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Kim ([personal profile] grammarwoman) wrote2009-03-26 03:11 pm
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Blah.

Today I'm having the nagging suspicion that I couldn't pass a Turing test, that my brain is simply a linked list of other people's interests and opinions. It's not so much depression as mental fatigue, a bad case of the whatevers. I mean, even on the best of days, you'd be hard-pressed to get me have a firm (or hell, original) opinion on something that matters, something other than entertainment and aesthetics, where there is not so much right or wrong as feelings and guilty pleasures. Instead, today seems to be prone to blank stares and sighs.

I'd feel bad about my complete lack of interest in my current project at work, but considering the others involved fail to tell me on a timely basis when the latest build is available to test, I just can't bring myself to care. (Meanwhile, as usual, I'm totally daydreaming about all the things I could be doing at home while I have the energy and daylight, as opposed to the complete lump I turn into at 8:30 PM after the Emperor is put to bed for the evening. I would leap into an orgy of Rimmer-esque list-making if I didn't think the resulting quantity of Stuff To Do would scare me.)

Speaking of work, I keep expecting to get raked over the coals for my consistently late arrivals, but as seems to be par for the course here, no one actually mentions legitimate issues, just their own spurious accusations. Meanwhile, I had to fight down some serious rage this morning when I labored to be ready to go on time for once, getting up earlier and everything, but the Emperor lollygagged until we were late as usual. I think I need to pull out a timer and start dragging him to school when it goes off, whether or not he's dressed or finished with his breakfast.

The husband is totally ducking my attempts to have a conversation about future sproggen. Way way back, we came to the delightfully mutual conclusion that two kids was the ideal sized family for us. I would have loved to have had them less than three years apart, for conservation of energy and more. Now it's at five+, if at all. Meanwhile, everyone else, even the unlikeliest couples, are reproducing, some for the second time. The damned clock is ticking loudly in my ears, and yet I'm still overweight and we're still debt-ridden.

The irritating thing is, I know a lot of this is a funk I'm in, which could be so easily solved by the following:

Step 1: Get more sleep. Step 1a: Stop caring so much about the Internet and TV, and the keeping up with thereof. Step 2: Clean the damned house, inside and outside. Step 2a: See Step 1A. Step 3: Exercise. Step 3a: See Step 1.

And yet, Blah. In fact, blah blah blah blah blah. With an extra helping of Meh.

[identity profile] mrsdrjackson.livejournal.com 2009-03-26 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
*hands you tea*

Yeah. That's all I've got. Mostly because I am right there with you on the blah blah blah, with extra Meh and a side of sigh.

[identity profile] miniglik.livejournal.com 2009-03-27 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
*commiserates with the blahs*

Wanna try to think of fun things?

[identity profile] aces219.livejournal.com 2009-03-27 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Caring less about the Internet and TV are absolutely vital to making sure that I get exercise and get (almost) enough sleep. It's been hard to cut back on those things but I have more energy and higher quality of life. I'd suggest forcing yourself to fit at least half an hour of exercise in a day (replacing Internet/TV time)...you might feel better. I didn't realize what a rat race new media can turn into.

[identity profile] sapphireone.livejournal.com 2009-03-30 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Many, many sympathies...
Would it help at all if I said that [livejournal.com profile] amnachaidh and I have taken up hula hooping for fitness? Much more fun than a treadmill, but you can still do it in front of the tv if you choose.

[identity profile] sapphireone.livejournal.com 2009-04-01 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
I wasn't able to do it, either, until 'Naked started being interested. He found out that the main reason most people can't do it is that the hoops you find in regular stores are too small in diameter and too light to stay up. (He's made us hoops from irrigation tubing for $2-3 each, but you can buy pretty ones for about $20.) The other problem is that most people trying gyrating madly around the middle to keep the hoop up. Really, you want one foot in front and one in back and just rock from one to the other.

'Naked likes to do it in front of the tv after LB is in bed. I prefer to do it in the afternoon, with fun music, and make a game out of it with LB. Either way, it's fun enough to keep both of us interested, and (with enough space at home) we don't have to worry about child care or gym memberships or getting LB to move fast enough for a walk to be exercise... and you can look on Youtube for cool hoop dancing vids, too, for inspiration, and on hoopnotica.com for instructional dvds.

[identity profile] amnachaidh.livejournal.com 2009-04-01 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
Also, a good place to look is hooping.org There you can find instructions for how to make hoops. Not that difficult, but nice to have it affirmed you just need a saw, some sandpaper or a file, and a pot of water.

The basic bit is you're making a linear motion to energize angular momentum. It sounds hard, but once you get one side, it all begins to fall in place.