Exhaustion

[shadesong]

I haven't had a normal night's sleep in over a week now.

This is Very Bad.

So I'm operating on a thin layer of exhaustion over a big pool of Total Collapse. And I lack the time to actually rest... tonight's Elayna's school's Open House, I have to find a place for and plan my Girl Scout meeting on Sunday, I have to sit down and balance the checkbook and pay bills and clean the house and do Elayna's Scholastic book club order and start ordering Chanukah gifts and I haven't put away laundry since before DragonCon (it's all clean, it's just piled in the basket). And I don't have the energy for even one of these things. I try to get a few catalogs gone through and out of the way, and I end up taking a two-hour nap. Which screws me up even worse.

*sigh*

And I haven't had a writing night since the week before DragonCon, either, and I desperately need one.

In other news, I won't be on LJ much today because the undergraduate committee *finally* gave me the proposed Spring 2003 schedule. So I have to do three spreadsheets for that and give it to them for approval and then hand-type it on the registrar's forms and send it in. By Friday. Which sounds like plenty of time except for that whole approval process on their part. So today (doing the spreadsheets) and probably Friday (typing the forms) I'll be a bit on the busy side...

Wish me luck in getting some time to rest and recover. *wry smile*

Comments

[snowelf.livejournal.com]

Awww....*HUGS* I hope you get some proper sleep soon.

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[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

Hopefully, you won't read this.
*hugs* and get some rest...

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[shadesong.livejournal.com]

*grim smile* Ah, no... I'm at work. Suck.

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[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

Oof. And I suppose that you missed so much work last week that you can't say that you are too sick to stay at work and you have to go home?

*hugs* Good luck and try to get some rest. An actual collapse will cause you to miss much more than getting rest now. You might need to offload some of your obligations for this week so that you can continue to fulfill them over the month or two following this week.

Again, good luck.

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[shadesong.livejournal.com]

And I suppose that you missed so much work last week that you can't say that you are too sick to stay at work and you have to go home?

Yup. :(

I'm taking it as slow as I can, though...

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

*hugs* I'm with Torin, time to put off what'll wait and take care of yourself.

Under an old brass paperweight
Is my list of things to do today
Go to the bank and the hardware store,
Put a new lock on the cellar door
I cross 'em off as I get 'em done
But when the sun is set
There's still more than a few things left
I haven't got to yet

Go for a walk, say a little prayer
Take a deep breath of mountain air
Put on my glove and play some catch
It's time that I make time for that
Wade the shore and cast a line
Look up a long lost friend of mine
Sit on the porch and give my girl a kiss
Start livin', that's the next thing on my list
-- Toby Keith, "My List"

If the list is too big to do all at once, don't. Take five, figure out what'll wait, and let it. Ask for help. I know, you're a Jewish mom, you're all about doing everything for everybody else. You're also pagan. And "An It Harm None" starts right there (/me taps your third eye gently for emphasis).

*big teddy bear hug* Take care of y'self. Then you can take care of everything else.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Thanks, Glenn. :)

Think I need to go sit in the back yard and just *be* for a little while tonight...

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[chelona.livejournal.com]

Oh, I forgot to give you the phone number for UUCA. They are open and working now, and you can call them about a space for your Girl Scout group. I have no idea how they handle requests like that.

Telephone: (404) 634-5134

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[catalyxt.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Good luck in getting everything done, and above all, getting some sleep...I've been the same way this past week...napping incessantly and feeling like a zombie the majority of the time. Or feeling snippy due to exhaustion. Not fun.

I don't know whether you like herbal tea...if you do I've found that Tension Tamer by Celestial Seasonings is a huge help in both the keeping going with soothed nerves department and the falling asleep department.

Sending you thoughts of a sunlit bower and a hammock where all you can hear is the whisper of leaves and the occasional bird chirping...and you feel incredibly safe and secure...and you can take as much time as you need to recharge.

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[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Mmmm... thank you. :) And I will try the tea...


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