waiting on it. Having eaten I spent a bit of time on the Internet and my father came home. Eventually my mom returns as well and started cooking her dinner as does my dad. They had a meeting to go to. My mom goes for self-help. My dad doesn’t understand the point of such meetings and goes for “the sake of others”. It annoys my mom like mad. I simply tell her Dad is a dork and he isn’t going to get anywhere yet since he hasn’t even gotten near the first step. Oh well.
Well, a bit before the time they leave, I settled on her bed and snuggled up to our oldest cat Tiger. Thursday is my cat’s day of surgery, so I put away all the cat food since he couldn’t eat after six onto tomorrow. I fed him some food twenty minutes before six though. Poor Atty. Anyway, I wound up dozing off around six thirty and woke again once they returned an hour later. Things got settled and we ended the night with TV watching as usual.
At nine my mom decided to watch one more show, so she and I headed out to the living room so my dad could sleep. Halfway into the show I began rearranging the decorations on the tree since some were utterly cluttered, some weren’t hung securely and others were really fragile so I was double checking their sturdiness. I continued on, listening to the show and working on the tree. I continued on after the show ended and my mom went on to bed. Around ten thirty or so I stop, turn off the lights and gather my cat. We headed to my room. I tried to sleep again from around twelve and on, but it was still of little use.
I got up at seven thirty and brought my cat to Mom and he was put in the little kitty carrier to be dropped off at the Vet clinic while she took my dad to work. I headed back to bed then and didn’t wake up until around two.
I did my chores and later helped my mom by putting Christmas letters into envelopes with cards and sealing them. With how dry my mouth and throat tend to get, it was troublesome, but I survived. Heh. At one point she left for her massage and I spent time dusting the house and added dusting the curio cabinet to the list. I then vacuumed and mom soon enough came home again. We left to pick up my cat. He had sleepy eyes but seemed fine. Upon return I placed him in my room with a little food and a bowl of water. I had to go out again. My mother and I went to CVS to pick up some medicine for my mom’s toe and some water for me. We also grabbed some Pledge as we were at it since I used up the can and didn’t get a few things dusted. After that we headed home.
I cannot remember much after that, but I believe we settled down for our usual television watching. Atty was still sleepy eyed but his spunk kept him semi-playful and active. Around nine my mom and I change rooms since my dad wanted to sleep. I fooled with a tree a bit, still looking for kinks in the decorating and the like. Atticus seemed to simply wish to do his usual routine. He didn’t “attack” any of the cats, but he did wander and explore like usual.
When the shows were watched and it was near ten, I grabbed Atty and headed for my room as my mom headed for hers. I think I actually fell asleep around twelve this time, but still did not wake up until eleven. I woke up at that time because my mom came in and asked me to put stamps on the letters I dealt with the day before… so I woke up, never left the bed and got to work. Heh.
I got up, did some chores, ate breakfast and my E. brother’s present arrived in the mail. I showed it to Mom and eventually dad came home, so I showed it to him and I then wrapped it. I also got some little zip-lock baggies that I’ve been needing for a while and spent about an hour organizing stones I collect by placing and labeling them in said baggies.
Now I am here. Later on tonight my mom and dad will be off to the Christmas party at her work. I don’t really know what I’ll being doing tonight. Tomorrow I will be a year older and my mom plans to take me to the town we went to shop at earlier in the week to buy me a birthday lunch. Any other plans are beyond me other than that a week from today I see my psychiatrist. Hum…
Well, I shall be off. I need to vacuum… again.