Alanis, you got it right.

To be blunt, when it's that time of the month I am a bitch. I get cranky and frustrated, crampy, bloaty, migrainey and I start stressing out different emotions that aren't really even there - or if they are, I intensify them by about a 1000 - and usually end up lashing out at the person who tries to help me through it the most. And once I'm done being outright angry, I start to simmer that anger sauce into a sad anger reduction and then all I want to do is curl up with millions of blankets and either listen to Joni Mitchell or watch sappy old movies all day.

It's really, very tiring.


I should have told him something was wrong when he asked. I just figured he'd be better off not knowing about all my emotional craziness of the day.