BACK TO WORK

It’s been an okay week for work. I haven’t felt the greatest a couple days. Me thinks its allergies acting up. I took some extra allergy medication and pounded the water, that seems to have helped. We had a staff meeting for the entire organization and plans are in motion to return to the office in August or September. They want to do an alternating work schedule where 2 or 3 days a week you will be in the office and the other days you will work from home. It’s to alter who is in the office and who is not. This was the plan for last year when they thought we might go back. Someone asked about sharing your status if you have been vaccinated or not and what to respond to a co-worker if they ask. Bottom line is it’s your health information and you don’t have to share it with anyone. Unfortunately, they are going to allow everyone regardless if you have been vaccinated or not to return to the office. I honestly don’t feel comfortable with that decision. I will share the plans with my physician when I see him next. My hope is that I can continue working from home for the rest of this year, if possible and perhaps return early in 2022. I don’t know if I will get my wish but time will tell. We are supposed to be given 60 days advance notice once the final date is set in place for the mandatory return. The one thing that is not known is how long the vaccine is good for, meaning how long you have immunity from COVID-19 and its variants. If it’s a lifetime that would be awesome but since that will have to play out, I don’t think that things are quite as rosy as everyone is starting to paint them.

As per usual Ms. Gator had me up multiple times during Friday night into Saturday morning. I didn’t have any real plans for the day and was able to loaf around until the afternoon. She was sick a couple times during the week. We did some playing on Friday, which was a real treat for both of us. It was short lived because while she has some interest in playing since she is older. She didn’t get into it like she used to even as late as last year. You could play with her for at least an hour but now it’s more like 15 minutes and she is done. Fine by me. She is still eating like a horse and is doing a great job of keeping me company. I of course return the favor and cater to her every need and desire. If she would just let me work downstairs a little longer perhaps, I could avoid some of the knots in my back from hunkering over the laptop on the couch.

My blood vessels feel like they are closing off and I am just turning into this blob of fat. Sitting can cause my arms or legs to feel like they are asleep. I can wake them up by moving around but even sitting this evening in a restaurant eating dinner, my arms were trying to fall asleep on me. I was eating the greatest artery clogging meal of Fried Chicken, Mashed Potatoes and Green Beans. It sounds wonderful and it was okay (I’ve had better) but it was a familiar destination and a nice change of pace. I got in the door early before the crowd showed up. There was a large waiting line when I was leaving. Outside of the wait staff I was the only one who had a mask on when I wasn’t eating. That felt a bit uncomfortable and the way they were stacking people on top of people made me hurry up and get out. I took some chicken to go and paid my bill. There was a couple of cute bus boys that I wish would have followed me home. One of them had a rainbow-colored bracelet on, I think he was advertising but there isn’t anything wrong with that. I’ve got a couple of those but have only worn them in public a couple times.

It’s been a fantastic week for movies. I watched multiple movies with the ever handsome and unfortunately straight Joseph Gordon Levitt. The best one out of the bunch was 7500, he played an airplane co-pilot (1^st officer I think) and the airplane was taken over by terrorist. They stormed the cabin and he managed to take it back. He had to endure watching his girlfriend who was a flight attendant get murdered along with the pilot. It was a keep you on the edge of your seat movie. In Premium Rush he played a bicycle messenger and that showed off his assets quite well. It was a drama keep you on the edge of your seat but in all fairness, I knew I had seen it before, just didn’t remember how it turned out and once I bought in, I had to see it to the end.

The JGL movies I saw this week …

7500

Premium Rush

Snowden

Looper

The Trial of the Chicago 7

 

A correction from my post last weekend, The Circus on Showtime wrapped for the season and there was no show last weekend. I don’t know when it’s coming back but they do a good job of covering politics and I will eagerly await it’s return.

Since were talking about Showtime, I saw on social media this week that the cast of Shameless has finished shooting the final season. The show I believe is scheduled to end at the end of April. That will be sad it’s been a great ride and I’ve enjoyed seeing the characters develop. Although my main reason for watching the show was because of Cameron Monahan who plays Ian who happens to be gay. Once again modern cinematography has done a great job of simulated sex scenes. It all started on Queer as Folk and has only grown from there. Regardless if it’s straight or gay sex, they make you think from the visuals that it’s actually happening but unlike porn where you get to see placement of the organ (penis) that is the only thing that is missing.

I am not all about losing an hour of sleep but it’s the name of the game in Spring forward! Hell were still officially in to Winter why can’t this wait a couple more weeks? I really think that we should be like Arizona and just have 1-time year-round no adjustments needed. However, there are worse things in the world.

Best thing is that the boss is on vacation so it’s not like were going to all be working hard more like hardly working unless something major happens, which is usually the case right about the time I fall into dream land, while trying to take a nap, my phone wakes me up. Gator hates it too but I have to play the game because it’s working time. One thing is for sure no naps whenever it is, I return to the office. But I do have a nice credenza in my office with a small pillow it wouldn’t be comfortable but I could easily sleep on it for a few minutes if I had to.

Last night I put on my noise cancelling headphones to check the battery, I had just finished charging it. I was going to give a quick listen and then take them off. That was the plan. It didn’t work out like that I went on a Classic Rock Bender hunting down songs from my childhood, thinking about my mom and times past. That was around 3 hours. Gator was sleeping in my lap so I had to be quiet or I would wake her and face her ire, which isn’t pretty. Anyway, I got to the point where I couldn’t hold my eyes open and just opted to call it a night. I was up to 1a which with the loss of an hour made it 2a.

Gator had me up a couple times in the night and that meant I wasn’t worth anything when I got up at 8a. I fed her, checked my blood sugar because it felt like I was crashing but it was a mere 117. Then I went back to my room, looked at my phone & social media as well as my morning browsing routine checking photos, blogs, porn, etc. Then put the phone up and climbed back into bed. I didn’t care about anything and the only real task I have for the day is going to the grocery store. I feel horrible. I went back to bed for a while got up around 11:30a and had breakfast which was nothing but frozen blueberry waffles & milk. Then pushed myself out the door by noon. Saw a nice younger guy at the store but outside of that I felt like a zombie and don’t know how I managed to buy anything. I got a couple things that I probably won’t eat or at least will take me a while to finish. No cute bagger boys. The checker cut me a break and didn’t charge me for my soda, which considering all of the times I have been double charged, I was due a break. Skipped filling up the gas tank and came home.

The groceries are put away. The work reports are finally done. Working on a little bit of laundry. I am going to loaf for the rest of the day unless I suddenly get a burst of energy and spring to life, which I don’t think will happen. Publishing this, working on finances and then back upstairs to be with the furry little gator and watch TV. I’ll break out the vacuum cleaner as well at least it’s in my plans. The day will be over with sooner and we can start all over again tomorrow.

Time change usually throws me off a little bit, but I feel really out of it right now. I do hope tomorrow is a better day.

Hope you had a great week and that the week ahead is even better. Talk with you peeps again soon.