Day Twenty Three
The Best of Wodehouse Page: 537
I’m beginning to wonder if I’m already permanently behind. It seems that every day has it’s excuse. Today it was the combined effect of a chatty Marybeth (thank you for being chatty! I needed a friend today!), my siblings and two fussy babies. I’ve had a rough few days and feel rather like crawling under the covers to sleep for a month or two and I don’t feel like powering through two or three hundred pages. My husband and I desperately need to spend some quality time together but we’re really only seeing each other for the brief few minutes between his arrival home and bedtime; our time at the bookstore has been quite limited especially when combined with my busyness and lethargy. Depression is nobodies friend and it’s cutting into my enjoyment of Wodehouse and my relationships in about equal amounts. I know that Post Partum Depression is a real problem for a lot of people and I certainly struggled with my share of regular depression as a teenager but I’ve been warily hoping that I’d be safe even in the aftermath of this last year. But plenty of other issues have been piling up lately including conflict within my family and stress at the bookstore and I feel my grip on normalcy slipping a bit. Sorry to be such a downer when I should be posting witty quotations from that master of humour P.G. but even he tended to be a bit depressed when his work wasn’t going well and he never dealt with the vagaries of child-raising.
I am posting this a bit earlier than normal so hopefully tomorrow’s page total will be higher because I’ve gotten in a bunch of reading this evening. And hopefully another day will make a difference in my mood and I won’t be quite so down…hopefully.
January 24th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
It does seem that emotional problems can keep you from reading easily. My reading it currently at the lowest it has ever been in my life. I am struggling to even read the books for our book club at this rate. I guess I have had to many changes over the last year, as I find my mind wandering at the slightest suggestion, then I find that my eyes have followed the last page of lines but I really do not know what I just read. So then I force myself to concentrate and read slow. Oh well, maybe I just need to read some mind fluff.
January 24th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
I find fluff quite helpful. I personally enjoy a bit of The Chronicles of Narnia when I’m particularly down (don’t eviscerate me for calling them fluff! they’re good but definitely light) and Wodehouse seems to be doing the trick for me today.
February 21st, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Saw the article in the paper and am now enjoying getting caught up on your blog! Go girl – you can do it.