Here are some daily highlights of being on your period... (Note that I am describing my own experiences of the first 2-3 days of the period in which flow is at its worst. It obviously differs a lot from person to person.) Wake up, your entire lower body area is covered in an unholy mixture of dried and wet blood. Proceed to the bathroom, doesn't matter if you woke up at 5am and want to sleep in, ain't no chance you're going to fall back asleep now. You're gonna need some wet paper towels. Wipe everywhere, yes that includes your ass which should be covered in a sanguine mess of crusted blood. Take off the pad... there's a good chance the back of your underwear now has a few streaks of red dried up there, and that shit can be hard to get out. Wrap up the surprisingly heavy pad in a mound of toilet paper as best you can to hide the red color leaking through (not as much of a problem if you live alone, though). Put on a new pad and after you are positively SURE you haven't left any droplets of blood around the bathroom, proceed to leave, carrying your heap of bloody trash to dispose of in the nearest waste basket. Enjoy your new, clean pad for... Just about 30 seconds until you feel the flood gates open once more. Sneezing, coughing, moving, laughing... all possible ways to increase the amount of liquid you are currently carrying around in your underwear blood sack. Now, assuming you don't have to go to work today (you're lucky and that time of the month landed around a weekend) you can try to relax. Try to find a position that is at least somewhat comfortable without allowing the river of blood in your pants to flow out and onto your couch/bed/sitting tool. Once you finally are in an okay position, or perhaps even a bit comfortable, pray that nobody asks you to "reach the lamp because it's closer to you" or "get up and help me with this" because you are NOT going to attempt to settle yourself down on the sitting tool once more. When it's time to sleep again, give yourself a wedgie as you need to literally tuck the back of the pad into your crack so that it doesn't leak down... Basically like sleeping with a huge constant wedgie and terribly uncomfortable. Try sleeping like that, along with the occasional-to-often feeling of blood being squirted out of your nether regions.
TL;DR: periods are not cool, giving myself wedgies at night, and no it's not that time of the month... yet. Also my god this is a long comment, sorry about that