Happy Sunday! Hope everyone's weekend is going well.
I have been puttering around the house this weekend. We had another snow event on Friday night into Saturday morning, so I just planned to stay home and do some things around the house...mainly laundry!
I also wanted to stay home to make sure that I didn't have a reaction to my new medication that I began on Friday. Thursday I saw a nurse practitioner that my primary doctor referred me to, as he is very well versed in mental health issues. This NP spent a lot of time with me and as we talked about my history and things that have happened in the past few years and my responses to those, it became clear that my current way of dealing with my depression is not working. He also diagnosed me as clinically depressed. Makes a ton of sense to me, and was almost a relief to hear as I felt there was something wrong with me. He started me on a new medication that I am so glad that insurance covers as if I had to pay out of pocket it would be $1800+ for 30 days. I will follow up with him in a month to see how this new med is working or not.
This year, I am experimenting with picking up groceries as a way to save money as I am the type of person that will only plan on getting 5 things at the store and end up with a whole cart full because I see something on sale that we can't live without or that I think we need but we already have some at home, etc. I got a Kroger pick up grocery order on Friday night and organized my freezer and pantry. I also placed a Walmart delivery order for Saturday for things like laundry detergent, toilet paper, backup chopped onions for the freezer that I forgot in my Kroger order, and batteries.
I spent some time organizing. I went through a couple of totes in our basement and have a huge tote of stuff to throw out and some to donate. After I type this up, I am going to bag up the trash and take it out to the bin. I also went through a tote in my bedroom that had a bunch of saved love notes/cards from my ex-husband. I went through all of them and threw them away.
In between all of that, I did ALL the laundry in the house. I don't even know how many loads it was, but it was a lot. I used the timer on my phone and was strict about flipping laundry and folding it when it came out of the dryer. As I type this up on Sunday afternoon, I have the very last load in the washer. Yay me! Of course that will last until the kids start taking showers tonight so it will be a short lived happiness.
I have a ton to do this coming week, including getting blood work done, 2 doctors appointments, work, Jacob has a track meet, bible study, etc.
I feel like this post is all over the place. I should end this so that I can take the trash out and maybe get something else done, now that I have had momentum.
What are you up to this weekend? Do you get the organizing bug at the beginning of a new year? How do you save money at the grocery store?
Yay you for getting all that laundry done! I'm also glad you are taking care of yourself and I hope the new medication will help you out. Depression is no fun, and it sure is sneaky because we all cope in different ways. I hope it helps you on your journey to feeling good. I almost exclusively make grocery orders, just because walking the store wears me out. Sometimes the hubby will go, but like you said, we always end up spending way more when he does, haha! I'm just so glad it is an option for us now.
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ReplyDeleteI try to organize regularly. I call it maintenance, but my pantry really needs a full blown deep organization.i just haven’t had the wherewithal to take everything out and put it back!i I also LOVE to purge things. I feel so much lighter when I remove unused things from our home! If only I could get all family members on board.
I save money at the grocery store by making a list based off of needs and sales, and trying to stick to it. I have to have a written list, Howe, not a phone. I don’t think ordering and picking up would work for me, because often my meal plans consist of things that are an in store special, ie turkey breast at $0.69/lb.I can see a time where I may take advantage of pickup, but for now, my method works for us.
Laundry = infinity should be a physics theory. I once commented that buying new clothes for the kids was really just creating more laundry! It never ends! DD has an especially heavy amount of, but when she is home she does her own. When she leaves for college, however, there is almost always a load of dirty clothes left behind!I
So great to hear from you. All the best.
-Meg B.
Fingers crossed the new meds are just what you need.
ReplyDeleteI need a total organization of every room in my house. I started with a bang last year but it did not last very long. Maybe this will be my year.
Hope the new medication helps, and that the diagnosis helped as well. Getting the laundry all caught up always helps me feel good but I do hear you about the short-lived happiness as the laundry baskets never stay empty. Hope 2025 is a healing and happy year for you.
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