Gotta catch em all!

 I started Pokemon Violet and it's the first game I've played since like.... gameboy haha and I really enjoy it. There's plenty to do whatever you're in the mood for. Sometimes during breakfast when my kids have stolen my phone, I do lessons in the University. Haha that sounds ridiculous, when I go gamer I GO GAMER. Probably why I mostly stick to casual games... they're easier to stop when I've spent too much time on them and actually need to move NOW. Anyway I've been really into it. And reading, I've been alternating between the Libby app and my webcomics. (I read on both Webtoons and Tapas, whatever story calls to me.) 

On Friday, early early early, my second youngest child woke me up because she threw up. I couldn't fall back asleep and my youngest came in and snuggled but was also not super sleepy, so when second youngest came in again (yep, threw up again), my youngest made a stink about it and followed me around. I tried to put her to sleep for an hour after before giving up, and only took a nap between 9-10 AM. It was a pretty miserable day, really, I was not a fan, though I did take my two oldest to a church pinewood "derby" (it was suuuper chill, maybe a little too chill, but there were plenty of tickets and prizes and food) so that was kind of fun. It's Sunday now and I'm not sure I quite recovered - I had set daily alarms for 7:40 AM to remind me to get my kid's newly-pierced ears clean but didn't think about Saturdays, so I couldn't go back to sleep after that. And this morning, my youngest came in just before 7, but unfortunately last night I stayed up past 11 (reading a webcomic!) so I'm pretty tired today. 

I really wanted to work on my kiddo's science fair project, due on Thursday so we're down to the wire! But husband isn't feeling great either so ugh we'll see. I suppose there's still daylight left (we have to do it outside, preferably filmed). Maybe I'll get her to put up measuring tape and we can do the actual experiment after school tomorrow - we're doing diet coke and mentos. Plenty of information for a poster, hooray. Kiddo really wanted to bring something she could demonstrate - a couple years back, my oldest was measuring the movement of solids through a funnel, and she measured rice, m&ms, and jelly beans. I think she only brought one candy to demonstrate, but between the candy and the actual demo, her poster was very popular. I think my kiddo wants hers to be popular too, but she also doesn't actually care about it. So at least the experiment will be fun. Hopefully we can put a bunch of pictures on her poster, and I'm thinking about sending a tablet with a video compilation of mentos experiments. We'll see though, I'm not even sure if that's allowed. I did buy an extra bottle of coke and a small pack of mentos to send with her so she can display something besides the poster. 

I'm pretty sure I'm more excited about it all than she is. Maybe I'm forcing myself to because she's so down about the last few weeks of school - she stayed home all last week because of a project and the day of she was actually miserable so she couldn't go anyway. But hopefully she'll be able to go all this week and do some fun end of the year activities so she enjoys school again... here's hoping. 

Ugh I should make some vegetables for dinner. My body really needs fruit and veg and I have not been accommodating. I used to make smoothies pretty often but though I would like to drink one, I haven't wanted to make one. :( Maybe I'll make some today, since I'm out of popcorn, my eldest's safe food. Sorry my precious child! It's been a long time since I've run out, I try to buy it periodically, I just forgot. 

I think I wrote this to put off making dinner. Even though I'm pretty much just reheating dinner, I've been putting it off. But I guess chicken patties in the air fryer and a bag of mixed veggies in the microwave isn't too intimidating. Sigh. Might even taste good. 

Oh! And in the TMI department (trigger? warning: menstrual musings) I finally got my period last week. This time it was only 36 days between my cycle.... I use a tracking app and I figure I'm perimenopausal, but also even according to my app, I've had more out of the "acceptable" range of variation for early perimenopause than I like, so I'm trying to decide if I want to find a gynocologist or just try and see my primary care provider about it first? Oh I also need to take my youngest to the doctor, I think she's behind on her immunizations and we're registering for school... Sigh. 

I'm trying to find something fun and chipper about today, but ultimately it's a bit of a drag. Pokemon and webcomics were good, occasional snuggles and laughing with my kids are good, but I haven't felt emotionally well, really. Sigh.