conquering a man p without football
So I was definitely on my man p today.
For those who have yet to encounter this phenomenon, the man period is just what it sounds like. It's when I get all grumpy for no good reason and usually end up placating my bad mood with food and/or TV.
From almost the moment I woke up, I was unexplainably cranky. I got all mad at Toby when he slobbered on the leg of my pants, and he took my resulting temper tantrum to mean that I wanted to play with him, which of course made me even crankier.
Add in a bunch of other overly dramatic responses to otherwise minor inconveniences over the course of the morning, and it's clear that it was my time of the month.
Now, usually, I've found that the best antidotes for a man p are chocolate and football.
But televised football is hard to come by these days since the AFL canceled their season this year and Cox doesn't provide access to ESPN360.com, which provided CFL games to address many a man p last summer in LA. So I ended up being a Grumposaurus rex most of the day.
I knew I needed to switch out my negative knickers for some positive panties, and everyone's reactions to my posting such news online started to brighten my day. Then later on, when I was up at Lindsay and Ryan's for dinner and Bible study, I finally broke loose from the grips of the man p.
So I'll be adding friends to my list of man-p antidotes.
Oh, and another thing that, while untested, can probably go on the antidote list is Degrassi. And in a random occurrence that I'm going to interpret as an apology from the universe for there being no football on TV this spring, I returned home this evening to find the DVDs I ordered off of Amazon.com late Saturday night (including Degrassi Season 7!) sitting outside the door. And I chose the free, it'll-get-there-when-it-gets-there shipping option to boot. Hence my interpretation. :P