Anne, I hope the feeling passes soon and you are back to recognizing your fabulousness.

I just took a shower and I seem to have itty bitty bruises all over my torso and chest. Or a rash of some kind. No idea why. Oh, skin. Why must you be so sensitive? I could kind of explain the ones on my left thigh (lying on a baseball) and right torso (bracing an impact driver) but the ones on my chest are completely mysterious. Unless it's contact dermatitis brought out by my histamines getting bored and looking for something to do since I haven't gotten bitten by fire ants in a week.

attack of the "poor me's." No, nothing catastrophic has happened, but I just want to curl up in a corner and be catatonic for a week.

Ugh, I know exactly how that feels, Anne. I hope it passes quickly for you.

I know how that feels Anne, I hope you start feeling better.

I've been fighting a feeling of....something. But the last 2 week's in therapy left me kind of ...not battered, but just a little raw feeling. I'm glad my therapist is out of town next week.

Echoing the been there, done that, got the "sucks ass" t-shirt.

smonster,

could you be getting stress rashes? I blame your roommate.

Kind of there, too, Anne. I hope it passes quickly for you. It's no fun.

I just took a shower and I seem to have itty bitty bruises all over my torso and chest.

I expect that in your sleep you were beating your breast in remorse over kitchen-lingering.

Thank you all. That helps, honestly it does. Part of the issue is that the work stress is only going to keep building through the first part of October before it levels off. Even if I can't get out of town, I'm going to take some time off to recuperate.

Epic, I am so sorry for not saying so earlier, but much ~ma for Domino, and I hope the vet gets a thorough cluesticking.

This summer has been unkinder than you generally think of summer as being for brains and bodies.

Very much this. I'm almost looking forward to snow, and seeing everything blanketed over in white like a fresh start.

I'm almost looking forward to snow, and seeing everything blanketed over in white like a fresh start.

I'm so grateful it's only going to be 71° out tomorrow, I can actually wear jeans! I am more than ready for fall, this summer has been miserable with weather and personal misfortune that I am more than ready to see an end to.

Could your roommate be sticking pins into a doll, smonster?

Much ~ma for Domino. That vet sounds like a doctor who thinks anorexia is a good thing. I've had a Maine coon cat and they're mostly muscle.

I had a completely wasted day split between waiting at the vet and futilely doing unpaid tech support for a friend.