In a slump

[pegkerr]

It's been very difficult the past few days, and I'd be hard pressed to say why. Winter slump/doldrums. The house and my office are messy, swamped with papers, which always makes me wild with irritation. It's been extremely difficult to get the girls to do their homework, practice their violins, pick up their rooms, etc. Cooperation is at an all-time ebb. I whacked away at piddley stuff today, balancing my checkbook, but feel overwhelmed with all the life-maintenance stuff I need to do. Have been weaseling out of doing my workouts lately; went out and bought new aerobics shoes today and am renewing my determination to get up and do workouts, at 5:15 a.m., God help me. Tomorrow for sure, I promise.

Sometimes life is both so uninteresting that there seems hardly any point at writing journal entries and so loathsome that one can hardly bear the dreary details. Ugh.

In a funk,
Peg

Comments

[pameladean]

"Sometimes life is both so uninteresting that there seems hardly any point at writing journal entries and so loathsome that one can hardly bear the dreary details. Ugh."

I know exactly what you mean. In such moods, I feel I simply cannot stand this or that a moment longer. The things themselves are irritating, but they aren't tragic or tortuous. I just feel I want to pitch them all out the window, whether they are in fact pitchable or not.

I take Vitamin C for it. I have no idea if that would do you any good. But it seems to make things more bearable. I didn't expect this effect; I started taking it after reading about some studies that purported to show that people suffering from the "don't-wannas" about exercise had low blood levels of Vitamin C and felt more like tackling their programs after taking supplements or drinking orange juice. But it seems to do for the "I can't stand this" mood too.

Pamela