I am a bit tired today still. I did not realize that we were gone yesterday for approximately 12 hours. A very bad habit I have when I work is losing track of time. This morning I was working on some things and time slipped away from me. I use to have my Mac tell me the time every hour because I would work and hours would go by and I did not eat. Mel dropped by my office this morning and asked me if I took my motility pills. I said no and then took some. I ate shortly after and then again when my parents dropped by with lunch. The amount of food that my parents brought was ridiculous. Right now we are getting our flooring installed and it is almost done. By the end of this week our kitchen will be approximately 80% done. When we ordered everything, we were short on a couple of things, such as nosing, an extra box of flooring and transition pieces, so we need to pick up a bit more. Mel was convinced that the store was open today, because online the hours of operations indicate that they are as does the voicemail, but it is a small local business. After repeatedly calling every 15 minutes for 4 hours she sent me to go check and validate that they were indeed open. I arrived and shockingly. Shockingly they were closed. They were not screening calls and ignoring her phone call every 5 minutes. I did not mind going as I was going to pick something up at Costco. That was a complete and utter failure as well. The parking lot was a zoo and there are so many people that do not know how to drive. I drove through the parking lot and did not see any parking spots at all so I kept on going through and tried to exit which was difficult on its own. I am quite glad that I did not go and remember why we never go during the day. It is either first thing in the morning or in the evenings. Those seem to be the best times for us to go.
Last night on our drive home, Mel looked up when Yogen Fruz was open as she had a craving and wanted to stop by in Sturgeon. We showed up and….it was closed. The times online are old and have not been updated. The moral of the story is simple, if Mel is checking up the information on line, you should question the accuracy of what she finds.
We have routines that we follow most weeks. Olivier had a sleep over at my parents yesterday as we were gone all day. As he was coming home today, my parents asked him if he had everything and he replied that it did not matter because we would be going back tomorrow so he could get it then. The kids operate better when they know what the schedule is and they can then plan their own activities around that. Mel is quite more social than both the boys and myself. Something that the three of us enjoy is an unplanned Saturday or Sunday where we can do whatever we want. Most of the time, the whatever we want is to catch up on things that we want to do. Xavier has finally started to have homework and he will learn how to work through problems and struggles. He has not struggled so much with the work, but with his athletic schedule he needs to properly allocate his time and prioritize what he wants to do.
I realized today that right now I am not doing a very good job of prioritizing things. I have multiple things going on at once and I am not really dividing my team evenly amongst everything. I am currently working on 4 major things at once, switching between them all depending on my mood. It is not a good way to do things as every time I shift I tend to lose some focus in trying to get to where I need to be. The good thing about it though is that non of it is super urgent so it is fine. It also reminds me of why I do not want to stop work when I go through treatment. When I do work, my mind is immersed and I do not even think at all about the cancer. I have not felt any discomfort at all today nor did I struggle at all with eating when it was time to eat. I ate several times today and went through the motions and made sure that I paced myself correctly. Only know as I am writing do I wonder if I feel any discomfort. so of course I can feel it around my umbilical. I need to remember to contact some people at the hospital if they can see when I am scheduled to see a radiologist to do the procedure. I will bring in treats for staff this time when I go in because I love them all.
Mach