The Power Nap, Laughter, and Face Crème

So as of late I have been tired. I’m not sure why—I think it might have something to do with my hour long commute or I have some deadly disease like diabetes. (Thanks ‘Brothers and Sisters’) I knew that my problem was pretty serious when on three separate nights this week I came, changed it sweatpants and hid on my couch watching hours of ‘General Hospital’ and HGTV instead of doing anything productive. It’s kind of scary because I was starting to feel a little bit like Mrs. Garrett with the antisocial, shoveling food down and waiting for the new episode of ‘Top Model’.

Upon realizing this trend I decided to take a different track and go back to my old favorite—the power nap. See, for years this has been my coping mechanism for my busy social life. That if I can work a 25 minute lie down then I could recoup enough energy to keep going with my day. That and I realize that maybe I needed to call people during the week and see if they want to hang. But before I do that—I need to get the timing just right on the nap schedule.

Of course this solution didn’t really solve the question of why I was feeling this. And I think it might have more to do with my job then any commute. It’s just that my job is really divided into two parts—either mind numbingly boring or so overwhelming challenging that my mind just freaks out. It’s either stressful of stupid.

I’ve taken to listening to music while I do the more paperwork aspects of the job. This is fine but you can only listen to the same songs so many times before you just start flashing back to all the retail positions you’ve held with all the shifts where you heard Macy Gray three times in like two hours. So because of the Boy I decided to see if I could find a way to listen to Jonny McGovern’s pod casts while on the job.

Happily I found the Gay Pimp’s myspace page and have been able to use his comedy show to help me get through the worst of times at the job. It’s really easy to forget how much laughter can make you feel better and keep you going even through most mundane of things. It’s made me more chipper and just fun to be around in the office. I highly suggest that if you have long drives for work or need something besides music to get you through the day then check my Top Friends. It’s a good routine to have handy.

Finally I just recently got back into the world of skin care. Normally I’m pretty good about doing the normal stuff—drink lots of water, washing my face at least once a day with a good product and once a week with a scrub—but the summer always throws me off. I’m more about doing the fake tan/bronzer than anything else just because it’s too warm to want to put any type of lotion on and risk clogging more pores.

Then came last Friday. I was coming out of the bathroom and just happened to glance in the mirror and I just looked janky. Now I knew that I was bit stressed and fluorescent lighting is no one’s friend but I just like shite throw up on itself and it was depressing. And maybe it’s a combination of things with being so tired and then looking so ragged that I just felt old. Really old.

But I decided to do something about it and got back into taking care of myself skin-wise. A little more cleansing, some good skin crème and a few other changes to my look have made me feel much better. That and I decided that any mirror in fluorescent lighting doesn’t count.

That all being said—it’s been nice to get back into the swing of things and just remembering ways to try and take care of me. Even if it seems shallow it really has helped out immensely.