plum tuckered out

footfootfoot · 09-05-2006, 10:15 PM

That's it, I'm just plum tuckered out.

zippyt · 09-05-2006, 10:24 PM

Multi vitamans help , GNC Mega Men ,
they give me a few more hours of go and help keep me sane ,
weird but when I run out and forget to get some more I start getting irratable and snippy , flat out crumugen like .

lumberjim · 09-05-2006, 10:33 PM

welcome to my world.

Clodfobble · 09-05-2006, 11:29 PM

You've been hinting recently at some marital strife, foot... are you just physically tired, or is this a more long-term tiredness? Hope everything's okay in your neck of the woods.

Griff · 09-06-2006, 06:36 AM

How many months straight have you been working on the house?

footfootfoot · 09-06-2006, 09:36 AM

Zippy, lj, clod, griff:

All of the above.

Just working too much for too long. Starting to ease up just for health's sake, marital bliss enhancement, and regualr old sanity.

I'm having a sheetrock break right now.

Yesterday the insulation guy came and blew 40 bags of cellulose into the north wall. Next week, we're doing the south wall.

Then that's it for this season. (apart from the siding which can proceed incementally) My Bro in Law helped me get the last five windows in the other day and gave me a big dose of reality, i.e. don't rip the roof off the house and try to attach the addition this winter.

Gee. Ya think? Why this observation escaped my notice, I'm not sure.

As I mentioned we are undertaking the "talking cure" and I am shocked to learn that I am displaying incipient workaholism. Something no one who has ever known me would have guessed in a million years.

I'm not even sure how to have fun any more.

Well, back to work. Which I'm told, by the way, makes one free. But I'm not sure where I heard that...

Ibby · 09-06-2006, 11:09 AM

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes
Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work
and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack
a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and
no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a
dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

glatt · 09-06-2006, 11:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ibram

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes
Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work
and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack
a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and
no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a
dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

ctl-v makes that so much easier now than when I was a kid with pencil & paper.

Trilby · 09-06-2006, 02:42 PM

footfootfoot--have you tried bee pollen? (comes in pill form) that and L-glutamine and lecithin have helped me a lot.

zippyt · 09-06-2006, 03:54 PM

I was thinking about this some more ,
Here is Dr. Zips RX ,
You your wife and the youngen go away for the week end or for a week , some place relaxing , no work just serenity and play .

footfootfoot · 09-06-2006, 04:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brianna

footfootfoot--have you tried bee pollen? (comes in pill form) that and L-glutamine and lecithin have helped me a lot.

Yes, and nearly died of anaphlactic shock, so no thanks.

Zippyt's Rx sounds more to my liking.

xoxoxoBruce · 09-09-2006, 09:50 AM

The pioneers survived, by taking a lesson from mother nature.
Follow the Sun....as the days get shorter, make your days shorter.

Getting into a major project, we tend to push too much when the days are long. Work on getting it buttoned up, not finished, before winter, anything else you complete is a bonus. You've done damn well.

Look at what you've done, not what you or anyone else, thinks you should have done. This Old House is a lie...major renovation in 13 weeks...bullshit. They don't show you 40 men working all week before the next show.

The house is where you live, not your life.

limey · 09-09-2006, 05:50 PM

I second Bruce's excellent advice.

footfootfoot · 09-10-2006, 12:46 PM

Bruce, you are the voice of reason, limey you're kind of like an echo in this case.

Redefining the priorities and taking a closer look at the difference between "buttoning up" and "opening up" (as in a can of frozen worms)

I spent the last two days off doing next to nothing, Monday it is full court press again for a week or so getting me and another job buttoned up for the winter. Then it can be a casual punch list time after that.

Thanks for the props, dwellarites.

Elspode · 09-12-2006, 04:10 PM

F3, your situation sounds pretty familiar. Standing as I am in the wake of the ridiculously long and tedious move, and all that was entailed (and still is, in terms of unpacking), I find all of your symptoms to be similar to my own. Hell, even giving Mrs Elspode the new house she's wanted for ten years hasn't hugely improved things in some ways. Similarly, I can destroy months of good vibes built up from all my hard work and involvement with a single night's imbibement followed by watching football and not accomplishing anything the following day.

Nothing is more stressful than constant, hard work, especially when it involves home and family.

09-05-2006, 10:15 PM	#1
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	plum tuckered out That's it, I'm just plum tuckered out. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

09-05-2006, 10:24 PM	#2
zippyt LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arkansas Posts: 7,661	Multi vitamans help , GNC Mega Men , they give me a few more hours of go and help keep me sane , weird but when I run out and forget to get some more I start getting irratable and snippy , flat out crumugen like . __________________ "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner

09-05-2006, 10:33 PM	#3
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	welcome to my world. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

09-06-2006, 06:36 AM	#5
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	How many months straight have you been working on the house? __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

09-06-2006, 09:36 AM	#6
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Zippy, lj, clod, griff: All of the above. Just working too much for too long. Starting to ease up just for health's sake, marital bliss enhancement, and regualr old sanity. I'm having a sheetrock break right now. Yesterday the insulation guy came and blew 40 bags of cellulose into the north wall. Next week, we're doing the south wall. Then that's it for this season. (apart from the siding which can proceed incementally) My Bro in Law helped me get the last five windows in the other day and gave me a big dose of reality, i.e. don't rip the roof off the house and try to attach the addition this winter. Gee. Ya think? Why this observation escaped my notice, I'm not sure. As I mentioned we are undertaking the "talking cure" and I am shocked to learn that I am displaying incipient workaholism. Something no one who has ever known me would have guessed in a million years. I'm not even sure how to have fun any more. Well, back to work. Which I'm told, by the way, makes one free. But I'm not sure where I heard that... __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

09-05-2006, 11:29 PM	#4
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	You've been hinting recently at some marital strife, foot... are you just physically tired, or is this a more long-term tiredness? Hope everything's okay in your neck of the woods.

09-06-2006, 11:09 AM	#7
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. __________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh

09-06-2006, 02:42 PM	#9
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	footfootfoot--have you tried bee pollen? (comes in pill form) that and L-glutamine and lecithin have helped me a lot. __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

09-06-2006, 03:54 PM	#10
zippyt LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arkansas Posts: 7,661	I was thinking about this some more , Here is Dr. Zips RX , You your wife and the youngen go away for the week end or for a week , some place relaxing , no work just serenity and play . __________________ "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner

09-09-2006, 09:50 AM	#12
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	The pioneers survived, by taking a lesson from mother nature. Follow the Sun....as the days get shorter, make your days shorter. Getting into a major project, we tend to push too much when the days are long. Work on getting it buttoned up, not finished, before winter, anything else you complete is a bonus. You've done damn well. Look at what you've done, not what you or anyone else, thinks you should have done. This Old House is a lie...major renovation in 13 weeks...bullshit. They don't show you 40 men working all week before the next show. The house is where you live, not your life. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

09-09-2006, 05:50 PM	#13
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	I second Bruce's excellent advice. __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

09-10-2006, 12:46 PM	#14
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Bruce, you are the voice of reason, limey you're kind of like an echo in this case. Redefining the priorities and taking a closer look at the difference between "buttoning up" and "opening up" (as in a can of frozen worms) I spent the last two days off doing next to nothing, Monday it is full court press again for a week or so getting me and another job buttoned up for the winter. Then it can be a casual punch list time after that. Thanks for the props, dwellarites. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

09-12-2006, 04:10 PM	#15
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	F3, your situation sounds pretty familiar. Standing as I am in the wake of the ridiculously long and tedious move, and all that was entailed (and still is, in terms of unpacking), I find all of your symptoms to be similar to my own. Hell, even giving Mrs Elspode the new house she's wanted for ten years hasn't hugely improved things in some ways. Similarly, I can destroy months of good vibes built up from all my hard work and involvement with a single night's imbibement followed by watching football and not accomplishing anything the following day. Nothing is more stressful than constant, hard work, especially when it involves home and family. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

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