Estoy Nueces

Okay. I'll write and then I will GET BUSY. I probably say that every week. I've been waiting over two hours for my window washer to get here and I finally fired him via text. He was late yesterday and then not ready to do the work because he didn't have a drill he needed to get the windows off. He was supposed to come today at nine. He says he'll be later. Then I text and he's "close by." Finally I just fired him. I used him 3 years ago and thought he was fabulous. I don't know what happened to him, but it makes me mad and it "stirs me up." You know? I feel like I'M the one in trouble or in the wrong. I've just taken my anti-anxiety meds and if I don't calm down in a bit I'll do something else. I really wanted these windows cleaned today for my friend's visit, but it won't happen.

Tonight my best friend Beth does arrive from Ohio. It will be great to have her here. We will talk and laugh a lot. We will go out to eat some. We will go see another friend she has here in the area. We may go to the Museum of Art tomorrow because I did get passes, but they are free so we don't have to.

So today I want to clear off the patio "junk" that is just sitting around and make it very comfortable and pretty. While I MAY get to the stuff all piled around this office because she is a minimalist and it will probably cause HER anxiety, I just may not. I am not a minimalist. I'd love for it to be organized and cleaned, but it doesn't have to be today under pressure.

So. This week. Anything happen this week? Pretty easy low stress week, I think. One glitch is that I was assigned a task at work that does involve meeting with a salesperson and our customer online. Yuck. I thought those days were over. But I do know the customer from having talked to her years ago and she was very nice and easy to get along with. I KNOW what the problem is with their music, but you always have to listen and act like it is their idea. Or their problem gets presented and then you solve it.

I did try to get some hours in on this part-time gig and that HURTS. My thumb joint is in so much pain from mouses. But I'm pushing through it. In fact, I need to sit down and do a couple of hours right now before I get caught up in something else. See? I could have been doing that the whole time I was waiting on this guy, but I get so immobilized waiting for something to happen I can't function. This is nothing new....

Oh... one bit of alarm this week was my father-in-law's chest pains! He was visiting my brother-in-law who had just had cancer surgery and was homebound and had these chest pains. He went to the hospital in an ambulance and spent a night, but it appears that it was a muscle something and not heart muscle so he should be fine. But at almost 94 it is scary.

Why do I just feel like laying down and crying from waiting on a guy and firing him? I guess others never know what things are like on the other side. For all I know he went home and laid down and cried because he couldn't get here and I fired him. We never know.

My pretty spider lily bulbs from last year are all coming up and producing some beautiful blooms. Some are under an althea bush that is bushier than it was last year so they are coming up and blooming out of sight within the bush. I will have to move them.

And update on precious Opie. He's doing fine. Coming to bed with me most nights and loving the petting, but he still is not easy with quick movements and he does not want to be picked up. I hope that comes with time. He's fun to watch because he really is such a kitten. I throw a toy mouse to him and he has a ball batting it around. And we do the laser pointer on the slick floor and he slips and slides all around. The other cats are too old and wise for such foolishness.