Askye, I'm sorry workers comp is being so difficult. Give them hell.
Oh, no, Sheryl! I'm so sorry. That is supremely unfair.
I bought a new organizer for ltc's art supplies and have been spending the week so far reorganizing those and her toys. I found 8 masks that needed to be washed mixed in with her toys yesterday. I have so much more to do, and things are still in that worse before they get better stage, but my body is like, "No, you have run out of spoons for the week. So sorry that it's only Thursday, but there is nothing we can do about it." So, I'm napping despite the fact that I really wanted things to look better before my in-laws came by this afternoon.
ltc's report card came out today, and she is doing so well. I'm still not used to the weird grading system, but essentially she went from lots of "emerging skills" last quarter to "proficient" this quarter. She is reading and writing to the extent that I'm quite impressed, and spelling things in front of her so that she doesn't understand them is no longer an option.
Papa T was back in the hospital this week for more tests, but he's home again. Long story short, his cancer has spread, and he's no longer going to be treating it. The goal at this point is to make the rest of his life(which is hopefully at least a few more months) as comfortable as possible. He's handling all of this very well. However, I'm not, and I see a lot of random crying jags in my future.
Wow, Toddson. Oh, as usual, dear.
{{{sj}}}
Toddson, that is a LOT.
I'm sorry, sj. I'm glad for him that he seems to be OK, but I know it's so hard. Love to you, TGC, and ltc.
Oh, I meant to say, we also got rid of our physical phones, the company phone system is all through Zoom. At least they are giving anyone who asks for it a headset. It does have some nice features - I apparently get any voicemails emailed to me which could come in handy. Today someone tried to call me while I was in a Google Meeting and I had to "dismiss" the call - if I'd been in a Zoom meeting it would have known I was unavailable and given the caller a message to that effect, supposedly. I haven't actually taken my cell phone number off my .sig file yet, but I did tell one customer to please call my direct line and not my cell. I turn the ringer off on my cell phone, well, most of the time because I forget to to turn it back on, but generally when I'm at work.
I used to have that at the BBC - not Zoom because this was 8+ years ago, but some other VOIP thing. The voicemail transcripts were in theory helpful but in practice merely HILARIOUS.
This sent me an attachment of some kind of sound file. I already deleted it because it was actually just 5 seconds of silence, so I can't go see what it is.
We never had phones at my old job and it would be *very* weird for me to go back to using one now. (You'd use your cell phone if you really needed to communicate via phone, which for me was exceedingly rarely) and they subsidized our cell phones.
These days I don't have a work phone # at all. My cell # is in the employee directory but nobody's ever used it for business purposes.
Timelies all!
Well, things went from bad to worse here. Mr. S would not go to sleep, and got very aggressive, throwing things at me and trashing his room. We finally ended up calling 911 and getting taken to a local hospital. They didn't have a psych ward for kids so we went back home after a while. Mr. S continued to act horribly. Gary called the pediatrician's helpline, and we ended up giving him his meds a little early. After eating half an apple, he fell asleep and slept until after noon. I hope tonight goes better.
In other news, I talked to the people at OMS about my exposure, and they said if I took a home test, and it was negative, I could go to work tomorrow. It was negative. Of course, I had taken Mon-Wed as vacation, so I'm back home then while Mr. S has spring break. At least Gary will be out of isolation by then, hopefully.
