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So I think I may be caught in that vicious cycle of [ too much caffeine -- stay up late -- too much caffeine -- lather, rinse, repeat ]. Check out the size of that morning mug of cafe au lait, near the whole grain waffle, and pill cup, all which are my weekday starters.
Then I get to the office and pick up another 20 oz. of iced coffee or tea. (Today, I am heading for a THIRD cup of iced coffee after lunch.) You see where this is all going.
Actually, I don't think it's the coffee so much as the laptop computer that is all too aptly named in my case, as I have a problem ripping myself offline at night (yes, I am weak as milk-fed veal). And then of course, it sometimes takes a little while longer for the hamster to stop running around my mental treadmill.
Guess I just wanted to demonstrate that yup, I drink me lotsa caffeine.
The pills in my little handmade/wheel-thrown dish are the following:
I need me some Calgon time, so at the moment, I am clinging to sanity by my fingernails with the thought of the mental health day I'll be taking on Friday the 13th. (Did I mention one of my coworkers is on vacation this week? Oh and the requests are flying in fast and furious?)
All this is a long-winded way of me avoiding the subject of my first ever pickup of a guy, like, out in the real world and not online. (What can I say? I'm a late bloomer.) Now before you all get all alarmed, I just mean we are talking and I met some of his friends and we'll eventually go out and do something later in the month.
A. is a film nut (actually, he also works in commercial film) and he and I met while waiting in a loooong line at the Ken Russell movie. I just started started talking with him because he seemed nice and we were waiting for almost an hour in the blessed air-conditioning. (Say, is showing him my Kobo the modern equivalent of showing him my etchings?) I can hear my family laughing affectionately now -- only I would meet a guy while waiting for a movie none of them had ever even heard of, AND he knows who Jet Li is.
Anyway, all of this is fun but I am more concerned with navel-gazing in a way, since I'm still not sure I'm in any shape to start another relationship (we're not even going to get into his side of the equation) and I had absolutely no intention of even LOOKING until next year. None. Naturally. (This week's talk with my Pearl of Wisdom will be miiiiiighty interesting.)
So you can see why I really need some time off to decompress, since my head of spinning for more than one reason these days. Maybe I will make it a four day weekend and take the 16th off too...
Oh and yes, at the moment Blogger is accessible during lunch. This is all subject to change, depending on whichever filters the IT dept feels like activating for the day. Regardless, lunch time is OVAH.
Then I get to the office and pick up another 20 oz. of iced coffee or tea. (Today, I am heading for a THIRD cup of iced coffee after lunch.) You see where this is all going.
Actually, I don't think it's the coffee so much as the laptop computer that is all too aptly named in my case, as I have a problem ripping myself offline at night (yes, I am weak as milk-fed veal). And then of course, it sometimes takes a little while longer for the hamster to stop running around my mental treadmill.
Guess I just wanted to demonstrate that yup, I drink me lotsa caffeine.
The pills in my little handmade/wheel-thrown dish are the following:
- tamoxifen - as someone put it, "The cancer-go-away pill"
- lexapro - happy pill that won't counteract the cancer-go-away pill
- vitamin D3 - 2,000 units/day, doctor's orders (regular vitamin D levels should be 30-80; mine was 13)
- vitamin E - 500 units (my little attempt to help on the antioxidant front)
- acidophilus - which I keep in the fridge; I'm middle aged and my innards need assistance
- multivitamin w/ iron - I seriously doubt I eat a balanced diet, although I am eating healthy
I need me some Calgon time, so at the moment, I am clinging to sanity by my fingernails with the thought of the mental health day I'll be taking on Friday the 13th. (Did I mention one of my coworkers is on vacation this week? Oh and the requests are flying in fast and furious?)
All this is a long-winded way of me avoiding the subject of my first ever pickup of a guy, like, out in the real world and not online. (What can I say? I'm a late bloomer.) Now before you all get all alarmed, I just mean we are talking and I met some of his friends and we'll eventually go out and do something later in the month.
A. is a film nut (actually, he also works in commercial film) and he and I met while waiting in a loooong line at the Ken Russell movie. I just started started talking with him because he seemed nice and we were waiting for almost an hour in the blessed air-conditioning. (Say, is showing him my Kobo the modern equivalent of showing him my etchings?) I can hear my family laughing affectionately now -- only I would meet a guy while waiting for a movie none of them had ever even heard of, AND he knows who Jet Li is.
Anyway, all of this is fun but I am more concerned with navel-gazing in a way, since I'm still not sure I'm in any shape to start another relationship (we're not even going to get into his side of the equation) and I had absolutely no intention of even LOOKING until next year. None. Naturally. (This week's talk with my Pearl of Wisdom will be miiiiiighty interesting.)
So you can see why I really need some time off to decompress, since my head of spinning for more than one reason these days. Maybe I will make it a four day weekend and take the 16th off too...
Oh and yes, at the moment Blogger is accessible during lunch. This is all subject to change, depending on whichever filters the IT dept feels like activating for the day. Regardless, lunch time is OVAH.
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