I know it’s been well over a week, but I wanted to thank everyone who commented on my last post. I have a follow-up post I want to write at some point, but I don’t have the brain power at the moment to do it. So for now, thank you.

I’ve been MIA because work’s been kicking my ass yet again, mainly because I’m not getting any time off. I’ve worked 11 days straight. When everyone else had a three-day weekend, I had a one-day weekend. Today I worked 11 hours. When I’m not working I’m consumed by thoughts of work or texts and e-mails and phone calls from work. I know this all sounds like complaining, and it’s not. It’s just a matter-of-fact statement about why I’m so f-ing exhausted all the time and why when I do get a few precious hours off, I spend it zoned out in front of the TV or pouring over Apartment Therapy, because it’s an escape, albeit a teeny-tiny one.

The only other things in my life that are getting any effort are my inadequate attempts to take care of myself by eating non-garbage and physically exerting myself; not completely ignoring The Modern Love Machine, who is busy with his own job; and spending the hour or two that I don’t spend working on Saturdays with my family when they’ve been in town.

Aside from all of that, through some stroke of brilliance I thought it would be a great idea to agree to the dermatologist’s attempt to put me on a new drug that might or might not get my ridiculously painful and ugly acne under control. It didn’t, although it did make me dizzy, short of breath and dehydrated and therefore cranky for the entire month I was on it. Then I decided to ask my lady doctor to try me out on some different forms of birth control in attempt to be done with the pill and all its obnoxious side effects, and let me preach to you: adjusting hormones is NEVER a fun day. (Random aside that the fellas can skip over: If any of y’all have any experience with the Nuvaring or an IUD, please shoot me an e-mail  at themoderngal(at)gmail(dot)com and fill me in on your experience. I need some real info that did NOT come from an information packet paid for by the company trying to sell me those two products).

All of this is to say I’m alive. And I’m tired, and posting will be inconsistent at best. Unless anyone is game to do some guest posting, to which I say come on down. (Ahem, MLM, cough, cough).