On Human Weakness

[xifeng]

This has been the Week from Hell, culminating in seven hours at work today. On the plus side: it's Presidents Day weekend, so I don't have to work Monday, meaning I actually have a two-day weekend!!!! omg, and tomorrow I dine wherever is reasonably priced in Bloomington.

("Tomorrow" is secret code for "Sunday", due to this weird mental quirk I have whereby if I haven't been to bed yet, it's still the same day, regardless of what time it is.)

Also, I got my labwork back from my doctor. My blood sugar is 93, so if you consider that the mid-90s are the start of the prediabetes danger zone, I am well and truly out of it. (For now.) Plus: no girlbits cancer! RESULT.

On Tuesday, I call Dr Gynecologist about Essure, and hopefully that will be the start of never having to worry about reproducing again.

I am tired and stressed and just really, really want a cigarette, but I know if I have one, it'll turn into two, which will turn into the rest of the pack, which will turn into my quitting when the overtime is over, which will mean I quit sometime in 2014 and I just don't know that I want to go down that road.

Comments

[daturabelle.livejournal.com]

yay for awesome test results!

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

I was delighted :D

[tara]

Hurrah for good medical results and a SUPERBIG hurrah for finally heading down the road to sterility! ;)

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Now I need to get back on the wagon so I don't totally wreck myself D: Meds help, but so does lifestyle!

I AM DEEPLY ENTHUSED ABOUT THE PROPOSED STERILITY :DDDD

[rubyelf.livejournal.com]

I quit smoking once and it took two weeks of teaching to drive me right back to it. Honey and I both quit again six years ago, and there are still times I'd like to have a cigarette.

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

I am impressed at your restraint. If I had to teach, I'd probably cave within an hour, I reckon.

I've heard it said that one is only ever an ex-smoker. The older I get, the more I believe it.

[rubyelf.livejournal.com]

It's definitely the truth. I will never respond to cigarettes the same way I did before I started smoking. Some part of my brain will always remember that addicting reinforcement of smoking and will respond to that.

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

My own default tends to be OMG EVERYTHING IS SO STRESSFUL, I NEEEEEEEEEEEEEED A CIGARETTE~

Then I remember that my grandmother passed away from COPD last year and that makes me think better of it.

[serena-b.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear all your results came back good!

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I was pleased, too :)