#NerdsUnite: The secret life of a veterinary technician (depressed)
<editorsnote> Nerds, meet my buddy Lindsay. She and I met ... well, somewhere in the social space. I think we might have started talking through this site directly, then through facebook - maybe ... I'm not sure. But she's awesome. I talk to her on twitter almost every day, and she's really rad and TOTALLY a big huge animal lover. Like crazy huge!! In these series of posts she will be talking about her life and random adventures with sometimes more than two legged creatures. I guess there's only one more thing left to say ... HIT IT LINDSAY!!</editorsnote>
#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @TheCraftafarian
Yeah, thats me this week. Anxious, tired, and depressed. I mean I' having good moments and joking with my coworkers/friends but I know I'm having a little trouble lately. (I'm fine, just feeling down, promise!)
To be honest I havent been as strict about taking my medication lately and I KNOW that is contributing. I'm using my phone now to help me remember. I think it's so hard to remember because I really don't have a set routine for the morning--that's something I've been working on. It's so hard to think when I feel anxious all the time. I just feel
like there is always so much thats needs to be done at home or at work. My apartment is a complete mess right now: Trash needs to be taken out, dishes, pets need food/meds/attention, cleaning to be done. My boyfriend works all the damn time and is too tired to do much when he gets home (literally working like 50+ hours per week and they sometimes pay partial overtime...if he's lucky). And since he just had dental surgery which placed a screw implant thing into his jaw bone so they can put a permanent tooth on it--I really feel like I can't ask him to help me. At work we've been busy lately and so some days I am in a constant state of overdrive trying to get work done. I need a vacation and ours has been postponed to this summer, I may have to take an extra day off here and there before I get too over-stressed. We've had so many patients pass away the last two weeks its as if the entire staff is in a perpetual state of depression. Bleh!
Well since I can't bitch about being depressed and just leave it at that...a previous employee (and good friend of everyone's) is going to vet school at the end of April and we are having a goodbye dinner at Bucca Italian Restaurant. So that will be fun and cheer us all up. As far as the craziness that is my house--I'm going to take care of the animals, relax a bit, and then tackle the most important chores. After that I plan to slowly catch up over the next week by selecting certain things to be done on certain days so that way I'm not trying to do a bunch of things at one time--which stresses me out. This weekend I have kennel duty but I get to play with kittens (we still have 5!) then probably have breakfast with my Dad. I'm also going to do a little bit of shopping, I still have some gift cards left over from the holidays!!
So I started my post off by being extremely stressed out. But writing it out helped me come up with ideas to manage what needs to be done as well as making sure I do some fun/relaxing things.
Ok I feel better. I'm gonna watch tv for a little bit and then give my bearded dragon a bath. Thanks nerds :)