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Month: February 2024

Used the PA Day to

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Play with the kids while they were home and wanting to be outdoors and active. I took them skating to a friends backyard rink for an hour, and then had a park play date later on in the afternoon. It was cool, breezy, and very wet. Kids loved it. Now I need to work over the weekend to complete the last (but significant) edits to my report, which affects the tables. It’ll be a long repetitive process with lots of fiddly bits to keep track of. I’ve had a brief lie in. I will eat breakfast, and then I’ll get stuck in I suppose.

I get a second try at a Saturday today, which is kind of nice. Best spend it working! I have no wheels as the van is sitting idle. It needs a new radiator part, about $350.00 worth roughly. So as to not further injure the vehicle it shall sit unused until such time as I can get my mechanic to repair it. So no road trips to the store for me this weekend. I can attempt to fix (again) the bathroom door handles, and hinges. Best finish my paid work first though, before I tackle any DIY home repairs.

I feel bad I didn’t go to the cottage but I really do have a lot to get done to reorganize these tables. This is when I wish I had an assistant I could delegate work to. But just me, so I need to remedy the issue. No risk no reward!

From the looks of it we’ll have a sunny Saturday morning atleast. Pretty bright out through the curtains. Take it easy. Hug your loved ones. Ciao Bella!

Yet Another Friday PA Day.

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Have to keep something in your pocket for just such an occasion. I think ours is going skating with friends this morning, to run the kids ragged out on the ice. Helmets and sticks, chasing pucks around for an hour should do the kids some good. I’m in the midst of a debate about whether or not to spend time today with the kids, or if I need to knuckle under for all the edits I have for both of my concurrent reports. I could be at them for a few days, so maybe a morning with the girls would be ok. Hard to say, I’m torn between wanting to get this big job off my desk, but I also know the girls are only little once, and missing out on making memories really sucks. Responsibility to my business & clients versus the responsibility of being a present and involved parent. Hard balance to strike on some days, especially PA Days when they’re off for the whole day, and here with us (me). But then tomorrow is the weekend and I’ll see them for 48 hrs unhindered (possibly, lots of one type of style choice to enact across all tables).

Dentist visit yesterday was not much fun. My back left molar and gum is sore from them patching an old filling of theirs that fell out. They really had to pull on my cheek, and jaw to get back there. Muscles are sore, and even with Tylenol it was a challenge to sleep. I don’t particularly care for a frozen mouth. The numbing agent lasted about five hours or more. Luckily I did not chew on my cheeks, lips, or tongue. That’s a small blessing atleast. But they did poke and touch my gum line while working at the back of my mouth and that is not feeling so nice today.

Lunch yesterday was a mess. Soup and a bagel were less than ideal choices for eating with a numb mouth. I should have eaten more before my appointment, but I was a bit nervous about those mouth numbing needles that go way up into the gum down to the nerves. Good grief those are not fun to endure. Lasts just a hair too long for my liking.

We gotta get out of here for an hour soon, and then I’ll tear into my report edits. Have a restful Friday PA Day, and Ground Hogs Day. The movie should play on an uninterrupted loop on every channel for 24 hours today. I think that would be hilarious. Ciao Bella!

Off To The Dentist.

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I have a mid morning appointment to fix an old filling today, so I’m not going to be much good. I hate having to wait for appointments. I feel paralyzed by the looming target time to get somewhere, park, and do the “thing“. I can’t get stuck in on any projects prior to the appointment because I might whiff on the appointment itself by being preoccupied, missing my alarms and warnings. I hate it so much, thanks. I hate knowing I can’t get in to, or stay in the groove if I start something because the appointment is there, waiting, to ruin my finely aligned firing synapses. Such a strange space. Way better to schedule appointments for first thing in the morning, then I end up with no lost time waiting for the thing to happen. Gladly I’m no longer scared of going to a dentist. I found one that is very accommodating.

It is now February! February first to be exact. One month down, and eleven left in the basket. Did I hit my weight loss, slash exercise goals? No. No I did not. But I was active, just not as much as I should have been. 90 minutes of dancing at a house party was the height of my activies. Lots of fun. I also never bothered with pre destined blog posts, as it seems I had enough to say otherwise. So no 52 weeks of predetermined essays or ruminations on a theme. I’m ok with that. Also, am reading for fun, though no longer attempting a 12 for 12 challenge. I don’t want the added pressure for a fun pass time. However, I still want to read as the mood takes me.

Lots going on with extended family and illnesses. Hard to plan when various family members are caught up in deteriorating cancer journeys. Whether it’s dementia or multi organ terminal cancer, our future looks to hold at least two funerals, and possibly a third. Not a pleasant thought to plan family vacations around.

My wife’s year off is quickly counting down, and all these extended family emergencies has sucked much of the fun out of it for my wife. Covid has put limits on our children’s school for field trips and such. Which I know my wife had hoped to participate in all this school year. In a few years time she will be able to do so again, and I hope everything is more cheerful by then.

On the other hand the van engine temperature gauge is all over the show. So either the thermostat is gone, or the head gasket has gone, or the hoses are leaking badly as the overflow reservoir was nearly empty. Luckily I had coolant on hand to refill it. The true sign is that the vents were blowing only cold air even after driving for twenty plus minutes in above freezing temps. Fingers crossed for the thermostat, and maybe one easy to reach hose, or fitting/clamp. Otherwise – yikes. I mean it could also be the fan, or a belt issue, or so I have read. I’m not a mechanic and these new fangle modern engines confound me. I’m not exactly tech savvy, nor mechanically inclined. Those diagnostic machines aren’t cheap!