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Today has been a Bad Day. I knew it the minute I got to work (it was the sinking feeling again) and it got steadily worse as I stood at the coffee machine holding back tears.
My tears followed me to a meeting and then to my office where I quickly finished a needed document and then started planning my Escape.
By 12:15 pm, I was out the door having sent off a cursory "I'm sick" email. I took my dog on a walk and then headed to the Arboretum to shop in generic chain stores that I happen to have sizable gift certificates for. Unsurprisingly, I didn't find
anything I liked, and headed to Amy's Ice Cream for a snack. Ice cream always makes me feel better.
The girl behind the counter asked what I was up to and I told her I was having a bad day at work so I left. She agreed that my Belgium ice cream/Reese's Peanut Butter Cups selection would cheer me up. And she said if I could catch my ice cream I could
get it for free. She armed me with a large cup, sent me to the middle of the room and hurled my ice cream ball at me. It landed squarely in my cup! Yay for free ice cream. All those years of softball come in handy sometimes. I started to feel better
instantly, thanks to a random stranger.
While eating my delicious, free snack and looking at the pretty park behind the Arboretum, it occurred to me that I'm PMS'ing.
It's not that work is more frustrating that usual, it's that I am more prone to, I think, emotional attacks. In fact, I've done this "freak out at work" thing a few times, when it all seems to have gotten the better of me, and I'm willing to bet almost all of them coincided with the same few Pills.
This realization made me feel a lot better, since emotional outbursts at work embarrass and befuddle me. Of course, it makes me wonder how many times over the last many years this has happened and I didn't realize that my hormones might have contributed to it. However, now that I have noticed it, I can track it, and see if it is hormones and figure out if there's something to do about it.
On the feel better front, I followed up ice cream with a movie, a stop at a local bookstore, a nap, and a long perusal through a new cookbook.
Now, I plan on Continuing My Day as Planned. I'm off to buy groceries for my cooking night dish and to do menial chores around the house.
My tears followed me to a meeting and then to my office where I quickly finished a needed document and then started planning my Escape.
By 12:15 pm, I was out the door having sent off a cursory "I'm sick" email. I took my dog on a walk and then headed to the Arboretum to shop in generic chain stores that I happen to have sizable gift certificates for. Unsurprisingly, I didn't find
anything I liked, and headed to Amy's Ice Cream for a snack. Ice cream always makes me feel better.
The girl behind the counter asked what I was up to and I told her I was having a bad day at work so I left. She agreed that my Belgium ice cream/Reese's Peanut Butter Cups selection would cheer me up. And she said if I could catch my ice cream I could
get it for free. She armed me with a large cup, sent me to the middle of the room and hurled my ice cream ball at me. It landed squarely in my cup! Yay for free ice cream. All those years of softball come in handy sometimes. I started to feel better
instantly, thanks to a random stranger.
While eating my delicious, free snack and looking at the pretty park behind the Arboretum, it occurred to me that I'm PMS'ing.
It's not that work is more frustrating that usual, it's that I am more prone to, I think, emotional attacks. In fact, I've done this "freak out at work" thing a few times, when it all seems to have gotten the better of me, and I'm willing to bet almost all of them coincided with the same few Pills.
This realization made me feel a lot better, since emotional outbursts at work embarrass and befuddle me. Of course, it makes me wonder how many times over the last many years this has happened and I didn't realize that my hormones might have contributed to it. However, now that I have noticed it, I can track it, and see if it is hormones and figure out if there's something to do about it.
On the feel better front, I followed up ice cream with a movie, a stop at a local bookstore, a nap, and a long perusal through a new cookbook.
Now, I plan on Continuing My Day as Planned. I'm off to buy groceries for my cooking night dish and to do menial chores around the house.
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