Walking Down a Different Street

[Not Quitting]

To start off with, I screwed up the dates for me dentist appointment. I should have known when they didn't do a reminder call - I think they always do that. It's not easy for my W to get off work and get over here, but given the reason for it all, I can't feel too darn bad.... I was so glad she waited in the car. I actually hovered around in the hallway of the building for 10 minutes, then told a white lie about them having a look and then me having to come back next week at the same time. I used the technique of not volunteering too much info (more on this later).

Maybe you could offer to take her to work and pick her up next time so she doesn’t have to take the time off and so you can have the car for the day.

I'm so scatterbrained because work is like a death-march again and ramping up for worse. I feel completely exhausted again. Haven't been getting in any walking or biking since it got cold, and didn't do any yoga/kettlebell/rower stuff I can do inside at all. In fact, I fell asleep on the couch and got even further behind on work. Trying to decide if I should try to sleep for 10 hrs or load up on caffeine and try to get work done.

Being over-tired will do that to you. Sleep would be a good option LOL . That caffeine crash can be nasty as well.

Back to the early birthday outing. W was as exhausted as I am so the movie never even came up (we always underestimate how tired we'll be when we make plans). Dinner was nice but as I started on-call today, I was worried about how far I'd gone from home, because I didn't plan for it with the secondary on-call victim.

After dinner, W waited in car while I got some groceries. I had some bottles/cans to feed into the return machines, then it took a long time to find stuff tonight - too tired to rush, and again, I don't like feeling like I have to rush to make things convenient for her. She texted me complaining it had been an hr and she wish she'd been dropped off first. To be fair I did say I was only going to grab a couple things. But a couple things expanded to half a cart (or is it a trolley, NQ and TTD?). She asked if I was almost done and I just texted back "yes." The irony is I was looking for some things she asked me to get for her when she texted.

Sounds like you had a good night, despite the mix-ups and the slow speed of shopping. Cart or trolley depends on my mood – I tend to use them interchangeably. I did say I was fluent in both English and Canadian – and sometimes I get them mixed up LOL .

Sometimes I feel it would be less stressful to hit on a stranger than face rejection from WAW.

I so get this. I think I said once before that talking down a feisty drunk when I was in the police reserve was an easier task than talking to my H sometimes.

I'm slipping. I left this post up on computer, didn't lock the screen, and went out to get something from the car! Thanks to the FB activity, I almost typed her name twice, too, instead of the usual W. Not that it would really matter much.

Again, overtired . Get some sleep.

The old me would have picked up the argument gauntlet. The new me saw it as a battle I don't need to fight.

Well done, keep it up .