Bleah

[filkertom]

Nothing dire, but... I don't feel great. Head, stomach, general malaise. I think some of it may be this damn unresolved cry-wolf weather we've had in S.E. Michigan, which has just made the meteorologists look stupid in their CYA-ness -- "Auntie Em! It's a twister! It's a twister! Forty-seven inches of freezing rain! A- an' sleet! An' dustbunnies! 'n' stuff."

I know some of it is based on some old, old emotional baggage that popped up yesterday -- stuff that's long resolved, hadn't thought of it much in years, but for some reason it hit hard.

A little of it has to do with a dental appointment I had this morning -- just X-rays, in anticipation of actual work later, but I'm just not up to dealing with it right now.

And I'm trying to finish my FuMP song for Christmas Day, and Spaff just sent us lyrics to another one which should get us in loads of trouble, and....

But partiallyclips had a great day yesterday. So did The FuMP. And cadhla called, always a bright spot. And Anne was determinedly cheery. And my Dad -- my Dad -- was out at midnight Monday night to get his, not the grandkids, not anybody else's, his copy of HP and the Order of the Phoenix, and he called to tell me he was a better HP fan than I was, and who was I to argue with that?

Anyway. Bleah. Thanks for letting me whine a sec. I hope your day is going better...?

Comments

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

A little Cheese to go with that whine, Sir?

Naw, what are friends for if you can't whine at them now and then. Life out this way is chaotic and challenging at the moment, but working on sorting itself out.

Hang in there.

[que-sara-sara.livejournal.com]

I'm done with the needle in my hip bit for the next three months, there were no doctors in the office this morning just the nurses so that was delightfully quick.

John's going to come down in a couple hours and we're going to go out and play, there will be Christmas shopping and food and general sillyness and it will be a very good day off to make up for me having to work Saturday's class.

[uhrwerkmensch.livejournal.com]

It was, until I read PTerry's announcement (http://www.paulkidby.com/news/index.html)re: his health.

[smegabyte.livejournal.com]

-ing hell! *sob*

[tomreedtoon.livejournal.com]

Well, I probably would have had better days this week if I could be awake during them. For my numb pinky finger (due, according to the doctor, to a pinched ulnar nerve) I've been taking this muscle relaxant, cyclobenzaprine. It makes you very sleepy, at half strength (one 10 mg pill per day instead of two). And at work, it's as if I was under hypnotic compulsion to sit and stare at my closed eyelids, and it took an immense amount of will to get up and do something. Like eat.

But I can't stop, since my finger has started to regain feeling. So I'm going to be dopey at precisely the point in the calendar when I need to be doing things.

As for your problem...I know, I shouldn't prescribe, but maybe some Emerg-N-C might help. At least it should pick you up a bit.

[ladystarblade.livejournal.com]

I'm heading to the dentist myself in about 25 minutes...I'm such a phobe that I've been ducking the dentist as much as possible for the last decade, so you know this ain't gonna be pretty. And we had highs of 78...in Indiana...in December. Want to switch? :-)

*hugs* and feel better soon.

[sdelmonte]

Could be better. But I defy any old time comic book fan to read Silver Age Jimmy Olsen transformation stories and not smile a little.

[archiver-tim.livejournal.com]

I used my artificial SAD lights yesterday daytime. $7 string of Christmas lights, various gold/yellow sure beats a $169 seasonal affliction disorder lamp.

[fabricdragon.livejournal.com]

OTT lights work well too... i buy them with 50% off coupons from AC moore or JoAnn

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

Hugs and good wishes for a brighter day, Tom!

[fabricdragon.livejournal.com]

best wishes Tom......
its been a rough season for many of us.

[kilbia.livejournal.com]

Hugs!

So far, so good. I reloaded my MP3 player with stuff, and I have a grocery shopping list to tackle during lunch. Weird thing: I *love* grocery shopping.

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

Not notably. Things didn't go well in the getting-ready-for-school-and-work department, involving incontinent dogs, late response to alarm clock, accusations of doing nothing, "you spend all your time on the computer"/"well you spend all your time watching tv"/"well that's your fault", "you said you'd take over the housework so I could go back to school, so why is the daybed full of weeks of unfolded laundry etc."... And of course, since I'm in the wrong on all counts, the girls took Mom's side too. Really cheered me up.

I'd leave so I was only messing up my own life, but that would make things worse....

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

Thanks for letting me whine a sec.
No prob. (like we could stop you?)

:-)

[bardicwench.livejournal.com]

*huggles* feel better. and yes, the weather is the suck at the moment... rain! no, sleet! no, snow! oh wait... no snow, let's have rain again instead! now sun!

*sinuses die*

[sylverwolfe.livejournal.com]

::lots of top-quality Lexi-brand(tm) hugs:: I'm sorry you had a crummy day. I hope things start looking up for you soon. Real hugs to follow, perhaps at Marcon? I've been practicing a low-impact, reduced-damage-to-target version of the fangirl glomp.
I discovered today that getting out of this gig I'm escaping next Saturday is perhaps the smartest thing I've ever done. Because until today, I've never seriously considered doing something permanently damaging to myself, and the stress factor today was so high that self-harm was almost starting to seem like a pleasant alternative.
Don't worry, I'm still able to logically understand that it wouldn't really help in any way. But the inclination's never been that strong before. So yeah, bailing=good.
::more hugs:: if it makes you smile at all, my friend Linda at the bookstore and I entertain ourselves when it's slow by tossing lines of your lyrics at each other and playing a variant Name That Tune. I can usually trip her up with something from the middle of 307 Ale or Divine Irregularity, but she's getting wise to me.

[ms-anthropy.livejournal.com]

Feel better, m'kay?