Stink eye

Olive was over work yesterday

Not sure how, but I finally got pictures to load from my cell phone.  Weird.  I WFH yesterday and Olive was not wanting me to,  She was all about the cuddles 💕.

There isn't much going on.  It's my busy time for work with our annual update and year end close out stuff so I haven't a lot of time to do much of anything.  It also looks like I'm not going to get to deploy for the latest hurricane either because one of my very self centered co-workers extended a temp duty so we will be down a planner.  That sucks because I could really use the money.  Speaking of, I have been trying to cut back on spending a little but why is it so hard around Halloween?  I want all the spooky stuff.  I bought a water bottle a few years ago that I really liked.  For some reason I never really used it besides for dance and used the cheaper ones for everything.  When I went to NYC I picked it up to take with me and that thing never leaked and held up better than any other bottle,  So I bought another one.  They had a banner on the website for the bellow bottle and I HAD to have it.  As luck would have it Owala is the next "it" water bottle (I guess that is a thing now?) and you have to que up online to get the special 'color-drop'. I just happened to be on my phone at that particular time and was able to buy one but it apparently sold out in 10 minutes.  So, I used all my luck for the year on a stupid overpriced water bottle that I don't really need.  I saw that people were already listing them for sale online for $100 so I guess I can call it an investment, lol.  I also got a StitchFix box and loved everything in the box and Dennis took me for $200 at Costco (yeah right lets go get cat food he said).  So much for cutting back.  At least we don't really do Christmas anymore. I will get stuff for my mom, sister, a few cousins and Dennis but that's it.  Nothing for his family at all.  

Spooky bottle

 

Speaking of the in-laws, I don't think he has heard from them in a few months.  I think I talking about his mom selling FIL's car with Dennis's help. It was a '17 Charger, I think, with maybe 10K miles on it and always kept in the garage.  She ended up getting $18K for it, kind of shocked me but good for her!  As far as I know, the siblings don't know about it.  Dennis is very much not taking money from her for that kind of stuff, even though he was the one that did most of the work to get it gone.  He doesn't want wild accusations from the rest of the family.  They have access to the bank statement so if they look they will see the money that was deposited and know it had to come from somewhere.  I really hope this shit doesn't happen when something happens to my mom.  Things went really smooth when my dad died but they don't have the kind of money and assets the in-laws have.  Plus, my mom was the one that took care of the finances where as the FIL not only took care of the finances, but was a little controlling over them (which is how they had the kind of assets they do) and MIL is going apeshit with  her new found financial freedom.  From what I have heard she has already dipped into the principle, which is exactly what FIL didn't want and makes Dennis feel extremely guilty.    

My family drama is pretty calm for now in comparison.  My cousin from San Diego is planning on moving back next month.  We will see if that actually  happens.  If she does she will live with my mom and it will take some of the burden off of me!  The issue is she has very little money and lives with her mother (my first cousin).  Her mom is and always has been abusive and just down right crazy. There is a long list of unhinged crap she has pulled.  The one that always comes to mind was when she was still in high school she lived with us, she came down with mono and was really sick.  I remember she was out of school for what in hindsight seemed like a month but you know how that is.  It was around Christmas and I saw her take a piece of candy, lick it and wrap it back up and put it in a dish.  She is that kind of psycho.  Not to mention she dropped her 6 week old daughter off at my mom's and just disappeared for weeks at a time.  When Heather was 13 she moved her to CA and decided to torture her there where we couldn't interfere I guess?  Anyway, Heather moved to OK and lived after she graduated high school and lived here for a long time but decided to move back to SD about 10 years ago.  It seems she has finally had as much as she can take but I will only believe she if leaving when it actually happens.  I told her I would help her, as moving will cost roughly $3K if she rents a truck but I can rent a van here and drive there and back for half that.  Another cousin, crazy cousin's sister, has a large SUV and she is supposed to help as well.  BFF said she would go with and we can make a girl trip out of it, which sounds like it could be hella fun.  But, it's anyone's guess if the move actually happens.  You know how those kinds of relationships go.  My dad's mom was a lot like crazy cousin and my dad never stopped trying with her.   I remember when she died my mom called and said that if I wanted to see her I needed to do it.  I was like nah, I'm good.  And when my dad got sick he told my mom that when he died her mom would be there for him because his mom for sure wouldn't be....and now I'm crying.  DAMN IT.  

I didn't mean for this to get so deep, lol.  I really had nothing to share.  My therapist was out of town so I guess this was my session for the week.  

My rheumatology appointment went well last week.  He wants me to make sure and get my steroid filled and handy because I have had some knee and hand issues.  My knee started when I had covid and it felt like it was giving out, kind of like I was kicked in the outside of the knee.  Not sure how much of that was from being sick and walking 2,149 miles in NYC and how much was the RA.  It has come and gone a little but not enough to take the demon pills.  My hand on the other, well, hand, is starting to lock up and pop.  He said he didn't feel comfortable doing injections in the hand as there are too many tendons and stuff involved.  I told him that it is still tolerable.  If it gets worse he will send me to a hand specialist for injections.  I hope it doesn't come to that.  My weight was just a tad over 101.   

Well, I have to go into the office.  I have a meeting and we are having an end of year pizza party.  With any luck I can escape the mandated fun.  

I'm back

The trip was largely uneventful, which I consider a win. My flight left at noonish with a layover in Austin. I ran in to visit the facilities and by the time I got to my gate they had just called my boarding group. Couldn't have timed it better. On the way home I had a little more time but ended up on the same plane so I didn't even have to get off if I didn't want to. The meeting was actually rally productive, we split into three different subgroups to trouble shoot and redesign the program and came away with some really good stuff.  

I thought I was staying at the same hotel as my friend Kat, but it turns out she was at a different Hilton.  NBD.  The hotel I stayed at was right outside the UNC campus and had a lot of restaurants and bars so she ended up coming over to that area and hanging out.  As far as food and drink goes, it was one of the best places I have been.  The first night I didn't get in until 7 or so and just wanted a shower and sleep so I didn't go out.  The second night Kat met me at a place called 401 Main.  It was the night of the debate and neither of us were really into watching it but they had a DNC watch party with a dj and drink specials so we gave it a go.  The food was pretty good and the blackberry mule was amazing.  We both got caprese sandwiches that were really good.  I had been looking at things to do in the area and found a place called Dingo Dog brewery.  The founder got involved with rescue after Katrina he teamed up with a friend and started brewing beer and cider and combined both of those.  It is a non-profit brewery with all the proceeds going to rescue.  With a deal like that you can't not drink!  I ended up there at one point every night I was there.  I told Dennis I might have to learn to brew beer and start one up here.  Of course I don't like beer so that might be an issue.  What an amazing place it was though.  I tired the blackberry, peach, honeysuckle, and guava ciders, all were really good.  

The next day I went with my friend Doug to another brewery for lunch and had cheeseburger egg rolls.  Again, they were amazing.  No drinks since we had to go back and sit through mind numbing stuff.  That night I wasn't in the mood to hang with anyone.  Both Kat and Doug had friends that live close and both invited me to hang out with them but I didn't want to feel like a third wheel so I went to my brewery for a drink and then to a little tap room and had a kids meal and a cider.  They were playing trivia and a table of college age kids were next to me and the question was what sport did Jason Lee from My Name is Earl participate in.  They were about to put down hockey and I told them they needed a Gen X phone a friend because he was 100% a skateboarder.  I felt like I did my good deed for the day.  I made it back to my room and watched Master Pancake Theater (kind of like Mystery Science Theater 3000) riff Beetlejuice.  

The last day we got out around 1,  Kat lives in Georgia so she drove and was going to head back but went and got lunch first.  I got probably one of the best burgers I have ever eaten.  It had Worcestershire cheese sauce, blue cheese, and mushrooms.  It was so good!  After lunch I went back to the hotel and walked around the area for awhile.  It was a neat town.  I didn't have a bad meal the entire time I was there.  I haven't weighed in several months and I am kind of scared to.  I have an appointment with the rheumatologist Thursday so I will find out then what the damage is.  I have to try not to fall into the trap if I am over XXX, not even sure what that is.  Maybe I should have them weight me with my back to the scale.  

Work is super busy.  We started our annual field update stuff yesterday and it is in a new system, I won't bore you with the details,  but I have to make sure everyone is put in correctly and obviously no on checks the status until they have to so I have had a bunch of SOS emails and calls.  I will be putting out fires well into October.  I like being busy though so it's kind of nice.  The days fly by.  

Saturday morning I got a message that A was in the hospital.  After all the years of playing hockey they decided to let him try football instead.  This is his first year on the team and he told me when I saw him last week that he really liked it and that he was a starter.  Apparently he had a pretty tough hit on Monday during his game.  By Friday he was throwing up and wasn't acting right.  His dad took him to the hospital and they found a brain bleed.  They kept him overnight and well into the evening on Saturday trying to control his nausea.  The bleed was small enough that he didn't require surgery, thank goodness for that.  Once he was finally able to keep food down they went ahead and sent him home.  The doctor said no more football.  Not sure what they will do.  Hockey isn't great in this part of the country.  They had to travel to Dallas or KC almost every weekend for games because we are just too small of a market to have that many teams.  It is also very expensive in comparison to other sports.  I am not a football fan at all so I wasn't particularly thrilled with him playing, but, ya know, not my kid.  He will need to find some kid of activity as he wouldn't do well with free time.  Maybe soccer?  I know less about that then I do football.  

Alright, lunch if over.  I gotta get bak to the grind.

Procrastination

Well the last update I put in was all jacked up so I just deleted it. It wasn't anything groundbraking so not much to save. We will see if it does that again and it's from using my iPad but I can't see how that would make a differance. Then again, I know fuck all about computers stuffs. I should be packing right now for a work trip to NC. My flight doesn't leave until 12:20 so I will probably just throw stuff in tomorrow morning. I am not looking forward to the trip. Brooke was supposed to go but she got a temp promotion and they won't let her go. There are a couple of more distant coworkers going to it should be tolerable. The girl I hung out with in Sonoma is going to be there and we had a lot of fun so it will be fine. I see myself back in my room fairly early but we are staying in Chapel Hill so I am sure there is plenty to do. The weekend has been fairly busy. Friday night I went to see the new Beetlejuice movie. It was pretty great. I read a review that said it was just a bunch of scenes trying to be funny without trying to add to the actual story. I mean, dude, it's Beetlejuice (last time I will say that, lol) it's not that serious. I snort laughed a couple of times so that is a win in my book. Dennis didn't want to go so I went with HMF's husband and A. I refuse to acknowledge that A is a teenager. There was a comming attraction for the new Moana movie and I remembered I took him to see that when he was young. It made me kinda sad that he is too cool for Aunt Terrie. Saturday morning I had to work a water safetly event. I worked with a ranger I hadn't really talked to before and we turned out to really get along. His daughter was with him and we kind of had a good time. The festival was in a really small town and it was the Trump rally demographic so the people watching was steller. I saw at least 2 women with his shirt on (I don't want to say his name either) on it, which always astounds me. How the hell you going to support that mysoginistic want to be dictator? I don't get it and I don't think anyone could ever explain it to me. However, the entire festival was a little inappropriate if you ask me and ranger Josh and his offspring. They started out with a turtle race, which is problematic in itself. Taking a turtle out of their area is pretty much a death sentance for them. They had a 'cutest kid' competition, yikes. They also had a skillet throwing contest 'for the ladies' um, just no. Those were just a few of the standouts. It made great material for our snide and sacrastic commentary. Small town OK is not a place I care to visit on the regular. I can't imagine I would be very popular, or I would be but not in a good way. I left hell fest about 4 and ran home to change clothes and get my mom for the Wynonna Judd concert. I am all about some 90's country. My playlist is all kinds of schizophrantic, it will go from Wait for it from Hamilton to Vicarious from Tool, to Chapter 319 from Clippings, to Should've Been a Cowboy from Toby Keith. Anyway, the concert was at the casino my cousin works security for so she arranged for me to drop my mom off at an exit door right by the seats. When I dropped her off I found a parking spot right outside the door, which is unheard of. It worked out really good and we actually had a good time. And I just figured out why the last post got so messed up. It appears I am not longer able to insert photos for some odd reason. I will have to look into that I guess, you guys missed out on a picture of my adorable boots I wore last night and an Amish guy driving his tractor through the bank. I guess they gotta have a place to keep all the money they save on the electric bill somewhere. Alright, I guess I will go dig out my suitcase.

Ellie Badge

I had an appointment with my therapist last week.  She helped me somewhat.  She also said that I probably need to get with my doctor and maybe change or adjust my meds.  The anxiety is putting me in a severe ADD spiral and I am firmly in that inattentive bubble and things are getting out of control.  I have several lists (not sure where I put them ❓) to try and keep me on track.   I talked to her a lot about the history with Dennis and his PTSD and his refusal to get any kind of therapy do to past bad experiences.  I can only control myself and my reactions so it is up to him to fix himself. He did get a different medication to try to see if it helps stabilize his mood.

I am in a podcast phase.  I have found a few that I am deep in a rabbit hole with.  One is called Whose Afraid of Ladonna Humphrey, about a crazy lady in Arkansas who literally bullies people and gets away with it.  The other is Noble about a crematory in Georgia that mishandled bodies.  Head Number 7 is on that same vein. I have a list of others I need to look into.  I hate that I have to wait for new episodes but I have a bunch so I can try and cycle through.  

I took Friday off last week and drove to MO to get a new tattoo.  I have wanted an Up themed tattoo for a very long time.  This artist has a great pop art style and was 2 1/2 hours away.  It tuned out really cute.  I took the saniderm off this morning and it is still scabby but it looks so good.  The purple might need touched up, which would require another trip to MO, which I don't hate for reasons I can't get into at the moment, as I am on lunch at work.  That brings me to 10 total.  I don't have any more ideas so that will be it for awhile.    

I went to my Mom's on Saturday.  I had to get my rings cleaned and inspected for the warranty so she road along and we went to lunch.  She mentioned that she wanted to see the new Twisters movie.  I suggested we go see it but saw you could buy it on Prime for $25, so we went back to her house and watched it.  We got about 3/4 of the way through when her little dog came walking through and yelped and just fell over.  I scooped her up and told my mom we were going to visit Dr. Suzanne at animal urgent care.  She is having a back flair up so they gave her a shot and some medicine.  They did some blood work and one of her values was off the charts high so they want her back in on Saturday to test her for Cushings.  I hate that for her because it is an 8 hour test and she has never really been away from my parents house.  But, it is necessary to make sure she gets treated.  My mom, knowing nothing about the condition, called my sister and said "it doesn't look good" I laughed and said it's fine, if she has it they will medicate her.  I know that it will likely shorten her life span but my parents have had her for 11 years.  No clue how old she was when they found her.  Typically dogs will live about 2 years after diagnosis.  I am so glad we decided to buy the movie and watch it there.  By the time we got her to the clinic she was acting better so who knows if we would have noticed it if we hadn't seen it.  

This weekend they are having a huge event at the river for the opening of a redesigned pedestrian bridge.  I hardly ever go to those things but they are doing an Outsiders experience with a meet and greet with the original movie Ponyboy C. Thomas Howell and SE Hinton along with a live mic viewing of the movie.  If I can find someone to go with me I will go.  My older sister might go.  She lives about a block from the park so I'm sure she will let me park in her driveway regardless.  It's a pretty ritzy neighborhood and they don't play when it comes to illegal parking.  It was a nightmare when the big part of the park initially opened.  They are opening a flume area but I will not be using that.  The Arkansas River is beyond gross.  I will be interested to see how that works out.  

I had a 6 month follow up with the allergy doctor this morning.  My sinus drainage has been out of control regardless of what I do.  She thinks it my GERD and not sinuses.  I have to take omeprizol daily for 2 months and go in for a follow up.  After my surgery I have relaxed a little in my habits but I have to go back to not eating 2 hours before bed and limiting fizzy drinks.  I guess if that doesn't control it I will go back to the gastro or if it is sinus issues, back to shots.  Regardless, ugh.  

I was thinking while writing this about the old CK days when everyone would post daily.  Now I can't think of anything to say even once a week.  Of course I was also working out and running a lot so there is that.  I was going to go to tap on Sunday but I can't find my tap shoes.  I may go to heel on Wednesday though.  I need to start doing something!  

Day 3 started out strong.  We were only a few blocks from the park so we stopped and had a quick breakfast and off to Broadway in Bryant Park we went.  It was so freaking hot.  I ended up going through my water pretty quick and went to get another and found a stand that sold umbrellas and I jumped at that. Best $20 I spent all day.  We were out there for about 2.5 hours.  It was unbelievably hot.  The poor performer's!  About the time we left I made the comment that I forgot to take my Zyrtec that morning and my throat was starting to get scratchy.  Famous last words.  Did I mention it was hot?

From Bryant Park we went to the Highline and checked out the Vessel.  It doesn't look as impressive in pictures but it is beautiful.  Entrance to the structure is closed because there were a lot of suicides from the upper level.  They are putting railings up, hopefully it won't impact the appearance too much.  We got there for the end of the individual women's gymnastics comp.  They had a screen set up right at the base of the Vessel and it was, again, so much fun to watch that way, we got to watch Simone get that gold.  I think I liked watching at the vessel more than RC.  But something about that area just drew me in.  

It was getting late afternoon and there is a mall right at the base of the structure so we decided to go in and visit the facilities and see about getting a late lunch.  We ended up at Shake Shack.  Not sure if we were starving or if it was really that good.  It is so much better than In and Out.  I have never gotten the appeal of that place.  We have Whataburger that I would take over I&O though, just not that impressed.  But I digress.  

HMF wanted to check out the portal, which is a live feed set up with another portal in Dublin.  At one point they shut it down because people suck and they were doing questionable stuff for the other side to witness.  It is still open but the hours are pretty short so we didn't get to interact with it.  I was dragging, I thought I had gotten too much sun and heat so I was ready to go back to the hotel and get a quick shower before show night number 2.  Since we ate late we weren't going to eat before.  

Show number 2, Water for Elephants was OK.  Grant Gustin is the male lead and his voice was amazing.  There were acrobats and puppets, and a few circus tricks.  It was a spectacle but not particularly memorable.  I was so cold.  Again, thinking I had just gotten too hot and my body was trying to regulate the temperature.  We got drinks and I maybe drank a few sips but I didn't even want it once I got it but you get souvenir sippy cups so there is that.   

setting up the stage at Bryant Park

Empire State Building in the background

a year later and I remembered what the cast of & Juliet looked like.  I told the girl behind me in line for a drink, "I think that's Romeo"

The Outsiders (understudies)

my new Fluevog bucket hat

The Vessel, I thought it was stunning

Olympic watch party take 2.  I'm aware I look a little like a thumb tack

My reflection in the Vessel

How neat was this view!

 

More Vessel pictures

The portal to Dublin, which was offline.  bummer

Water For Elephants

Day 4 was a short day.  We got up a little earlier than we had been.  We started at the 9/11 museum.  I told HMF before we went in that I tend to wonder at museums and get in my own head so we might want to plan a meeting spot.  Plus, the museum is somber and it isn't appropriate, in my opinion to be calling and trying to meet up.  No sooner had I said that, I looked up and she was nowhere to be found.  Oh well.  I found an exhibit hall I had no idea existed and it was huge.  I wondered around there for a long time.  I am not overly emotional but towards the end I had to leave because I was about to lose it.  I held it together until we went to the gift shop and saw the dogs of 9/11 stuff.  

I still hadn't official seen the statue of liberty.  I am fine with that.  I had a great view when I flew in the first time.  We had planned on going then but it was so rainy we didn't go.  I was too sick to want to go and fight crowds so HMF decided to do the one world observatory so we could at least see it.  It was kind of a neat way to end the visit because you have such a great almost 360 view.  When I go to NYC I am primarily there to see Broadway and I did that.

There is a Times Square tourist trap called RiseNY that is close to the hotel, we had to go back and get our bags and catch a ride and since it was close we decided to check it out.  They have a ride like Soarin' at Disney.  It was over priced but fun up until the end when we caught up to a middle school field trip.  They ended up letting us ride the ride twice because they felt bad.  The ride was a blast.  We decided to see if Ellen's Stardust Diner was busy to catch lunch, it is staffed by singing waitstaff and I had read a lot about it.  They don't take reservations and wait times can me LLLOOOOONNNNG.  But we caught it just right and got right in.  The food was not good, entertainment was awesome.

From there we went to the hotel, got our luggage and headed to the airport.  There is a little spa at there and we decided to get a foot and leg massage.  I was miserable and thought it might help.  I guess it kind of did but not long after the massage was over I got a text that our flight was delayed.  We looked outside and there was a torrential downpour.  I knew that wasn't a good sign at all.  As expected, all the flights were cancelled.  At this point I was on the verge of tears.  Rational thought was out the window.  My sister sent me the AA 800 number and I called to get flights changed.  HMF was going to start a new job on that Monday so the priority was to get her home.  I got her a flight out at 2:30 the next afternoon out of JFK instead of LGA, which was a lucky find.  They found me one out of JFK but it was flying into OKC, which is about an hour and a half from home so I booked that.  Under different circumstances I would have told HMF to leave and I would have stayed the weekend and saw more shows but that was not an option.  Unsure what they would do with the luggage, we stayed around.  They did end up offloading the bags so it was probably a good thing we stayed.  I was miserable and HMF wasn't helping, she just kept telling me that it was anxiety.  Bish I don't get travel anxiety (one of the few types I DON'T get).  The good news was I got in touch with another AA rep who was able to get me a flight to Tulsa.  I kept saying I am getting sick and she blew it off.  She asked me if I was going to be extra about a hotel.  I asked her what she considered extra?  I am fine with clean and safe.  Turns out the hotel she found was neither.  She went through hotel.com, which I am not a huge fan of to begin with.  I think we got our bags close to 10 pm, our flight was supposed to leave at 8:30 so we almost would have been home.  We got a cab to the grossest place ever.  We walked in and the lobby reeked of pot smoke.  The lobby desk was covered in bulletproof glass.  I held it together until we got to the room and it smelled so bad of cigarette smoke.  I refused to put my luggage on the couch or bed and sat on the wood coffee table until I finally had a breakdown and said I can't stay here.  I said I don't care what a  hotel costs, I would pay it.  I could not stay in that room.  HMF was pissed.  She slung her luggage around and didn't say anything to me.  I told her that although I didn't feel safe there or leaving her there by herself she was welcome to stay but I was out.  I got an uber to a hotel in Brooklyn off the line that runs to JFK.  When we left HMF flung the keys at the front desk.  Well, come to find out they asked for her DL to make a copy of (yeah they had to run it through the copy machine) and she forgot to take it out.  I was so over it at that point I had not a single fuck to give.  I paid for the uber, I paid for the hotel and I slept hard after taking a silkwood shower. 

Ellis Island and Statue of Liberty

on my death bed at the one world observatory

The last subway ride

Looking out at the observatory

RiseNY, Village People

Hamilton costume

Friend's couch

and we are staying an extra day

HMF's flight left at 2:00, mine wasn't until 5 but I had planned on getting a ride together but apparently while I slept she talked to the hotel and they had her driver's license.  She made an underhanded comment about how much the ride was going to cost to get the DL and back to JFK but I didn't throw a fit, she did so that's on her.  She made arrangements to leave at 10:30 to get all that done and I slept in with a late checkout.  There was a CVS a block from the hotel so I walked over and got some Nyquel and a thermometer just to see how bad it was.  I had almost 101 degree fever.  HMF sent me a text that she made it to the airport and I sent her a picture of the thermometer.  She commented back that they don't send kids home from school until they have 101.2.  I said great, please tell my body that I am not sick enough to go home.

Despite all of that my flight home was pretty unremarkable.  HMF got stuck in Charlotte.  She was supposed to be home around 10ish but they had issues and her connection didn't even leave until after I had landed.  When I got to the car I just collapsed in tears.  I found a home covid test and took that and I have never seen a test that positive almost instantly.   By Sunday I was running over 104 fever, zero stars.  The funny thing is I was convinced I wanted to move to NYC, or at least stay for an extended time but once I got sick the thought of walking to the subway to get a ride to the doctor was more than I could handle so looks like I'm gonna be in OK a little longer, lol

I didn't ask for a penny for either of the hotel stays and I haven't gotten an offer of any money towards that or the Outsiders tickets.  It's now worth fighting over and I will take it as a lesson to just go by myself next time as the reason I wanted her to go was to split the hotel costs.  I really had doubts after the last night if our friendship would survive but we are fine now.  We ended up going to see the touring version of Moulin Rouge on Sunday and had a good time.  We did decide to renew our season tickets to make sure we get guaranteed ticket options for the Outsiders tour.  I called and got that renewed Monday.  When she didn't venmo me the money by Tuesday evening I sent her a venmo request.  She made the comment that she wanted to make sure it went through because she can't afford to send it twice.  Ya don't say, imagine if you would have  paid the $450 you owe me for the hotel!  Again, lesson learned.  

And now back to my regularly scheduled life.  I took a week off sick.  I WFH on Monday and made it through so I went in on Tuesday.  It wore me out but I made it.  I am back in the office today and will do my normal make an appearance and dip thing tomorrow.

Dennis called me yesterday and talked for a long time.  We ended up going to lunch and talking.  Things aren't good but they are, I guess.  He hasn't heard back from the doctor.  I have mychart and check it for test results but I guess he doesn't have it.  I told him to maybe call them this afternoon.  He took Bai to the vet to get his shots.  I hate taking him because he is so reactive, (Bai, not Dennis).  But he did ok.  Britney, the girl who took care of him while he was quarantined was there and I think that made it a little easier. 

Not sure what the future holds but I do know that I have one foot out the door and I think he is starting to realize that as well.  I go see my therapist on Monday, I am sure he won't go but the offer is still there.  He still needs to see someone but that is a him problem that I can't fix.  

OK, I have a meeting.  I have been writing this for like 3 days, lol.