Coming up for air with some surreal moments included
This summer has become truly insane. The school to work schedule leaves me homeless, or so it seems. I think I spend more time in my vehicle than home. It's almost over and for that, I'm thankful. I am also thankful for a wonderful husband and group of children that can hold down the fort in my absence (albeit a very messy fort). Alexi has been gone for what seems to be ages and we get him back momentarily tomorrow but he will be swooped away to grandma's house for a week of beach bumming that I feel he deserves. I am officially released to my new duties as a medication assistant and I enjoy the challenge. There are nights, though, that I feel like the good Dr. Feelgood. Moments when it seems like I am handing out lorazepam like it's candy. But truly, if I have come to that point, I know that I have already done everything feasibly possible to calm someone down and that i have no other alternative. Not only did my friend's mother die this summer, but another friend of ours did as well. One of John's coworkers had a heart attack and is still in the hospital and another friend very nearly lost her beautiful daughter. There has been good mixed in with the bad. I have gotten to spend time with some of my friends and my long suffering husband, though there are a few people that I still desperately want to see. I have managed to ensure that my children are still happy and well adjusted, taken to their summertime activities and given my attention whenever possible. I have fund raised for a non-profit group and drank till my speech was slurred. I spent a couple of fun filled nights at karaoke with some friends down here and the executive director of my facility. I have danced and sang and thoroughly enjoyed myself. Very soon, I will take time off from work and what has not yet been accomplished will be done then.