28 Drafts

Well, hello there. It’s been a while. How’s the second half of 2020 treating you? The same as the first? I have a lot of catching up to do. I have 28 drafts started from the last time I posted. 28. I haven’t even gone back to look at what I was wanting to talk about in those drafts. It’s been so long now, it doesn’t matter.

Things are finally changing now since the last time I posted. I think I was working on our home office, but I’ll get to that another time. I did want to get on here and try to catch up, now that life is more than just staying home. Our state is still in phase 2 of this dragged out lock down, but other than the mandated masks, it’s hard to tell.

I’m finally employed, though I feel a bit gun shy to say so. I work for a healthcare group and am enjoying it for the most part. The work, I enjoy. I enjoy it a lot. The not so enjoyable part is the environment and taking a while to get used to it. It is ridiculously fast paced. I’m not the person to master multi tasking. I have to wait for that muscle memory to kick in before I’m confident in myself. Well, muscle memory and the ADHD meds I’m finally taking again. I’m feeling kind of fabulous for having health insurance again! Of course, having the ability to see my doctor while I’m at work, and not having to pay a dime for the office visit is somewhat on my list of hallelujahs too.

In the midst of being AWOL, my beautiful little grandson turned 3. Let me tell you, he had a birthday and all of a sudden he changed from a toddler to a whole kid! Like he’s a little boy now! I don’t know what happened! His entire attitude changed and I’m not sure if I even like him anymore! I’ve always been the master at putting him down for a nap and the other day, he fought me like I was his mother! Who did this kid think he was anyway? pshh. I finally had to give up and let him have his way and let his mother deal with his no nap self.

So beyond the kidding that I don’t like my grandson, I’m just working and being grateful for it. Oh and I had several calls from other interviews I thought I had bombed. Yeah, I got those calls one week into having this job. One was like, “Hey girl, you ready to work?” Don’t think I didn’t consider leaving where I had spent my week. Same company though, different job. Didn’t really want to come off as insatiable and I certainly don’t want to burn any bridges. That one year no job thing almost took me out.

Also, just for journal purposes, last week I woke in the middle of the night, walked toward the laundry room (it’s a sleep disorder) and all of a sudden, had this sharp, pinched nerve feeling shoot through the inside top my forearm. It continued all night with certain movements and into the next day where I had one of the doctors look at it for me. Doctor said it was probably coming from my neck, so she prescribed a muscle relaxer and an anti inflammatory for me. They did nothing. So, all week, I’ve had the same pain shooting through my arm, along with my shoulder, neck, and part of my back feeling sore, stiff, and twisted. Today, I followed up with her and she put me on some nerve pills, wrote an order for an X-ray tomorrow, and physical therapy once a week. I’m not at all fond of the pills I’ve been consuming, but this pain is debilitating. I am highly tolerant to pain, but this…this hurts and I’m kind of tired of it. Again, luckily, the X-rays are at work, so I won’t have to miss anything. (This may be a “perk” that bites me as I’ll never be able to call in sick.)

I’ll read those 28 drafts later. Enough for tonight. It’s bedtime.