this has been a week of up and downs.
toby has been on her homeopathic eye meds for a week now. i don't think i see any improvement but then again i'm sure it's too soon for any kind of significant healing.
i'm getting sort of maybe back into the swing of things at work. we're still working out the many glitches that keep popping up and still trying to put the office back in order. i worked all last weekend, 12 hrs each day and most of this week with a couple of days off in between. yesterday i spent most of the day out on the water putting the new i.d. numbers back on the mooring balls. actually, the wind picked and it just became really difficult and tiresome so i gave it up after a while. i'll have to finish it up another day when all is calmer out there and my shoulders have stopped burning. i think i'm getting better at driving the new launch boat though after spending more time in it in the past week. the steering has loosened up but i'm still having a bit of trouble with the throttle. all in all it's good work for me, the kind that makes me feel productive and worthwhile, where i am surrounded by people who seem to care for me and treat me well... and i'm very thankful to just have a job in a time when so many are being laid off.
after work i drive 5 minutes (6 if i catch the light) back to my little banyan tree home, check to see how much my victory garden has grown, play with blind toby and then make my dinner. it's all quite pleasant. i usually eat alone since john stays on the boat most of the time working on his projects or is away on a business trip. for some reason i get really annoyingly lazy after i eat dinner. basically nothing whatsoever gets accomplished after that, i guess maybe because it still gets dark so early. maybe when the days start becoming longer i'll feel more energized to do actually something productive in the evenings and less like a old couch potato watching jeopardy. sometimes i think maybe i just expect too much from myself. i'm not really 26 like i pretend to be and i think i might give up on the idea of riding a bike to work. jeez, what was i thinking.
well, i'm just trying to take care of myself, be happy, do something worthwhile and as they say "keep it all together".
isn't that basically what we're all trying to do.