Is anyone else just...tired?

[nidena]

Apparently, I was so sore from my shifts Thurs and Fri, I can't sleep any night since then.  I think I fell asleep around 5am this morning and got up an hour ago.  I'm hoping tonight is better.  I just have to keep myself from taking any sort of nap between now and tonight.

[Tired Tess]

Ever.

I worked a Covid unit for three months. So far I've come out of this unscathed. Never missed a day of work and even did OT. I'm not about to push my luck. In the hospital I had some control over my circumstance, in the outside world who knows. People are rude, disrespectful, and just ignorant of what this virus has in store for us the next time around. I am scared for my life.

[pulmonarymd]

Jun 21, 2020 11:56:03 GMT -5 Tired Tess said:

Ever.

I worked a Covid unit for three months. So far I've come out of this unscathed. Never missed a day of work and even did OT. I'm not about to push my luck. In the hospital I had some control over my circumstance, in the outside world who knows. People are rude, disrespectful, and just ignorant of what this virus has in store for us the next time around. I am scared for my life.

Yes, anyone with first hand knowledge of this has a great deal of respect for it, and are being more careful. I too feel safer at work and outside. Not wishing to do much inside except under controlled circumstances

[lurkyloo]

“We need to retire the phrase ‘avoid it like the plague’ because it turns out people do not do that”. -seen online somewhere 

[toomuchreality]

Jun 18, 2020 15:08:52 GMT -5 Icelandic Woman said:

I was already a hermit homebody before the pandemic hit so my life hasn't changed all that much I just have a better excuse for being that way. But yes I am so mentally tired of what is going on in this country.

Me too!   Except I haven't given / don't give an excuse any more.  Most people don't deserve one and they probably wouldn't listen, or care, anyway. 
The things going on in this country are absurd, when they should be amazing. 
Never thought I would be wishing for "the good old days". But...

[countrygirl2]

Even when it stops unless a lot of new retail brands are created, its a desert out there. No place to go, nothing to do, sigh.

[toomuchreality]

Too much reality! 🙃

[ohmomto2boys]

I'm tired of the unknown. We don't know what school will look like for my two kids in August. We don't know if we can go on vacation at the end of July. We don't know if we will have jobs in 3, 6, etc. months. I'm tired of people criticizing others for their choices. 

What do I know?  I know I will keep wearing a mask to the grocery store.  I know I will keep my kids out of stores.  I know we will continue to social distance.  I know we will have food on the table.  I know we will get through this.  Is it mentally exhausting?  Yes it is, but we are trying our best one day at a time. 

[nidena]

Ever since I started my new job back in Sept, I feel like the "tired" part is worse.

I like my job but going to the office five days a week is SOOO boring.  How does anyone sit at a desk oodles of hours a week for years on end?

The flip of this is that I don't know if it's because I don't have too many options for the Life part of the "work/life balance" or because it's truly draining.  I'm thinking the former.

[busymom]

The current cold snap makes me sleepy.  I've been telling DD I'm going to hibernate.  Maybe I'll get out of bed in April?!?  

[bean29]

I talked to my DS last night. Her DH is “self employed”. He works on cars on a cash basis. Have no idea how much he earns, but they don’t claim any income for him.

She has a FT bookkeeping job and a second job doing instant cart deliveries. I asked her yesterday how much she earned doing instant cart deliveries, she said last year her W-2 (1099? Holy Sh!t I hope they deduct Taxes!) earnings were about = to what she earned at her regular job. I think the magic # is around $50,000, because she may not qualify for 3rd stimulus.

I am thinking my DS pretty much has two FT jobs. I can’t imagine how much energy that takes.

I come home from work exhausted and do little more than walk my Dogs. (I had Thyroid cancer, my Thyroid was removed about 14 years ago. I take synthetic hormones...but if I try to rev my metabolism up too much my intestines go nuts.

Lately I just feel tired all the time. On weekend in the afternoon, I just want a nap.

Does not necessarily mean I sleep well. I woke up a bit ago to a hot flash. I feel better now though. Did not sleep well last night at all.

[chiver78]

Feb 15, 2021 19:28:22 GMT -5 nidena said:

Ever since I started my new job back in Sept, I feel like the "tired" part is worse.

I like my job but going to the office five days a week is SOOO boring.  How does anyone sit at a desk oodles of hours a week for years on end?

The flip of this is that I don't know if it's because I don't have too many options for the Life part of the "work/life balance" or because it's truly draining.  I'm thinking the former.

I have a laptop, so I can move around the office. sitting, standing, in the cafe, outside in nice weather. that helps a ton.

months later, yes. I am still very tired. I had originally said this back in June:

Jun 14, 2020 7:52:36 GMT -5 chiver78 said:

not well at all. I accepted an offer on my house two days before my employer told us to work from home for the foreseeable future, which was March 6th. the largest biotech employer in MA told everyone not directly involved in mfg to get out, it made headlines in New England. on April 30th, I closed on the sale of my house, in order to move closer to an office I have yet to set foot in, and it is now mid June. I moved to a temporary rental in order to catch my breath and figure out next steps, and it is so far from ideal, making me wonder why I sold my house at all. I thought I was going to check out Arizona as an option this spring, but that option went out the window even before COVID shut it down.

I'm fairly certain my dogs hate me, since we can't go out off leash anymore with no fence here, why doesn't the air have a hint of salt in it, and where are all our friends that used to be right around the corner?

and then I go online and see the garbage being posted by some folks I thought I knew. I've been seeing bits and pieces since the last Presidential election, but the paat few weeks have been enlightening. I wonder what the world will look like when things open up again.

yah, I am tired. 😔

not long after this, with no clear end in sight to WFH, I made the decision to move back to the beach. I bought my house around Labor Day, and we've been mostly hunkering down ever since. we get out for fresh air with walks, unless it's raining sideways or single digit cold. this past week has been killing me, not going hardly anywhere. today's supposed to reach 50 degrees, I just hope there's a break in the rain somewhere so we can actually go out! 

job has gotten worse, in that I am no longer cranking out the piles of paperwork that was never supposed to be my job. instead, I got stuffed into a completely new-to-me role with an organizational shakeup with a corporate merger. I wasn't given much time to train in the new role while I was still up to my eyeballs in paper last summer, and my products are all legacy-<other company>. the teams assume I know what the hell I'm doing, until I come up on a difference in operational SOPs b/c we haven't get merged those, and I don't have access to the quality systems to retrieve their legacy SOPs. I am tired of spending every day feeling like the slow kid in the back of the class, asking the teacher to go over that last problem for the 50th time.    

I think maybe another couple days off, away from the job, might help. I dread getting out of bed on Monday mornings. 

[wvugurl26]

February is just a big pile of suck. January was consistently warmer. I was able to get out and take a walk every day without freezing or slipping on ice. I'm trying to do some other stretches and workouts but this month is just blah.

[Cheesy FL-Vol]

I did not start sleeping better until we moved out to the rural property we bought in August. Once we moved out here, my sleep went from 4-5 hours a night with an occasional 6 to between 7 & 8 hours with the occasional 6. After January 6, I went back to 4-5 hours, often much less than that. It took nearly a month for the stress to settle and get back to my more new normal. The stress of last week's impeachment trial triggered nightmares that when I think about it were reflective of feeling things are outside of my control and worry about the future of our country.

I started sleeping better again the last two nights.

[nidena]

I talked to a friend last night about my situation--mind you, I also get a migraine at least once a week--and, in that, plus because of comment I made on the Healthy Lifestyle thread, I've been doing it to myself without really realizing.

When I was Active Duty, we worked 12 hour shifts on a 3-2-2 schedule.  In this new job, I've been getting myself to work by 7:30am and often not leaving until 5:30 or 6.  It's really not necessary for me to be at work that long.  I think I was trying to prove myself.  So, I'm gonna talk to my boss about going in later so that I can get some kind of workout/physical activity in before I come in.  I'd like to see the sunshine (when it's out) before I put myself under fluorescent lights for many hours each day.  I'm sure he'll go for it, I just have to run it by him.

Like, today, I was simultaneously hating the shoveling of snow but loving the fact that I was doing something in the morning sun..

[Deleted]

I almost hit a wall yesterday. Like many, I'm dealing with sub-zero temps and trying to win the Vaccine Lottery while feeling a little jealous at my FB friends who have already gotten them. Then my furnace went out on Sunday and it took them 4 hours to get here and fix the issue, which was an ice blockage in the pipe going out of the house.

Yesterday it happened again. I called at 10 and they arrived at 5- by then the house was 49 degrees. This time the pipe was clear (I'd checked that myself) but he added some extra pipes, an elbow pointing down and an extension, which he said might keep the water from condensation running out of the pipe instead of sitting there and freezing. And now I know how to clear the pipe and then turn off the furnace, wait 5 minutes and turn it on again to reset it. I also have to keep the thermostat higher at night- I was at 55, turned it up to 60 Sunday night and apparently that wasn't enough, so left it at 65 last night. This is apparently a problem with high-0efficiency furnaces in extreme weather.

In the meantime I was reading that the local utility was enacting rolling power blackouts. Yeah, I'm sitting there in 3 layers with 2 space heaters going and you want to kill my electricity? I consider myself pretty resilient but that would have been the last straw.

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

I'm so done. Had COVID in January. Had to hit the ground running at work the moment we got back.

Surpassed the 1936 record for coldest weather yesterday. Car was pissy today. Parking lot gate quit and refused to open when I got here.

Now I'm sitting in the dark during a power outage. Got trapped in the hood with a full pipette of bacteria and had to yell for help because I had no idea where the thing was pointing.

I feel like the universe is trying to tell me go home, go to bed and don't come out at least till spring. Maybe 2022 at the rate things are going.

[chiver78]

Feb 16, 2021 9:51:30 GMT -5 NomoreDramaQ1015 said:

I'm so done. Had COVID in January. Had to hit the ground running at work the moment we got back.

Surpassed the 1936 record for coldest weather yesterday. Car was pissy today. Parking lot gate quit and refused to open when I got here.

Now I'm sitting in the dark during a power outage. Got trapped in the hood with a full pipette of bacteria and had to yell for help because I had no idea where the thing was pointing.

I feel like the universe is trying to tell me go home, go to bed and don't come out at least till spring. Maybe 2022 at the rate things are going.

how was your lab approved to open without life safety emergency lighting? 

[Tennesseer]

Feb 16, 2021 7:18:12 GMT -5 chiver78 said:

Feb 15, 2021 19:28:22 GMT -5 nidena said:

Ever since I started my new job back in Sept, I feel like the "tired" part is worse.

I like my job but going to the office five days a week is SOOO boring.  How does anyone sit at a desk oodles of hours a week for years on end?

The flip of this is that I don't know if it's because I don't have too many options for the Life part of the "work/life balance" or because it's truly draining.  I'm thinking the former.

I have a laptop, so I can move around the office. sitting, standing, in the cafe, outside in nice weather. that helps a ton.

months later, yes. I am still very tired. I had originally said this back in June:

Jun 14, 2020 7:52:36 GMT -5 chiver78 said:

not well at all. I accepted an offer on my house two days before my employer told us to work from home for the foreseeable future, which was March 6th. the largest biotech employer in MA told everyone not directly involved in mfg to get out, it made headlines in New England. on April 30th, I closed on the sale of my house, in order to move closer to an office I have yet to set foot in, and it is now mid June. I moved to a temporary rental in order to catch my breath and figure out next steps, and it is so far from ideal, making me wonder why I sold my house at all. I thought I was going to check out Arizona as an option this spring, but that option went out the window even before COVID shut it down.

I'm fairly certain my dogs hate me, since we can't go out off leash anymore with no fence here, why doesn't the air have a hint of salt in it, and where are all our friends that used to be right around the corner?

and then I go online and see the garbage being posted by some folks I thought I knew. I've been seeing bits and pieces since the last Presidential election, but the paat few weeks have been enlightening. I wonder what the world will look like when things open up again.

yah, I am tired. 😔

not long after this, with no clear end in sight to WFH, I made the decision to move back to the beach. I bought my house around Labor Day, and we've been mostly hunkering down ever since. we get out for fresh air with walks, unless it's raining sideways or single digit cold. this past week has been killing me, not going hardly anywhere. today's supposed to reach 50 degrees, I just hope there's a break in the rain somewhere so we can actually go out! 

I envy your 50 degrees today.

Currently here in Memphis it's 4 degrees. Supposed to reach all of 18 degrees today. Zero melting of ice off trees and homes from last week's ice storm and 5 inches of snow on top of that from yesterday's storm with another 5 inches of ice and snow tomorrow and Thursday.

Will finally crack 32 degrees Saturday and rain on Sunday to melt all the ice and snow. One hell of an outdoor mess to come.

But I have power (so far)!

[bookkeeper]

Feb 15, 2021 19:28:22 GMT -5 nidena said:

Ever since I started my new job back in Sept, I feel like the "tired" part is worse.

I like my job but going to the office five days a week is SOOO boring.  How does anyone sit at a desk oodles of hours a week for years on end?

The flip of this is that I don't know if it's because I don't have too many options for the Life part of the "work/life balance" or because it's truly draining.  I'm thinking the former.

25 year veteran of the desk here. The way I did it was to take smoke breaks.  I don't smoke, but I do plant flowers.  I would get up from my desk and pull weeds or clean up the houseplants I had in the office.  Something to get you out of the chair once an hour or two.

The flowers were for the body.  For the mind, I chose to self educate.  I worked many different desk jobs and each one gave me an opportunity to learn about something.  I ended my career at a business I worked 12 years at.  I worked alone, unsupervised with all the internet I could use.  In my quest to self educate, I found Your Money.  I will admit, that this board and the personalities within were my companions those 12 years.  Heck, I still like you all better than many people that are not virtual!

[ners]

chiver78  Love your new avatar.  

[chiver78]

Feb 16, 2021 10:49:57 GMT -5 ners said:

chiver78  Love your new avatar.  

thanks, it was past time to change that 2020 one. this seemed appropriate after my post in here.

[snapdragon]

Jun 19, 2020 10:47:32 GMT -5 snapdragon said:

I am tired. At the beginning of this whole fiasco my Dad was in the hospital with cancer. He went home to die at the beginning of March and passed away at the end of March. Than the lockdowns occurred in mass. I have been on permahold for the last 3 months and unable to move forward with settling his estate or pretty much anything right now. I should have resolution next week or the week after with the courts so I can sell things but I am still spinning my wheels right now. 

Things are starting to hit me emotionally now that the stress is coming down. I had many things in transition - Dad, my kitchen being renovated and work ( going half time ) that I just let things drop or ignored things. I keep having to push out the timeline on what needs to happen so I don't have to keep going back. Both physically and emotionally almost every time I step over the threshold of his home. So I am tired and want to hide under the covers and have a crying jag right now BUT I am at work. 

I am still at the tired part...I ended up having to get a different lawyer and that did not occur until after the 4th of July. They had not done squat since I gave them the information needed in early April. I am thankful that my friends pushed me into doing something. I was just stuck. 

So the house was put on the market & sold and it's been off my plate since before Thanksgiving. I got a really good RE and they did a wonderful job with everything. The new lawyer is a amazing and I am so thankful that I got a really good referral. He might be expensive but he actually does the job and was invaluable during the selling process because Dad was in a 55+ community with lots of bylaws. So many different hoops that I had no clue about and realizing we had to also probate my SM who had passed 5 years previous because that never happened.

Things are chugging along  but I am tired and am looking forward to having some vacation days and just not having to think.

I have decided that I will retire form my job sometime in 2022. I plan on moving states and I just won't have time unless I take it so I will be. It had always been the plan but I was holding off until Dad passed -- he passed before I was really ready I was expecting to wait another 3-5 years.

[giramomma]

Feb 16, 2021 9:10:48 GMT -5 nidena said:

I talked to a friend last night about my situation--mind you, I also get a migraine at least once a week--and, in that, plus because of comment I made on the Healthy Lifestyle thread, I've been doing it to myself without really realizing.

When I was Active Duty, we worked 12 hour shifts on a 3-2-2 schedule.  In this new job, I've been getting myself to work by 7:30am and often not leaving until 5:30 or 6.  It's really not necessary for me to be at work that long.  I think I was trying to prove myself.  So, I'm gonna talk to my boss about going in later so that I can get some kind of workout/physical activity in before I come in.  I'd like to see the sunshine (when it's out) before I put myself under fluorescent lights for many hours each day.  I'm sure he'll go for it, I just have to run it by him.

Like, today, I was simultaneously hating the shoveling of snow but loving the fact that I was doing something in the morning sun..

I would be care about trying to prove yourself, depending on company culture.

My workplace doesn't value butt in seat time. So, they'd wonder why you couldn't do your job in 8 hours, and assume you had some sort of performance issue.

I have the opposite problem. I have to figure out how to do 8 or more hours of work in 6.

[toomuchreality]

For Christmas DD1 gave me a sign that says:
SHE BELIEVED SHE
COULD
BUT SHE WAS
REALLY TIRED
😴
SO SHE DIDN'T

So very true!
All my life, I've been tired, of being tired.
Age isn't helping. 🙄

[TheOtherMe]

giramomma What you said was the culture at the IRS when I worked there.  It was in the dark ages and we were to only have with us what we were going to audit before we came to the office next.

They did want you in your seat at 8 AM but they wanted you out of your seat by 4:45 PM or shortly thereafter if you were in the middle of something that would take some time to get back in to it.  That was in the days before comp time.

I have no idea what the culture is now that they mostly WFH.

[nidena]

Talked to my boss today.  He's cool with me using that early morning productivity time towards efforts in the gym so long as I'm at work at 8:30ish.  Absolutely NLT 9am.

[Artemis Windsong]

Feb 16, 2021 8:47:45 GMT -5 Cheesy FL-Vol said:

I did not start sleeping better until we moved out to the rural property we bought in August. Once we moved out here, my sleep went from 4-5 hours a night with an occasional 6 to between 7 & 8 hours with the occasional 6. After January 6, I went back to 4-5 hours, often much less than that. It took nearly a month for the stress to settle and get back to my more new normal. The stress of last week's impeachment trial triggered nightmares that when I think about it were reflective of feeling things are outside of my control and worry about the future of our country.

I started sleeping better again the last two nights.

The attack on the White House was bad for me.  I was in ICU with covid nearly our of my mind and I see the attack on TV.  Mind you, getting the TV to work when I was so weak to push the buttons on a remote I had no idea how to use.  Then see that.  I thought the US was attacked. I would not watch the impeachment.

H calmed me with a text not to watch.  I did my best to not watch shows that were too active or disturbing.  I thought Inspiration Network would have good shows.  No.  I ended up on a marathon of Law and Order Special Victims Unit.  I'd close my eyes.  One of the doctors called and asked me why I was doing that so I told them.  In the blankets, I couldn't find the remote for the TV that had the nurse call button on it.

I continue to not watch violent or disturbing shows.  The shows all seem to have a murder unless it's AFV or older sit coms.  I fought insomnia for years not knowing it was the TV programs I watched at night.

I hope you can monitor or eliminate your TV programs to help your sleep. 

[nidena]

Feb 16, 2021 14:47:45 GMT -5 giramomma said:

Feb 16, 2021 9:10:48 GMT -5 nidena said:

I talked to a friend last night about my situation--mind you, I also get a migraine at least once a week--and, in that, plus because of comment I made on the Healthy Lifestyle thread, I've been doing it to myself without really realizing.

When I was Active Duty, we worked 12 hour shifts on a 3-2-2 schedule.  In this new job, I've been getting myself to work by 7:30am and often not leaving until 5:30 or 6.  It's really not necessary for me to be at work that long.  I think I was trying to prove myself.  So, I'm gonna talk to my boss about going in later so that I can get some kind of workout/physical activity in before I come in.  I'd like to see the sunshine (when it's out) before I put myself under fluorescent lights for many hours each day.  I'm sure he'll go for it, I just have to run it by him.

Like, today, I was simultaneously hating the shoveling of snow but loving the fact that I was doing something in the morning sun..

I would be care about trying to prove yourself, depending on company culture.

My workplace doesn't value butt in seat time. So, they'd wonder why you couldn't do your job in 8 hours, and assume you had some sort of performance issue.

I have the opposite problem. I have to figure out how to do 8 or more hours of work in 6.

Sorry, what's the first sentence?

[toomuchreality]

Feb 16, 2021 19:04:11 GMT -5 nidena said:

Feb 16, 2021 14:47:45 GMT -5 giramomma said:

I would be care about trying to prove yourself, depending on company culture.

My workplace doesn't value butt in seat time. So, they'd wonder why you couldn't do your job in 8 hours, and assume you had some sort of performance issue.

I have the opposite problem. I have to figure out how to do 8 or more hours of work in 6.

Sorry, what's the first sentence?

I wouldn't care?