What is it about Monday’s

What is it about Monday's? They always seem to be awful, and I find myself hating them on a fairly frequent basis. I kept waking up all throughout the night because of a blinding headache. I sort of remember waking up in pain, before trying to go back to sleep. It was a rough night, and I even went to bed early last night. What I can say is that I'm very grateful that my leg didn't bother me last night. If I hadn't been dealing with the headache, I might have actually had a great nights sleep. Anyway, I was up at 7 AM and out the door to go walking. I really, really like when that works out. I'd much rather go to bed earlier and get up…

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Holy Sh!t, this doesn’t happen very often

Lizze is not having a good day. Frankly, she's not had a really good day in a while. She's back in bed, and thankfully, the boys are playing nicely together. All three of the kids playing nicely together, doesn't happen very often at all. That in and of itself feels like a victory. I'm thinking that we might have another bonfire tonight. It's supposed to storm, but if it doesn't, the kids will have fun. It's pretty hot and very humid again today, and that could also put a damper on things. The way I see it is that even if we get it going for a little while, the kids still get to have fun and not just be stuck in the house. Lizze will probably opt out of…

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I don’t know how people worse off deal with it

I've not talked about this, but lately, I've been struggling with restless leg at night. It's mostly my left leg, and if you've never experienced restless leg, it's indescribable. For me, at least, it doesn't hurt, but it gets to the point where I want to cut my leg off. My Mom has struggled with this forever, and it's awful for her. Lizze has been living with this off and on for as long as I've known her. I don't think I have it nearly as bad as my Mom, Lizze or many others for that matter but it's bad enough that I can't sleep, I punch my leg in a desperate attempt to stop the feeling that keeps building up, and I get to the point that I honestly…

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I’m so f*cking tired of the verbal gymnastics

It's been a frustrating evening tonight because there was a disagreement between Gavin and his brothers, that quickly escalated to a screaming match. The whole thing comes down to Gavin and the boys, how shall I say this, lackluster communication skills. Basically, Gavin wanted to take a break from playing a video game with Elliott. They were supposed to be working together on something and Gavin wanted to stop. There's nothing wrong with that. Rather than just say that, he made up some excuse that his tablet was at 60% and he'd like it to charge until it was 85%. Elliott felt that Gavin was blowing him off. Gavin, on the other hand, is incredibly awkward and was concerned about hurting Elliott's feelings by saying he needed a break. Elliott…

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I actually slept well last night

I took some ZzzQuil and went to bed at about 11 PM last night. I was so desperate to sleep and get my sleep back on track. It took me a while to fall asleep, but I did, and I was up before 7:30 AM to go walking. 😉 People were lighting off fireworks behind our house until pretty late, and that was super annoying. It also kept the boys from falling asleep, and that is a big problem. This will be a struggle for the next few days cause fireworks will continue to be fired off. My walk went well, and I'm now hanging out with my Mom for a little while because she's still recovering from recent knee replacement surgery. We don't really have anything else planned for…

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We’re getting concerned about our oldest son

We're noticing some concerning/weird things coming from Gavin. In a nutshell, he's using incorrect words when speaking, cursing, seriously struggling with following direction, as well as with his already limited problem-solving skills. We'll take these one at a time. When Gavin is speaking to us, he is using incorrect words for what he's trying to say. The issue is that this mismatched wordage actually changes the meaning of what he's saying. As an example, Gavin will come up to me and tell me something like, hey Dad; I didn't collect the recycling. I'll repeat it back to him to make sure I heard him correctly, and he confirms I didn't collect the recycling. The keyword here is didn't. What he's trying to tell me is that he did collect the…

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I crawled out of bed after 3 hours of sleep

After about three hours or so of restless sleep, I crawled out of bed and hit the track. I missed yesterday, and if I wanted to get this done, it had to be early because it's going to be another unbearably hot and humid day. I got home from walking and picked up Gavin because he needs his weekly blood work done. We've been having a hell of a time getting his Clozapine refilled cause the fucking lab never sends the results like they are supposed to. Everything keeps getting pushed back as a result, and it's really frustrating. Gavin has enough medication to get through the weekend, so they have three days to get this right. 😡 Anyway, I'm going to take it easy today and focus on getting…

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