Happy Birthday, Dana!

Thanks! I had ice cream and was bitchy on Tumblr.

A banner day!

Thanks! I had ice cream and was bitchy on Tumblr.

Birthday goals.

So is everyone busy Mondaying? Doing the usual busy morning work thing here at my sister's place in Otter Lake. Around mid day I will run to meet son for lunch and do the DMV thing. Tomorrow meeting with the contractors doing my camp work, then Little Mermaid. Wednesday work in the morning then fly home.

Son loves the new car. His favorite thing is the big back windshield wiper. In anticipation of it clearing snow. He did spend the first 28 years of life in Florida but seems to be adapting.

I am doing a bit of frantic cleaning out the house before the cleaners bit—new cleaner coming today and I haven’t had someone in probably a year.

In related news, I have too much shit.

I was all excited to go to the gym this afternoon for a Pilates class that I just found out started at a convenient time, came into the office a little early, even, in case I needed to leave early to make it on time. Get here and check the schedule and that class does not exist any more.

That’s a bummer, t! Can you call and ask if it will be on the schedule in the future or do you think you just misread it somehow?

So is everyone busy Mondaying?

It's the first Monday of summer vacation for Matilda so there's far less bustle than usual. Her beau is flying out today for a month and she's trying to get together with him for breakfast before he goes.

Her close friend Iris is scheduled to leave tomorrow on an international trip but there's been a hold-up on her passport so I'm kinda hoping she hangs around, else Matilda will be at loose ends.

I have finished five of my six writing pieces that were due and the editor seems pleased with them. So that's good. I still have three thousand and twelve onerous tasks to face before we head back down to LA on Thursday.

JZ is counting down her working Mondays since she's retiring at the end of this month.

I just finished up therapy. TCG is on his second week in his new job, and I’m trying to guess at what time he takes lunch now, but I might fall asleep on the couch before he gets home.

So is everyone busy Mondaying?

I woke up with a migraine, so I took meds and retreated back to bed, and I'm just now settling down to work.

Tim has an official surgery date/dates: since it's a 2-part surgery, part 1 is on July 31 and part 2 is on August 3 (he'll be in the hospital the whole time between the surgeries). The surgeon will still try to get it moved earlier if at all possible, but that may not happen because it involves coordinating the schedules of 3 surgeons.

So now we need to start cleaning/planning/buying anything that will make his recovery easier that we don't already have after his heart surgery (shower chair, grabby stick, etc). And there's a seminar this Wednesday evening for patients and their caregivers about the recovery process, which we're definitely going to. I can't pretend I know what his surgery/recovery will be like, because (1) I can't compare it to my back surgery, which was a walk in the park compared to his surgery, and (2) even if I could compare them, mine was 20 years ago and I don't remember a whole lot, other than how important it is to get up and get walking ASAP after surgery, and to go to physical therapy after the initial recovery. It's such a great idea that the surgical center does these seminars.

Tim's going to start taking Wednesdays off, starting this week, until his surgery, because it is just too fucking hard on him to work 5 days in a row (days that are generally 10-12 hours). He has the strongest work ethic of anyone I know, so the fact that he's choosing to take 1 day off a week means he's really struggling. This surgery can't happen soon enough.