thanks, brain
Feb. 8th, 2026 08:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marcicatThe 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!)
(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!)
