Hot and Cold
Jan. 3rd, 2022 12:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soc_puppetIt's been cold enough outside the past few days that I finally gave in and dug out the down comforter. There's been an instant improvement, though that could also be due to the fact that I investigated the one window in my room, and yep, it's come loose from the tape and has started cracking open again. Closed that up for the time being as well, and I may see about applying paint (or at least more tape) tomorrow or Tuesday. ...More likely Tuesday, since I work tomorrow.
Today was a bit exciting, since I went from sleeping very poorly, to getting up early to remove the 5+ inches (12.5+cm) of snow off of my car, to a super quick stop at the grocery store before work, to driving over still messy roads to work, to a surprisingly short work day, to doing errands after (running to a different grocery store followed by picking up meds), and ending with me making dinner for the family (just frozen fish and fries, with steam-in-the-bag broccoli, but it's still a nice, hot meal).
I may have packed a bit too much into it for the bad sleep of last night, but I'm fairly certain that if I hadn't gotten to the pharmacy today, I wouldn't be able to get there until Tuesday. In addition to that, the two grocery store stops were primarily for "work snacks": My job does serve shift meals to employees, but they either start exactly when I'm supposed to arrive at work (and I'd feel like a jerk if I clocked in, only to clock right back out for a lunch break), or five-and-a-half to six-and-a-half hours after I clock in. I start getting peckish about four hours after I've eaten (which is usually about three hours after I've clocked in), and around five hours after I've eaten, I start getting actively Hangry and/or otherwise have low blood sugar issues (one of my reasons for suspecting I have some sort of circulation bullshit), but by then it's still at least an hour-and-a-half until the next meal time, and we aren't usually allowed to eat much of our own product, so: Snacks it is. And bringing in my own snacks is cheaper than going to the vending machine, which means battling executive dysfunction to get to the grocery store and remembering to bring the snacks with me to work. Had I known that I'd be having a short day today, though, I definitely would've skipped the pre-work grocery store trip.
On the plus side, I'm now covered for the next few weeks at least, even if I don't remember to bring everything I bought in the afternoon in tomorrow. Even the cheese should be fine in the car in this weather!
Today was a bit exciting, since I went from sleeping very poorly, to getting up early to remove the 5+ inches (12.5+cm) of snow off of my car, to a super quick stop at the grocery store before work, to driving over still messy roads to work, to a surprisingly short work day, to doing errands after (running to a different grocery store followed by picking up meds), and ending with me making dinner for the family (just frozen fish and fries, with steam-in-the-bag broccoli, but it's still a nice, hot meal).
I may have packed a bit too much into it for the bad sleep of last night, but I'm fairly certain that if I hadn't gotten to the pharmacy today, I wouldn't be able to get there until Tuesday. In addition to that, the two grocery store stops were primarily for "work snacks": My job does serve shift meals to employees, but they either start exactly when I'm supposed to arrive at work (and I'd feel like a jerk if I clocked in, only to clock right back out for a lunch break), or five-and-a-half to six-and-a-half hours after I clock in. I start getting peckish about four hours after I've eaten (which is usually about three hours after I've clocked in), and around five hours after I've eaten, I start getting actively Hangry and/or otherwise have low blood sugar issues (one of my reasons for suspecting I have some sort of circulation bullshit), but by then it's still at least an hour-and-a-half until the next meal time, and we aren't usually allowed to eat much of our own product, so: Snacks it is. And bringing in my own snacks is cheaper than going to the vending machine, which means battling executive dysfunction to get to the grocery store and remembering to bring the snacks with me to work. Had I known that I'd be having a short day today, though, I definitely would've skipped the pre-work grocery store trip.
On the plus side, I'm now covered for the next few weeks at least, even if I don't remember to bring everything I bought in the afternoon in tomorrow. Even the cheese should be fine in the car in this weather!
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Date: 2022-01-04 04:50 am (UTC)I'm glad you can bring food with you to work. That's frustrating about the timing for the meals - it's nice that they're provided, but the timing is terrible! That reminds me that I should battle my OWN executive dysfunction and try to bring a supply of something with me to work to eat... It's a full 8 hours, and a lot of times I just forget to eat anything, or I'm finally so hungry I run to the gas station on the corner and make terrible choices.
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Date: 2022-01-07 04:07 am (UTC)Yeah, I'd probably forget to eat more often if being hungry didn't have quite so many weird consequences for me. As it is, it amazes me a bit that other people I know can go so long without eating and not end up with weird mood swings or something!
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Date: 2022-01-08 03:10 am (UTC)Food is one of those things that I can be extremely blind to needing... if I get focused enough on something else I can forget to eat for quite some time. I DO start getting some physical symptoms - headache, snappishness, tiredness... and yet it's like a brand new revelation every time I realize that eating something might help!