different kinds of tired:
1. all day at the beach sleepy. warm skin. wet hair. salt and sand and green apple-scented shampoo. bed sheet tides pulling up and down stomach flips into mermaid dreams.
2. milky tired. early nights. wondering if you are getting sick. medicine light bones. eyelids melting closed. dizzy, dizzy, spinning into sleep.
3. drowsy car rides. soft radio buzz. pillow on the window. pulling on your seatbelt. waking up and not knowing where you are.
ain’t never been to work huh
You're right, how could OP have forgotten to romanticize the bone-aching fatigue that makes breathing feel like effort, too tired to cook but desperately in need of nourishment, wanting more than anything to sleep but staying up just a little longer so your day wasn't completely stolen, and finally collapsing into a slumber so leaden you don't dream but you still wake up needing more rest
I wonder why that wasn't part of what OP was celebrating. Who's to say.