A recap of the most stressful week.
I thought things were stressful the last time I posted, but they got a lot worse this week. On Monday, a thunderstorm with heavy winds rolled through the city. Our power went out sometime on Monday morning and wasn't restored until about a full 24 hours later. Entergy kept pushing back the restore time in their email updates. That night was such a long, hot, miserable marathon of trying and failing to sleep. What made it even worse was that the other side of our street is on a different electrical circuit (or whatever the stupid thing is called) than we are, and their power was restored on Monday night. It's not much fun knowing that your neighbors have lights and air-conditioning but you don't. I don't usually sleep with the windows open in my street-facing bedroom, but I opened them all that night and still probably didn't even get 4 hours. The combination of scented candles and humid night air made me wheeze so hard. Plus I was on my period, and the low-tire light in my car chose that day to come on (which it almost never does). My old air pump has apparently died, and I had to drive to two different gas stations and refill all four tires almost to max pressure to get the light to go off. And did I mention that almost none of our flashlights had batteries in them? UGH!
Sara took a sleeping pill and conked out pretty hard (and I took a sleeping pill, too, but it didn't really do anything for me), but before she did, we reread some old Baby-Sitters Club books by candlelight, like we used to do during power outages when we were kids. On Tuesday afternoon, we texting about what foods to throw out of the freezer and making plans to book a cat-friendly hotel room when I got a text from our neighbor telling me that our power had been restored - hallelujah! I felt like a queen being able to come home and crank down my air-conditioning!
I seriously need to have more compassion for the homeless.
Some changes were also made at my job this week, which was stressful in a whole different way. I shouldn't go into too much detail, but I will say that it pisses me off to no end that my work area is expected to be so much cleaner than my coworkers (who can pretty much make as big of a mess as they want). Oh, and I had to find out the hard way that the wall that I used to throw my boxes at is a shared wall with the business next door.
The stress at work and losing power at home knocked me a bit off my goal of walking more, but my phone says that I'm at 3.6 as my average for this week, and 2.1 as my 21-day average, which I guess isn't bad.
Random P.S. My left pinky finger has been very swollen/sore for a while, and I can't figure out why.
Sara took a sleeping pill and conked out pretty hard (and I took a sleeping pill, too, but it didn't really do anything for me), but before she did, we reread some old Baby-Sitters Club books by candlelight, like we used to do during power outages when we were kids. On Tuesday afternoon, we texting about what foods to throw out of the freezer and making plans to book a cat-friendly hotel room when I got a text from our neighbor telling me that our power had been restored - hallelujah! I felt like a queen being able to come home and crank down my air-conditioning!
I seriously need to have more compassion for the homeless.
Some changes were also made at my job this week, which was stressful in a whole different way. I shouldn't go into too much detail, but I will say that it pisses me off to no end that my work area is expected to be so much cleaner than my coworkers (who can pretty much make as big of a mess as they want). Oh, and I had to find out the hard way that the wall that I used to throw my boxes at is a shared wall with the business next door.
The stress at work and losing power at home knocked me a bit off my goal of walking more, but my phone says that I'm at 3.6 as my average for this week, and 2.1 as my 21-day average, which I guess isn't bad.
Random P.S. My left pinky finger has been very swollen/sore for a while, and I can't figure out why.