Well, you know you’re on winter vacation when you can’t seem to remember what day it is.

I am in that place.

I swore all day that it was sunday! How great is that!?  (Teachers, you’ve got my back on this, right??)

Anyway, I’m so very glad that I’m on break… I can hardly stand it. I’ve been markedly absent from my blog since the end of my 30 days of change… and honestly… I’ve been debating starting up again. By that I mean committing to another 30 days.

It isn’t that I’ve “fallen off the bandwagon”, because I’ve still been more active in the past few weeks than the years before starting the shred, but the pressure… well, it might have been a part of why it was so effective.

To be fair, I don’t want to committ– well not until the end of the holiday week, because I’m not sure that the pressure applied to myself was entirely healthy.

Speaking of health, I’ve had a pretty intense headache for almost 2 weeks. I’ve had a little sensitivity to light once or twice, but for the most part, my head just aches excrutiatingly behind one or the other of my eyes. Another troubling thought is that my grinding/jaw clenching is getting worse (I fear). I find myself with my jaw clenched almost a dozen times a day. I’ve been trying a few techniques, but it is a really hard habit to break. And all the training in the world, won’t fix all the clenching and grinding that I do in my sleep. I’ve worn deep gashes in the custom mouth guard from my dentist, and I wake with aching jaw muscles almost daily.

This isn’t turning into the peppy-happy-for-winter-break-blog-post I thought it would be, but its what I’m experiencing, so… there’s that.