Irked

Well... half irked but half chuckling appreciatively at the same time.

I'm the type who, when hit with a crisis, looks for something to do. This is good, it really is, because you won't find me wringing my hands when a crisis arises--I'll be busy doing something about it.

But what do I do when it's something I can't do anything about?

There is a person I love dearly who is going through an emotional disaster. I can offer a small amount of moral support, but that's all. The situation is such that I can't do anything direct, for a lot of reasons.

My inclination is to busy myself with other things. But, as happens sometimes, my other activities can't go on due to the family situation. That sounds much worse than it is--let me clarify. I would do some housecleaning, but everyone is home and watching TV, meaning it's impossible to move around easily. I would work on my serial for a while, but everyone is home and... did I mention they were watching TV? It makes it hard to concentrate sometimes, and I'm sure as hell not going to tell them they can't watch TV when nearly everyone worked all day. Also, I don't want to get into something too involving like coding because I'm going to have to take my roomie to work soon.

I'd love to start doing my mortgage paperwork, but it's not here yet... I have other paperwork to fill out, but I need.. quiet.

At times like this, I find I'm staying up later and later in a desperate attempt to get enough quiet to balance myself, but then I in turn sleep later and lose half the day, which also bugs me.

So I'm irked, but by the same token, I find it goofily amusing, how I'm running myself around like a hamster in an exercise wheel...

I'm online if anyone feels like just socializing... *laughs* I'm too scattered to do much more until people start heading to bed and it quiets down.