New Job! Still a job!!

Yeppers -- yes, new job, yes busy all day, good things, busy things... still working.  Still up before god, country and 8/10's of the East Coast planet... got a case of something... bla.

Good busy weekend, followed by a busy Monday, work-work and home stuff.  Thankfully a break from Meeting Monday to get stuff done.

I was seriously annoyed with Bubba Sunday night, he'd been home and playing all weekend, when I get home after a 5.5 hour drive, I'm doing laundry and kitchen duty - he's looking for backyard cleanup and other stuff... including dinner.   He got leftovers I brought home from PA.

I get to vote tonight.  I guess it would be too dramatic to walk in with a clothes pin on my nose right?  Cripes.  I seriously think about the world in which we live - it's really starting to hit the crazy spin cycle!  On my drive home I was reminded of the quiet beauty of my PA home, trees and space, and no bumper to bumper traffic...

That week at camp will be nice -- peaceful.  Sans electronics.

Craving something not good for me -- not 100% sure what it is yet.  So you have to ask yourself what do you think you want - when you aren't hungry enough to know... swish that bit of illogical mess around and spit.

Hit a snag yesterday with the new boss - I think that is where this mood hit today.  I was cruising - and then wham! Dork Ing stepped in and screwed that all up.  It was only a matter of time.  I guess better to get the Dork issue up front - and not hit her with it later.

Eating lunch, then off to a meeting with the boss, in which I will probably do a lot of day dreaming.  And look like I am taking careful notes.

Short and sweet - sometimes those are the good ones.  I have some planning stuff to do, my at home lists are getting longer, and I find I want to spend more time just hanging out with my dog.  It's so hard seeing her get older and those legs just don't want to do what she wants or needs.  But she's still in that food bowl every morning and evening and trying to take off a finger with the pill/chicken combo.

Off to meeting prep; drink, empty bladder, pen, paper, presentation... ah... the glamorous life I lead.

Yesterday I was grateful...

Yesterday on my way home from the surgery vet - I sent thanks and praise to the heavens above.  I acknowledge that I am a very, very lucky girl in many ways.  But yesterday in something as simple as my old dog's health -- dodged a big bullet - and bill.

Let me 'splain...
As you know Shelby and her busted elbow of Christmas, things have been progressing along.  She'd been getting up and down the most used stairs (to the back yard) but we still carried her down the big steps in the house.  It's just our routine now.

ANY -- way.. she got all brave on Sunday as I was talking to the neighbors and fell down the two steps off the deck.  Of course, she landed on that freaking elbow.  Then I saw a new bump.  She didn't like me touching it.  We feared the worst, we sent pics to the ER Vet - they said as long as she was walking on it -- keep our Wednesday appointment.

That was yesterday.  I will admit I had expected the worst - more surgery - maybe after all we are talking about the laws of diminishing returns.  And of course Bubba is traveling for work...

So we arrive, go through the intake, discuss the spill of Sunday, back she goes... I break open a book - because it's what I do - and it's a good distraction - then - oh the heavens be praised - the doc comes out and says -- no big deal.  Screw was loose (make your own joke there) and it was right under her skin, 15-20 minutes with a local numb screw came out, and we were headed home. 

I said a multitude of prayers on the way home, so very grateful for that small gift.   Shelby napped. ;-)

I also figured I better send up a chest bump to the big guy up stairs because I was having very selfish thoughts about my weekend plans and how Bubba could adapt his instead of me canceling everything.  God knows my husband and the suffering that would have been brought upon him  had he had to do something not of his liking... especially because his wife didn't do it for him.   Rude I know... doesn't make it any less true.

So!  Big deal tonight is the rush to get hubby's car paid for before they close tonight - and because I don't want to go 15 miles out of my way Friday afternoon.  Call me selfish.

All righty -- back to work.

well - that took a while...

Frankly, it was March first then suddenly it was April.  And now its Mid-freaking-April.  Upside busy - life, work, things are humming along.

I joined a gym near home - then ignored it for a week - just kinda worked out that way but I did - week 2 manage to get my lazy buns in there.  We are trying a new app - Couch to 5K in 8 weeks... I am on day 1.  I swear that one minute run was longer toward the end of the walk than it was early on. 

I will go back tonight - Thursday is a dinner I must make for the guys, and I will return on Friday.

Saturday is completely booked with Girls' Group stuff -- should be fun.  At least the bowling and the dance will be.   Sunday I will do my best to get up and go to church.  I had a good streak going until last Sunday - I turned off the alarm and went back to sleep.  Lord and Nana forgive me.

I got Carpool Buddy back a week ago - up side HOV lane and quicker trips home - down side less running around before I get home -- Not sure that is a down.  I do feel bad, he's not 100% and the job isn't much fun.

Same with my Bubba - the job sucks - he's unhappy.  And yet won't make time to do something about it.  Better side is that he can go ride LuLu with the group and that makes him happy.  It also makes Aunt Ing happy because I did so enjoy that quiet time this past weekend.  Ahhhhh

My new job is busy and I like it.  It's so much easier to fill a day when you have something to do all day!

All right back at it... I have a list of course.