stress

My female owner described her weekend as stressful and sleep-deprived. Friday ended as per normal – she went for bible study and got home early. Since she felt that she worked hard all week, she treated herself to unlimited Korean DVD, until she fell asleep at 0100hr or sth like that. She woke up at 0800hr coz her housemate was having a brekkie party with some people and she promised to help to cook. Well, my female owner didn’t really do much but she couldn’t sleep after waking up anyway.

She hitched a ride from a friend to the shopping centre to sign up for a mobile plan. While all logic and rationale thinking supported her intention to get a one-year plan at $29, my female owner ended up on an impulse buy of an iphone with a two-year plan. It was impulse because it was only in that shop did she realise that she could get onto a two-year plan even though her visa is valid for only one year.

That purchase threw her off track for the rest of the weekend. She found it extremely stressful switching phones (the last time was in late 2007) and had to spend some time making the new phone usable at least. Then her laptop probably got jealous of the attention of new kid on the block that it went bonkers on her stats programme, causing her to scream “just shoot me”. At 1700hr, she dutifully went jogging with a few friends. The leader was merciful and they did a fast but short round around his house. (Phew!)

Dinner was meant to be a cosy group of friends but people started pulling people and the group exploded (to 15 pple?) with very random people (here’s more stress). Ended up with differences in opinions about where to eat and where to have drinks. Didn’t help that food was bad. My female owner kept emphasising to her friends that it’s the company that matters. That might have calmed some nerves.

Thankfully, a small cosy group later (literally later) adjourned to someone’s house for slow drinking and chit chat. At least the night ended better than it started. My female owner ended up sleeping at about 0300hr coz she was “counselling” someone over iphone (?!).

Come Sunday, my female owner was woken up by messages to her new phone (think: not enough sleep). She also couldn’t sleep in coz she needed to do work/ flute etc before church. Because she couldn’t bear the thought of an extra big group of people going for dinner, she ended up not going for dinner with her friends (again).

Flat out, she says. The most stressful weekend for her. She ain’t sure why but she reckons its her conscience at the back of her mind, reminding her that she had done nothing for the weekend, plus poor sleep.