Day 128 - playing those Monday morning blues
Today is the 2nd day of the 19th week, the 8th day of the 5th month, the 128th day of 2023 [with only 230 shopping days left until Christmas], and:
- Free Trade Day
- Great Lakes Awareness Day
- International Thalassemia Day - an inherited blood disorder when the body doesn't make enough hemoglobin
- Iris Day
- Lag B'Omer - a Jewish religious holiday celebrated on the 33rd day of the Counting of the Omer, which occurs on the 18th day of the Hebrew month of Iyar [or about a month after Passover], known for bonfires, weddings, and haircuts.
- National Animal Disaster Preparedness Day
- National Coconut Cream Day
- National Give Someone a Cupcake Day
- National Golf Day
- National Have a Coke Day
- National Meeting Planners Appreciation Day
- National Student Nurses Day
- National Women's Check-up Day
- No Socks Day - very easy to celebrate when working from home and running around barefoot!
- Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for those Who Lost Their Lives during the Second World War
- Victory in Europe Day AKA VE Day
- White Lotus Day
- World Ovarian Cancer Day
- World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day
- the earliest day on which Mother's Day can fall, while May 14th is the latest
Quote of the day:
"I should say that happiness is being where one is and not wanting to be anywhere else"
~ Michael Frayn, A Landing in the Sun
It was a tough weekend, with my blood sugar bouncing around erratically as I struggled to get some basic chores done. And the waves of weakness and cold sweats persist whether the glucose is high or low or in range; I don't see where the new, less water regime is helping at all.
Yet how can I complain? My kids have it so much worse than I do! My daughter is struggling with pain every day of her life and my son-in-law with functioning as her caregiver, plus two very lively girls, and working full-time. My son is getting chemo infusions every two weeks.
Construction update:
It is rather fascinating to watch, but I've only gotten peeks now and then when I get up from my workstation.
Today I have been reminded a couple of times about the roads not taken, and I can honestly look back upon my decisions without regret. The most poignant reminder was that it was on this day in 2009 that I was abruptly terminated from MainStreet Lender, or rather, I was given the choice to retire immediately or be fired. Ah the heartburning, the recriminations, the tears, the angst! It was a couple of weeks before it came out that the real reason I was let go is they were trimming staff to get ready to be acquired, and had chosen to try and make it appear that I was let go for cause so that they wouldn't be charged for unemployment for a layoff. The ironic part is that they weren't anyway, because I landed on my feet in another job, but I never would've found out about the mechanizations had the unemployment bureau not questioned them in a telephone hearing and would've spent years beating myself up and trying to figure out what actually happened!
Today also I got notice that my lease for the 3-bedroom apartment I had moved into with my mother was up, and I made the painful decision to downsize. I got rid of Grandmom Riley's dining set, ruthlessly reduced my library by 60%, gave away my entire childhood bedroom set, let go of a two room's worth of bookshelves, reduced the boxes in storage by half, and moved into my current 2 bedroom apartment [complete with Disaster Area].
It was a very dark time indeed, and for a while, I simply couldn't process it. It is humbling to remember the depths of my despair, and how long it took me to deal with it, so yes, while I could wish things had turned off a bit differently but on the whole, I am happy to be where I am.
But I still find Monday morning a rough row to hoe and today has been particularly difficult as I try and catch up from having had off on Friday!
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