It’s Monday and I got up at seven and did my exercise for the day. I’ve walked a few miles while watching the Queens Gambit. After my workout I get to my breakfast and then right to work. I get to my meetings and then have phone calls to take care of. Doctors for my parents and other helpful things for them. The Knights of Columbus are to call me back to let me know if they can come over to my parent’s house to help with yard work. Hopefully they can as it has become very overwhelming. They have a big yard and a big house and it’s hard to keep up with life and everything else. Then I get a message from the doctors saying mom will need surgery and may or may not be better after it. Don’t know what to do. Should the surgery go on or not. She may suffer either way. My thought process is for her not to suffer any longer. She has gone through plenty of crap and suffering is the last thing I’d like for her to go through. Reaching out to God to put this on His hands and do what is best.
It’s Tuesday and I am up a bit after the alarm. I slept for half hour more than I should have. I then got my gym clothes on and headed to the treadmill. I’m a bit anxious and nervous about mom as she continues to be in the hospital. On the treadmill, I run for a while until I was tired and then I walked some more. I was doing my exercises until half hour before I had to log on to work and be in a nine o’clock meeting. After my meeting I took my very much needed shower. As I’m in the shower, my phone rang a slew of times. When I checked it, they were all call backs regarding my parents. One was from the Knights of Columbus. They are willing to meet with me to see what kind of work is needed for the house. I am so very thankful for this. I hope they can help us out. Not sure what I can do to return the help, besides provide them with funds, which I don’t have. This is why I’m requesting help from them in the first place. Another phone call was from a church near my parents’ home. They can provide meals for them, but they will need to be on a waiting list. Once they are approved, they will deliver the meals to the home. This will be so tremendously helpful. I am again thankful for these services. As for work, I am swamped with items to post. I’ve been a bit distracted and quite slow at doing the work since mom is not doing well. But I march on and get the majority of the work done. I get the items that have to be done. The other ones can wait for later or tomorrow.
It’s now Wednesday and I am up at five in the morning. My phone is acting funny so I leave it for the battery to die and maybe it will reset itself and fix itself. With that, I don’t have an alarm so I asked my husband to wake me up before he goes to work. And that he did. I get up and fill out paperwork for my parents than I get changed and get to the treadmill and walk for a few miles. By eight, I give my father a phone call to wake him up as someone will be going to the house to give an estimate on cleaning the inside. After my walk I get right to work. There is an urgent request that comes in for promotions and I am on it. I get those done and then go ahead and continue with other items before the work clock even starts. At nine thirty there is meeting regarding the mentoring program that I am part of as it is coming to an end. I am sure I will continue to talk to my mentee as she is a wonderful human being. Then there is another and another meeting. A lot of planning to do for our websites for next year in the first quarter. During my lunch hour I am sending messages to my loved ones letting them know that my mom is better and is back home. She was in the hospital again but her numbers came back up and she is doing better. My cousins and good friends are all very happy with this news. For lunch I making more phone calls for my parents for insurance quotes this time. And then I hit a wall. I feel like I can’t breath, it’s hot and humid and maybe I’m simply filled with anxiety. There is a lot going on in life and dealing with it all is a bit much for now.
It’s Thursday morning and the alarm goes off and turn it off and sleep for another hour. Then I get hot and get out of bed. I get myself ready for the treadmill and get sweaty. I’m on for a while and then I have a nine o’clock meeting. After my meeting, I have plenty of time between another meeting so I take my shower then. I then call the vet and make an appointment of the pup. He keeps on getting ticks on him and we need to get him a collar. He is getting his hair cut today and will look all sorts of purrty. Can’t wait to see him without his shaggy hair. In the evening I have a doctors appointment that I must go to. In the past, I’ve made phone calls to my doctor. But today, she has free samples for me, so I put on my mask and am on my way. After the doctor, I go to the carwash as my little Honda needs a cleaning. The carwash place is full and I wait for about half an hour to get my little beep, beep washed. Now that it’s all nice and clean, I drive away and head over to the library. I have books in the trunk to donate and the library is has a donation bin right outside their doors. I have old college books and kid games that we no longer use and feel great about donating them as opposed to throwing them out into the trash. Hopefully they will help someone out. I then head on home and my husband has already arrived and is on the couch saying how bad his feet hurt. He thinks he may have nerve damage or something along those lines. I get out the foot lotion and rub, rub those hard working feet. I then get a scrapper and take out a bunch of dead skin from his feet. Then, some more rubbing, especially the heals. He is on the couch with his feet elevated, but I still have to bend in order to rub those footies. I too am getting a back ache. So I pause for a little while and then I get back into it. After a while he goes outside with the pup and the rest of us stay indoors. Then he comes back in and I am ready for bed, but I promised him a back rub as well. His sciatica is hurting as well and some menthol medic aided rub is needed on his back. I rubbed and rubbed until the gloves ripped. Then I got another pair and rubbed some more of that terrible smelling medicine rub. Now I am mentally and my arms are physically tired from all of that rubbing. Hopefully this is helpful for him so he can get back to work tomorrow and have a better day.
It’s Friday and I slept and slept this morning. Didn’t do my morning walk, but did my best to relax instead. At eight I got up. Made my breakfast and then headed on to work. I’m mentally tired but I move on ahead with work and get a bunch done. I need to create standard operating procedures or SOPs, and these take forever to do. At one point or another I skipped a step or two and messed something up because I was doing them so slowly that I got myself confused and was typing the wrong directions. I had to go back and read through then fix and then go back again and fix again. What a day. I didn’t get to do as much done as I needed or should have. These instruction documentations take so long to do. There are so many steps to take and so many screen shots to place on the document it’s a wonder I get anything done during the day, these systems are so convoluted that I have figured out a few shortcuts along the way. I’ll be sharing a lot of those in my documentation for the next person who is to take over what I do. During my lunch hour I had to get out to the pharmacy and pick up my medications. It’s a hot one out there. Going out into the wild made me tired and this afternoon. It also made me not want to come back inside and work. But, I gotta do what I need to. So, I get back inside, have a quick lunch then log back in and continue with my SOPs. It’s more exhausting to teach someone how to do something than actually doing it myself. But on the other hand. Teaching someone to do something and teaching them how to troubleshoot and do it all themselves helps to save so much time later on in the future. This is why I am taking all the time in the world to ensure that the next person who does what I do, will do it correctly and will know all of the tips and tricks there is to know. In the evening, after work, I’m tired but not physically tired. I am mentally tired. I’ve been working so very hard all week to get things done on the weekend for my parents that I’m just simply brain dead. I’ve looked into the state and county for help for my parents as well as private help from company’s around the area they live in and everything is so expensive or there are a lot of hoops to jump through. I don’t know how people do it. I’m ready to throw in the towel. I’m so tired but the work is not done, so I must tell myself to keep going. A vacation or some time off would be nice right about now though. Something that would make my brain energy would be best. That’s really what I’m searching for. Energy!
It’s Saturday and I am up way before the roosters. It’s three in the morning and I can’t sleep anymore. I get out of bed and get some water, use the bathroom then try to go back to sleep for a little while longer. I have a long day planned and am a little nervous to be honest. I will have to talk to roofers and others today to help out my parents. I am actually a very shy person and don’t like to do negotiating especially when it comes to home improvement items. I’m not the quickest with the math and measuring and I get all discombobulated with all of the numbers that are give to me. A very nice man came by and he is going to bring his crew to help out with the cleaning of the yard. He said he’ll bring in a crew of a few guys and they will do all of the clean up within six hours or so. They are coming in through the church and I am so very grateful. I am going to have to do something to give back. Not sure what yet, but I’ll be sure to do so when I can. The rest of the morning and afternoon were filled with estimates for the roof of the house. So many number flying around. Not sure which direction to go at his point. I’ll have the two older ones make some sort of decision. This will cost us a lot of money and I’m not certain what the budget is. So, all I can do is get the estimates and send them along. While the roof guys were coming over, I was also doing their laundry, cleaning the bathrooms and vacuuming. Tried to get mom and dad to take their medicine. But it was a little tough. Mom is really not into taking them. Not sure what her deal is but she is not eating much and does not want to take her medicine at all. It’s a struggle. Meanwhile, I’m all about taking my medicine in front of them. I will get out a glass of water and tell them to do the same and bottoms up people. Take your meds. After getting my head all jumbled up with a bunch of numbers and finishing the clean up, I head on home. I am tired from doing all of this work and being awake for so many hours that I’m ready to go home. At home I take my shower then I am so tired that I lay down on the bed….just for a second. Then I fall asleep for about four hours. The family is out for the afternoon and it’s all quiet in the house. The air-conditioned is the only loud thing that’s on. The family eventually gets home at some point. I wake up way after they got home as they were all sitting on the couch watching a movie. We then talk about dinner and we decide on sushi. We haven’t had sushi in so long, I miss it. We eat and it’s already eleven in the evening. I am ready to go to bed as tomorrow is another day of work. In my yard this time. I have to clear out my little ones play area and place some bleach or something else on the ground in order for her to be able to play out there. I will also need to do some weed waking as the grasses in the back are getting very tall. It’s supposed to be a hot day so I will need to do all of this early in the morning. Hopefully, I get up on time and get all of it done.
It’s Sunday and I wake up with a terrible sinus headache. It’s nine in the morning and it’s already heaping hot. I will not be working outside today. It’s way too hot and my head is hurting. In the afternoon, the basement flooded. The pump we have down in my house broke and the water spilled over. Now I have to suck all of the water up, bring it up the stairs and dump it out. My husband now has to go to the store and get a new one to replace it. Meanwhile, the landscaper finally got to my parents house this afternoon and he called me to say that someone had already cut the front yard. I’m thinking that a good neighbor has helped us out and cut the grass for us. I mentioned to the landscaper to take care of the back grass. I then call my father’s phone. He tells me that my brother was there this morning cutting the grass. What the hell?! We talked about getting a guy there to take care of landscaping, and now he’s doing it, but only half of it. What is happening?! Watch now this shit is going to somehow come out of my pocket. Because I deal with dummies. Why do these people gotta complicate everything. I was taking care of this and this guy just stepped on my toes. Not happy about this at all. I hate working with people who don’t keep their word. Makes life difficult for everyone. And then there’s the flood in the house. Good thing I didn’t get out there this morning and with this crazy heat and start working. I’d be exhausted by now and be grumpy as I’m helping with the cleanup. At the end of the day, it all worked out. My parents house got taken care of. And my house has been taken care of. I’m tired from the days events and go am ready to go to bed early. Good night all.
Until next time!
Best,
Isabel
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