Something's gotta give...

Welcome to another post my dear readers.  The "weird cough thing" that started last week, ended up blowing into a huge "weird cough thing" that has lasted all week - I completely lost my voice a couple of days, I have been coughing so much that my chest/abs have hurt, and I know that I haven't been getting near enough sleep (that became evident when I didn't get out of bed yesterday until noon and then I still ended up taking an afternoon nap).  A week later, I still have the "weird cough thing" but I'm at least starting to feel more human so that's a plus...

Last week I mentioned feeling overwhelmed lately and I said I would go into more detail this week.  Things at work have felt as if they just keep piling up; each time I clear one thing off my desk, it seems as if 3 or 4 things take its place.  In one situation in particular at work I felt as if I had been making progress (dealings between a coworker and myself) and I found out that I was completely wrong in my perception.  I know that I just have to keep plugging along but I find it frustrating when I feel as if I'm making progress and I'm not making the progress that I thought...

Ugh....  I just deleted some of what I just wrote because I realized just how whiney I was coming across.  I don't like editing what I write but this was just making me sound pathetic...  I'm sure some of it is just out of frustration when it comes to certain things at work and then not feeling well on top of it doesn't help at all.  

I know that I have said it more than once but I think I really need to find a way to take some "me" time and I haven't done it yet.  I have still been working too many hours (tomorrow starts two weeks of the building being open from 7 am - 6 pm and someone has to be there to open/close the building), have been back to spending three days a week at the dance studio and two days a week with church choir (one day for rehearsal and then singing on Sunday).  I'm sure that being pulled in all of these different directions is once of the reasons why I'm sick yet again.  I had a plan in place to cut back one day a week at the dance studio in order to just feel as if I could breathe and I got word from my dance instructor today that we have big things coming up and she needs me there three days a week until mid-May.  For my own physical/mental well-being, something's gotta give and it's gotta give soon...

Well, my dear readers, I know that this isn't an overly long post tonight but I feel as if I need to bring this to a close for this evening and get to bed at a decent time so I can continue to get better and because I have a long day ahead of me tomorrow (as well as a long week...).  I hope you have opportunities to be "you" and to let your freak flags fly.  I'm going to work on that for me as well - I think I've lost that a little bit (or quite a bit...).  Thank you, once again, for joining me along this quest.  =)