With the timing of my surgery and DST, I'm now at the point where I can't always tell what's a surgical aftereffect and what's normal post-time-change exhaustion (or a combination of column A and column B).
As Nicole said yesterday regarding the time change, I am "Team Pick A Time And Stick With It, For Fuck’s Sake, I Don’t Care" all the way. I think that one can find plenty of plus/minus points either way, so I don't swing one way or the other, I just don't want to go through this twice a year. Leave time alone.
What this has meant so far is probably just that the post-surgery tiredness is compounded by the time change. When I sat down at my desk at 8 Monday morning, I was so tired that I mentioned to my coworkers that I might not make it all day, but by midday I felt a lot better, so I think that was more column B than column A.
One thing that's definitely from column A is that I'm verging on losing my voice. My throat didn't feel awful after the surgery, but I had, not a cough, but I had to clear my throat all the time over the weekend, which I figured was from the breathing tube. Monday night, I got in the car to drive to knitting (yay, I felt up to going!), started singing along to music as I always do, and quickly realized that my voice was fading out. I stopped singing so that I could actually talk to my friends at knitting, but hey, that was unexpected. I promise I did talk over the weekend, but apparently not enough at a time to notice this weirdness. I am actually going to dinner with other friends tonight*, and shall have to make a point of listening more than speaking.
*Out two nights in a row! After the time change! Leading the risky life here.
One other thing from the surgery is that I had the IV in the back of my hand, which was a weird feeling, but to my surprise, the bandage holding it on had a window over it! I would have preferred it not to, as I am squeamish and would rather not see that going into my skin, but I assume there was a medical reason for it. At least the hand is only lightly bruised now, not livid.
Now, this has nothing to do with either surgery or time change, but this morning on Instagram, I noticed this from Dandelion Chocolate, which is a very fancy chocolate place in California:
Mind you, I was not expecting it to be cheap. This is a fine chocolatier.
However, I was not expecting it to be $45 for ONE EGG.
One! Just one! And yes, it looks amazing and I'm sure it tastes amazing, but one egg! Even as a gift, I don't think I could stomach that (pun intended).
You know what? I'm pretty plebian. I'll manage just fine with Russell Stover. It doesn't look like a real egg, but it tastes good.
Even the plain marshmallow ones are good.
Would you pay $45 for the egg? What's your favorite Easter candy treat?
I'm team I think changing the clocks is maybe slightly better than the other way, but I'm convinced by whoever is making the argument at the time. It kind of sucks either way depending on what edge of the time zone you're one.
ReplyDeleteI used to really like Cadbury eggs, but maybe two or three years ago I got one and...it was really gross and now Easter isn't that exciting of a candy time for me. It's kind of sad, but also there are fewer temptations and that's okay.
I like the mini eggs, but even as a kid, the larger ones were too sweet for me.
DeleteThat Easter egg looks good except that I dislike marshmallows. I'm not squeamish but don't enjoy seeing things poking out of my veins. I have to turn my head when they take blood although otherwise I'm fine with it. I'm Team Standard Time all the way; experts say it's much healthier for us and matches our circadian rhythms. I struggle every year with DST. I'm sleeping poorly and I didn't just have surgery.
ReplyDeleteI also look away when the needle goes in. I once had to assure someone when I was giving blood that I didn't feel dizzy or anything, just don't want to see it!
DeleteI hope we both start sleeping better soon.
Everything from Dandelion is to swoon over. But yeah, that's a bit too much.
ReplyDeleteI knit a cash/cotton baby afghan for my daughter's friends a few years ago and they surprised me back with one of the seasonal three-box expensive gifts from Dandelion. I could never have gone near it otherwise.
Only, they ordered it and it was mailed while we were out of town and the post office was holding our mail.
I saw the mailman holding that box as away from him as possible when he finally did deliver it: not only had rodents gotten into it in their building, they were building a nest in the box!!!
I contacted Dandelion. I told them I didn't want the givers to know, and I knew they were sold out of that item for the year and I wasn't sure what to do, but I did tell them they should definitely claim their insurance on that shipping.
Those specialty chocolates were a one-off for I think it was Valentine's.
They re-created the ones they didn't have any left of, specifically for us. I can't imagine the time and effort that went into that. They sent us a whole new set. I was staggered. I still am. How many hours did they spend on doing that on such an extremely limited scale. Wow.
I haven't bought the $45 egg, but I, um, did once drop several hundred treating my kids to two days' worth of anything they wanted. (The pastries there!)
(To finish that thought) Because I wanted to say thank you.
DeleteFirst of all, you're back at work already? I hope you're feeling okay. Second of all, $45 for a single egg IS a bit much. I like a fancy treat as much as the next person but that feels excessive. I had to go to the mall last week and there was a Lindt store, which was super exciting to me, so I bought two bags of treats, one strawberry and one Neapolitan. I feel like that is a fun Easter treat, along with Cadbury Mini-Eggs. They have to be Cadbury! The other ones just have the wrong shell (Eggies, I think they are called?)
ReplyDeleteI guess I didn't think it would flatten me this much? And really, how much of it is the time change is a question.
DeleteFor a little splurge, I'll stick with the coconut macaroons from Norman Love. Two dollars each, and they're not big! But delicious.