krunchypeanuts

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

My husband is coming home soon. He returned to his parent's house coz his sister has gotten him a ton of movies that he says he needs to collect and pay up.

I've been having two very busy weeks. Working almost 10 hours a day at the very least. On days that i leave early, i bring back work to do. I'm teethering at the edge, burnt out. symptoms of burnt out?
you feel like crying when someone whom you don't know understands how tired you're feeling and doesn't say "cheer up! you can do it!".
You crave to be understood and you begin to whine to everyone so that you can just get their attention and not their sympathy. But it doesn't happen and frustration builds up.
Then you realise that you are behaving just like the people whom you dislike...
you become forgetful, absent-minded, start misplacing things.
Yours thoughts are often disjointed and the feeling of crumbling into dust grows acutely stronger when things start piling up; the end being nowhere near in sight.
you fall asleep in the middle of reading or working or typing and staring at the glaring screen.
When you talk too fast, smile too thinly, walk too quickly and eat too little.
When every break you take feels like you're committing a sin by not being efficient in your work.
and every break seems longer than the first because... hey you're just burnt out.
Are you feeling burnt out today? Try not to be like me.
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posted by happyhannon at 7:50 PM 0 comments

Sunday, April 02, 2006

ok here's perhaps a standard reply to the question "how are you?" that i've been getting quite often..
i'm fine but still have this lingering flu bug that keeps coming back. now i'm on my hubby's medication.
school work has officially taken off and is in full flight. i'm preparing for lessons, lectures, cca meetings. busy busy busy but i'm of the belief that my life will not be just about work so i'm also attending church meetings and now, i'm considering serving in the church ministry as they need help for the third service
I'm sincerely apologetic that i've been rather uncontactable by my close friends. I'll make the effort to breach the gap between us once i've more or less settled down with work. That's a promise that i'll like to keep and i can't wait to see and hear what you have been doing too. i've been reading your blogs, emails and smses regularly.
today i bought two antique envelopes with strange stamps on them for 3 dollars. I plan to place it at my work station. Keep a look out!
i am still not in the mood or in the habit of writing even in my own personal diary. And it's not because nothing is happening in my life. This inertia i can't explain but if you can i'll like to hear about it.
I've just finished reading brian bailey's kings of judah. I should be listening to his zion convention sermons.
I'm still wondering about the china mission trip.
My husband and I are happy living together and managing our house. We had a good talk about the other day how we've become too busy sometimes that we tend to ignore each other and slip off into our own worlds. He suggested that whenever one of us came back later than the other, the late-coming party should hug and kiss the one who's home immediately. heee... he's just sweet that way.
I wonder if my students have found my blog yet. I've found some of theirs already. The other night i dreamt that some strange person linked my blog to his/hers. I woke up and felt rather disturbed by the whole scenario. Then turned on the air con, switched off the fan and felt much better.
Lately, found out that my church mate's father works as a coast guard. And couldn't help being envious of this man who could take off to sea every day. It would be great to sail and man one of those huge yachts on an ocean someday.
~the end~
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posted by happyhannon at 4:55 PM 0 comments

krunchypeanuts...once u pop u can't stop...daily trivia with a dose of social responsibility...a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down...let's say we try...oh Lord how we try...