Let us eat cake

I’ve been working my current job (as a temp) for somewhere in the area of two months. It says something about the atmosphere of the workplace then, that in that time period we’ve had three or four cakes, sweets, and three free lunches.

The lunches come with the lunch-and-learn meetings I (a temp) have been taking part in. The cakes and sweets, well there are more to come next week. A cake is eaten for every birthday, of course. But there’s an office rule that anyone buying something new and expensive has to also buy a cake for the office. (We’ve gone through one new car so far. The new house, new bike and wedding are yet to come).

While I appreciate the goodies, it honestly does wreak havoc on me the days my lingering stress issues kick into full gear. I still don’t fully believe the doctor who keeps telling me it’s merely stress. Stress and anxiety are lifelong companions of mine and they’ve done this before; especially not for this long – going on month five now.

My most recent ‘prescription’ has been 40 minutes of running every day - this from the same clinic (read: overworked) doctor who leaves me feeling like I’m part of a patient assembly-line and told me to take iron supplements without testing me, or even asking the rudimentary questions. I’m cutting that down to 20-30 minutes most days in light of my other activities and the havoc that promises to wreak on my feet. I have three more weeks to see if this works, in which I need to get on the ball.

I’ve been trying to at least exercise every day, but I’ve been experiencing chills and fatigue all week so I’m trying to give my body a rest to fight whatever is threatening my health. Perhaps the gym tonight and a quick run tomorrow.

I’ll start getting up early to work out again when eight hours of sleep goes back to feeling restful instead of woefully inadequate.

Other than health (I really, really just want to feel healthy again) I’ve been back dancing, which does put me in much better spirits. I’ve also found time to dye some more roving, and just spun up the singles. Plying should be done tonight, while I watch..something. Hopefully the most recent episode of Bones (I love campy TV) will find its way to my macbook.

I should also reinstall my copy of adobes CS3 and get some time in playing with the photoshop ideas in my head. I lost all of that during a recent hd failure (next time, backups). Hopefully I can still get some of the data recovered.

I’d toss in some pictures of what else I’ve been up to (A new knit vest and a scarf) but alas I have yet to get pictures.