October 2022 has not been my month. The first week was the roughest parent conference role out my school has seen. The next week I was grieving the cat I’ve had for 13.5 years. (I grieved so hard for that cat. I still am.) And last week I was managing a yeast infection that ravaged my unsuspecting lady bits. (I have not had a yeast infection in years, and holy shit was it horrible, especially the Monistat which made sleeping for two nights almost impossible). I was also preparing for my son’s 9th birthday weekend, which includes a three hour party at Dave and Busters (full disclosure I am writing this sentence there, the most horrendous of child entertainment spaces).
About half way through the week I realized that at least some of the overwhelm I’ve been feeling is hormone related. My skin is a mess, half of it is red and itchy, the other half is oily and broken out. I’m sure the yeast infection is hormone-fluctuation related. Even my under arms smell different! So my hormones are clearly doing some perimenopause related dance, which probably explains why everything feels so hard right now.
But things are looking up! Thursday was a pretty good day. I even attempted a run after work and I felt okay! I was also able to get an Rx for Diflucan filled Thursday so that is when I started feeling better ::cough, cough:: down there. Right now I’m 20 minutes away from this birthday party at Dave and Buster’s…
…and it’s now Sunday night and we got through it! Saturday night was Lucha Libre in San Jose for my son, husband and I (our daughter was at a birthday party sleep over). We bought the tickets for Lucha Libre back when we thought the Dave and Buster’s party would be on Sunday, and when we had to move the party to Saturday, we couldn’t get our money back, so we just went for it. It was a late night, after a long day, but it was a really epic two hours of Mexican wrestling.
Sunday we slept in! (Thank god!) My husband and I picked up the house for the family birthday party. The grandparents arrived right when our daughter was dropped off at 11:45am. We ate lunch, opened presents and hung out. By 1:45pm everyone was gone and my son was building one of his new LEGO sets.
I hung out with the kids for a bit while my husband worked, then he hung out with them while I ran. It was good to run. It was what I needed after all the hosting and socializing.
This week should be pretty low key, though my daughter came home with a new cold, so we’ll see how that goes. I swear my kids have been sick ALL FALL. It’s exhausting. I guess wearing masks really does prevent the transmission of most viral transmissions. Now that we aren’t doing that anymore at school, they are transmitting the shit out of every respiratory infection in the vicinity.
I really ready for a quiet, uneventful week. I feel like October owes me as much. We’ll see if it can deliver.
How has October been treating you?
For me October is always a shitshow. Which is sad since my birthday is the 22nd. But, it is what it is. My grandfather and my mom both died on the same October date in diferent years, I got a rare disease 2 days prior to that and my late husband’s birthday was 2 days after. It’s been emotional.
But, there have also been some good things- despite going through a rough patch on spending time together with my boyfriend we’re showing we’re really good at communicating through issues, and while this is a while off in the future, he asked me to move in with him and his kids. So, it has it’s upside too. Still, I’ve spent far too much time crying this month and won’t be sorry to see it end. Besides, I have always hated Halloween so once that’s over things have to look up!
Hormones.
SUCH chaos producers.
Hope you have the week you need and that I am wishing for you! And, while wishing nice things for you I am spontaneously hoping this ‘Wednesday’s meeting after classes’ is cancelled and you get another run in while the weather and light is cooperative.
Impressed by the Birthday coordination and successes. I have been so grateful this October was not super hot, I think we have been super lucky.
Thank you for writing.