It has been a crazy couple of weeks. The highs have been... high. The lows have been... low. Some of the highs and lows have come with associated "I don't suck as much as I thought!" and "argh I'm an utter failure" emotional turmoil. Some have just been happy. Some have just been really, really ...
It was inevitable, the amount I've been flitting about, and the number of bugs that have been going round, but Thursday last week I came home early and pretty much keeled over. I barely got up for 3 days. Monday I got up but I was berating myself for being so lazy, annoyed at myself ...
I have had a pretty appalling week in terms of the difference between what I wanted to achieve, and what I did achieve. Things outside my control: Re-aggravating shoulder injury. So much pain. Increased sleeping due to pain killers. Two trips to chiro (feeling a lot better now - finally). Car is broken and needs a bunch of work, so we ...
For a long time, I've been doing this thing where I GO GO GO like a crazy person and then crash. And I always come up with a plan, like "take on less", or "be more organized" or some other strategy. And these are helpful, absolutely, but at best they seem to result in a different ...
When stressed, I'm prone to bemoaning the lack of hours in the day. I think if I could just get an extra, say, two hours a day, that would be one more activity I could get in. When happy (and for me, happy usually means productive) I reason, "We all get the same 24 hours in ...
Currently, I'm trapped in a stressed-not-sleeping-feeling-ill cycle. Where I wake up exhausted, too late to go to the gym before work, and come home with a headache. I'm not sure why this is, maybe the crazy weather and thunderstorms we've been having. Or it might be the oppressive weight that I feel every morning - ...
The other day, one of my friends tweeted about taking on too much and feeling overwhelmed. A mutual friend tweeted that he should speak to me. I guess I'm becoming known for that taking on too much, getting overwhelmed, crashing thing I repeat ad nauseum. Hmm. I have noticed a pattern where friends start noticing that I'm ...
Some time ago, Derek wrote this amazing post titled Needs More Whitespace. I was thinking about it lately because it seems like things are so hectic, and no sooner does one thing end than another begins - I got back from California, was on a panel, my boyfriend moved to Canada, then my friend moved ...
I have a simple rule when I get overwhelmed. One. Positive. Thing. It's so simple that whatever state I'm in I can't argue with it. It's so easy that there can never be an excuse. But, applied diligently, it can change pretty much everything. When I'm in a tizzy, one of the first things to go is the state ...
I saw someone I hadn't seen in a while, as part of enquiring how I was, he asked specifically how my blog was. I quipped, Oh the internet's good. It's the real world I have problems with. Lately, that keeps coming back to me. I feel like reality has a big stick that it's beating me with. Dealing ...
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