July 14th, 2008
I’m up way too late seeing as I need to be up in less than 6 hours, but I started stressing about work (again) and it got me so worked up, I couldn’t sleep. I tried to relax. Michael had me focus on my breathing so I would stop thinking and it worked, bless his heart, but soon my mind was spinning again.
The only thing that finally calmed me was to get up, find a resolution for the issue that was stressing me out, and make a plan for putting it into action tomorrow. Once that was done, the adrenaline stopped, my mind quieted and I’m getting sleepy now.
I can’t keep this up, at this job or any other. I’ve got to find a way to stop these anxiety attacks, or whatever you’d call them.
Suggestions, anyone?
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July 8th, 2008
Last year, in my old career path, I met a lot of people who were suspected to have Lyme Disease. Most of them, actually, all but one of them, confirmed this through rigorous (and expensive) testing. Even though I don’t do that work any longer, I still worry about them and I worry about other people out there suffering from this mysterious disease. The CDC has declared Lyme Disease a “non-event” for the most part and claims that 2 weeks of antibiotic therapy will cure you. I cry bullshit. And I mean to use such a harsh term. They’re killing people by not reporting the truth. Go to Google News and look up Lyme Disease, you’ll find hundreds of stories of people struggling for years being misdiagnosed and treated for everything from Fibromyalgia to Bipolar to an insatiable need for attention. Here is a story I read two days ago on www.cnn.com…
10-year battle with pain highlights Lyme disease debate
It was on the front page then, now I had to do a search for it. It’s been buried on the cnn page in the last two days which sucks. People need to hear about this, hence why I’m posting it here. I know not many people read my blog and that’s fine, just please, if you’re touched by this story (or enraged like I was and am) share it with someone. You never know who is out there, suffering silently, needing inspiration to keep searching because an answer is out there.
I did some research last year on Lyme and I have a few very helpful books so if you would like to know more, just email me. Or comment here and I’ll try to answer the best I can or find a resource for you.
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July 2nd, 2008
I have a hard time remembering that my job is not always the most important thing in life. I’ve been like this ever since I worked at Boston Market back in high school/college. I found that I won favor with the managers if I was super dedicated to work and it served it’s purpose at the time. Well, I have maintained that belief over the last bazillion years of my working life and it’s been known to get me into a pickle from time to time. I’m trying to learn that yes, work, my job, my career, whatever you want to call it, is important, but it’s not the end all. When 5 rolls around (or 5:30 Mon-Thurs and 2 on Fridays in my case) other things take priority. To help me retain this information and enforce this belief a bit more, I decided that I would list 20 things off the top of my head that are more important than work… here goes:
1) Laughing with my husband
2) Taking care of my fish
3) Catching a flight for a long weekend away
4) Going out with friends
5) Helping out my family
6) Hanging out with my friends and their kids
7) Shopping
8. Going to the gym
9) Reading a book
10) Getting my car washed
11) Seeing my nephew
12) Getting a Mani-pedi
13) Running the errands I was too busy having fun to do on the weekend
14) Kitties (you knew it had to be somewhere on this list)
15) Talking on the phone with my mom
16) Rock Band
17) Meeting Stacy and Clinton (a long shot, but I had to include it in case it ever happens)
18) Thai Food
19) Anything having to do with babies
20) Going to the doctor
There, that wasn’t so hard. Maybe I’ll try to come up with 20 more tomorrow. Cheers!
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