sowry I missed this thread, Yabbit...

I was lost in a fog of guests, chores, a giant new coldsore, and a vicious attack on one of our drakes by a jaguarundi... which meant we had to slaughter and pluck and dress... hours of unexpected work... so I missed my regular "board time"

I know how you feel, and completely empathize...

I tried to do what you're doing (when I was younger), work and school and family and then wriggle my way through flares with steroids.

the LAST time, was when my daughter smarted off to me after a horribly long day of work all day, then a night class, and crawled home to find a giant mess, then TRIPPED over her Easter basket of carefully-collected seashells, and hurt my foot.

and she snickered and mumbled "Clumsy..."

the 'roid rage kicked in (ulp!) and I KICKED the basket across the floor, I mean, really launched that suckah, scattering seashells, and breaking their lovely fragility to shards.

that was IT, and I felt soooooooo guilty, I never took the roids again... because
I'm usually so calm, and sweet, and nurturing... it felt like ALIENS had taken over my body, or perhaps the devil?

anyway, I second everybody's tips above, rest, rest, and more rest, and ease off trying to burn the candle at both ends (as somebody said above...)

and, WHOO HOO !! congrats on doing so well in school, Char, but don't everdo it, okay honey?

Thanks Kay - no need to worry, hope you are resting now - are your guest gone? What a lot of work for you!!!

I snapped yesterday at the kid who cleans the cars at the auto dealership that I worked at because he complained 3 times in less than 5 mins in my ear shot about having to wait to register one of our rental cars for an hour and a half. On a Friday at noon time he was lucky that was all he had to wait!

I am not that kind of person and the picture of RW and her toothpaste cap! I tried the rest of the day to stay to myself so not to go off the handle again.

Thanks again everyone for your support - I need it!