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.