It is two days before Christmas and I am not sure if we are prepared or not. We still need to make some purchases at Costco and instead of venturing out there I might just order what we need via Instacart to avoid both the weather and the people. I am sure that it is going to be a zoo there today. There is light snow falling today and it has an impact on the way that people drive.
Yesterday I took several naps in the evening and I think it had an impact on my sleep as I was up at 3:30am and had difficulty falling back asleep. I ended up staying awake till 5am to do some things. I had some ideas and documented some thoughts. I think that yesterday I had a good day of eating for the most part, but I am having some trouble telling if I am actually eating more or not. Frequency it is on par, but the amount of food each session I am not really sure. I may need to resort to weighing my food to track it a bit better and I will worry about the density and volume of the food later on. This morning I think I had 3 spoonfuls of yogurt and I feel fine. I am not hungry nor am I full. A recent development from this weekend however is that I get lightheaded some times and then have nausea which leads to me throwing up. So far most of the time it is just a lot of mucous but it is a recent development. I do not want to sit around and wait 90 minutes to talk to a nurse today. They will just chart it and say that they will tell the doctor. I am lucky that i am friends with my doctor and with pharmacists so I can deal with this much easier. Right now I am feeling fine, but we will monitor what the fatigue levels are. Ideally I will nap earlier in the day instead of at the end. Xavier has his team potluck followed by a parent/kid game afterwards. I do not think that I will attend both. Most likely I will skip both as I will have two long days ahead and I am not sure I want to expend extra energy there. The effects of the fatigue are cumulative and the next two days fatigue will not be optional. I just need to make it through meal prep and get through initial dinner service and then I can rest in the bedroom for a bit. I need to create a timeline for meal prep and schedule breaks as well. I think that a lot of the things I can do ahead of schedule. The menu this year is pretty simple and nothing too difficult or extravagant. Which is rather disappointing. It would have been fun to see what I can pull off in this state. Mel agreed to let me drive myself this morning. Probably because she thinks I get too stressed about being late and leaving on time. I have a strong dislike for being late and off schedule. Mel is French and has a laissez faire attitude. I had wanted to leave by 7:10 yesterday and we left late at 7:11. Safe to say that threw off the timing for the whole day and everything fell apart after that. It does not really bother Mel as it is not really late in her eyes, but it annoys me as there is no opportunity to clean the vehicle or deal with unexpected things at the hospital. As she was dropping me off it is not as big of a deal as there are less things for me to do. Mel is also not a morning person so I will make it back home today and she will still be in bed. I would squish her in bed, but that is not very effective. I will give her a hug and she will not even notice.
December 19th we have an entry in the calendar that it is Squish Olivier Day. I can not remember how that started or why but I also have that event shared with my sister. Olivier had a sleepover to spend time with my sister and he would have spent another night there last night as well. My sister ended up being my chauffeur at the end of the day and we had to pick up Xavier from hockey. She drives a Honda Civic with a trunk that is filled with emergency preparedness so I do not think Xavier’s equipment would fit into the back. She herself has said it was full, so Mel and her swapped vehicles and Mel went and picked up Olivier after her appointment. He had a huge list of things that he had wanted to do with my sister and I am not sure if they finished them all or not. He will still have time to complete them though.
Tine is flying and Mel is getting a bit stressed with every thing that needs to be done. This year she needs to do it all herself. She needs to wrap all of the presents and all of that. In the past we did it together. I would wrap something, she would say it was terribly wrapped and if it was for my side of the family leave it. If it was her side she would fix it to make it look better. Without me helping her out I am sure that she is struggling quite a bit with efficiency.
I have used Instacart twice now to order things and we have never had a big order. Everytime that we have used it they have forgotten a part of the order. It is rather annoying. I would assume that they would count to see how many items they have in the cart and make sure everything was there. He had said that he was also doing another big order and while doing this all his receipt did not show that it was purchased. The story was that he had it in the cart and someone must have taken it out. It may be possible that someone stole something out of his cart, but I have never seen it. Though I do admit that I have seen Mel put things into other people’s carts to try and get them to pay for things. She claims she was not paying attention and thought it was our cart. So it is possible that a theft had occurred. I was still charged it however, so I said the item was not delivered. I had sent a message telling him we did not get it and he said that he would drop it off later today. By 5pm he had not. I think that this was karma for this morning. As I was leaving the Cancer Center 2 Asian girls were trying to figure out parking. It is important to note that they are Asian in this story. I walked them to the machine and kind of waited as people struggle with the machine often. As expected they struggled and I was helping them out. Their card was not working after several tries so I just paid for them and started walking away. It is amusing because in Asian culture you will see people fighting to pay all of the time. They were completely shocked and said that they had money in the car and they ran back to the car. I said it was fine and they said they could buy me a coffee. I declined and sped out of the parking lot as quickly as possible. I brought shame to them by having a random stranger pay for them so in turn I am missing my mushrooms from my order. Mel went to the store several times and she would have picked some up if we had known the guy was not going to deliver. I am pretty sure that 2025 is completely ruined now. Thank God the year is almost done now and we can put this mushroom saga behind us. If someone asks me what the worst part of 2025 was, I think it is quite evident that it was the missing mushrooms of 2025.
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