Riding Out the Days Events

I finally have a moment to stop and capture all the things that have come up in the last week or so. It's been a bit overwhelming. 

My eldest has recently come to accept that she is Bulimic. This isn't so much of a surprise. It is hard to hide vomiting and it's been going since we arrived in New England. Initially this was a reaction to food discomfort. Shifting back to American foods from European foods was hard and the transition essentially flared up her autoimmune system and kicked in (her recently diagnosed) Celiacs.  Now that the Celiacs is identified and addressed, the purging has continued. It's been very detrimental to her health. I'm not going to really list what all that is, but suffice it to say, she needs a higher level of medical support. She had an appointment with her Dr at the end of last week to discuss in patient care. Today we learned that they will be going to a facility near nyc on Thursday. Fortunatly Gregs has the week off and will be making the journey down with her.

In other news, a dear work friend has been struggling with her own mental health issues. Her job environment has become a bit toxic and has led to a bit of depression. In an attempt to counteract the blues, Last Friday, she picked up a dog at the shelter. She has had cats and is an excellent cat mom, but she has not had any real living experience with dogs. The demands were a bit much for her. She has issues with her hips and getting dragged by a small by powerful French Bulldog named Yoda. However, because of his little squishy face, his breathing was labored, and he sounded more like Darth Vader. Anyway, he was too much for her, so Saturday she called me in a highly distressed state. I ended up taking the little guy home with the intention of seeing if we could integrate him into our pack. It didn't go well. Yoda had a death wish. As his bonding grew with the humans of the household, the more he became aggressive toward my Jack and Jill (who have a strong pit bull genetic makeup).  Jack was not going to have it and they got into one good scuffle and we were required to remain on high alert to break up a potential animosities before they turned ugly. Jack is about 4 times the size of Yoda. He didn't use excessive force, but he pinned him down. Yoda, however, was undaunted and was intentionally trying to provoke. As the weekend continued, I saw Jack and Jill beginning to gang up together against him. Long story short, it was a slightly volatile weekend and being on high alert was exhausting. Earlier today, I gathered my coworker up with Yoda and we returned him back to the shelter.  My friends depression has only worsened as a result of her percieved failure. Im doing what I can to be there for her.

In other news, we are currently renovating our master bathroom. Its a small room but all the walls are covered from floor to ceiling in these nice (but after 8 years boring)  beige tiles and there is no real space to store anything, There isn't even a towel rack. Add to it that there was a leak in the shower that was causing water to come through the kitchen ceiling and its time for a massive change. Pictures to come but here is a glimpse of what is to come. The green one is the new one going in. It also has a matching vanity. I'm excited to see how it all turns out. We are taking our time with it and doing it right. 

For all my big talk about going to the hair stylist and getting my color done... the results are not so easy to see. The stylist added some highlights of silver sprinkled throughout. It was a long process with subtle but significant changes which will make the natural transition much easier and requiring little Maintenace moving forward. Before and after:

Work... I have not spoken about the office much lately. There isn't really much to tell but some changes have happened. For the most part, I have been tasked with special projects that have taken me off of the normal incoming call center calls for over a year now. Initially I was assisting with the Recalls and that has spun off into me assisting our call center manager with the monitoring, assessing and assisting with quality and safety related issues. Its going well. I have no real complaints. The load has kept me very steadily busy even while the rest of the techs fall into the lull of the season. Meanwhile, I have also been asked to fill in as the emergency help desk agent. What that means is, if the leadership team is away and unable to be available to assist the techs looking for direction with their calls, I will step in and assist. This caused me a bit of a moment of panic. I have been away from the basic troubleshooting calls for so long some of my memory is rusty. But I know where to find most of the info quickly so Ill manage just fine. But still... Hyperventilating just a little.