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flea ([personal profile] flea) wrote2006-11-08 06:01 pm

Slogging Through Life

Casper just came up to me and said, "Here's some cake my sweet love." (It is pink play-doh cake.)

This aside, I feel lately like this journal should be titled the above, as I don't seem to be doing much garden-cultivating lately. The endless laundry (spit-uppy baby plus pee-prone 3 year old means I do about 6 loads a week, and that's with paper diapers), the round of dinner and dishes and eating the leftovers, how often can a freaking toilet need to be cleaned? (answer: more often than it gets cleaned, that's for sure) - life feels like a long trudge right now.

Partly it is the fall, the darkness and the rain the past few days. Partly it is the sleep deprivation, as the Dillo has been going 4 hours at best, and usually only one of those a night, and I am often up for the day at 5:30am following a wiggle-fest at 4 and a 2:30 nursing. Partly it is the stuckitude of mr. flea not being done, me not moving forward with a career (I made an appointment with a counselor about that - one of my work's less-touted but actually pretty heavily-used benefits is 6 free counseling visits for just about any reason, and I thought talking this out with a starnger - what I want in my life - might help). Partly it is an inability in me to truly savor and enjoy life, which I think is constitutional and nothing that anti-depressants can overcome. I'm not depressed, really; I'm just an observer of life, not a liver.

Ah well. This too shall pass, and we are all healthy and clothed and fed, with pink play-doh cake even.

[identity profile] dxmachina.livejournal.com 2006-11-08 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Slogging Through Life

Me, too, living the dream... :)

::looks around::

No Playdoh cake, though...

[identity profile] loligo.livejournal.com 2006-11-09 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, I had a longer comment, but LJ ate it. It amounted to: I hear ya.

[identity profile] nilly-madar.livejournal.com 2006-11-09 11:39 am (UTC)(link)
flea, I don't get to respond much (on top of being quite new to this whole lj thing, I'm never sure how things work, yet), but I'm trying to keep up reading, definitely if you're the one who's writing, and you are very much in my thoughts.

[identity profile] haphazardmethod.livejournal.com 2006-11-09 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't underestimate the effect prolonged sleep deprivation has on your mood and your ability to think your way out of a paper bag. Is there a way for Mr. Flea to take up some of the slack, to help find some space for you to catch up on sleep? Yes, he needs to write his thesis but you sound at the end of your rope and that is equally important.

[identity profile] forodwaith.livejournal.com 2006-11-10 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
I get that "observer" feeling most heavily when I am depressed, even if I don't realize it at the time.

More sleep please, Dillo!