Laura that’s so good to hear after many years of “what the hell kid” back in the day!!

Good news when I drove to work there was only one traffic light out !

It's been relatively slow today I guess people have their supplies or are going other places. We are getting cleaned out of high need items that people are donating. I keep trying to gently remind customers that there are still people without power and running water here coming to buy groceries and supplies for themselves.

The only issue today was with a remodel manager. She was moving products off an end cap and put Styrofoam cups on topstock. You can't do that because it's a fire hazard and everyone who has worked here for more than a year is aware of it. Somehow she wasn't. But she got really argumentative when told it was a hazard kept asking why and making jokes.

I was tempted to go over to her and say "because corporate says so". I looked it up. Styrofoam melts around 202F and releases toxic gas that can cause harm to the nervous system. You would think someone who has worked for the company for over a decade would know a basic safety rule.

Timelies all!

Well, this has been another shitshow of a week.

Sunday Mr. S insisted he needed a COVID shot that same day, so I managed to get him an appointment. He got the COVID shot and the flu shot.

Monday he was ill, so he stayed home from school.

Tuesday he had a huge meltdown at school including being physically aggressive towards another student, and running off from school. Gary decided that that meant no screen time that evening. When Mr. S got home and heard that, he had another huge meltdown and trashed our bathroom and our bedroom.(Pulled down books from both Gary's and my bookshelves, pulled my earring racks off the wall and threw them across the room.) He also got hold of his ADHD medicine and took a handful of pills, which led to a trip to the ER in an ambulance. I rode in the ambulance and Gary joined me in the ER when he got off the Metro. We(Gary and I) were finally told we could go home around 11:30 pm. We still had to clean up the room and didn't get to sleep until after 1.

Wednesday Gary's phone went off a couple of times during the night.I managed to make it through most of a work day. Mr. S had gotten aggressive during the night, so they had to sedate him. They were also looking for a bed in an inpatient pediatric behavioral unit to transfer him to.

Today they found one in Northern Virginia. We went by the hospital so Gary could fill out paperwork. This ended up taking most of the morning, then they told him he needed to follow the ambulance to the facility, so we didn't get to attend services.

On top of all this, my iPad stopped charging early in the week. At first I thought it was the charger, so I bought a new one. That didn't help, so I made an appointment with the Apple Store to look at it. Turns out the charging port was dead, so they're sending it back, and I will get a new one in a week.

{{{Sheryl}}}

Sheryl, my heart aches for your family.

Oh Sheryl, I think of you and Gary and Mr S all the time. I know you are doing your best for him.

In personally mildly exciting news, our new full-time programs assistant started, so my job just lost a lot of stress as I was the backup programs person when one of the others wasn't in (at least one day a week, and sometimes a lot more). She's taken to the job like a duck to water, too.

I even got to join in on a program item, since we had a short-story read-aloud session, and needed to recruit a couple more readers, and I'd finished all the paperwork that I hadn't had time for, so my performing itch got scratched.

Now if I can just get some stuff at home straightened out...

I'm sorry Sheryl

Yay for less job stress !

I got good news from Mom..she's heard from her landlady (who lives where we did up on the mountain). And her landlady is giving everyone a rent furlough. So mom is using that to get donations to a friend of hers who lives in a more mountain area

Mom was looking for small bottles of liquid formula and finally found some.

Your mom is really truly paying it forward, then!

Timelies all!

Thanks, all. I guess we'll just wait and see what happens.

In the meanwhile, Gary's aunt(who lives in California) is staying with us over the weekend. She has a board of directors meeting starting Monday, and decided to come here first. Hey, it gave us an excuse for cleaning the second bedroom. :)