1) Update to my husband's rhabdo situation: You guys, it's not good. His CK levels were high after he helped me carry in groceries! They can't figure it out and it's very frustrating. I started to write about it, but I just want everyone to know that an otherwise healthy man in his 40s who cannot carry a 24-pack of fizzy water without causing literal muscle breakdown is NOT COOL.
2) Now he has a man cold, too. He is not a good patient. I love him dearly, but if he doesn't figure out a way to deal with his congestion in a manner that is not snapping at me whenever I so much as breathe, I might have to murder him.
3) In Birchie's most recent post, she wrote, "I'm taking a beat to think about my fitness life. It feels like it is a constant cycle of hard work and exhaustion with no clear end game." I wrote a small novel in her comment section about how I am exhausted/tired ALL THE DAMN TIME. Like...this has been my entire adult life. I graduated from college and became exhausted.
I wake up thinking about how I can take a nap or get to bed early. I nearly fall asleep in every yoga class. I daydream about my bed. By Friday evenings, I am literally agape at people going to the bars downtown as I'm walking the dog. Who has energy for that after working all week?
And here I am learning that it's not like this for everybody?!
4) On the bright side, my pap smear results came back fine so everyone I can quit worrying about having to go through torture again. (And then get charged $700. America, fuck yeah.)
5) On even brighter side, my nephew is not happy with his already good ACT score. He asked me to help him improve it! Yay! I was in test prep for twenty years and I'm very good at standardized tests (*brag* I was a National Merit Scholar and got a fellowship for grad school based on my GRE scores *not so brag* this has not meant actual success in grad school or life), and I've been waiting EIGHTEEN YEARS for one of my niblings to ask me to help.
I ordered books, set up a Webex meeting, and we had a grand old time discussing parts of speech and comma usage on the ACT. By the end of the meeting I had him saying things like "the ACT doesn't like commas, so I bet the answer is F" and "well, you can't separate two complete ideas with a comma." I AM WINNING AT AUNTING.
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Anyone else having a spouse who isn't a good patient? How do you prevent yourself from committing a crime?
Anyone else chronically just want to go back to bed?
Tired us a perpetual state, but anxiety means few naps. I wasn't always tired until a few years ago, when my daughter had a regressive health situation where I had to be on alert for middle of the night disasters. Now I just hope for 6 hours at night and wind up staring st the wall a little in the day.
ReplyDeleteMaybe check for sleep apnea?
So glad you can use your test taking skills for good! And why does the ACT hate commas? I noticed that when looking over my son's practice tests. The kids usually don't let me help them with test taking. However, given I like the Oxford comma, semi-colons, and two spaces after a period, perhaps it's for the best.