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l33tminion) wrote2015-12-04 11:50 pm
l33tminion) wrote2015-12-04 11:50 pm
Marred by Sickness and Stress
No sooner than I wrote that last post, I came down with a ferocious stomach bug. There's that phrase about a "24-hour bug", this was a double dose. I was out sick Monday and Tuesday.
Since I didn't have any coffee or tea while I was sick, I decided this would be a good time to completely cut my caffeine intake until after the kid arrives. At that point, I'll want to be able to sleep at odd hours of the day. Or at the very least, I want to get off of caffeine long enough to get the full effect when I do go back to the morning coffee.
I was back to work Wednesday, just in time for the start of the training sessions for my project, which I'm helping to organize this year. That kept me pretty busy for the rest of the week.
Wednesday and Thursday went well, but Thursday night I had a hard time sleeping, that terrible stress insomnia where there's this vicious cycle of being unable to sleep from stress and being stressed about how tired you're going to be the next day. Tonight I still feel stressed out and tense for basically no reason, but I hope I'll be able to get myself into a better state of mind for sleeping.
To the extent that my stress makes any sense, a lot of it seems work-related. There are just a lot of things I'd like to start or finish by the end of the quarter, but there's more I'd like to do than I will actually be able to do.
TGIF, I suppose. Aunt Millie and Aunt Marsha are throwing Julie and me a baby shower this weekend. Julie's mom is in town for the event. Our first house-guest here at The Nest. Unpacking is done, other moving-in chores are underway. So that's all good. Hopefully I'll be able to shake off the stress and have a good weekend.
Since I didn't have any coffee or tea while I was sick, I decided this would be a good time to completely cut my caffeine intake until after the kid arrives. At that point, I'll want to be able to sleep at odd hours of the day. Or at the very least, I want to get off of caffeine long enough to get the full effect when I do go back to the morning coffee.
I was back to work Wednesday, just in time for the start of the training sessions for my project, which I'm helping to organize this year. That kept me pretty busy for the rest of the week.
Wednesday and Thursday went well, but Thursday night I had a hard time sleeping, that terrible stress insomnia where there's this vicious cycle of being unable to sleep from stress and being stressed about how tired you're going to be the next day. Tonight I still feel stressed out and tense for basically no reason, but I hope I'll be able to get myself into a better state of mind for sleeping.
To the extent that my stress makes any sense, a lot of it seems work-related. There are just a lot of things I'd like to start or finish by the end of the quarter, but there's more I'd like to do than I will actually be able to do.
TGIF, I suppose. Aunt Millie and Aunt Marsha are throwing Julie and me a baby shower this weekend. Julie's mom is in town for the event. Our first house-guest here at The Nest. Unpacking is done, other moving-in chores are underway. So that's all good. Hopefully I'll be able to shake off the stress and have a good weekend.