I’ve been sleeping a lot for the last few days. The amount of sleep I’m able to squeeze in astonishes even me. Having dogs prevents me from sleeping 3 or 4 days and nights straight waking up just to drink water or take a leak, as I once did long time ago. But I have been able to wake up, take the dogs out, eat something, go back to bed, and repeat a couple of times. I used to have the problem of not being able to sleep at night if I took a nap during the day, even a very short one. Now I seem to have conquered that problem because I lay my well-rested self down, and I can fall asleep… well, nowadays anyway.
I hope the sleepfest is warding off the exhaustion I’ve been suffering from so that I can start the week anew all refreshed. Well, gotta go now to take a nap.
It seems as though I utter the words “I’m so exhausted” every minute these days. I’m suffering from exhaustion, and my body shows a number of symptoms that I’m well acquainted with and that I associate with exhaustion. The problem is that most of these symptoms seem unknown to my friends and coworkers as resulting from exhaustion, and they either look at me strange or laugh at my face calling me a freak.
I would like to know if any of you heard of or suffer from the same symptoms.
- Nose bleed. I’d be sitting at my desk and working, and suddenly blood drops out of one of the nostrils. Or I feel my nose is runny. I grab a tissue and wipe my nose and it turns out it’s blood. It rarely happens though.
- Painful nostril. One of the nostrils get red and hard and painful.
- Tongue needles. That’s the term directly translated from Korean and I don’t know what they are called in English. Some teeny little protrusions on tongue that feel like needles poking on the tongue. At least I know some people (Koreans) suffer from it.
- Pain on the side of the tongue. It feels like a small part of the tongue has become stiff and it hurts.
- Cracks at the corner of the lips where upper lip meets lower lip. I would first get some suspicious redness around the corner and the next day, the corner would look like it’s cut slightly to make the mouth bigger or something. It hurts like a son of a bitch.
- Slight numbness of the face. The face doesn’t feel a little strange, until I touch my face (I do that a lot since it feels strange) at which point my face feels numb.
So? Anyone? Anyone?
I think I’ve been whining enough saying how exhausted I am, how I need more hours a day, how I don’t have time to exercise, how I need a break, etc, etc… I’m just guessing I have blogged about all this since I’ve been whining so much that I think I must have, but I’m not quite sure since I’m so tired and exhausted and out of gas; yes, I know, redundant.
Anyway, you’d think I’m doing shit load of stuff everyday judging by the way I complain. But if you look closely, there is not much going on except I need some more R&R and need to sleep well without waking up so much, not to mention I’m getting old and not very fit physically.
The following is my typical day. The routine varies a little depending on the traffic mostly, and when I have to go to the store on the way home, and sometimes when have to do some other stuff, but basically this is it.
- 08:00 am: Officially get out of bed. Take Brandy and Foster out.
- 08:20 am: Take Georgia and Brooklyn out.
- 08:40 am: Feed Grizzley and get ready for work.
- 09:00 am: Leave for work. Drive and curse.
- 10:00 am: Arrive at work and, you know, stay at work.
- 06:00 pm: Leave work. Drive and curse.
- 07:10 pm: Arrive at home. Take Georgia and Brooklyn out.
- 07:30 pm: Take Brandy and Foster out.
- 07:50 pm: Feed Grizzley, change into a bum attire.
- 07:55 pm: Medicate Georgia, Brandy and Grizzley.
- 08:00 pm: Prepare food for dogs: trim the skin/fat, weigh and portion meat. Mix yogurt with Metamusil for Brandy. Cut up meat for Brooklyn, etc, cutting fingers from time to time bleeding and cursing.
- 08:40 pm: Feed the dogs. Hold the food for the Diva.
- 08:50 pm: Hold Brandy upright for 50 minutes, massaging her belly, sides, chest, etc.
- 09:40 pm: Clean kitty litter boxes.
- 09:50 pm: Fix something to eat.
- 10:00 pm: Eat.
- 10:10 pm: Fight off sleep – get online, plurk, read blogs, do dishes, take out the garbage, etc.
- 11:30 pm: Take Brandy and Foster out.
- 11:50 pm: Take Georgia and Brooklyn out.
- 12:10 am: Take a shower, brush teeth, etc and get ready for bed.
- 12:30 am: Get back online or read a book until the hair is not dripping wet.
- 01:00 am: Take Brandy and Foster out for one last pee and go to bed. Toss and turn. Wake up a few times. Try to fall back to sleep, etc until 8:00 am.
- Repeat.
Talk about a boring life, eh?
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