Another lazy day where I didn’t get much done. No painting again today. Still didn’t have the energy for it although I am feeling a bit better.
I slept from 1:00 – 3:00 and then couldn’t go back to sleep until 6:45 and then I only slept until 8:30. Got up and discovered our power was off. I called the electric company and they were already on the way to fix it.
I took my shower and got dressed and went into Emporia. I had to drive Jim’s car as I couldn’t get the garage door open to get my car out. Picked up my ear drops and a few groceries and returned home. Put things away, did the chicken chores and fixed my breakfast. The power was back on by the time I got home.
Went into Cottonwood Falls and delivered four dozen eggs to a dear friend. Went by the new investment property and discovered the door to the metal out building had blown off in the wind. We had left the door open as the building is empty and the heavy wind must have caught it and ripped it off the hinges. I’ll have to add fixing that to my long list of things to do. The boat is still on the property. Hopefully they will come get it tomorrow.
Came home and took a two hour nap. I’m still a bit tired tonight but feeling better. My ear hadn’t hurt much today until this evening. The PA I saw recommended I take some decongestant as well as Flonase. That seems to be helping a bit.
Tonight I have to inject myself with the new cholesterol medication. I watched a video on how to do it and it doesn’t look too complicated but sometimes things don’t go as easy as they should. We will see how it works. This one takes nine minutes for all the medication to be injected. Trusting it will feel like an IV and won’t hurt all that time. I am also trusting I won’t have a skin reaction to it like I did with the other brand. I have to take a Benadryl 30 minutes before the injection just in case I react to it. My body doesn’t like drugs and I can have unusual reactions.
I worked my shift last night on the hot line. It was another frustrating night for me. I handled five texters and four of the five were very slow to respond and gave me one word answers. It took a bit to drag out of them what was going on. None of them were very interested in problem solving. I have to trust that venting is what they needed as that is all I could see happened. I had to get a supervisor involved on one of the calls. The supervisor was helpful and gave me some extra space to chat that sometimes the others don’t.
I’ll probably get on again tonight when I get done blogging. It makes me feel like I did something for the day when I put in a couple of hours on the hot line. But so far this week I haven’t felt that my time was super effective. Some days and weeks are like that. One never knows what impact, if any, I am having.
I called the electrician and found out they were mailing the bid out today. I’m glad I called as they had the wrong address. Somehow they had my address as U Rd instead of V Rd. I’m anxious to see how much that bid will be.
Got the roofing bill and the bill from the heater inspection. I wrote checks and will put those in the mail tomorrow. I guess it is a sign of progress that money is flowing out.
I fixed green chicken for dinner. Jim got some hash browns with his and I had some carrots. It was another very easy meal to fix. Seems like that is all I do these days – easy what ever. Jim wants tacos for tomorrow night so that will be another easy meal.
We don’t have anything on the calendar for the weekend. Sure hoping I will feel energized tomorrow and will make it in to paint. That house is not going to get done if I don’t get started.
This time I am in right now feels like the in-between time. I have a wonderful anticipation of things returning to a new normal yet still have my feet stuck in the isolation of COVID. It feels like my body is not all here on either side of this great divide. It will take me some time to figure out what part of the new I want to pick up. Change is in the air and sometimes it can feel unsettling.
Grateful the power came back on rather quickly, grateful for what sleep I was able to find, and grateful for ear drops that will help my ear pain go away.