Sleep Deprived

I feel as though I’ve been quite negligent of my blog. To be honest, sometimes it’s a bit sad that I don’t get much feedback on my posts. Sure, I can see the WP stats but there is little to no real dialog generated by my posting. All the same, even if no one read anything that I wrote, I’d still feel compelled to do so. It has been more than a week, ten days to be exact, since I last wrote. On the one hand I don’t know where all those days went and on the other, I realize that I have just been dragging my feet.

There was a few days in my blogging absence that I was just really depressed. Last Monday I was in a horrible mood and I think that as a result I was a bit of annoyance to my hubby and to my brother. Since then my mood and outlook has improved. For a good portion of the past few days I have been fairly down about things. I felt as though the weight of being unemployed was, not so much too much to bare, just draining. I like to be busy and although I have still not yet fully unpacked our items from the move, I was in no mood to do so. I have been really horrible about my sleeping habits as well. At present I’m extremely sleep deprived. I tend to go to sleep around 3 or 4am and have been waking getting up only after about 4 hours of sleep. The days, of course, have been running together. Although it’s Tuesday my body feels as though it’s much later in the week. And despite the nerves in my eyes hurting and the fact that I am having difficulties keeping my eyes open, I didn’t want for another day, or another moment to go by without updating my blog. I find comfort in writing, even if it’s about trivial things. However, I’m tired to the point of delirium and so this will have to be quick.

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Anticipating the Future

This week has been filled with ups and downs. Chaotic insurance issues that took up all of my day yesterday gave way to the anticipation of an upcoming week of me waiting to hear back regarding two of the jobs I hope may lead to employment. I’ve been out of the office since early December. With the hysterectomy that I had in the early part of the month, I haven’t been steadily in an office environment for months. I must say that despite still being slow to fully unpacking, my home office is fully functional. If I need to work from home, I’m fully equipped. What I’ve been doing is lightweight compared to what I can do. I’ve been cleaning up my email, working on cleaning up my profiles on various social network sites, prepping for my name change and a bit more.

Yesterday’s chaos resulted in me and the insurance agency being unsure as to when my cover has or will end. Additionally, I have signed myself and the hubby up for the Affordable Care Act (aka Obama Care). Say what you will about it, I am glad that it’s an option. There is no way we could afford to continue health cover under COBRA. It’s crazy, really. COBRA, while great in theory, is absolutely horrible in practice. If you’re not working, who exactly would you be able to afford the employee and employer portion of the premium cost? In our case, in order to keep the health plan we presently (or formerly) had under COBRA it would cost over $1,600 per month! If things work out as they should, we shouldn’t have a break in coverage. That would be nice. Upon learning that we likely still have insurance coverage, I quickly refilled all of our prescriptions. In all their cases we have 3-month prescriptions so at least we’ll have 3 months of meds regardless of what happens.

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Conceal, Don’t Feel

Lyrics to my new favorite Disney film would best sum up the way I’m feeling at the moment. Queen Elsa laments in the award-winning song, Let It Go, “conceal, don’t feel, don’t let them know, well, now they know.” And now you’ll know. Leaving the library was the right decision for me. I have no regrets about what I accomplished and on leaving on my own terms. What is irksome is that despite trying to remain diplomatic regarding my feelings on the inner workings of what led up to my decision, rumors abound. People are always bitter. You learn that when you’re in management. You can never make everyone happy. Sometimes you try. However, it’s impossible to do so. People are always going to be critical of decisions and actions you make. It’s ultimately up to you to rise above them.

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