Ugh, meara

Productive chaos is still pretty hard to get through, but congrats on productivity, Calli

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Poor dog and dh and broken windshield and meltdown child.

Laura, I hope you and DH both test neg soon.

today sucked balls at work and tomorrow will likely be just as bad, but then I am off Friday and Monday, so pppfffttttt work! The issues are zero of my own making and many of them could have been avoided all together. One thing that is causing a LOT of the issues is people having too much work, but then not taking any time to hire for the vacant positions or get us back information about getting some help with remaining COVID funds. I had to use big voice with a person in a higher position than me that she was pushing me into a corner of going to our big boss and saying "they will not get me the information you asked for regarding additional help from this source despite the fact that they end every email with a statement about how they are understaffed and have too much work. Do you want me to have that conversation with her?"

Mac has an interview at Aldi tomorrow at 10:30, so all positiveness that can be sent would be appreciated. I would love love love it to be a 40 hr a week job, but I know that is doubtful.

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Why not send me a cancellation?

That's the whole point of making appointments. If you can't make it, you cancel and let them know. If they can't make it (by running out of zoinkboibles), they let you know and offer to reschedule you.

I had my surprise!diagnostic mammogram rescheduled to this Friday because the day I was scheduled next week didn't have technician / radiologist / boob photographer scheduled to read the x-rays. Um, also, I didn't know I needed a diagnostic until I was called to schedule it. So that was fun. The word density was mentioned and the word tumor was not, going with that.

Mac has an interview at Aldi tomorrow at 10:30, so all positiveness that can be sent would be appreciated. I would love love love it to be a 40 hr a week job, but I know that is doubtful.

Fingers crossed and all positiveness will be sent. A job will be good for him. And a weight off for you.

Dog update: Shelby is eating which is awesome. I returned the unopened food she wouldn't eat to the vet and bought more of the one that she will eat.

I also weighed her today at the vet. A week ago she was 58.5 lbs. when she was first seen, today she was 54.0 lbs. She should be ~60lbs, maybe a little less but her hind is skin and bones currently. So we've got a ways to go.

But she's showing some spunk; eating and drinking and I'm happy to count her calories to make sure she's getting enough of them. We've transitioned to at least a false late summer where it's not so intolerably hot so exercising outdoors is an option again.

Human update: Dog doing better is a relief. Another mammogram, huh? I feel like my doctor should have called and mentioned it when she put the order in but whatever. Why do I not write grocery lists? Preferably with meals planned within?

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Eek, may your mammogram go as well as mine yesterday did--I literally got the note in my patient portal before I got home, saying "looks good, come back next year"

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Mac has an interview at Aldi tomorrow at 10:30, so all positiveness that can be sent would be appreciated.

Sending all the ~ma. How is he doing adapting in general?

Sending happy belly vibes to Shelby.

Boob~ma in general, because boobs.

-I literally got the note in my patient portal before I got home, saying "looks good, come back next year"

They held me in the waiting room and came out to say all's well, which I thought was nice. Used to have to wait for a postcard in the mail.

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Oh, Shelby pupper, keep getting better!

I release any boob~ma that came my way back into the world: the "Good news, they're not trying to kill you just at the moment" letter arrived Monday.

Jim's new desktop is here. I fear for the office circuit breaker. (He was like a little kid yesterday, constantly refreshing the UPS "track your delivery" map. I didn't know whether to smile fondly or yeet him off the balcony into the harbor.)

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Keep getting better doggo!

I hope the mammogram goes well. I had the -- you need an ultrasound! now you need a mammogram! --ok everything is fine. So hopefully that's how things go.

Found out, accidentally, at work our insurance is switching to United. I don't like United because of past issues but it's supposed to be cheaper. And I hope so because I can't our BCBS plan is really unaffordable for retail.

The big walk through at work was the #2 person in the company , plus the regional manager's boss and someone else. They looked at our store, then checked out the Dillard's and Macy's to see the competition. They really liked certain things about they want some more things moved, the team that does most of that was in the break room when I got off and so I was listening to all that.

Actually it started off talking about Little Mermaid, segued into Wakanda Forever, and then fandom in general- DragonCon, Supernatural, Charmed, all kinds of things.

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::waves::

I wasn't feeling 100% this morning so I decided to wfh and nap and use sick time if I ended up not working the whole day. Just really minor side effects from vax, but I have a lot off sick time available for use and I really wanted to sleep. I was starting to feel like I was malingering so I actually sat up and did the one thing that really has a hard deadline of today, it took like haf an hour and I am wiped out so I am going back to bed. Being vertical is for chumps.

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Wow, busy season is back in force. I've been doing very late nights on an event that opens tonight, and all sorts of other calls are coming in for projects. Hopefully we can take on a good portion of them.

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Get some good rest and feel better, -t.

Hopefully we can take on a good portion of them.

Strike while the iron is hot, hopefully without killing yourself.

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