And this is part 2 of my Week in the Life of A Crazy Woman…
Read on, but only if you’re woman enough to take it…or if you’re a man and no one can see your computer screen.
3rd Day
I am all of the aforementioned Dwarfs today. It makes for a bad 24 hours when I am all of dwarfs on the same day.
I didn’t sleep again last night due in great part to my “condition”.
Very sure by mid-day that starting Weight Watcher’s at the same time of the month that my hormones are sending assassins to try to kill me wasn’t a good idea. My mood convulsions have run the gambit. I’ve wept uncontrollably. I’ve screamed at the top of my lungs at no one. I’ve gotten confused and lost . Twice. And I was simply driving 45 minutes from my house to Stone Mountain Park and back. I’ve driven this route a half million times. I really shouldn’t need Money-Penny. (My GPS, we call her Money Penny.) But I did need her. I needed her because I got a little confused. I wonder if I’m having TSA’s? Or is it TIA’s? (The Husband read this and didn’t know what these initials meant … one is a mini-stroke and one, I think, has something to do with transportation.)
I’ve managed to stay UNDER my Weight Watcher’s points for 2 days but today I would give up my first born for a chocolate cake. (Sorry Bethany.)Yes, a cake. But wait, let me be more specific…a yellow cake with chocolate fudge frosting… yes, yes I would. Today, it feels like an even trade. Today, I totally understand that dude in the Bible who traded his birth-right for a bowl of stew. (Although stew doesn’t interest me in the least, like I said I want cake.) I find myself thinking of him a lot today, that hungry guy in the Bible and I’m wondering if somehow he was going through menopause at the time…
It’s bedtime. My skin is crawling and I’m on edge. I’d like to scream at and slap something. It’s not the Weight Watcher’s it’s the hormones. But knowing that doesn’t help me at all. How very unfortunate that my go-to stress relief is baking and right now I can not bake…I tell ‘myself’ to find another form of stress relief.
‘Myself’ said something back that I can not repeat.
To Be Continued…come back tomorrow to see how long I can go without grooming.
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Bless your heart. In all of your misery, you still managed to make me smile . Only a real woman could pull that off!
Prayers being sent your menopausal way today.
God speed.
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Surely, surely this many-pause thing can’t go on for years. Love the birthright–how’d you come up with that?Clever-clever!
It is well worth mentioning that I so understand and feel your pain. I understand wanting to chew chocolate nails!! I so understand having large holes in your brain that information falls out of. I also can sympathize with the lack of sleep. (take some tylenol pm….) So I recommend that you allow yourself a piece of cake, and then run or walk around a serene peaceful lake long enough to run/walk it off. Minnie-pause is a harsh friend and she will lead you astray. Stick close to us good friends who won’t !! 🙂
Love you, my internet friend…..
Suzanne
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oh honey, have a piece of cake!! you were 2 points under for 2 days!! you deserve it!! – have a low cal version of some kind if that makes you feel better about doing it!!
~TidyMom
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I hear ya, menopausal Kindred Spirit! The good thing about us crafty,insomniac, menopausal types, we can get up at 3:00 am and paint or glue something.:)
.-= Lisa´s last blog ..Stuffed Turkey Burgers =-.
Oh goodness… was anyone asleep at 3 am last night? At 42 I still fall asleep well, with the help of some melatonin, but darn if I don’t wake up and then can’t go BACK to sleep…
Those dwarves just crack me up, but I sure hope they don’t travel, they are not welcome in Mn!! I sure pray you are going to tell me the answer to fending off this hormonal many-pausual assault that I have come to know as Peri…
Hugs Robin! Thanks for the laughs and please go bake a cake!!
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I have had my first two hot flashes, last night and the night before. Wow, not looking forward to going to sleep tonight.
You are an amazing writer. God has given you a gift for expressing yourself, bringing me in to your world, encouraging in mine and making me laugh, smile and cry.
Love you
God help you!
I don’t wanna go through menopause!!! Please Lord, let them find a cure before I get there!!!
Hang in there, Robin!!!!
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ok, i have to know if your doctor has you on hormones or if you’re not wanting to do them, or if you’re on them and still having this many symptoms. you poor thing!!!!
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Gitz…I’m not on hormones…doing it all by my lonesome. I may change my mind before it’s all said and done…yikes.