Stress

[averygoodun42]

Horrible, nasty, vile, just... awful dreams last night. So many things were wrong, and wrong in such awful ways. In no particular order: Page was hemorrhaging, my sister was suicidal, Boulder was closing the Pearl Street Mall (the Boulder Book Store was already vacant and dark), Geoff and I had to leave where we wanted to be and pay thousands of dollars in airfare to do so (we missed our flight. By several days), and we became geographically separated in the move.

For heaven's sake, I was considering working at Walmart!!!

*breathes*

It was a relief to wake up and find that ALL of it, including the bits in which I had supposedly woken up (with relief), was a dream.

So. Need good things to counteract all that... nastiness.

Good thing 1: Gardening is a joy. It really, really is. I've been sneaking bits of time here and there to go take care of things (usually when my eyes have started burning from reading too much), and I always come back in beaming. It's difficult to limit myself, time-wise, but even ten minutes outside weeding will perk me up. I think it helps that the sun has been shining, so I'm getting my vitamin D. :-)

Good thing 2: Impromptu invites. In exchange for an aloe cutting (I recently repotted a few of my plants, and ended up with two aloes from one massive one), we were invited to dinner at a friend's house. It was lovely. It's been a long time since I'd seen any of them, and it reminded me of how much I do miss my friends. Almost enough to rejoin the church choir. Almost.

Good thing 3: There's only three days of school left. I will be studying for my accounting final today (I'd really like to ace it), and I am actually well on my way to getting prepared for the biology tests, whatever doubts and frustrations I spouted yesterday.

Good thing 4: It seems I was correct about the old car's driver's seat being the cause of my hip pain. I realized this weekend that my hip hasn't hurt to the same degree in a few weeks. In fact, my hip has been pretty much complaint-free. It's gotten to the point where I'm considering starting up walking again! I miss walking in the woods...

Good thing 5: Page picked up his legos from the common areas yesterday. You have no idea how much of a difference that makes to me.

Yes, (real) life is pretty good.

Comments

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

Good things are good and FAR outweigh the nightmares. *hugs*

[averygoodun.livejournal.com]

*hugs back*

Yes, they do. *nods*

[keladry_lupin]

My dreams have been either stressful or violent for the last week. Not entirely sure what that means, but I sympathize with the need to balance out the awfulness.

Good luck on the accounting final!

[averygoodun.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

Fighting a bug? I'm pretty sure my dreams are just pure stress (here are all your worst fears - let me put them ALL IN ONE PLACE!!! to emphasize how unimportant these finals really are), although it's also possible the antibiotics are starting to mess with my mind (as they tend to after the infection's under control). All the TMI to say that I find that mind and body are more closely connected than we (I? society?) tend to think.

Thanks for the luck! I hope I won't need it. ;-)

[paisleysnail.livejournal.com]

Yay for good things and positive outlook!

I actually found out the other day that one of my recently graduated friends is working at Walmart (in Hong Kong). I'm having great fun telling people that...and omitting that it's a regional office and he's actually working in accounts/tax. :D

[averygoodun.livejournal.com]

(Don't tell anyone, but in the dream, I was going to work in the accounting division at a regional office, not in retail, I just wanted to emphasize the utter horror of the dream.) XD

Good things are good. And a positive outlook is a heck of a lot easier to maintain with tea than without. ;-)