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I'm too tired for this!

My most used/thought sentence ever. I am too tired for this. And I am. And yet I get back up and keep going. Last night I spent the night with some high school friends seeing our old school musical. We went to dinner, walked around this city, caught the train and went back to my house. We did a lot of walking. And yes I did take my crutches, however, they didn't do much good. By the time we got to sleep, it was around 2:30am and we had pretty much all but died of frost bite. So damn cold! This morning, I got up, took my friends home and went and cooked sausages for APMA, a pain management association. So I stood up for 4 hours serving people sausages at the local bunnings on my, already painful hip. Super smart I know. By the time I got home from that, it was time to go to work. So here I was, tired, sore and feeling like I might throw up, serving customers at work. Talk about not being able to say no to things. About 30 minutes before the end of my shift, my manager gave up and let me go home, and boy do I owe him big time. My head is aching, my hip is burning and I am exhausted. Talk about boom and bust. I'm pretty sure tomorrow will be worse. I am exhausted and uni tomorrow sounds... terrible. I don't know if I should go, I'm not sure I can bring myself to go until the afternoon. Perhaps I can do the rest of my classes online.

I've never been very good at saying no and boom and bust is my forte! I think I need to learn how to say no more, so that I can stop being too tired to do anything. Ahh well maybe I'll leave that for another day. Right now I think... I'm going to go to sleep. Try and sleep off the pain that I am feeling.

:) BB
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