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Hrm, Brittney Spears, not a virgin? Who would have thought...

(I'm lacking focus today, hence reading a lot of CNN stories, including one where Brittney Spears tells us she had sex with Justin Timberlake. Right. I needed to know because...?)

I've read a couple of articles about ovulation today, made some phone calls, rescheduled a training, filled out some paperwork-time sheets and expense reports and the like. I'm feeling PMS-y, which is unpleasant for me because of how sensitive I am-things that normally don't bother me get on my nerves and so on. I also bought chocolate meringue pie yesterday, but that's cause they had no slices of lemon. (Not the first time I've posted about lemon meringue pie either...I see a trend.)

I'm tired of sitting around so much. My palms hurt. At the same time, I'm in a place of overdoing it. Too much work. Spending Saturday mall wandering with

aquariumgirl, spending Sunday cleaning, in anticipation of my Mother's arrival. (almost done...will finish this weekend, with the exception of a few things that can get done during the week before Mom's arrival. Some things look much nicer though, can't wait til things are actually finished.) I want to be back on my feet, I hate the thought of recovering from the tonsil thing and being on crutches all at once.

aquariumgirl tried to cheer me up by reminding me how many push ups I'll be able to do as a result of the crutches. Today I move well, yesterday barely moved at all, and Sunday was in incredible pain.

Can't wait for this day to be over. Want to go home. Now. Not in 20 minutes.

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lately it seems like everyone is PMS, probably because I am.

I switched birth control pills a couple of weeks ago and so far haven't exactly been thrilled with the new one. I can't tell if the moodiness is the lack of karate in my life or the new birth control pill, so I'm willing to stay on it and give a fair chance to figure out which one it is...but I like my old pill better.

I don't like feeling out of control, and that's a big part of PMS for me...

And the humidity ruined my Crunch n Munch.

I think we might be living the same life. I was on crutches a few weeks ago because I got my foot kicked during sparring at taekwon do. Now I can't kick anything or run for another month. I've been released to biking and swimming, though. You can become addicted to your own endorphins, so you will go through withdrawal if you stop exercising. If it didn't hurt so much, I probably would have hit someone with my crutches. In fact, my bf probably would have been the first to get nailed and probably right after saying "Are you putting weight on your hurt foot?" (He means well, but is high handed some days....)

I've been on orthoevra for 4 months now. I feel like I am starting to settle into it. Years ago I was on orthotricyclen and nearly killed myself. A friend of mine who's been through a lot of different pills for health reasons says she usually knows within a few weeks if a new pill isn't going to work for her.

The problem with PMS for me is that everything can seem really hard, fucked up, and unfixable. I also can't think some times and I've had to redo work often. Martial arts plus PMS is bad news for me. When I was still in karate, we used the head gear without a face mask. When I was PMSing, I would always get clocked in the face during sparring...multiple times in a night.

I tore my achilles tendon and calf muscles in karate four weeks ago...of all things, doing a front snap kick. I'm really unhappy about the way things are healing-really about the pace. And you're right about the endorphins, that's why I'm not sure if the rotten mood is the birth control pills or the lack of exercise. I'm also willing to give this one a really good chance because it's a lower dose than my previous pill, which can lead to mood changes and spotting (both of which I've had the pleasure of enjoying.) Why the NP didn't prescribe the low dose version of the pill I was on is beyond me, unless it's not on their formulary (the reason I switched pills last year in the first place.)

There is some bizarre hormonal connection between what point you're at in your menstrual cycle and being coordinated. It's one of the challenges of karate for me, too, although I've yet to be clocked in the face, I have taken some beautiful falls.

I need to stop overdoing things though...dragging myself in circles around the Mall and then cleaning my apartment was probably not the wisest thing to do.

I may just stay home tonight, me, my kitties and some crocheting or something. But I know I'm missing a workout and that's hard. I went to a dojo party a couple of weeks ago (after crutches) and it was just so hard to see everyone, and still be hobbling around.