Ash Thoreau

I am struggling. I find my teeth are hurting from constant grinding. When I am not grinding them, I’m holding my jaw so tight while concentrating on not allowing my teeth to touch each other, that it’s starting to make my jaw hurt.

I just finished day 5 at work. That may not seem like a lot until you factor in that most of those shifts were 12 hours and I am averaging 3-4 hours of sleep each day. Tomorrow will be day 6. Another 12. Then I will get one day off and it’s back to work for another 5 days straight at work. The worst part, it’s not overtime since I did them as trades to help out my fellow coworkers.

Today is payday. I paid my major bills and now I’m looking at what is left. It’s the cherry on top of the stress cake.

I need to start reading again because that helps me unwind. I guess I will finally give a valiant effort towards one of the books on my list. I’ve been putting it off… Because stress.