Time passing
I've mentioned that in October my brother passed away unexpectedly. It's been a rough few months since then. Helping to deal with his estate as much as I can while working full time in retail. lol. His house was listed before (in my opinion) we were really ready to do that, and surprise, it sold the same day it was listed. So tomorrow is the closing, and I don't know if arrangements have been made between Mom, the Lawyer and the Buyer about my brother's truck and his camper. I can go get the truck if Mom wants me too, but I don't know about driving it with a big heavy camper attached to it though. I'm pretty sure I don't know how to park it even if I can manage driving an unfamiliar truck with a giant haul attached to it. I guess she would have mentioned it if she needed me to do that. With the closing, that's one big stress that will be off my mind.
Ugh... I need this stress to totally ramp down. My injured ankle, my brother just dropping dead like that. Me getting sick and still feeling like I haven't fully recovered from that. A doctor who is unreachable and whose assistant won't return calls (That office doesn't know they're fired. As soon as I find another GI doctor). His house, WINTER, The holidays (work), exit from the holidays (work) and spring resets (work). I had planned to take a vacation right before all this happened and the world started running so fast, I didn't get my request in and then it was too late. I was sick all last week with whatever stupid stomach bug going around. Then this morning I wake up dizzy because Migraine sometimes works that way for me. So I need less stress. I wish I could retire already. lol. I love my job, but that would be one less stress. I need a 30 hour day and only have 24 to squeeze everything into.
So here's a little bit of a funny story. Roger had a big jug of pennies in his living room, and mom mentioned it several times, so I mentioned it to the person who helped me pick up the flatbed trailer and he put it in my car for me, (but I didn't actually realize he'd done it until later). So I told my mom about it today and said that I didn't know what to do with it, or how to get it out of the car unless my daughter can lift it. (Of course I guess we could dump a bunch of the pennies out of it, move it and then put the pennies back in.) so I asked if she though we could coinstar the pennies. She kind of laughed and told me she didn't really want to do anything with it. She just thought she would set it next to her TV stand like he had it at his house. Here, I thought she was worried about the money in it, because she kept mentioning it. Turns out she didn't care about the money. She just wanted it for sentimental reasons as a memento. So at least I did get it. Now it's just a matter of getting it out of the car.
At work, we have the big cosmetics wall spring reset coming up in a few days. So I hopefully will get some vacation time in. You can laugh about me putting WINTER as a stressor, but it definitely is for me. It's a HUGE stressor for me and every year it's more difficult for me to get through Winter. I don't know if I should be taking a D3 boost or what. I feel like I never see the sun any more, or if I do it's while I'm inside at work. I can go outside for 1 minute, but it's not like I can just stand outside in the cold half the day if the sun is out. lol. I'll be okay. I just need to get past the big stress points of WINTER. and get some vacation. The upshot is that I do earn my paid time off at the maximum amount now. So I can take a week now, and by summer I'll have 2 more weeks and another week by fall to get into the right mindset to face WINTER again.
cornerofmadness and evil_little_dog I retrieved edward_elric's LiveJournal lol. It wasn't easy. I couldn't remember any of his info, but I managed to figure it out enough to send a password link back to my secondary email and reset his. So in response to 
gateways_2_dawn question circa 2008, Ed is in if anyone else wants to play, or restart. It probably needs to move a little slower, but I updated Edward's email as well.
Ugh... I need this stress to totally ramp down. My injured ankle, my brother just dropping dead like that. Me getting sick and still feeling like I haven't fully recovered from that. A doctor who is unreachable and whose assistant won't return calls (That office doesn't know they're fired. As soon as I find another GI doctor). His house, WINTER, The holidays (work), exit from the holidays (work) and spring resets (work). I had planned to take a vacation right before all this happened and the world started running so fast, I didn't get my request in and then it was too late. I was sick all last week with whatever stupid stomach bug going around. Then this morning I wake up dizzy because Migraine sometimes works that way for me. So I need less stress. I wish I could retire already. lol. I love my job, but that would be one less stress. I need a 30 hour day and only have 24 to squeeze everything into.
So here's a little bit of a funny story. Roger had a big jug of pennies in his living room, and mom mentioned it several times, so I mentioned it to the person who helped me pick up the flatbed trailer and he put it in my car for me, (but I didn't actually realize he'd done it until later). So I told my mom about it today and said that I didn't know what to do with it, or how to get it out of the car unless my daughter can lift it. (Of course I guess we could dump a bunch of the pennies out of it, move it and then put the pennies back in.) so I asked if she though we could coinstar the pennies. She kind of laughed and told me she didn't really want to do anything with it. She just thought she would set it next to her TV stand like he had it at his house. Here, I thought she was worried about the money in it, because she kept mentioning it. Turns out she didn't care about the money. She just wanted it for sentimental reasons as a memento. So at least I did get it. Now it's just a matter of getting it out of the car.
At work, we have the big cosmetics wall spring reset coming up in a few days. So I hopefully will get some vacation time in. You can laugh about me putting WINTER as a stressor, but it definitely is for me. It's a HUGE stressor for me and every year it's more difficult for me to get through Winter. I don't know if I should be taking a D3 boost or what. I feel like I never see the sun any more, or if I do it's while I'm inside at work. I can go outside for 1 minute, but it's not like I can just stand outside in the cold half the day if the sun is out. lol. I'll be okay. I just need to get past the big stress points of WINTER. and get some vacation. The upshot is that I do earn my paid time off at the maximum amount now. So I can take a week now, and by summer I'll have 2 more weeks and another week by fall to get into the right mindset to face WINTER again.
cornerofmadness and evil_little_dog I retrieved edward_elric's LiveJournal lol. It wasn't easy. I couldn't remember any of his info, but I managed to figure it out enough to send a password link back to my secondary email and reset his. So in response to gateways_2_dawn question circa 2008, Ed is in if anyone else wants to play, or restart. It probably needs to move a little slower, but I updated Edward's email as well.