Super keen day with the release of TTT:EE and all and I’m in the crankiest mood since I don’t know when.
I’m tired of being cranky and having little patience (perhaps a vicious cycle?) and I’m tired of being tired of being me.
Blah! Fuckitty Fuck Fuck. And yes,
You need some Primal Scream therapy. Just go to a nice place and rant and rave for a while, let of steam. Or perhaps start a project? Paint something? Decorate something? Something that stimulates other parts of your brain.
I yelled and swore in the server room at a fucking Novell server whose SYS volume keeps getting full: I threw (metophor) a 9GB disk at the volume so it would shut the fuck up; I hate that damn server.
Didn’t help.
Went to sushi, all I could do was restrain my wrath at being impatient waiting for the check.
Back at desk, the ‘tude continues. I think it has a life of its own.
Thank you for the suggestions – I’ll try to work a bit on my Exchange Environment Architecture Reccomendation doc, that’s as creative as I can get here right now.
you could try a dose of my therapist’s anxiety reducing exercise daily.
You basically lie on your back on a bed and kick your legs all the
way from vertical to slamming them down on the bed as fast as you can for as long as you can for at least 30 seconds at a time to start with. It’s kinda like a tantrum for an adult. But since it’s just physical, I find it works out the tension better than swearing up a storm which makes you think about what you’re mad about all over again…
Well, not to state the obvious, but major changes, even if they’re good ones which may lead to greater happiness, are still stressful. You’re changing your job situation, planning a move to a new state, and planning a major career change, with attendant financial stress. That’s a huge amount of significant life changes all going on in relatively short order, and it would not be at all surprising if it lead to major crankiness.
I mean, it could be something else, of course, but it would be understandable from the general situation alone.
Yeah, I’m on the depressed, eating, not wanting to do anything, cranky run.
I’m trying to use Christmas Specials to lure me out of it.
Grass is always greener I guess . . . cause I think you are way keen.
Well, thanks – I wasn’t fishing, but I’ll take anything I can get.
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Aw, yeah.
Maybe a run after work? I think the lack of regular excercise (you used to play raquetball 2x a week!) has really been hard on both our moods.
Then again, a cocktail and 3.5 hours of TTT goodness might also do the trick. Are you purchasing it on the way home?
Glad you have my voice nagging you even when I’m not there. That’s love, monkey.
You can work on making sure you don’t get 1) sent off with your company or 2) arrested for being AWOL.
Make another appt. with a counsellor and get on some meds! I don’t want to have to help smuggle you to Canada (and I would).
TTT:EE on the way home.
I do need some physical exertion, I’m such a lazy slob — at least I’m still losing weight, slowly as it is going.
I sure am looking forward to joining gym in OR and regular workouts again! I wonder what shape I can get into (and what trouble it will get me into)
Monkey Hate Crabbiness!
I’m sure it’s a big combination of things making me irritable – what makes it worse is that I have GREAT difficulty dealing with my own irratability. Just makes me frusttrated and more irritable. When you list it all out like that, no wonder I’m stressful, I can cut myself some slack. Thanks bunches.
Love, mother replacement, whatever you want to call it.
😛
I agree with the run. I am going to take a jog today. That will make me feel a bit better, albeit winded.
I find that knowing what’s causing the bad mood and feeling that it’s somewhat justified makes it easier to deal with.
And yes, you should cut yourself loads of slack. 🙂
Any chance you guys are semi-free on the 6th or 7th, or the 27th or 28th? Those are the only weekends I won’t be out of town, and I’d like to see you guys before you head off to Portland!
I like that idea a lot.
6th-7th I think would work well…
How can you be cranky when you make fabulous cheescake ???
Or is it you miss me ??????????????????????????
Sounds good! I’m gonna miss you! I don’t see nearly enough of you as it is.
Yeah, don’t care if you are fishing, damn nifty person, glad you are you.
You set off my cycle… Four times last watching TV (Queer Eye) I started getting teary eyed. It’s your fault, you ALPHA MALE!!!!