Resumation

Did I really say that regular posting would resume on Monday two days ago? Surely I meant that it would resume on Wednessday.

My sense of time is a little off lately - I simply cannot believe that we're already four days into June. This year feels as though it is absolutely flying by! My blog header still says 2007; how can 2008 be half gone already?

Time, she marches on. So here we are in June and I'm back on the blogging bus.

You would think that I would return from a hiatus annoyingly chipper from all that resting that I did, but the truth is that I did what we all tend to do and filled up all of that "extra" time with other things. Other work, other projects, other small, random, time consuming things. I'm still tired, but at least I'm also inches away from a deadline that I should have met for Keith weeks ago. Woo!

Have you ever woken up with a headache?

It's been happening to me a lot lately. A product, I discovered, of clenching my teeth in my sleep. Not grinding, clenching. I've started to do it during the day too, especially when I'm trying to sort through a particularly nasty logistical problem, or a gruesome budget. I never notice until my head is throbbing and I have to force myself to relax my jaw.

This is not a way to go through life.

I'm wound up about a lot of things lately, too many (and too boring) to detail here, but they are all part of the reason that I'm inching my way, slowly but surely, towards a different kind of life.

I predict that the last six months of 2008 are going to be very interesting indeed.

Comments

[Hilary]

Ugh, I was waking up with headaches from jaw clenching for the longest time until I forced myself to go to the doctor, who suggested I go to the dentist and get fitted for a night guard. Boom! Headaches, gone. I highly recommend looking into one! (And the custom ones from the dentist, not the store bought ones.)

[Chana]

I hear ya on the clenching. It used to be my major stress sign & contributor to TMJ. I learned two things that help (at least when you're awake): the jaw at rest should never have the teeth touching,but rather be slightly apart; if you put the tip of your tongue on the roof of your mouth behind your top teeth, it will keep you from clenching. These little tidbits helped a lot. And don't forget to breathe! xoxo