Oh dear, it's been a while...

My original plan being to just flood this blog with posts and such fairly regularly has gotten off to a poor start. So flooding is out of the question, random updates are all the rage anyway. I will probably decided to try to make weekly updates on a certain day. I just don't know how well that's going to go over, but we'll see.

Anyway! Since I haven't been telling the world anything since the 6th, well I've got quite a bit of very uninteresting news for everyone to hear. This is going to be long...
Since my last update, I've settled back into my room (sort of). I rearranged my furniture, I felt that this new time in my life deserves some reorganization. While I don't really have much to do for that, a change in my room was a pretty good one since nothing has moved in my room for years. Completely flipped the room. Now, I'm just waiting for the new year so that I can put a fresh and colourful coat of paint up. The current pure white that is on my walls is fairly depressing and not really something that I'm a fan of.

I have had an appointment with an ophthalmologist to see if there was anything wrong with my eyes because I was having that whole blind spot in my left eye for a while. The good news is that my eyes are healthy and I don't have anything wrong with them that he could see. The bad news being that we don't know what caused that to happen. I'm fairly sure that it was stress induced, which kind of scares be a bit that I can be stressed enough to pretty much go blind in one eye. You would have to be pretty bad for something like that to happen, that's for sure. The worse part is that I used to be able to handle stress so well, I was the type of person that didn't even get affected by a stressful situation til the last minute. Like when I had a test or exam, I would only get nervous once the thing was on the desk in front of me. It was both an advantage and a weakness, since I wasn't stressed, I wouldn't study hard enough but it saved me a lot of worry. Just with my more current psychological issues, I haven't been able to handle stress at all. It's very uncharacteristic of me and I really don't know how to even handle me not being able to tolerate high stress levels like I used to. That's one reason why I believe that the blind spot is stress related, because it started during a very stressful time at school.

My next item is that I have start physiotherapy to help my back. So far, it's been a pleasant experience. When I go, I get put on the inter-differential machine, which is four probes giving out mild shocks to stimulate circulation in the tissue. Feels like a mini massage as long as it's not too strong. I've been given a number of exercises that are helping put a curve back into my spine and build back and ab strength. I like the exercises since I never knew that you could build ab strength with such simple movements. Like one of my exercises is to lay flat on my back, and slowly drag one foot at a time on the floor til it's flat so that my knee is bent. So simple but it's actually working. My only issue right now if that I think I might have pushed it a little bit too hard yesterday and pulled something kind of bad because I'm so very sore today. The good part is that the pain is very isolated and hasn't really traveled back into my sciatic nerve yet, and hopefully won't. My parents insurance covers physio til a certain amount for each calendar year and in the last week and a half I've used that full amount because I only had two weeks left to the year. So it was a really good time to start it because I was able to do that. Hopefully with all the advice about back pressure and realigning your spine I've gotten in the last while, I'll be on my way to being better fairly quickly. Which would be absolutely wonderful.

And I still have things to talk about!!

Oh course there's Christmas! Which was really nice this year. I spent a lot of time baking beforehand and that was wonderful since I love doing it. I did have a bit of trouble with standing for long periods of time because of my back but I persevered because of my love for it. Baking is definitely one of the things that still makes me happy right now. Actual Christmas was just a nice 3 days (24th, 25th and 26th) spent at home with my family. I ran through three of my dressiest dresses because I felt like wearing them and we got a few gifts, my favourite is definitely the heated blanket my parents gave me. We ate lots of food, we spent time with each other and went to church together. It was definitely pleasant.
Once the boxing week sales hit, I was out spending more money I don't have but I did pick up a dress I've been eyeing forever and it was 70% off. Darn good deal if you ask me.

Now, New Year's Eve was fairly uneventful. We got chinese and I drank a bit of sparkling wine. It didn't really agree with me though. I really don't foresee myself getting drunk anytime in the future because of that. Watched a movie with my mom, Auntie Mame, which is actually a great movie. Then we watched the countdown, yelled "Happy New Year" and that was about it...

This past week, I started in a cake decorating class. It's just the introductory level, so it's pretty basic stuff, like most of it I already know (how to make icing, hold a piping bag, pipe basic shapes) but it'll just be fun to have something to do on Thursday nights for the next couple of weeks. Which I also have to bake for (so that's fun too). My only problem with the class is that, it's mostly sitting for 2 hours straight on crappy chairs that make my back hurt. I'm not too sure how to fix that problem either.

So other than all that, I've been taking life pretty slowly. Still keeping up with my physio exercises, enjoying life's simple pleasures (that don't cost anything) and trying to watch what I eat. I have, on the down side, thoroughly messed up my sleeping schedule which isn't cool at all and I need to fix quickly before it gets worse.

That's about it for now. I'll be updating again in the next few days about what I expect to get out of 2012. This should be an exciting one! So until then,

Tootles!
Kathleen