Does Anyone Really Know What Day It Is?

Does Anyone Really Care?

I have gone this entire week at work a day off.  I lost Sunday and Monday to The Headache and medication.  Somehow I have been working with the right date (like today 8-19-2010) but the wrong day of the week.  I came home, and my mother and I were talking and she said tomorrow is Friday, and I said no - tomorrow is Thursday.  THEN I checked my calendar and by golly she was right, tomorrow IS Friday.

I have been in brain fog mode all week, but today seemed extra bad.  I got to work an hour late (apparently all that pressure to BE ON TIME the other day wore off due to almost no sleep at all and less caffeine!) and then locked my keys in my car.  That's generally OK because I have one of those door key/car alarm beepers that I can click and electronically open the locks, & I keep that attached to my purse, however during my trip I put it in my luggage after eeeeking my car trunk open with it in the long term parking lot, and my luggage is still locked in my trunk.  Luckily I had an extra car door key at home (40 miles away) and my sister was kind enough to drive all that way just to bring it to me so I didn't have to call a door unlocking service and cost me $50.00 to get my car keys out of the seat.

It was one of those crazy days when everyone does a melt down - customers and co-workers alike - so I wasn't alone in brain fog land; I kept bumping into fellow fog bound travelers through out the day.  I stayed late tonight to make up time, and actually was able to think two coherent thoughts in a row when I had no phone calls coming in.

My co-worker who stayed behind at the clients this week lost all his possessions in a fire at his apartment complex here.  He is such a nice guy, he said all his good clothes were with him, so not to worry.  He wouldn't come home because he had a mission at the client to complete.  I sure hope he takes some time off when he gets back! His very nice daughter has been coordinating donations from his friends here at work and through out the city to get another apartment setup and ready for him to come back to this Saturday, but there are probably insurance adjusters and everything else waiting for him to get back here.  There were 10 families displaced by the fire and no one was injured, which is a miracle. The roof caught fire from an electrical short and part of the burning rafters collapsed into his apartment, pretty well destroying it.  Maybe it is a good thing he stayed behind at the clients, because he could have been home when the fire happened and the roof fell in.

Ready to go to bed soon, very tired, and I am determined to BE ON TIME again tomorrow.  Too many things to do and not enough days to do them.

Friday the 13th

Ready to Go Home

What a day!  The Headache has been messing with me all day, and my thought processes are jangled.  I lost my business cell phone today (I was pretty sure where I left it but it didn't seem to be visible) and felt really bad.  It had just taken one of my bosses about half a day to get the voice mail box fixed (apparently the cell phone was not attached to a voice mail box for whatever reason) and I misplaced the thing.  I even had someone drive me back to the restaurant we had eaten at for noon to see if the cell phone was there.  As I was calling my boss to say he better have the phone cut off, someone called into work and said the phone was found.  Yeah!!! No one would say where it was found - I think it was on the desk I thought it was buried under a bundle of paperwork that had been plopped on top of it. 

I was definitely bumfoozled by the time we left today. My mind was just full of cotton fluff. We left town and got rooms at a Best Western near the airport.  Apparently my grey hair came in handy as we got the AARP discount on our rooms.  First time my non-died hair has come in handy.  I'm actually starting to get white stripes at the temples, not just grey.  Somehow I dripped possessions behind me as I trailed along trying to trek around the hotel to find the lobby entrance.  My co-workers saw it happening (I was totally oblivious) and picked up the detritus and saved me from myself as I crumbled like bleu cheese as we crossed the hot parking lot.

I don't have much energy to get through tomorrow, but am going to get my mojo perking someway to get through the day.  I'm just need to get my dodo head to rub two brain cells together long enough to ignite some thought.  Putting positive thought towards The Leg and The Headache and The Belly.  My poor clients needed more time this week, but I just was not able to spend the amount of time they needed.  Hopefully next week while we are back in the office, they will come up with some questions and our next trip in a couple of weeks will help them use the system more efficiently.

Just glad I didn't go all Jason and Friday the 13th on folks concerning the cell phone.  The brain was not working which wasn't their fault.  Hopefully sleeping Sunday will get me able to get to the office Monday with a working brain!!  Going home tomorrow, leaving one co-worker here who is driving back to the client tonight- he is getting worn out, hope he gets to go home soon too, but this is just part of the business we do.

My boss has hopes he has found someone to work and travel with healthcare billing background to join our crew.  Hoping this one is a keeper!  Not sure if my body is going to keep on going even with me trying to just tuff it out, so desparately need to train someone in case I just can't continue. I will feel I have let my employers down and myself down if I don't have someone to fill my spot and I just fall apart again physically.  It's not their fault my warranty expired two years after I got hired. :(