Happy Monday!

Guys it’s June, mid-summer which is supposed to be my happy place and it has not been. It’s all the fault of my hormones (and work but mostly my hormones). After a pretty busy week and weekend the week before last consisting of a training day in Southampton (which with travel turned into a 16 hour day) and then at the weekend a Friday with Christelle and a Sto be at my brother’s for my sister-in-law’s ’40-ish’ birthday party. I was cooked, which is why on Sunday I was in bed early and ready for the office the next day. However, my hormones had a better idea and gave me a migraine, 12 hours lying in a hot, dark room, when the sound of the fan hurts and your vision pixelates, is not at all my idea of a good time.

So last week got off to a flying start….

If you were around last year, you may remember that last July, I was moaning on about how busy I was trying to deal with a new boss, while still looking after the old one. This year, the issue is me trying to work out how to learn new work things, keep up with the current ones and work out how to fit it all into five days, while we all work out how to produce reports on a newly implemented system. Like last year, the only way out is through, I’ll spend some more days in the office and think about buying a screen to for home so it’s easier to work and generally just get my head down. At the moment, the photo below feels like a brilliant descriptor of my working life.

If the first half of this year was about the flat and building work and the second half of this year is going to be about work and engaging my brain to learn new things. However, all of the year, seems to be spent on trying to deal with my peri menopausal state. I’ve been struggling this year to motivate myself to do anything at all and then there’s the bleeding. In fairness to it and others that are suffering, I’m not and have never been a heavy bleeder, what I am at the moment is a constant bleeder, I’ve been bleeding, either period or breakthrough for 35 of the last 43 days. (Yes, of course I’ve been counting!). I’ve been to the doctors and they are checking that I’m not incubating something nasty down there, and I’m waiting for an ultrasound to make sure that’s nothing’s growing in there that shouldn’t and assuming I have an all clear, we can look at changing my HRT for a type where I shouldn’t bleed at all. I’m not sure how that would work because my periods are very much still happening just over 40-ish days instead of the more usual 28. I did ask the GP if she’d take it all out, unfortunately, she said it’s not in her skill set, which is a slight disappointment.

The weekend was pretty quiet bar a 60^thbirthday party, it was fun, nice to catch up with a bunch of Grace people and watch Mike get very excited about how his whiskey collection had grown. Apparently, peaty whiskey is lovely when it’s well aged, which means expensive! I also picked peas at the allotment an thought about this week at work. I’m a very boring person.

This week, I need to give myself a kick up the backside and do lots of things, at work, home and the plot, I have extensive to-do lists for all three and Sunday is the Allotment Open Day. I will be pouring drinks all afternoon. I’ve never actually worked behind a bar and I probably wouldn’t be amazing at it but I’m very good at it for the allotment open days because it’s a limited number of drinks for a limited amount of time. All that being nice to strangers does have a impact though, I need to go to a place that people are not for a while afterwards to recover!

Have a good week!