ladykatza

I spent the past week driving, and not only that, I was driving people around. Its been a very busy week, and a good bit stressful. Monday I worked, Tuesday I called in because my back decided to have a FUCK YOU day and I had completely run out of willpower to deal with it. I had to take the “knock you on your ass” pills. No driving for at least eight hours.

Tuesday night, however, I had to pack up some stuff and head down to Mom and Dad’s house so I can be there in time to get Dad to the hospital for his hip replacement surgery. Ok no problem. I get there and realize there’s NO DOORS on any of the bedrooms. Why? Well, its because of Mom’s new electric wheelchair. The doors weren’t quite wide enough otherwise. I asked Dad to go ahead and put the door on the room I’m gonna use. “Why?” he asks. Oh god, seriously? I gave him a rather exasperated look and so he muttered something and then made lots of banging noises, grunting and groaning as he puts the door on. Of course, once he was done I oooo’d and aaaa’d appreciatively. Or at least I think I did, anyway.

So I got him to the hospital, everything went very well. I was there for a total of about 4 hours maybe more. Then headed back down to stay with Mom, took a nap, and then headed back up to bring him his stuff and hang out. Thursday, I got to pick up Veronika from the airport! I was so glad to see her, as its been about three years since our last, very brief visit. Felicity wasn’t really talking yet. She was in the States from Germany for about a month. I took her to see Dad. Thursday night we went to a rather impromptu birthday party for Jennifer, and those friends of mine that have heard me talk about Veronika for years finally got to meet her in person. Amanda tried to keep her. I also got to see daecon and the kids briefly, since Mom needs someone to be with her, we are trading off days.

I should probably mention, Veronika was an exchange student my senior year and she was such a great match that she was practically adopted. Now she has a family on both sides of the ocean. :D At least, that’s how I feel.

Friday I had to work. Normally I don’t work on Fridays but I was making up for the day I switched with my co-worker. I dropped Veronika off to get her rental and we took a brief picture out in front of the baggage claim before the security guard shooed me off.

Somewhere in there I got a call about work, the nature of which added more stress to my already busy and haggard week. I think its worked out for now, though. We’ll see. Friday I worked until 10pm, went home, and got maybe TWO hours of sleep before going back to work 12 off 12, then work another 12. I have two more 8 hour days to go and then I’m going to sleep in on Wednesday. First I have to get some laundry and things sorted out and make up snacks for Simon in the coming week. In fact, I’m going to work on that now for about an hour before going to bed.

Current Mood:  exhausted

Current Music: humming of the dryer, bubbling of the fishtank