My life these days alternates between crazy busy, supporting someone else's goals (that's ok), working on one of my projects, and times like now. I am alone in the house and it is very nicely quiet. I am having a bit of a struggle getting started.
since its grey and rainy, i would like to get back in bed and read a book. but I do have some driving around to do today. and the list of things around the house that I want to get done, just isn't going anywhere. Most are so big that getting is started is a bit intimidating. I know, one small step at a time, but on days like this where I have the time, i just don't feel like it.
there are no bad consequences of my not getting these things done except for the fact that they are still there and I still want that garage cleaned out and the bedroom I use for projects -- well its just a mess, no projects there until I get it cleaned up.
I really struggle between just being ok with being lazy and wanting to get this stuff started. I worry that this could become a "bad' habit -- this doing nothing stuff.
and then again, I know that its not my personality to stay "hidden" for too long
I am busy with the part-time work I am doing. I don't have much control about when it hits my email -- This week I did no more than answer a few emails and talk on the phone for an hour or two, last week I spent 4 very long days on it. who knows whats up for next week..
The work is good, I am not complaining that I have to do it. AND, I am learning a good lesson about someone else leading and me being all about support. My colleague and I don't agree on everything but its essentially his project so I do my job and walk away at the end of the day. I work from home and pretty much set my own hours.
Tom continues to get low just about every evening between 6 and 7 (maybe earlier but that's when he gets home and I see him). He refuses to eat dinner earlier, complains if he has to drink too much juice since that will spoil his appetite, and appears to think its no big deal. But his monitor often says something between 55 and 70. I have seen it lower but not very often. He is getting pickier with what he eats and refuses to eat anything that looks like a carb (bread, pasta, potato, breadcrumbs on a casserole...) I am doing my best not to worry about it because his doctors tell him he is healthy and really, there is nothing I can do about it anyway. and yet, clearly it is on my mind quite often.
so having said all that I think i will read the paper and drink my coffee until I have to leave to pick someone up in a half hour.
It felt good to write all of that out.....
Thursday, November 12, 2015
Sunday, November 1, 2015
Its November 2015!
Hi everyone,
Sorry I haven't posted in awhile. All is good here.
After about 6 months of practice retirement, I am working again.
But its different this time and its by choice.
Its not that I didn't LOVE retirement.
But one of those opportunities was offered to me and it was too good to turn down.
This work is part time (on my schedule) and I work from home -- most importantly I don't have to sell anything. I never liked that part of work -- to my boss, to customers, to co workers. you know the drill. I just wanted to do my analyses and put together the meat of a report. Then it was up to others to make the report pretty and convince clients that this was so good that they need more.
AND, the pay is very good. Since I want to do much more travel, its working out well. I set aside almost all of my income (we can live on my husband's salary). We only need my money for larger things like home repairs, :( vacations, taxes, investments.
I guess its a sign of age, but we seem to keep experiencing health issues -- mostly minor, but more frequently than earlier in our lives. For me, just minor things: strep throat, PT for my bad ankle, a scratched cornea -- and I had a sleep study done. They decided that I have apnea (no kidding) and now the insurance company will let me get a dental appliance to help me breath better as I sleep.
Tom on the other hand, has been hospitalized twice this year. The first time he was throwing up and super dizzy. The emergency room doctor thought he had a brain tumor. So frightening It turned out to be a very severe case of vertigo and the neurologist fixed it in three minutes. The hospital treatment was lousy and Tom had to demand to see the neurologist. Otherwise, who knows where he would be today.
His second trip was when I was out of town. Over labor day weekend, he had been doing a bunch of yard work. On Tuesday he woke up with an irritating itchy bump behind his knee. By the time he got home from work, he decided it needed to be checked on because it was much bigger and much redder. He went to urgent care and they took one look at it and sent him to the ER. It took them three days and 4 different IV antibiotics before they would send him home. And then it was with a PIC line so that he could continue to give himself the IV antibiotic for another 5 days. by the way, they never actually diagnosed the case of the infection.
All is well now, but both events were a bit scary.
On the other hand, I have had quite a bit of vacation time this year :) Florida two times, the beach in Maryland once, and then the "Mayan Riviera" outside of Cancun, Mexico. All of it was fun (except when I had to leave the beach early because of Tom's 2nd hospital visit) but nothing phenomenal. That will be next year when we go to Israel for 2 weeks. SOOOO excited.
So I think that wraps up my year so far. I will try to do a better job of posting and figure out how to allow for comments from others (thanks DW for letting me know).
Sorry I haven't posted in awhile. All is good here.
After about 6 months of practice retirement, I am working again.
But its different this time and its by choice.
Its not that I didn't LOVE retirement.
But one of those opportunities was offered to me and it was too good to turn down.
This work is part time (on my schedule) and I work from home -- most importantly I don't have to sell anything. I never liked that part of work -- to my boss, to customers, to co workers. you know the drill. I just wanted to do my analyses and put together the meat of a report. Then it was up to others to make the report pretty and convince clients that this was so good that they need more.
AND, the pay is very good. Since I want to do much more travel, its working out well. I set aside almost all of my income (we can live on my husband's salary). We only need my money for larger things like home repairs, :( vacations, taxes, investments.
I guess its a sign of age, but we seem to keep experiencing health issues -- mostly minor, but more frequently than earlier in our lives. For me, just minor things: strep throat, PT for my bad ankle, a scratched cornea -- and I had a sleep study done. They decided that I have apnea (no kidding) and now the insurance company will let me get a dental appliance to help me breath better as I sleep.
Tom on the other hand, has been hospitalized twice this year. The first time he was throwing up and super dizzy. The emergency room doctor thought he had a brain tumor. So frightening It turned out to be a very severe case of vertigo and the neurologist fixed it in three minutes. The hospital treatment was lousy and Tom had to demand to see the neurologist. Otherwise, who knows where he would be today.
His second trip was when I was out of town. Over labor day weekend, he had been doing a bunch of yard work. On Tuesday he woke up with an irritating itchy bump behind his knee. By the time he got home from work, he decided it needed to be checked on because it was much bigger and much redder. He went to urgent care and they took one look at it and sent him to the ER. It took them three days and 4 different IV antibiotics before they would send him home. And then it was with a PIC line so that he could continue to give himself the IV antibiotic for another 5 days. by the way, they never actually diagnosed the case of the infection.
All is well now, but both events were a bit scary.
On the other hand, I have had quite a bit of vacation time this year :) Florida two times, the beach in Maryland once, and then the "Mayan Riviera" outside of Cancun, Mexico. All of it was fun (except when I had to leave the beach early because of Tom's 2nd hospital visit) but nothing phenomenal. That will be next year when we go to Israel for 2 weeks. SOOOO excited.
So I think that wraps up my year so far. I will try to do a better job of posting and figure out how to allow for comments from others (thanks DW for letting me know).