float_on_alright | Ugh, Headaches and PMS are The Worst (Reply)

All I want to do today is read. That’s seriously it. I’m at work and I’m going to spend the night at Emily’s house tonight which means I won’t get anything written or read tonight. That’s fine, really. I’m not as behind as I thought I was on my writing goal, and, hopefully, I’ll be able to get something together story-of-the-month-wise too. I’ve managed to make a story happen just in the nick of time for the last ten months so there’s no reason I can’t do it again this month. Well, I mean, I could decide to do nothing but watch Hallmark Christmas movies and hang out with my friends or read and then I wouldn’t get anything done.

Part of my problem at the moment is how emotionally draining this week has been. I know Monday was nice but I only got a few hours sleep before I took my dad to breakfast. I didn’t have a hard day, not really, but I spent most of my time cleaning my room and working on stuff for my school year--financial aid paperwork and the like. It took ages. It’s not so much that it was hard, but that it was tedious.

I had great intentions about working on scholarship essays and those sorts of things, but I just didn’t feel up to it. That’s part of why I’m a little nervous about starting school. I’m going to have to find the time and energy to do my school work no matter what. And as much as the scholarship essays are important and the money would be amazing, there’s no guarantee that I’ll get money for the work and there’s no one but me to insist on meeting deadlines. I always do better when they’re someone else holding a deadline over my head and there’s a guarantee that the work will have some sort of pay off.

The weather is absolutely not helping. It’s been absolute garbage for days. Saturday and Sunday were glorious, thank goodness. I was able to enjoy the Renaissance Festival thoroughly on Saturday and the trip to Badin with mom on Sunday was perfect. Then on Monday the clouds and the rain and gross just came rumbling into town and they haven’t let up until today. Now, with the drastic change in weather, I have a monster headache that just will not quit.

My coworker is going to see if she can get me some Tylenol. I’ve already had two Alieve today so I can’t take any more of that or anything like Motrin or Advil. And it’s only gotten worse. I feel awful.