Water.

[mrissa]

I just wrote, posted, and deleted an entry whose main tone sounded like this: "YARRRRG!"

I had worked up the energy to sound annoyed at something, but it didn't last when I wasn't working at it. Really I'm not annoyed. I'm tired and extremely sad about a variety of things, some of international importance and some extremely local. And leaving a post up with wry energetic annoyance just didn't seem like the thing. Felt contrived, and the thought of leaving it up to deal with responses in the same tone made me even more sad and tired.

Are you staying hydrated? Maybe you should get a glass of water. Maybe I should get a glass of water, too. We'll all get a nice refreshing beverage and drink it and maybe feel obscurely better, because we will still be sad and tired, but we will not be sad, tired, and dehydrated. Okay? Is it a deal? "Get some fluids in you" is occasionally bad advice, but not really very often, and it's what I've got right now, and you start with what you've got and go from there.

Comments

[mechaieh.livejournal.com]

This entry is so near to my current state of mind that I *am* going to go get a glass of water.

Here's wishing us both betterness soon.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Good. I really wasn't kidding about the water, and it wasn't a metaphor.

[talimena.livejournal.com]

I just had a glass of water, but will have another in a bit; I'm definitely on the staying hydrated bandwagon. Also with you on being tired and sad. Different local reasons, but I'm guessing some of the same large ones. I hope you get some good rest.

[mechaieh.livejournal.com]

I know you weren't. 8 oz. down; back to the easel.

It's one of those stretches where even simple, not un-fun stuff feels like walking on nails. I need better calluses.

[ckd]

*raises a glass, of water of course, to you*

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

You're allowed to raise glasses of other things, too, if you like. It's just that you should also drink some water after that, or before, or alternating with.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I hope you do, too.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I know the nails, I do.

[alecaustin.livejournal.com]

Cambridge has been wicked hot, so I've been downing several 36 oz. bottles of water every day.

And yes, sad, dehydrated, and tired would be worse than my present state of being.

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

The water made me feel better, and it was only a swallow.

[redbird]

Thank you, Marissa. I almost forgot my pills. I have now swallowed them, and am drinking the rest of my glass of ice water.

[wshaffer.livejournal.com]

I just fixed a glass of strawberry tangerine Crystal Light (or, as I like to call it, Kool-Ade for Grownups!), and the world is already looking like a much better place. Thank you.

[sculpin.livejournal.com]

Thanks. You were absolutely right. And I feel better now.

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

It's a good rule of thumb.

[mkille.livejournal.com]

I have indeed been drinking lots of water, but it doesn't hurt to have a reminder.

Hope you feel better soon.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Good. Then I don't have to say something like, "Don't make me come out there." (My mother says that sort of thing a lot: "Are you staying hydrated? Are you keeping on that doctor for answers? Don't make me come up there!" It's one of her lines that comes out of my mouth when I least expect it.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Whatever works. markgritter keeps that powdered CountryTime abomination in our home -- and drinks it -- which I did not know about when I married him. *shudder*

[angeyja.livejournal.com]

*hug* I am glad that you are remembering the water.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

My husband eats Oscar Mayer cold cuts. (As oppposed to something from a deli counter.) There are some traits in a spouse one just has to resolutely ignore.