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I'm being myself 13 months ago

but unfortunately am feeling tired, stroppy, depleted and generally exhausted, so am having trouble with the second part of this goal.

Don’t think I’ll get any writing done today, the schedule is buggered and I don’t have the energy to contemplate getting back to it.

My flat is a mess.

I got a lot done at work despite the network going down for 2 hours, but with only 2 of us in the office there were constant interruptions. There’s still so much to do and I’m shouldering the burden as the DP is on holiday for the next 2 weeks. So I have to train the new person as well as do my own job and the DP’s job, for 2 weeks. And do Nanowrimo in the evenings. It’s a big ask.

I tried to be cheery and positive earlier but it didn’t seem to help matters.

I could really use a weekend of sleep but instead I’ve unwisely accepted a social engagement tomorrow night which could be construed as leading on the person in question, and I don’t know how to explain that I’m not interested without being cruel.

And this afternoon I was snippy at someone who really didn’t deserve it, and have been feeling bad about it ever since and also worried about the hostility I felt to the suggestion she made.

Argh.

Hopefully a decent night’s sleep will do the business, and am seeing G later this evening for a premier cru night, must calm down and try to rediscover my inner nice person.



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LL is EXCITED! Matty got his visa!!

((((hugs))))

Hope you can get some sleep, and are feeling better soon.

Perhaps de-personalise things a little – it’s not the person (you) that you’re unhappy with, it’s the behaviour/reaction/emotion. You are still likeable, and you are still a good person.

Hey, if it works for kidlets, why shouldn’t it work for adults?

At the risk of sounding a little bit ‘Annie’, there’s always tomorrow. (Resisting the urge to break into song at this point.)

thanks LL

wise words.

Moose Moosie in the sky with diamonds

The sun'll come up

Tomorrow
::sings like the bagpuss man::

LL might be able to resist, I am ne’er such a strong woman!

Sorry ‘bout your blues, I know work is a mess and hope you can shake it off and forget it all for the weekend.

If you’re really feeling embattled and want to spend the weekend nanoing in bed I wonder would it be really awful to employ a bit of a white lie of “coming down with a cold” (I would have sneezed over you more last night, had I known it would help!) to escape the possibly misleading engagement without hurting engagee’s feelings and thereby killing two birds with one stone?

Snippiness when tired is normal and a good sign of non-self-editorship, btw… I’m sure your snippee didn’t mind one bit and may even have been feeling a bit snippy themselves.

It’s Not You TM ;)

thanks Moose!

glad you think the snippee (great word!) didn’t mind, but in future better self-editorship might be called for ;)

After I posted the above miserable rant, I actually cleared up which always improves things, wrote 1,000 words on the nano novel, then G turned up and we had a really good evening. Am feeling much better today.

I think I’ll go ahead with the thing tonight, was just being paranoid last night, but the posish is clear to both of us and it would be a shame to deprive T of my scintillating company ;) It must be possible to have platonic friendships with intelligent and interesting older men surely? I’ll be home by midnight, guaranteed…


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