Med Switch

My medication downshift has been going well so far. My sleep isn't too disrupted by reducing my Seroquel, although we do think that it may be contributing to some nausea. The pills are tiny, so my psych said to stagger until I'm off instead of a usual halving taper. I think it's causing some discomfort, but it's getting better. 

The lowering of my Vraylar seems to have been inconsequential really. I'm feeling a little boost in interest, not as passive when it comes to self-improvement and positive growth, but I can't be sure it's related. 

Psychiatric drugs are so tricky! 

My anxiety hasn't been out of control, but I'm dwelling on work stress a bit too much. Especially around bedtime. I spend a lot of semi-conscious time rehashing and predicting and it sucks. I'm not sure that this is a forever home, unfortunately. My boss is gone this week and it feels like such a relief. There's still drama to be had, but not as much. He's also a bit disgusting so it's nice not to feel so dirty. 

My writing group was moved from April to early May and now to late May. I started something, but don't want to continue with it so I need a new topic. A lot of people have been saying my workplace is a rich source of writing fodder, so maybe character profiles? I don't know. I'd also like to do some screenwriting again. 

I've ordered some books on minimalism, cleaning and organizing with ADHD (between Hubs and BB and me not being a Susie Homemaker it's kinda wild in here), as well as something about Hygge??? Swedish comfort living or something? It had great reviews and intrigued me. So that's my newest improvement mission about to take off. 

The Hubs and I are touring a private school for BB's middle schooling and high schooling. It's a religious school so I'm a little apprehensive, but the academic rigor looks awesome and they offer more than a pubic school in ways of concurrent enrollment. I'm not sure exactly what will work best for BB, but he needs a challenge and he might be motivated to graduate early or with college credits and I want to accommodate. Of course, if he dials it down that's fine too. But I want options.

Off to work! It's Wednesday, so they wear pink. Well, I guess "we" wear pink. I chose my pink jungle dress with jaguars on it and flowers. You can only imagine, right? Haha It's dress season just about here! I'm glad, but gotta be careful about long dresses catching under my office chair...

TTFN. Hugs. Hope. Happiness be upon you!

Allergies. Good Grief.

I've never had allergies like this. So much sneezing. I don't typically have spring allergies and I'm a little suspicious of some new perfume I got (but I really don't want that to be the case!). The Hubs has been sneezing and dripping a lot too.

An example of work drama for you...

This past Friday my boss was looking forward in the schedule and noticed that he had appointment scheduled around the first two weeks in July. Well, he's going to be overseas. His vacay hadn't been put on the communal calendar and appointments had been made. I immediately offered to reschedule everything and he put the vacation on the calendar. 

That wasn't it though. He swore that he had known about the trip since December/January and put it on the calendar a long time ago. Then he started talking about the last receptionist and issues there and postulated that the old receptionist deleted the vacation on purpose. 

I rescheduled most of the appointments and left messages for others to call back Monday to reschedule. Then another employee catches me and says she wants to strangle the boss because he planned a vacation at the end of a quarter and didn't bother to tell anyone. Another employee practically cackled when she perused the calendar and found out I had to reschedule people (an employee he happened to mentioned was working closely with the previous receptionist). 

The bad part for me is being between. The boss straight up said he needs someone "on his side" and "faithful to me" and I'm his assistant. But I'm also seeing unhealthy tendencies and desperate to stay neutral and maintain relationships with the other faction (the rest of the office) that is "against" the boss. 

So that's a taste. I'll try to paint pictures of this workplace for y'all. I have some buddies that are quite intrigued by the drama already!

Got my first pedicure in a LONG time today and felt like a slob. But I got it done despite the furry pants (thank you cats) and the semi-shaved legs and slightly hairy toes. Oh well! I like the salon and scheduled out for May near Mother's Day. I'll get another right before the cruise I think and try to keep up at least through the summer and sandal season. It was good self-care and BB did a great job waiting and entertaining himself with a comic book and LEGO axolotl. 

Anyways. Not a vital update I suppose, but I wanted to type!

In other news and probably another post itself, I'm tweaking some medication to try and bring a little more versatility to my emotional plane. I've been a little flat and maybe overmedicated, but we'll see. Gotta be careful.