My brother had a pretty awesome Nerf war Bday party last night. I don't have my normal computer so I don't have any way to put photos on here at all for either of my topics today, expect photos in the next couple of days, hopefully. That's all I'll say about the party without the pics for now.
So, I come into work today knowing full well that I won't have a wall to my office anymore. I wasn't expecting the true damage that I walked into, though. Not at all. I guess I should have expected my office to be covered in a patina of dust from 100 years of having walls in the office. Everything was covered in dust, nothing covered or protected. So, there is that.
Then, I was told that my sanctuary, which I just finished cleaning and arranged, was supposed to be safe as it was protected by a support wall. This was not the truth, they ripped a hole in the other wall for no reason. For no reason at all. Really, guys? Really? Were you getting a little crowbar happy? In fact, the crow bar is still hanging stuck in the wall. I'll post the picture when I can.
Oh, did I mention that they shut off the power to my office, too? So it's a horrible mess, I don't have any power, it's in unworkable conditions, and I'm still expected to do my job. Thanks, guys. Really, I mean it. Thanks. Motivation is at an all time low. I didn't think it could get this low.
Gah.
To make matters the worst, I planted a tomato plant, Giada the Tomata, in a spare sparse garden bed here and I've been taking care of her, watering her and weeding and tying her up and everything. And when I left on Thursday she had a nice half ripe tomato on her, the first one. I expected to have a nice beautiful tomato when I came into work today. Guess what I found instead? Someone took it. My first tomato from her. I am not against sharing my crops with people here, but no one else helped me grow her so I feel that I should have first rights. How dare someone steal my first tomato. It was the final nail in the demotivation coffin today.
And I'm stressing big time about going to NYC and leaving my little bear. So that doesn't help with my overall mood. If Ry was staying home with him I would feel 1000% better. I wish he wasn't going to Niagara Falls. I know that is selfish and not nice but I can't feel good about us both being gone. I'm home with Asher a lot when Ry travels. I just wish he could reciprocate. I cannot even begin to tell you how stressed I am about this. I've been trying not to think about it. I haven't been succeeding.
I'm super stressing, too. I'm just as stressed now as when I left her to go to Ireland with Jason. This is your first time and it's going to suck. I almost wish that you had left Asher alone before this trip because I know exactly what you're going through. You just have to let go. Dot all "Is" cross all "Ts". Putting a living will together and giving multiple copies out to people that I trusted helped. Making an "Athena Book" also helped the relatives take care of Athena (since they just see her on webcam and don't really take care of her that often) and gave me a little better peace of mind. Typing up a letter saying that "X" has full power to make medical decisions in your absence (and always have a back up person, too), helped me. I also left several numbers such as Athena's doctor and emergency numbers (like maybe Rachel's/my cell just in case they can't get a hold of you).
ReplyDeleteJust let go. Let our boys have fun together. We'll set time aside everyday for webcamming with our kiddos....and drink lots of fancy wine of our choice.