A couple of months ago, I fretted about starting perimenopause due to night sweats and insomnia. Some people suggested a medication as the culprit and I pooh-poohed the idea since I'd been on those meds for months with no ill effects. Well, it turns out that the cause was a too-high dose of Cymbalta. My shrink cut the dose by a third to stop manic ( Read more... )

This just in: It's still raining in the mid-Atlantic region ( Read more... )

Work has been hellacious since we are in 2012 budget creation and justification mode. Bossman and I were in our respective offices past 8pm on Friday and were both in early and left late yesterday. Today's been only mildly crazy, for me anyway, and I've been able to almost catch up on the important and time sensitive items which got kicked to the ( Read more... )

Holy crap, I want off of this hormonally-driven emotional roller coaster. I've been in a deep pit of despair since Monday evening and still can't find any light. I know it's out there and I know I'll be dancing in it again. But right now, I just want to pile on the blankets and sleep until May.

The two days of rain has made me morose. Everything is really and truly peachy keen in my little corner of the world, but all I want to do is curl up in a ball and eat doughnuts ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning feeling stupid and very slow. Somehow I bounced out of bed at 6:50 and was ready to go in those ten minutes. But then I went downstairs and everything shifted into slow motion. It took me another ten minutes just to get into coat. The hood came unzipped and it took me way too long to figure out how to get the hood back on ( ( Read more... )