Last week and the effects of stress

I feel down today. I feel weepy, miserable, tired, out-of-sorts, and generally on the ‘not’ side of the good mood vs. not good mood spectrum. Why? Well numerous reasons I suppose.

Last week was tough. I never do well on time away from home anyway for business. I can cope with the odd bit here or there, but find dealing with strangers every day for a week very tiring and stressful. Especially when said strangers are meant to be equal colleagues but don’t treat you as such. And I had to pay for the hotel etc from my own funds cos there was something wrong with the card that had been used to book it all. Then the travelling was tiring and stressful, particularly when the Eurostar was running late and I had to sprint for the train and then a woman I know only marginally was picking me up from the station cos my fiancé had messed up the dates and arranged his stag weekend for last weekend. So by the time I got home at half ten on Friday night I was exhausted and ready to collapse.

Then I woke at 7am on Sat and dozed until 9:45, then realised I was meant to be in the beauticians for 10, so sprinted off to that, then came home and went to bed for an hour, then frantically running around packing a bag for Sat night, headed off to Sudbury for the final dress fitting/paying for it etc. More money gone from the account.

Sat night was pretty relaxing in the spa with a good friend – we hit the spa for a few hours, ordered room service and watched a film, then hit the spa again the following morning. It was lovely and relaxing. Really great.

Then got home and went back into bed. I’m still tired. I think it’s partly less-than-wise food choices and the stress from last week, plus all the stress from this week to sort out wedding things etc. There’s not much left to be done, but the things that are left are mostly Al’s arena and it hasn’t been happening. So I’m reminding him of a load of things, then feeling back for reminding him, then feeling twice as bad reminding him again when they’ve not been done………

I think I’ll head home from work early today. I was in early, so it won’t be the end of the world, but the extra sleep could do me the world of good. In fact, I think that’s decision made. I’ll be home by about 4pm and in bed by 5 past…….