“Remoted” – Day 41 (Sunday Six)

As much as every little thing annoyed me yesterday, today, every little thing made me tired. As a result, the list of things undone is long. There was no Sunday cooking and meal planning for the week. No laundry was done. The vacuum was untouched. The yard was not visited. The gutters that leak and drip were not investigated for issues in advance of the rain in the forecast. Even more disappointing, there were no elves or fairies or enchanted woodland creatures or even a human handyman that showed up to handle any of the chores like in all those stupid stories I read as a kid. But let’s not dwell on the negatives.

Despite the absence of magical fairy tale helpers, the day wasn’t a total loss and there was a short list of accomplishments. After the usual coffee kickstart, which is a routine that can be done half-asleep on autopilot and probably should not be considered an “accomplishment” per se, a shower was taken and a costume change into daytime lounging sweatpants. There was a daylong binge of “Hart of Dixie” on Netflix. Lunchtime sustenance was delivered in the form of leftover cheese steak sub and sweet potato fries from the Saturday night delivery. 

Quick to prepare,
but not that tasty.

The buzz of activity was so draining that an afternoon nap on the couch with the dogs was needed. Supper took the form of a packaged pasta and cheese product that took all of 12 minutes to prepare, but unfortunately, wasn’t very good. It's billed as a side dish, so maybe the pasta is better with the distraction of a meat and vegetable. But thank goodness for quick to prepare packaged food and leftovers, or starvation might have also been part of the day.

It’s hard to guess what the cause of the fatigue is, but not that that hard to determine what isn’t. It’s certainly not due to extreme physical activity. If I recall my brief period of medical studies at webMD and Google, that leaves the possible causes as stress, depression, lack of physical activity, vitamin deficiency, sunlight deprivation, and/or interrupted sleep due to noisy neighbors at 1:30AM and a dog that needs to go out to pee at 12:30AM, 2:30AM, and 6:00AM. And maybe the absence of human contact is wearing on me.