was expecting to have a schedule

I thought for sure I would be getting my schedule for next week but as you well know I got the word earlier this week and it will NOT be sporadic like I originally thought.  My plan is to go in as early as possible everyday so I can get as much done as possible. 

I have most of my laundry done but some of them need to be ironed before I wear them.  I also got foods for lunch at least for the first few days.  I don’t want to order food at lunch or get stuff from the vending machines.   I think we all know I will anyway.

We already have a lot of Union Activities (okay so may be 3 or 4) in the next few weeks.  We have a med school committee meeting (Not sure if is actually just committee or it’s a membership meeting) next week and some other ally meeting.  I made a promise to attend or participate in activities for the union and wouldn’t you know it I have a few conflicts already.

So I went to the gym last night and did some cardio beforehand and made some steps.  Well I must have deleted it during class (which was good) I think I tried hard and couldn’t breathe well.  Not to the point of hyper venting.  We had it inside and there were only two students and Alex.  At the end of the class I asked if he was teaching Saturday’s class he isn’t and he asked me to come in at 8 that morning my first thought was Oh man I am in trouble.  I think he knows I didn’t come to class yesterday.  We talked about what I would get for groceries (for healthy diets).  He says no on bananas but one fresh fruit a day.  So between Alex and one of the others they made suggestions and I took them. 

So I got to the store a little after 6:30 and started with fruits and vegetables.  I checked with Alex about grapes and he said yes.

So I got clementines, grapes, blueberries and salad fixings.  I got more Salmon Filets; I got chicken, pork, steak, roasts.  I was able to get some frozen vegetables, and the milk, creamer (in order to use a coupon I needed to buy three of them…NO) I got my yogurt and sliced cheese some was 40 percent caloric and some regular.   

I was not able to get Disinfectant wipes of any kind.   I checked on the website Next Door for ideas this morning but haven’t had any responses.  I don’t normally like to go from store to store but I may not have a choice..  I may have to order again from Amazon. 

I also forgot a couple of things.  I need more sweeteners (Truvia) and my prescriptions I have to pick up the Prescriptions in a little while.  I think I may have enough for now with the Truvia but I will see about that.

 

I was pleased and impressed that I made it out of the store not spending a whole lot of money and within 45 minutes.  I was home and emptying the groceries by 7:30.  I don’t like spending hours upon hours grocery shopping.

After I put stuff away I had a yogurt and a couple of slices of the cheese and a coffee.  I had a weight watchers dinner before going to the gym (not a good idea) and it didn’t suffice me.  The coffee kept me up at bed time too.  I even had warm milk and added way too much Cinnamon with a touch o vanilla and sugar.

I did my normal evening routine.  I did text Sis and asked to come by for a visit.  I told her I was going to be around and just wanted to stop by and say hi so this morning in about an hour or so we will be getting together.

I spent some one on one time with Tiger before returning to bed last night.  We sat here on the couch and I kept petting her.  She also was trying to do something to my shred pile here.  I am not sure where she spent the night sleeping.  She did do her thing with the rug at 5:30.

I have more to write but need to get ready.  I want to do some stuff before we get bad weather.

Afternoon everyone! How you doing?  Tropical storm fay is arriving.  It was sprinkling earlier today when I was at my sisters and then it stopped and it is supposed to be heavier and stronger soon.  The wind has been strong.  It should be for the rest of the night.

So my plans changed slightly as I left here later than I wanted to and went to my sister’s first.  WE were inside and talking for a while and then went outside on her deck and we talked about things.  Such as the Corona virus, family, 12 step programs and nature.    Some of it was rehash old history again.  It was good.  When it started raining I headed out with the intention of picking up my prescriptions (done) and going to the transfer station (nope) and to the gym (nope). 

Unfortunately, I was having some issues that I had to come home and change.  I had something that didn’t agree with me. So I got cleaned up and the laundry started up.  I decided whatever hit me earlier was no reason to not have lunch. 

I made some pork patties and cooked a couple of those and froze one.  It would have been two but I ate the other-raw.  Yes I do realize I could get sick.  I am expecting something spectacular later tonight.  Anyway, I had some cheese with it (finished off the pepper jack), yogurt, and mini sweet peppers and coffee.

After a while I just watched TV and prepared for the storm.  That seems to be subsiding for now.

I did learn a couple of things this afternoon our local Hooters is closed for good.  It opened in 1983 with mixed reactions from many citizens.  I never went there at all.  The food wasn’t always good and I certainly didn’t miss anything.  I am trying to find damn articles about it but can’t find anything.

There was a bobcat sighting about a mile and half from here.  Near where DO grew up.  It was on Next door site.  I am Glad my cats don’t go out. 

I had my phone session with Debra.  We talked about the week that just passed and we discussed my feelings about returning to work.  We talked about the issues with the cats this week.  We talked about the visit with Liz today.

I am so glad that my friend Chris shared the live feeds of the Duluth Harbor Cams.  I have been finding them very interesting to watch.   ON that site you will find shipping schedules, locations and much more information.  The views are breath taking.

Now though I am going to bed.  I have to be up early and I am tired.  I don’t think I really needed the herbal tea to get me to sleep.  I have been doing it a few times tonight.

 

We go back to work

Some of us will be going back to work in 9 or 10 days.  There will be many who will be working from home still and those who like me will be sporadically in the office.  The union was able make arrangements with the Uni to continue to pay for those who are home past July 10.    As I said previously I made sure to let the union stewards know I am ready and willing to go back to work.  One was afraid that if I didn’t I would have to go into the pool or find another job within the university.  I don’t know if I will be sharing my desk with someone as there are some changes coming down the pike

Two departments will be merging another will be outsourced and the Customer/Patient service is safe.  Accounts receivable (claims department, follow up, cash posting and some others) are fine.  There will be some that could be asked to retire.  As its two people I have worked with one for nearly my entire career in YM and another for the last three years are going to be moving on.  ChristinaR is going to the academic side of the chemistry department and PM is planning on retiring.

There was discussion on the entire university but I wasn’t focused on that during the meeting yesterday.  We will keep on top of the changes and to be sure things are done right.  Contract negotiation preparations are starting and surveys will be going out to the masses to see what we will be fighting for. The two top ones are Job security and of course the benefits.

I did let the committee know that I along with the rest of the team haven’t had many meetings regarding updates or staff meetings in quite some time.  He would send out general emails regarding pay, time, and work related emails (few and far in between).

There were emails from Administration and the union with future plans for the rest of the summer and for the fall opening.  I still need to read through them but I am confident I will not be asked, told or begged to be moving from the current job I have.  That being said I am hopeful that will not be the case. 

I have to admit some of the emails that the Administration has sent out I haven’t read completely because they are not specific enough for me.  I sometimes think I am an idiot or lazy not to really read through some of them.

So I don’t know what happened yesterday but my sense of time went completely down.  Alex had to send me a text about our session at 6 (I thought it was at 6:30) I also thought I signed up for a class afterwards and I can’t find it now.  I was so tired yesterday.   We talked about the exercise I did, the walking and he encouraged me to either come into the gym or do more walking.  He says especially if it is only one way on the boardwalk. 

I didn’t do very much but I was tired. I tried to write an entry which merged into this one.  I watched TV.  I don’t think I walked at all.  I ate lunch and of course I went to the gym.  I was home by 7:30.

Today was my infusion and it went fine.  I fell asleep for a bit and left by 10.  I headed back to home and checked on the cats got some more coffee and then headed to JOC’s house.  We went for an abridged version of our walk.  She told me what she has on her foot (some inflammation and is on that Voltron cream).  We were finished by noon and we talked about tonight’s meetup.

 

The rest of the afternoon I tried to do some writing and watched TV, and cooked the roast for an hour and half. 

As the day passed it got cloudy around 3 another thunderstorm was coming through.  It would start until about 5:30.  It was a light rain but I wasn’t going to take a chance so most of us had to cancel out.  It had been thundering since then and started lightening just before 9.

I was able to go to walk a shorter one than lunch time.  The sky was blue and gray it was beautiful.  I got back at 7:30 and been watching TV and about to clean up the kitchen.

Sky is underneath my bed.  Tiger is sitting in front of the TV as I write this.  MY hope is she will come upstairs when it’s time for me to go up.

Well my hands and my shoulder are acting up again.  I took Tylenol earlier this evening and it hasn’t kicked in.  I better get the dishes done and go to sleep.  I have an exercise class to go to.

Crazy Week

In my anticipation of being off next week and that includes training someone and doing the rest of my work. I neglected to put in for said vacation.  It has been rectified and as I checked emails from home discovered my supervisor approved the request.  A bullet dodged.

I have been so tired every night that I have been going to bed fairly early (anywhere from 8 pm until normal time). As I mentioned to Debra in our session tonight is that by the time I get home I don’t do much except meals and TV and computer.  On the few nights I have meetings or appointments.  Then once I say this I have to remember there are times I do some laundry but mostly I vegetate.

I have been in touch with Mama Roberta and she gave me a whole itinerary as of this morning.  She and Papa will have much to do and we will be doing a few of them together.   A few dinners with friends.  Most importantly we will be spending Easter together. 

The weather has been very wet and windy.  We had a break in the wet weather on Wednesday.  We had a major thunder storm with lightening to boot last night.  I came directly home instead of dropping the car off.  It didn’t last long the sun did come out for a short time before sunset.  Today is supposed to have some showers.

I wanted and tried to get up early so that I could empty out the car before bringing it to the garage.  It didn’t work.  I decided when the sun was really up I would do it. I don’t want to do it too late as I have a number of things to do today. 

Interesting Day

It is nearly Midnight and I am just sitting here thinking about the last 12 or 13 hours.  I had decided to stay in bed longer than planned after going to bed late.  I had taken some Celestial Tea last night and it helped a great deal with the sleep.  As in the days past I was able to get out of the house at a fairly decent time and get to the cat.  That’s about the time it came to screeching halt.  

Traffic came to an abrupt halt at the Garage where I usually park.  People were blocking the entrance and others didn’t think we were moving fast enough (the traffic light was red) as a result of this tie up it was getting late.  I didn’t realize just how late until I came to the intersection near the office.

Just a few minutes after 8am I noticed my office building being evacuated.  There was a fire alarm going off (I couldn’t actually hear the alarm) so I started making calls to co-workers.  I ran into a few of them and just as I was calling JudyF she walked by me.  I stayed with JanetN and we talked for a while.   AT one point I was feeling a little weird and I asked Janet to take me to her car so we could sit down.  We were outside for a good hour before we got back into the office.

When we finally got back into the office I was greeted by two boxes of mail.  The volume was pretty steady.  i had gotten most of it done by the end of the day.  I can finish what’s left in the morning.  

Mom met me at Debra’s office and we went up together.  The session was basically to decide whether or not it what would be better? Preparing to get a condo or stay in the house and what it would take for either of these situations.  So Debra and I have to crunch numbers of our own and then come to a decision and then tell Mom so she can take the steps to help with it.  She says that both siblings realize the house would be mine and that they are pretty much set for themselves.  

It was really chilly today.  There was a frost advisory and freeze warnings for Monday and overnight.  The temperatures are currently 47 degrees.  It is supposed to rain tomorrow and get some thunder and lightening.

The Weather

The weather started off a little windy this morning and got warmer by the end of the day.    By the end of the day it was sunny and within a short time later the clouds moved in.  The forecast is calling for rain during the night into tomorrow.   It will be sunny and some clouds.    I was checking out my cousin Tim’s weather in Dexter MI and they are still getting snow!

Today went really well.  I managed to get up early enough to be able to leave the house and get coffee before getting to the office.  I got to work by 7:15 and jumped in to getting the rest of the work finished from yesterday.    I think it helped to get 2 very large cups of coffee.  That I managed to spill on my desk.    LUckily very little damage done to the work.  In the end I managed to get a lot done and off my desk.  

I had a lunch time local 34 caucus they scheduled to update members on the various aspects of the contract and labor/management relationships.  I wasn’t able to stay for the entire meeting but I get the gist of the updates.

I managed to get home before my dentist appointment.  MOm was getting ready for her supper meeting with Barry and then to appear before the budget hearings tonight at the Aldermanic Budget meetings.    I relaxed for a short time and surfed the net.

The entire appointment lasted an hour and fifteen minutes.  I had my cleaning and exam and it looks like I have several cavities(insert shocked face).  I have to go back in the first week of May for the fillings and then he will do the caps to the implants a little later.

When I got home I was exhausted.  I had the stew we discussed having earlier.  I watched TV and then put the garbage and recycle stuff out.  I really don’t like doing it in the morning because usually I miss  putting something out and they also come early.

I watched TV for a while.  I noticed there are some really great movies on like Independence Day with Jeff Goldblum and  Queen of the Damned.  I have seen each of these movies at least half dozen times between them.  I just can’t tonight.

As it is I am tired and for some reason I have a backache.  When I get up from chairs or even turn to one side it hurts.    My left pinky had a paper cut I guess (I don't  how I would usually feel it but it ) still hurts.   I need to get to sleep.