exhausting weekend

[illusion_is_mine]

 This week was okay, but mostly exhausting.  I actually crashed last night at about 9pm.  The night before last I was asleep, and my parents were gone out.  All of a sudden at 2am the phone rings, and of course it's an anonymous caller.  I sighed as I stared at the caller ID, and turned over to try to go back to sleep.  Unfortunately I was only able to get a few hours of sleep before I had to go to work the next morning.  Needless to say I was a zombie most of the day, and I kept yawning all day long.  One of my coworkers saw that I started yawning and she's like "No Ashley, don't do that" lol.  I was like "Look some anonymous caller called the house at 2am so needless to say I'm tired." And she just laughed and walked off. 

I also realized that when I'm tired my sarcasm is increases significantly.  I had my coworker laughing the day before because the supervisor on shift had us looking for something, and I was just like.

"They're making us do this because they don't want to do it!  I mean who would want to do this anyway." *exasperated sigh*  

Anyway besides an exhausting work day on Saturday my week was fine.  

I was dressed up in my gothic finery yesterday because I could have sworn that they mentioned we had to dress business casual, but my job is full of fail and miscommunication.  Needless to say we didn't have to dress up because they got the days mixed up.  I just shrugged and told my coworker at least I was still comfortable.  After I left work yesterday I came home, and tried to check emails.  Afterwards I tried to watch some DBZ but i just crashed.  When I woke up it was almost 8pm and my niece Erica was there.  She had just gotten back from the state fair, and told us about it.  She's been worried about her cousin, my other niece Shelbi, lately because she just seems to be angry all the time these days.  She told me that she felt like it was because she was still dealing with her brother's (my nephew) passing from last year.  She's still got a lot of anger about what happened, and she never really went to therapy for it.  I told her that maybe Shelbi needs to go talk to someone about her anger issues and she agreed.  I don't think she ever really dealt with her grief and that might have something to do with her being angry, and taking it out on other people. 

Comments

[rosemile]

I've been getting a lot of anon phone calls too. I pretty much have my phone on silent all the time because it's gotten so annoying. I also have some random guy passive aggressively texting me thinking I broke up with him. I'd respond to him, but it probably would do no good.

I'm sorry to hear about your cousin. Do you think she'd want to talk to a therapist about it? If she doesn't want to talk there is probably little you can do. Some therapist that are good can draw a person to eventually talk, but a lot of them can make the problem worse if they attempt and it's half ass or they piss the person off.

[illusion_is_mine]

Yeah, it probably wouldn't do any good to respond. I don't answer anon phone calls at all. My mom seems to think it's that woman that was sending her the text messages. I hope it isn't, but I wouldn't be surprised.

I described it weird in the post, but it's actually my other niece that has the anger problem. She did initially go to therapy after everything that happened, but she just stopped going. I don't think she has any intention of going back either. My mom has tried talking to her about it because she seems to listen to my mom, but I think she should speak to a therapist. I've thought about talking to her about it when I can.

[rosemile]

That sucks if it is that women. I just hope for your guys sake it isn't. It's scary when someone gets fixated like that, because you never know what they could do.

I understood, maybe I just worded it weirdly. Yeah, that's where the problem lies. If someone doesn't want to do or isn't open to change or working through stuff then it's forced and really won't work. I'm glad she has someone to talk to in your family, but if she's having a lot of anger issues she probably needs coping mechanisms for her misplaced anger to get to the root of the problem. Not saying talking to you guys doesn't help on some level, but even if she's conscious of what she's doing if she doesn't have the right coping skills for it she'll still fall into that pattern of taking her anger out on others.

[sorry if I come off arm chair psychologist, just using what I've been through as an example/knowledge source. I know I'm still working through my misplaced anger issues and I've been dealing with it for years because I didn't get help right away]