7/22/24

 Life at the ER last night was a bit of a dumpster fire. Everything just went from bad to worse. It wasn’t the patients, they were all mostly good dogs and cats. Some of the things that came in were just odd. We had a mountain of laundry chest high.

I don’t like that I work so sporadically that things move and change. I forget how to navigate portions of the software. I feel stupid a lot of the time. I have a lady that I work with who is so kind and wonderful. I enjoy her company and feel comfortable asking her for help. 

It is a good exercise for me because I don’t like asking for help. This forces me to grow and develop part of myself that I will need to rely on at some point. 

My back was really angry by the time I got home. It was clunking when I moved or stretched. I had the heated seat on all the way home and then I slept on an ice pack. It is feeling slightly better. I rested this evening. Poor Ethan asked me for help with a few things and I just couldn’t. I politely asked if we could do it tomorrow. Two hours of sleep just wears you down.

I did my work with Moe around the field off leash. He is doing pretty good as long as I have the vibration collar on him. Tomorrow invisible fence is coming to troubleshoot our collar.

Moe enjoys being outside but I will have to be very careful. The Fed Ex guy came today and Moe was on his leash in the front yard. The fed ex guy offered him cookies and Moe had his fur standing up and was aggressively barking. I swear if I could act like that in public to keep strangers away, I would.  

This worries me, because I want to set Mossimo up for success. If we have strangers walking in the yard, it is just asking for an incident to happen. We will have to be incredibly careful until we can trust him.

I did do some exercise begrudgingly. Even with lack of sleep. Two laps around the field and a series of different stretches. That counts right? 

Paul is enjoying his time away in Detroit working. He said he is having fun solving the problems and fixing cars. He is enjoying the team atmosphere and sense of community with the challenge of figuring out the “fix”. 

Avery is back at her research job. She enjoyed her few weeks off. I enjoyed the time she was home. She was so helpful.

I was too tired and sore to work on getting my bird feeder up and running. I listened to my body. But I am so excited to use it.