Viva la Juicy will be my next and final perfume sample.

Not feeling great at all today but at least I’m not anxious… Yet. I haven’t been sleeping well since stopping the Amberen but as soon as I get anxious again and I see that it had nothing to do with it, I may take it again.

I woke up in the middle of my sleep and was unable to get back to sleep right away and had a bit of hip pain so I got up and took Ibuprofen and baby Benadryl. I don’t know if it’s because of taking the Benadryl in the middle of my sleep, because it causes me to sleep longer, or because my sleep was broken up, but just like last time, I woke up feeling tired and hungover. From now on, when I wake too soon I need to hope I fall back asleep on my own, just lie there, or get up.

Despite feeling out of it, we went to Rite Aid and got flu shots. I also picked up some green tea because it’s supposed to help aid the metabolism if you have something like 2 to 4 cups a day. I had a couple of cups today but nothing has helped yet.

When we got back I felt horribly cold even being bundled up and under the bedcovers. I’m just now starting to warm up. I get cold easily but this was extreme even for me, so unless I’m still pretty hypo, I wonder if it was related to the flu shot. I couldn’t find that listed as a side effect but fatigue is. I usually have next-day fatigue so even if I sleep better tonight, I may still be kind of out of it tomorrow but that’s okay. It’s okay to take a lazy weekend every now and then to just relax. If I had cleaning to do or some other plans then I might feel guilty lying around in bed all day. I’ve been in and out of bed all day and evening. I got my Bing points and checked in with friends but that’s pretty much it.

Now, after taking Ibuprofen for that damn hip pain and having some oatmeal, I’m starting to warm up. Really don’t understand this frustrating hip pain. The longer it goes on, the more I’m going to wonder if it could be arthritis of some kind. An injury is looking less likely and I haven’t been overdoing or underdoing the exercise. I still exercise 4-5 days a week.

It would be in my best interest not to get up before 10 tomorrow morning so I don’t want to take Benadryl before bed (to help me sleep more solid) until somewhere between 1 and 2 AM. Those fucking neck knockers are back too. Starting to think that’s more anxiety-related than due to blood pressure and sodium even though I feel calm now, but I don’t know for sure. I just dread the day the anxiety returns!

I’m disappointed that the planes have returned even though I knew they would. Last night it was small planes, tonight it’s commercials.

Got an adorable 18” gold lab statue lying with its head on its paws to place on the living room vent that the Roomba keeps getting stuck on. Should be here in a week or two.

More shitty dreams last night. I was thrown in jail in some foreign country. I don’t know why or what the country was. They spoke a language I didn’t understand. I stood by looking strangely innocent in this girly dress and my hair was in braids. I looked at the jailers as they chatted in this foreign language and then one of them spoke English.

“You speak English!” I exclaimed with relief. And then I told the guy I was worried I wouldn’t get my thyroid medication and would, therefore, slip into a coma.

Not sure what happened after that but in another dream, he and I moved to my home state. I was shivering with cold and saying, “What the fuck were we thinking?!”

I seemed to be on the street I spent my first 12 or 13 years on and for some reason, there was no working bathroom in the house. I had to walk down the street and around the corner to the bathroom. As I neared the end of the street, I contemplated zipping across the street to pee in the woods on the other side of it but didn’t want anyone in the corner houses to spot me and wonder why I was going into the woods.