Very belated update on past two weeks...
Jun. 4th, 2012 06:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
moominmuppetChad commented last night that I still hadn't gotten around to writing up the Kenyon trip or this past weekend. Very true; it's a combination of me being distracted by projecty-things, and being somewhat overwhelmed with how to express things.
First, the easy stuff: Had a rough several weeks physically because I was an idiot and didn't get my Mobic refill in time. Wow, turns out that sure is doing a lot for me! I'm back on it and doing much better now. Mood state's been good, running mildly manic, but not surprising given the heavy emotional hit of the Reunion. I'm doing really well with the Provigil, and very pleased about that. It's making me run a touch "hot", but not manic enough to be problematic, and it has helped immensely with the fatigue problems. It's even helping me sleep better at night, since I'm spending less time napping.
Work is going... weird. Mostly good, but weird. I work this job largely because it's almost all process work, which is minimally affected by my mood, instead of project work, which can really wreak havoc with me during both manic and depressive phases. Problem is, I also love doing project work. It's pretty obvious from my obsessive little research projects here, I suspect. So when I have energy I go looking for projects, and things to fix, and extra stuff to do. With feeling so much better, I have a lot more energy than usual. Makes me very popular with my boss, but too unpredictable and confusing for some of my coworking teams. We've been wrangling back and forth over a bunch of documentation and how best to handle it, and I'm both having fun and having periods of immense frustration. It's also changing my normal daily obsessive little patterns, like my linketies and such (which I can multitask with taking calls, but not with project work), which is more deeply disconcerting to me than I care to admit. On the other hand, I've been working my ass off and accomplishing a lot, and I do like that feeling. So. Weird but good. Yes.
The past few weeks have also been challenging for Chad and me in terms of dealing with some family stress as a team. All in all things are hopefully sorting out well in terms of the issue (not one between us at all), and I think we did pretty well working together to try to make sure things was as low-stress as possible under the circumstances. The process of coping also led to yet more excellent conversations (our greatest strength as a couple, I think), and I'm feeling pretty warm and smooshy about things.
My household is doing pretty well; our biggest news at the moment is that the garden is yummy. Our neighbor Christina moves away in just a week or so, and Coco moves away with her. I'm currently petsitting Coco for the last time, which makes me sad. I'm excited about the new neighbors, though, and the new dog-project that'll be moving in next door! (their dog has dog-aggression issues, and I suspect we can help them work through it with time and patience and careful use of our own dogs).
I ended up spending a good chunk of this past weekend at Chad's place out in the country. His family has a lot of land and houses near each other, and it's a neat setup. We took Kidlet out exploring, although our attempts to find bugs were significantly stymied by the presence of all the crop fields around us (when half an hour only turns up a few ants and a pillbug in nice moist shaded dirt, you know there's some substantial agricultural run-off going on). We had a lot of fun, though, and got to take the four-wheeler out along the trails back to a man-made lake near their place. All in all it was just really low-key and relaxing and fun. And on the way home from the pond it was fully sunny and raining, so we got an incredible horizon-to-horizon double rainbow! We got to have a fun conversation with Kidlet about how Sun and Rain can play together when things are just right, and make rainbows!
And I still haven't written about the Kenyon Reunion, but I think I should save that for its own post.
First, the easy stuff: Had a rough several weeks physically because I was an idiot and didn't get my Mobic refill in time. Wow, turns out that sure is doing a lot for me! I'm back on it and doing much better now. Mood state's been good, running mildly manic, but not surprising given the heavy emotional hit of the Reunion. I'm doing really well with the Provigil, and very pleased about that. It's making me run a touch "hot", but not manic enough to be problematic, and it has helped immensely with the fatigue problems. It's even helping me sleep better at night, since I'm spending less time napping.
Work is going... weird. Mostly good, but weird. I work this job largely because it's almost all process work, which is minimally affected by my mood, instead of project work, which can really wreak havoc with me during both manic and depressive phases. Problem is, I also love doing project work. It's pretty obvious from my obsessive little research projects here, I suspect. So when I have energy I go looking for projects, and things to fix, and extra stuff to do. With feeling so much better, I have a lot more energy than usual. Makes me very popular with my boss, but too unpredictable and confusing for some of my coworking teams. We've been wrangling back and forth over a bunch of documentation and how best to handle it, and I'm both having fun and having periods of immense frustration. It's also changing my normal daily obsessive little patterns, like my linketies and such (which I can multitask with taking calls, but not with project work), which is more deeply disconcerting to me than I care to admit. On the other hand, I've been working my ass off and accomplishing a lot, and I do like that feeling. So. Weird but good. Yes.
The past few weeks have also been challenging for Chad and me in terms of dealing with some family stress as a team. All in all things are hopefully sorting out well in terms of the issue (not one between us at all), and I think we did pretty well working together to try to make sure things was as low-stress as possible under the circumstances. The process of coping also led to yet more excellent conversations (our greatest strength as a couple, I think), and I'm feeling pretty warm and smooshy about things.
My household is doing pretty well; our biggest news at the moment is that the garden is yummy. Our neighbor Christina moves away in just a week or so, and Coco moves away with her. I'm currently petsitting Coco for the last time, which makes me sad. I'm excited about the new neighbors, though, and the new dog-project that'll be moving in next door! (their dog has dog-aggression issues, and I suspect we can help them work through it with time and patience and careful use of our own dogs).
I ended up spending a good chunk of this past weekend at Chad's place out in the country. His family has a lot of land and houses near each other, and it's a neat setup. We took Kidlet out exploring, although our attempts to find bugs were significantly stymied by the presence of all the crop fields around us (when half an hour only turns up a few ants and a pillbug in nice moist shaded dirt, you know there's some substantial agricultural run-off going on). We had a lot of fun, though, and got to take the four-wheeler out along the trails back to a man-made lake near their place. All in all it was just really low-key and relaxing and fun. And on the way home from the pond it was fully sunny and raining, so we got an incredible horizon-to-horizon double rainbow! We got to have a fun conversation with Kidlet about how Sun and Rain can play together when things are just right, and make rainbows!
And I still haven't written about the Kenyon Reunion, but I think I should save that for its own post.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2012-06-05 05:39 am (UTC)Horizon to horizon double rainbows are amazing; I've only had that particular bit of luck a couple of times.