Second - re. your last two lines - it is not at all silly that you're struggling with the full+time job and "a normal life", since it comes down to how you define "normal".
Normal for some people is to come home after work, collapse into comfy chair with meal on lap, fall over to sleep, repeat next day. It does not allow for the time for many of the things that you, and I, and many of our friends consider part of *our* normal life.
So what do we do? Well, hate it sometimes that we can't seem to stretch the boundaries of that arbitrary 24-hour definition of a day. We sacrifice sleep. We sacrifice other things. Sometimes, we even sacrifice our own definition of normal.
Anyway - *hugs* - I hope things get better, and I'm glad to hear that you are still enjoying the job.
Thank you, Lady. Once in a while some emotional sub-system rebels, or maybe just overloads, a breaker or two trips and resets. I kinda wish my trip-point was a little higher. But my definition of "normal" will always have to include "flexible".
The current round of sacrificial lambage includes a couple of hours of sleep, any hope of productivity this morning, and, yes, temporarily, the definition of normal. The plumber will return tonight to finish what he started yesterday. Martha is driving to Wichita today, and in a few days I'll be flying there. The "work week" will suffer some redefinition this week to accommodate all that other stuff, and my new boss is okay with that.
As always, your clarity and your hugs are appreciated.
And that trip-point moves, and at this time of year for some of us it's likely to be lower than at other times. But it all goes on... and we pick up and go as we have to.
For me it usually holds off until mid-to-late-November, when the combination of short days and "holiday" stress gang up on me. That is, the trip-point moves down and the stimulus moves up until the curves cross. Spikes in the stimulus reach up and hit the trip-point early -- always possible, but more likely now than, say, August.
I once inadvertantly did a study of my mood over a two-year period. I was playing a *lot* of Free Cell and recording the results, with statistics. After the fact I noticed that my win:loss ratio increases through the summer and decreases through the winter, by a fairly large amount.
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Second - re. your last two lines - it is not at all silly that you're struggling with the full+time job and "a normal life", since it comes down to how you define "normal".
Normal for some people is to come home after work, collapse into comfy chair with meal on lap, fall over to sleep, repeat next day. It does not allow for the time for many of the things that you, and I, and many of our friends consider part of *our* normal life.
So what do we do? Well, hate it sometimes that we can't seem to stretch the boundaries of that arbitrary 24-hour definition of a day. We sacrifice sleep. We sacrifice other things. Sometimes, we even sacrifice our own definition of normal.
Anyway - *hugs* - I hope things get better, and I'm glad to hear that you are still enjoying the job.
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The current round of sacrificial lambage includes a couple of hours of sleep, any hope of productivity this morning, and, yes, temporarily, the definition of normal. The plumber will return tonight to finish what he started yesterday. Martha is driving to Wichita today, and in a few days I'll be flying there. The "work week" will suffer some redefinition this week to accommodate all that other stuff, and my new boss is okay with that.
As always, your clarity and your hugs are appreciated.
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I once inadvertantly did a study of my mood over a two-year period. I was playing a *lot* of Free Cell and recording the results, with statistics. After the fact I noticed that my win:loss ratio increases through the summer and decreases through the winter, by a fairly large amount.
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