I had a dream..

… where I was with my old work buddies and everything was alright. There was no uneasiness. And I could only think, “Wow… the uneasiness is gone. People are talking to me just like I’m … me. Finally.”

Recently, I went to a birthday party for a friend of mine who turned 50, whom I used to work with at “that place” we won’t name. I thought it would be ok, but I felt like the black sheep. The couple of people I talked to asked me how I’d been and what I’d been doing since… They were nice enough, but I felt darn squirmy. We only stayed for 1/2 hour before I crawled out my skin and squeezed out the door.

It was just one of the odd points in my life lately.

The other day, a woman in my office asked me if the picture hanging on the wall of my daughter was my granddaughter.

I am still trying to figure that one out. I know there are a lot of grandparents at 43, but I am not one of them. 🙂

My weekend…

… was mostly uneventful. For a little while, we went motorcycle riding. We went to the Harley shop, and then back home. It was hot all weekend.. in the upper 90’s, to be somewhat exact.

Our fishing boat has been gutted and reworked to be leak proof. I wasn’t too worried about leaking, but my spouse was. I guess it would be bad for us to sink in the middle of the lake. So we took the boat out on the lake to make sure it was as water tight as we suspected. Just a few spots to patch, and it was ready for the water again.

I had to buy snacks and something to drink for 54 girl scouts. I bought pre-packaged cookies and 4 gallons of “orange drink”, cause it was on sale. 🙂 There will be 54 sugar-energized girls tomorrow afternoon. At least I am only taking one of them home.

We are seriously considering enrolling The Little Kid in skating school. Remember a month ago when I was terrified of her going ice skating? Well, she likes it, so lessons seem like a good idea. Good luck finding skates in the middle of July, though.

Oh, I saw a good movie this weekend. It’s called, “Deja Vu” with Denzel Washington. If you like suspense with a little scifi, you should check it out.

Enough Stuff for One Day

The day started off with a little kid not feeling too well. School or no school… that was the question. We decided to try school for awhile, with the understanding that she would have the nurse call me at work if she felt worse later in the day. I think it was mostly sinus drainage.

Then it was off to work, arriving 5 minutes late, due to the extra driving involved in figuring out whether we were going to school or not. Thank goodness for my lead foot! 🙂

About two hours into a very hectic morning, a migraine reared its ugly head. At the first sign of it, I took two Tylenol. About 15 minutes later, the aura appeared. Square lights, swirling around. It makes me sick just to think of it. When the aura left, the awful headache part showed up. I took another Tylenol. I went to lunch and bought an ice bag. After 1/2 hour of putting the ice bag on my head, I felt a lot better. Still queasy, but no splitting headache.

At 4:30, my efficient taxi service left one side of town, picked up the man in the walker on the other side of town, picked up the kid, delivered man to physical therapy, took kid home, let dog out, fed kid, made eggplant parmesan (yummy), picked up man, went to the pharmacy to get drugs, went home, ate dinner, oversaw little kid taking shower, let dog out a few times, cuddled up on the couch with little kid while she fell asleep.

Whew!

By the way, little kid is feeling much better, man has sufficiently exercised his knees (115 degrees-worth… good deal!) and dog’s bladder did not explode.

Foggy Time

My new nursing duties are keeping me from sleeping at night. I would take a sleeping pill, but then who would get up at 2am to deliver Percocet?

Luckily, my boss is on vacation this week, so there are not many demands on me at work. I’ve just got a few things here and there to get done. In my spare time, I play with the Intranet design. I finally incorporated some CSS and got rid of some tables, so that’s a huge step in the right direction.

Sorry. That was geeky, wasn’t it. But only minorly.

I finally got time to exchange my new winter coat at Old Navy. It’s not the thickest coat in the whole world, but then most of the time I’m not going somewhere where a thick coat is required. The globe is warming, you know.

Tomorrow is “get the staples taken out of the knees day” for the man in the walker. I heard this is not painful… they just pop out. So far, it may be the only painless part of this whole thing.

Today, I listened to my pastor deliver a sermon about “normalcy” and what that is. Do YOU know? “Normal” is what’s going on now, like it or not. It’s been a rough year. Probably the worst year of my life so far, but this helped me to put some of it perspective. You do not have to be overly religious to get something out of this sermon.

I know it’s only 7pm, but I think I will go to bed now. :-{

Lost

I guess I’m a little lost lately. Lost and cranky.

Today, some people are coming to look at our macaw. Macaws are expensive to maintain. I love Rocky, but every week, he eats twenty dollars worth of toys and eats like a small child. No one takes the time to clean the cage like it should be cleaned. But I’m panicking anyway. The longer it takes for them to get here, the worse it feels. (Update: One bird off to a really nice, new family)

A week from Tuesday, my husband is having a double knee replacement. It’s going to be a lot of work for him, and for me, for the next 6 weeks, at least. The recovery time greatly depends on the person, and he’s motivated to recover.

For up to 6 weeks, he won’t be able to drive. For awhile, he’ll be moving around with a walker and/or crutches.

We’ll get through it. Sometimes it seems like a lot, but that’s what marriage and life is all about. Sometimes it’s just overwhelming.

On the upside, I’ll have 7 days off of work. That alone has to be a blessing, right?

Yesterday, we were in the Harley shop, looking around at stuff, like we do every weekend. I saw my Rider’s Edge instructor (one of them) in the shop. I sat on a Fat Boy and brought it off the kickstand. He saw me do that. He asked me if I was getting a new bike, and I said “no”, but I’d been out riding 3 times before the weather turned ungodly FRIGID.

It’s good to be in the Harley shop and run into people you know. I keep hoping to run into any of my classmates, as well. Maybe later, though. It’s seems to be a homing beacon for motorcyclists around here.

Life Lessons

We had to sit down with my daughter and explain how sometimes people are a product of their environment.

There’s a girl at school who my daughter said was always yelling at her. I’ve met her and felt sorry for her because no one would pick her as a partner for lunch, and she would be upset/pout because of it. If she’s always yelling, I can see why. Six-year-olds don’t know any better. They just know this girl is usually ticked off about something.

We found out purely by accident that this girl was being picked up by Child Protective Services today. I guess her mom is a drug addict and whenever this little girl was at home, she had either NO attention or all BAD attention from her mother. She didn’t have anyone at home to talk to or play with. She wasn’t taught how to wash herself… God knows if she ate every night or not.

Someone finally noticed a problem and called CPS. They went into her home and carried out bags and bags of trash. It was piled up so that you could walk on a clear path through the rooms of the apartment, and that was it.

We had to leave out most of these terrible details and tell our daughter that this girl is upset and shouting because that’s how she is treated at home. We tried to tell her to be patient and be friendly, if possible.

She tried to talk to her today and the little girl told her to leave her alone.

At least she tried.

Things that Stink

Girl Scout Hayrack Rides.

They look innocent enough, the hayrack rides do. In 30 degree weather, though? Not so much. I had on 3 sweaters and a coat. My face and feet froze.

My daughter stood in line for hot chocolate, and an adult hogged the last bit. The adult right in front of her.

We ditched the hot dog cookout in the freezing temps and went to Pizza Hut instead.

I made her hot chocolate at home.

Ever been amongst a group of girl scouts where some were unsupervised? Say around Jr. High age? Rowdy. They are just loud and rowdy. Not a good example for a 6-year-old, who I asked afterward not to turn out like that.

They were singing, “Joy to the world, Justin’s dead. We cut off his head! Don’t worry about the body; we flushed it down the potty…. “

And then there was the boy scout leader who went around asking people for hugs and talking up his boys, like they were the sexiest people in the world… “Oh… look at his skin… don’t you want to just kiss his face?” Umm… give me your badge number or name or something, dude. I want to report you.

Saturday Stuff

Yamaha Maxim 700cc

Yesterday, I gathered up the nerve to ride a motorcycle on the streets. My husband and I rode to the Harley Dealership across town. The only real problem I ran into was stopping on a hill and being able to go forward when the light turned green. The engine quit. The traffic was patient as I restarted the bike and took off, finally.

It was a fun ride and a great sense of accomplishment to take 1/2 hour ride and get there safely. I find that this accomplishment improves my self-confidence, which I sometimes lack.

My mother-in-law’s birthday was Tuesday. We finally caught up with her yesterday. We bought a box of Yankee Candle Autumn tealights and a pretty candle holder to put them in. It was a big, white globe with cut-outs that looked like lace, for the light to come through.

Today, it’s off to my stepdaughter’s new house to see what we can do to help her move, finishing a sewing project for The Little Kid, and prepping the pop-up camper for the winter. This doesn’t sound too relaxing, but I guess weekends can’t always be about lounging around. 🙂

Back to work, back to work…

Last night, I lamented about returning to work after a week off. I saw, in advance, that my boss had a short list of discussion points and/or things for me to follow up on. Thankfully, our twice monthly one-on-one meeting was today, and I ensured him I was ontop of all that stuff. Unfortunately, the meeting brought up a few more things I needed to be working on, some of them fun Intranet design stuff, some of them “organize the server room” stuff.. Let’s just say I have enough to keep me busy for a few weeks.

Overall, it was a good day, though. I would rather be busy than sit around and introspectively examine my life all day… like much of last week. How depressing, right? Well, I suppose not for everyone, but it’s been a crazy year, ok?

Tomorrow, I start a rider class at a local Harley shop. I am going to learn to drive a bike…. a Buell, to be specific. It’s 6 hours of in-class instruction and 16 hours of driving. It all ends with a party and cake, so it can’t be THAT bad, right? “Don’t crash the bike… you’ll live to have cake.”

Yeah, baby.

My Brain is Going to Explode, and Other Fun Things

I’ve been dealing with a cold for the last 4 days. Coughing, sinus headache, sneezing. Yuck. No amount of Sudafed is helping. The only thing that appears to help is the Sudacare Shower Soothers, which are wonderful in Vanilla Mint. Not only do I get to get high on vanilla, which I love, but it also relieves my congestion right before bed. Another happy helper… Tylenol PM.

Notwithstanding, The Little Kid and I did a lot today. We bowled two games at the local bowling alley. We started with no gutter bumpers, then decided she would be miserably pouty without them. Once we kicked up the bumpers, she had a blast, until it was time to leave, of course. 🙂

Then, it was on to McDonalds, the park and then back home to ride her bike (her, not me).

We just got done with 2 games of Go Fish, and my brain is about to explode from extreme sinus pressure. The only question I really have is, “When did I take my last Sudafed?” Does anyone know?

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