A Pikachu-zen Vacation

Mammoth Spring @ Mammoth Spring, Arkansas

My vacation to the country was pretty awesome!  😁
It was soooo very hot that I didn't take a whole lot of pictures and neither did any of my cousins.  Hopefully next year it won't be so sweltering. 

Mammoth Spring must be my lucky town or something cause while I was down there I somehow managed to catch a Pikachu!!!

I had never even seen a Pikachu on my radar.  I didn't have to walk around too much to find it, surprisingly enough and when I did I used a great ball and caught it on the first try!  I've just been dying to get a Pikachu and now I finally have one. 

While visiting some cousins I discovered that a cousin of mine and I both love knitting and arts and crafts.  She asked me if I had very many circular needles (which I don't) and she gave me an extra set of interchangeable circular needles that she had.  Eeek, I can't wait to put them to good use!  I've been wanting a set like this for so long!!!  I am forever grateful and in her debt.  ❤💖❤

Also come to find out, one of my other cousins is really into genealogy and history, too! 
I was quite sad on the drive home cause I really miss being down there!  So much open space with nothing for miles but land, trees, horses, cows, goats, etc.  It's a claustrophobic person's heaven! 

Do you go on vacation?  If so, where?  What's your favorite vacation destination?

Trying Some New Things

I've been doing some thinking and have decided to try some new things and some things I just haven't done in forever and a day.  The two new things are:

a.) a daily to-do list that I check off when I'm done with each thing
b.) doing daily stretching exercises (weirdly enough I've never done this)

and for the not so new things:
c.) gonna start doing yoga again (at least two-three times a week)
d.) taking a walk (two-three times a week)

I've kinda become this sedentary person who doesn't move around as much as I used to.  Part of it is due to depression and lack of motivation, the other part is due to how much pain moving causes my joints and back.  It's frustrating, but I'm gonna try even harder to do these above things and *keeping my fingers crossed* that this will help.  At least I won't be so horribly out of shape.  Eventually I wanna get back to lifting weights (I never lifted anything over 10 lbs or anything) again to tone up my arms, plus it really makes carrying in groceries a breeze cause you can lift even more bags at once.  Lol. 

Well, I think that just about wraps things up.  Do you do yoga?  If so, what are your favorite poses?

Grief & Depression

Grief and depression go hand in hand, for me anyways.  I've never been very good with death, but who is really?  I've been dealing with a lot of both things.  I started this post thinking I'd talk about it, but now that I'm actually writing this post...I'm not so sure.  I just got the tears dried up for the moment and I'm so afraid that the flood gate will open hardcore again if I do. 

I just reread that paragraph and what stands out is that last sentence and the presence of fear.  Fear is a powerful thing.  Fear can cause us to block out memories, push memories and feelings further back into ourselves so that we don't deal with them.  I don't know what else to say, so that's all I've got for right now. 

My First Day Of School

So this morning I decided to find a writing prompt to work with and since this is the beginning of the school year (well, at least in North America), I thought I'd chose this one: First Day Of School  This will be a pretty short post cause my first day of school ever was like 20+ years ago, so there's not a whole lot of detail that I remember. 

New Blog!

Been working on getting a new blog going for my genealogy research.  I ran across a blog the other day that made me think "Hey, I should do that, too!".  I think this may just be a great way to run into other family members out here on the interwebs and maybe find out even more info.

Otherwise there really isn't too much to tell.  Everything is pretty much the same old, same old.  Lately I've been playing Pokémon Omega Ruby and really getting into it.  Ever since Omega Ruby came out I just hadn't gotten into it like I did with Pokémon X & Y. 

Well, I'm outty. 

Let's Go Catch Some Pokémon!

Damn Bulbasaur!  I finally go outside to catch Pokémon and the only one on my street decides to break free when I almost had it.  AAARGH!!!  😡

On the upside, I did get some pokeballs and a couple of eggs from the Pokémart.  😋

 

Here I Go Again

First off, let me just say that chest pain sucks!  Ok, anyways...

Got my this here blog and my Tumblr a little more to my liking (html & pages wise).  I still need to add a social media links box.  I'll get around to that...who knows, maybe even today.


Well, I can't really think of anything else to say right now so until next time...
                                               
                                      

I Suck At Blogging

Ok, so I pretty much suck at blogging very often, eh?  I've just been kinda busy and not feeling very good.  Had a couple doctors' appointments last week and yesterday I had a freaking neck-related migraine.  Now today, my stupid chest is hurting.  It seems like sometimes I just can't get a break.  Argh!

The fam and I found a brand new restaurant that just opened in our area called Miyabi.  It's a Japanese sushi and steakhouse kinda place and omg, the food is so delicious!  I had the Chicken Teriyaki (my fave). 

Kinda forgot to take a pic till after I had started eating.

                                  
Started up my Tamagotchi P's again.  It had been awhile and I was starting to miss the little buggers.  Lol. 

                                            

I know, I desperately need to clean under the faceplate!  I've got a few specks of dirt, that for the life of me, I can't figure out how it got under there.  I don't have any kind of vacuum cleaner cause we've got all hardwood floors in my house. 

Well, that pretty much sums up the past week. 

Angry Poop?

I've been playing a lot of The Sims 4 lately.  So apparently there's an angry poop option now when you're in an angry mood.  Say what?  LOL!

Some of the faces that the sims' make are so cute and hilarious!

Hopefully

I think I may have caught up on my sleep, hopefully.  I kept waking up for a few hours and then going back to sleep for a few hours today.  Now if I can just sleep tonight, that would be great. 

I really should get back to studying Japanese, but I just haven't been feeling like doing that lately.  Hope I don't forget all the characters I learned.  There were still a few I didn't know in Hiragana and Katakana a week or two ago (when I last studied).  Hopefully I'll quit feeling quite so shitty soon. 

Hopefully I can find another planner just like the one I have now.  I'd insert a pic here, but I'm too lazy to go take a pic right now.  Lol.  I don't get why planners seem to almost always just go to June?  I never thought I'd really use a planner every day, but when ya get the right one it's easier than ya think to utilize the crap right out of it.  I'm much more aware of just how much or how little water I'm actually consuming now and since that was my New Year's resolution, it's perfect!

On that note, until next time...

Feeling Like Crap

My blood sugar is still staying low.  It sucks cause I can't get into an Endocrinologist till like late July.  Hopefully they'll have a cancellation or something.  *fingers crossed*


On to the good stuff:  My bro is the most awesome bro ever!  He got me a HP Notebook for my birthday.  Dude, it's touchscreen!  This makes me uber happy cause it makes it so much easier for me to blog again (which is why I'm even writing this) and to do lots of other things when I feel up to it.
                                                               

                                      

Now if I could just get my blood sugar to go back to normal...

Happy Birthday To Me

Well, so far my birthday has been both good and bad.  People wise it's been good; health wise it's been bad.  My blood sugar kept being low all night.  I couldn't sleep cause I was afraid it would get too low.  Now I'm finally feeling like maybe I can tackle a few hours of sleep, cause who the hell wants to sleep their whole birthday away?  Any the who, guess I'll try to go grab a little shut eye.

An Introduction Of Sorts

I'm gonna try this whole blogging thing again.  I've lost track of just how many times I've tried to do this, but I really do need a little neck of the woods to express myself.  I've gotten to the point where I feel so bottled up that I'm bound to pop, much like that of a cork on a wine bottle.  My grammar may suck, I might whine here and there (I'll try to keep that to a minimum cause it's depressing and nobody likes a Debbie Downer), I can definitely guarantee it'll probably be boring as hell, but what the hell...I'm gonna give it a shot!  <---see what I mean about grammar?

I think this pretty much wraps it up for now.

~Laterz