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TIFU and had the most accomplished day at work and can't replicate it.

TL;DR I got sick and did drugs to help my work day and now I'm getting extra work load.

I have just returned from a week "vacation". I was visiting family, during which I had to help remodel my mother's kitchen, help my sister set up her home office, and find time for my father's birthday, my anniversary, and my step sisters birthday too. It was jam packed and exhausting especially because my family parties hard and works hard. And then to top it off, my adult son was sick the entire time and I caught it the last two days.

So yesterday I went back to work and I'm feeling completely depleted. I'm not sick but I feel like I had no recovery, my mind and body are struggling. My sister offers me her Adderall and I take it figuring it'll get me through the day, because it's 9am and I'm 3 coffees in and I feel NOTHING but pure exhaustion.

So I get to work and I'm functioning it's going well. Then my husband showed up with a key bump. So to be clear, we don't usually ever partake, but we were partying with my family and my step sister bought a bunch for her party and we had leftovers to bring home. He figured I'd need it because I was so exhausted, so I did it.

And I went and kicked so much ass. I finished all my work, even my week long absence pile of work, before lunch. I organized the office, cleaned up, I got started on the rest of my week. I got bored and reorganized our important phone numbers list even researching to see if any changed or had different departments now (some did, so it was good I checked).

Then I went home and fell asleep at 7pm and didn't budge until this morning.

I'm feeling like crap still but I come in expecting an easy day since I handled everything yesterday. But NO. My boss is so impressed with my effort that she's made a big announcement to our department about how devoted and hard working I am and congratulated me for hitting the ground running. I can't replicate that effort today, or any day. But especially today. I am a fool.

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