I did not mean...
it to be so long between posts! But that's what work will do for you, when you're coordinating a two week lecture series and a programming workshop that overlap with each other. The last month has been head down in restaurant menus, contacting vendors for print services and electronics, phoning in delivery orders to local restaurants, setting the food up when it arrives, etc. The lectures are over and the workshop ends tomorrow. Last catered event is tonight; I finally feel like I can stop and take a breath.
So, hi!
Fun things I managed to squeeze in despite all the work:
• Took a ride out into the country with a friend with a red Mustang convertible. Fun! Despite the 90°ree; temps.
• Bachelorette party for a friend with everything X-Files. I'm not a fan, but it was fun to see everyone try to beat the guest of honor at trivia.
And that's it for fun.
Things that are not going so well:
The son got kicked off disability and is having a very hard go of it. I sent him $150 to cover his rent and his rent is only $450 a month. The daughter sent him groceries through Amazon. Mainly personal hygiene products, but when you're job hunting, having those razors is important. I'm looking up advocacy groups in Phoenix and independent living organizations, stuff the son probably wouldn't think to do on his own. He's very skeptical of many agencies, government or non-profit, and he has a hard time filling out forms, so he puts off applying for programs or benefits even when he qualifies. I'll be going down to Phoenix in October to take him to a family reunion in California, when I could try to help him out on the ground locally, but I don't want him to not have something in the works until then. Fretting from a distance sucks.
Anyway, not dead yet, to quote a certain detective with a hand-drawn mustache.
So, hi!
Fun things I managed to squeeze in despite all the work:
• Took a ride out into the country with a friend with a red Mustang convertible. Fun! Despite the 90°ree; temps.
• Bachelorette party for a friend with everything X-Files. I'm not a fan, but it was fun to see everyone try to beat the guest of honor at trivia.
And that's it for fun.
Things that are not going so well:
The son got kicked off disability and is having a very hard go of it. I sent him $150 to cover his rent and his rent is only $450 a month. The daughter sent him groceries through Amazon. Mainly personal hygiene products, but when you're job hunting, having those razors is important. I'm looking up advocacy groups in Phoenix and independent living organizations, stuff the son probably wouldn't think to do on his own. He's very skeptical of many agencies, government or non-profit, and he has a hard time filling out forms, so he puts off applying for programs or benefits even when he qualifies. I'll be going down to Phoenix in October to take him to a family reunion in California, when I could try to help him out on the ground locally, but I don't want him to not have something in the works until then. Fretting from a distance sucks.
Anyway, not dead yet, to quote a certain detective with a hand-drawn mustache.