thanks, brain

[marcicat]

The weird thing my brain is stressing about this week is our heat, which is working fine. But I keep waking up and thinking 'that's a weird sound, it could be bad, maybe the heat is broken.'

(We've got those forced hot water baseboard heaters, which make a ton of weird sounds. That's their whole thing, pretty much: weird sounds. So it's not ideal that my brain has decided 'weird sounds' = 'must worry now.')

ANYWAY, that's what's happening here!

(I'm relatively sure it's my brain trying to signal me that I'm Experiencing Stress, which it thinks is helpful. I'm less sure that it actually IS helpful, since my awareness of said stress was not really in question. But I appreciate that it's trying!)

Comments

[pattrose]

I hope you won't have to worry about the heat at all. Sounds can be good. At least it's working. Right?

[marcicat]

Thank you! And yes, I think it's one of those 'in my head' stresses, not an actual issue with the heat. <3

[lannamichaels]

I am 100% the same. "Oh no I'm feeling a little chilly the heat must be BROKEN" (and not that the thermostat hit the point where it has to kick the heat up and the heat is on and working but it just hasn't compensated yet). "Oh no the water is inconsistently hot when the faucet is in a certain position, maybe the hot water heaten broke" (no, just move the faucet more to the hot side).

The dorm I lived in in college was so loud on the heating system, just such a racket. And you couldn't adjust the heat setting (because college dorm) and so I'd wake up thinking I had a fever because it was so hot in the room. So I kept the window open, year round.