Posted by BeardedLady on October 2, 2002, at 12:28:09
In reply to That's not tosh., posted by Arthur Gibson on October 2, 2002, at 10:56:59
I asked a question that doesn't make any judgments about others or give any details about me, and someone named Arthur deduced that I was looking to a bottle for energy, that I was a hypochondriac, and that I didn't have a job.
First, I want to assure you that hypochondria is, indeed, a mental illness, and those who fit the bill are just as welcome on this site as those who have nothing wrong with them save a few wrinkles. After all, no one made us fill out a form that said we had to have a bonafide mental illness to post here.
Second, I don't consider it a chore to take my four-and-a-half-year-old daughter to school or pick her up, nor do I mind cooking dinner, washing the dishes, doing the laundry, or wiping the snot from my child's nose. I don't even mind it that much when I am awakened from a deep sleep because my daughter's buddies have fallen off the bed.
Furthermore, I enjoy all the clients I have worked hard to amass these ten years in business for myself as a writer, designer, and magazine publisher. I also enjoy the poetry I write (which is often published in good journals because I am ambitious and work hard at it). I enjoy teaching English at a university two nights a week. I love my husband, and I am passionate about the mosaics I am commissioned to make.
I design and write my neighborhood's newsletters, and I recently designed our t-shirts and helped at our neighborhood block party.
At 6:30 every morning (7:30 on weekends), I race walk/jog four miles with my two dogs. When I return, I make my husband's lunch, my daughter's breakfast, and my own decaf coffee before I take my daughter to school.
Simply put, I do more in a week than many people do in a month, and I enjoy every minute of it.
I don't drink caffeine, and I take B vitamins to keep headaches and migraines at bay.
So my search for energy from a bottle doesn't mean that I don't have any evergy, that I am lazy, that I am a hypochondriac, or that I am looking for a quick fix. It only means that the I feel slightly sleepy from the Serzone I take for chronic insomnia (which developed after the stress of losing a grandmother, a dog, and a father-in-law, my husband losing his job, and my cold-turkey nursing cessation--yes, I had the energy to nurse her for nine months--due to the start of a new teaching job in addition to the two nights I already taught).
Thanks to the others who cared enough to respond in a helpful way.
beardy
poster:BeardedLady
thread:121940
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