Quite a week so far

[siglinde99]

Workload pressures and the emotional stress of starting a mediated process with my problem manager who is not on sick leave has left me so disinclined to look at messages that I am even ignoring my blackberries. Both of them, which if you know me at all means I am either near death or in need of therapy or an intervention.

It took two days of furious photocopying and a late night session of scanning, but I now have four years of detailed financial records ready for the mediator. I'll drop it off while ShuLing is at the orthodontist's, getting braces tomorrow. Hopefully that will go okay, since she has a cold and sore throat she has now shared with me. I have a ton of work awaiting me at the office, but I was looking forward to working from home while she gets used to the braces. Now I'll have to waste a sick day on being sick -what's up with that???

I'm hoping Geoff isn't getting it too, since he injured his pericardium playing rugby yesterday. He felt too sore to go to school, so I told him to get himself to a clinic. I felt bad about the pile of frozen snow blocking the driveway - that he had to shovel to get the car out - after he got sent to Emergency for an ECG. It's just bruised, not torn, which is a blessing.

Geoff has figured out a way to improve his math mark, which is required for his chosen university courses. He will be doing four hours two nights
a week at the adult high school, on top of a heavy course load next semester. I guess I should be pleased that he is finally taking responsibility, but I really wish he would learn from examples and listen to advice, instead of insisting on doing everything the hard way.

To end my day, I got to break out new sheets. The old ones had hairball residue, thanks to the cats. Oh, and the second time the dog broke into the garbage and composter, I got to see my neighbour's new little dog. I was putting the composter outside to preserve my cupboards from Kaboone's depredations, in my nightie, when the dog tried to run into the house.

My life has many stupid adventures. If they were more entertaining, I could write a movie script. I can't imagine who would play me.

Comments

[pink-lady2.livejournal.com]

I am sorry that things are so rough right now. They will get better just hang in there. Hugs. btw love the nightie story. Sounds like something I would do (hmmm have done at the back of the house - chased a squirrel like a mad woman).

[siglinde99.livejournal.com]

Lol! This place is a good de-stressor. It's my safe space to vent, but pure venting all the time is dull, so I try to find ways to be entertaining. When I do that, I start to see the humour myself. My anxiety about Geoff, and the fact that I felt guilty about the snow shoveling when it turned out he was not having the sports injury of a man cold, was mitigated by thinking about how I have turned into my parents (and their parents). We all walked 10 miles to school, uphill, in a snowstorm, both ways, all year round. Geoff did the equivalent yesterday, and it will make him a better parent - plus he'll get to dine out for years on stories of his awful childhood and harsh parents, just like I did.

[cortejo.livejournal.com]

I think Julie Roberts would be the right choice.

[siglinde99.livejournal.com]

A younger Carol Burnett would be brilliant.