FA TI GUE

When i was in high school french we had to watch these videos that were supposed to help us learn the language. The only thing i remember is this man standing in the middle of the street falling to the ground in three movements as the voice-over said "fa-ti-gue" this week i know how he feels.

On sunday taught my two normal yoga classes and did my practice beforehand. before i even got home from the first class i felt like a total zombie. i could barely keep my eyes open to drive the car home. and in between class i literally just planted my bum on the couch, but of course i couldn't sleep. then on sunday night when i'm all ready to get some great sleep to take care of the problem, i couldn't sleep AT ALL! i got like three hours of good uninterrupted sleep.

monday i was a mess. totally exhausted. i feel like this is a never ending sick day. and it makes me feel vunerable. so i had a good cry over the whole thing and that didn't even really help except i guess it is good to let out emotions. monday night i taught two more classes, but luckily by the end i felt a little better.
and then finally... last night i got some sleep!!! thank goodness. i only woke up twice to use the bathroom and i went right back to sleep both times. i had some crazy dreams but i'll take that over no sleep.

last night the dream was that the baby was born like right now in a 30 minute total delivery. the baby was full-term but it was a little strange because no one in the family knew we were even pregnant. so i had to call my mom and say the baby is here even though you didn't know we were having one. in this dream it was a boy.

so this morning it occurred to me that the fatigue could be lack of iron. i always wonder if i'm getting enough to begin with and now if i've got a little bean stealing iron from my blood i need to do more to help myself with that one. i read some about it and this could be part of my sluggishness. so i'll make cream-of-wheat this morning and the next time i go to the grocery store i'll pick up some fortified cereal. hopefully that will help.
but thank goodness for a full night sleep. i feel SO much better today!