Tired.

[valis2]

Husband and I went shopping, and I bought lots of things for my crafty experiment. We also bought new planters for the veggies we want to plant, and we bought water filters and soil and stuff like that.

And, as usual, I am absolutely wiped out. What the hell is it about shopping that completely exhausts me? I have no problem walking places, and doing things, and hauling heavy stuff around, and even going up a flight of stairs, but shopping kills me ded.

I think it's the mental focus required. I scan all of the products in each aisle, looking not only for things on my list, but for things not on the list that I might need. And by the end, I'm so tired I could crawl in the cart and fall asleep. I yawned eleventy billion times on the way home. My brain gets completely absorbed in the looking and scanning--both the primary brain and the secondary--and I think it takes more energy.

I know, I know, first world problem. Still, it's weird. If I lie down at this moment I'll fall asleep.

Comments

[todayiamadaisy]

I find clothes shopping (or 'retail therapy' shopping) exhausting. Not fun at all. Supermarkets, on the other hand, I love. Wandering up and down aisles in a daze apparently is my idea of fun. :-)

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Supermarkets that I've been to several times before are ideal. I can just get stuff and go, and it's not so exhausting. But hardware stores I've been to maybe once? ugh. I didn't know where anything was, and they're so alien to me anyway, and I didn't even know what the products I was looking for looked like...a recipe for snoozetime.