I have issues.

Wow. So the past few weeks have been a whirlwind. Every day I come home from school and still somehow manage to convince myself that it is still Christmas break. Luckily, I haven't been swamped with too many assignments yet, so I am still barely making it. Before long though, I'm going to be wondering what hit me when I come to a week when I have 5 projects all due at the same time. I have been trying to manage my time, but it is difficult when there are so many things to do...clean the apartment, cook dinner, shower (yes sometimes I do have to work up a lot of energy to do that one)...and there are so many things I'd rather be doing...eating, scrapbooking, reading, watching tv, sleeping...

Which brings me to issue #1. For the past, oh I don't know, few months, I have been extremely tired. So tired that it is very hard for me to do anything really. I come home exhausted from 2 hours of school and walking up the stairs...pathetic. When I step through that door, I lose all motivation to do anything, let my apartment accumulate another layer of dust, and pass out while my husband makes himself ramen for dinner. It got to the point where people kept asking me if I was ok, since I was basically a zombie anytime I was away from home.

Well, come to find out, after many blood tests and mental evaluations (don't worry I'm not clinically depressed), I have a moderate vitamin D deficiency. I didn't even know what vitamin D did until I was told I was deficient in it, but apparently it affects your absorption of all other nutrients. I was eating well, but none of it was getting absorbed, hence the extreme fatigue. I have been unintentionally depriving my body of nutrients for the past few months...no big deal. So now I take 5x the usual daily dose for the next few months, and I should be back to normal, eventually.

In other news...issue #2 is a bit embarrassing. But the last day before school started up, I decided to have one last proactive day before the surge of homework hit, and do some home improvement. I went to the store and bought an unfinished wooden shelf/hanger thing for our coats. We have tons of winter crap that ends up on the floor every day when we come home and shed our 27 layers, and I figured this would help a lot with the clutter if we had someplace to hang it all up. Well I bought some paint, and with Mitch's help, spray painted the thing black. Of course, we couldn't do it inside, so we went outside (where it was 10 degrees).

I was in the middle of one of my turns with the paint, when Mitch pointed out that I was holding the can of paint upside down, and compressed air was leaking out of it. Almost immediately, my fingers started hurting that numb kind of hurt when you are really cold. I ran inside to run them until cool water (I couldn't handle room temperature), and they felt like they were on fire. Long story short, I developed some kind of weird red blister/callous on the tip of one of my fingers, and also lost feeling in that tip. Another trip to the doctor revealed that I had chemically burned/froze it, and done some tissue damage to it. She said it should heal itself in the next few months. Lovely.

Like I said, I have issues.