So... Fun Story in Book Two: The Fifteenth Year of the Third Millennium of the Common Era

Fun story… something I often say before I relate a story that is NOT fun. The night Wife and I returned from our whirl-wind Holiday Driving; my brother sends me a text that simply says “I’ll send it through Over Night Mail tomorrow.” I text back, assuming it was a business text that was supposed to go someplace else. I had trouble sleeping on Sunday night and wake up a good two hours before my alarm goes off on Monday morning. I putter around the apartment checking to see if there was anything I could have forgotten and… nothing that I could readily eyeball in the area seemed to be missing. 6:30 my brother texts back saying the picture must not have gone through… my Rx Pills were left at his house. I laughed a little, remembering distinctly that I put the bottle in my little dob kit.. and then I searched the bathroom… and the kit… and the bags. Yeah. I had definitely left my prescription medication at my brother’s house. So… no medication for me on Monday. Not as awful as it sounds, there’s some build up to work with… just very strange emotions and balance issues last night. This morning? Yeah… no. NOT getting out of bed. For most of the day. I got out of bed to do some things that were time-sensitive and because Wife was pissed that I was still in bed. Returned some phone calls, Wife left for work… back in bed. And.... the sleep cycle is unique. It is the hard crash, the absolute passed out and drooling… for about 45 minutes. Then I wake up, not feeling refreshed but not good for another round of sleep. So I’m in this little in-between space for a few hours before I head back to bed and have the hard crash, the absolute passed out and drooling…for about 45 minutes. Then I wake up, not feeling refreshed but not good for another round of sleep.

Couldn’t have happened on a better day, though! First thing I needed to do today was call someone back for an interview. Floyd County… not brilliantly perfect but… pretty close. 1 hour away from my best friend; 1 hour away from my in-laws; 2 hours away from my brother; and 2 hours away from my parents.
Of course… the interview is 4 hours away from Omaha… so round trip for this interview is 8 hours. NOT Looking forward to that drive. Interview is on Thursday Afternoon so… hoping for good things!!

Next thing I needed to do today? Wait for an e-mail from my Boss. I could have gone into the Law Library today but… my car badly needs an oil change and some tire work. My scheduled shift was “Work Release Interviews” which requires that I get an e-mail from my boss to know who to talk to. I figured if it was a long list; do the interviews and get some Law Library time. The list had (literally) zero names on it. No work release interviews to do. So I get “consolation” pay (since I still had to be “on call” for those interviews) but I’m not required to go into the jail today. Wohoo!

NEXT was setting up an eye appointment. My eyes are truly attrocious after a lifetime of reading, screens, and law school… plus my glasses broke along the bridge… I look total nerd now. Magic of the modern age: took care of that little bit on line!

Then I needed to decide if I was going to shower BEFORE going to Wal Mart TLE or not. Against my better judgment, I decided to parrot my wife’s standard response to that question when she is leaving for work “That place doesn’t deserve my shower.” So it was off, rather later in the afternoon than I would have liked, to hope that TLE could fit me in! (On my way there, I paid rent. Because… Wife is uncomfortable paying rent too close to the day; which I can appreciate). Of course, upon arriving to Wal Mart (around 4:30 pm)… I should have realized the “Schedule Shorting” that wife is experiencing would also effect TLE. Even though we just had our first major snow storm and vehicle work should be expected to rise this week… it is the week after Christmas… Wal Mart schedulers get bonuses for not using their scheduling budget. Only ONE TLE associate was working from 4 pm to 8 pm today. I should have expected it, really, but… damn. Such shitty management strategies from Wal Mart. Honestly would not go there if I didn’t get employee discount through Wife’s work.

Rest of my day? Probably going to be writing some Thank You notes… because Wife specifically told me to before leaving for work. Probably going to eat some food… because I should. When I don’t have my Rx I really do tend to forget things like… eating. Video games will probably round the night out. Video games and/or something a bit more personal. Considering the sexual freeze out continues (super not surprising) I have lots of ideas for stories floating in my head. But honestly? Strangely? Why is it that the stories I’m most excited to write, imagine in my head so clearly, inevitably are the stories I can’t get down for weeks. I’ve had this idea many many manyweeks ago and really wanted to write it down… but never did. It just keeps sitting as a collection of words in a draft file waiting for me to write something coherent. My problems in the process seem strange.

Last updated December 29, 2015