I am doing a lot better today than I was last night. Last night was rough because of the situation with my mother. I got a good long cry in and I feel better. I just wish I wasn’t so exhausted. I am going to have to stand up regularly so that I don’t fall to sleep at work. I feel like I am nodding off. A security guard that falls asleep is no good to anybody and does the profession a real disservice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I got back on Mastodon after a hiatus from it. I found myself really missing the interactions. Of course, I will need to rebuild an audience from scratch but that is very doable and I’m in no particular hurry to do so. I like the decentralized nature of the Fediverse (Mastodon) and that, to a certain extent, I have a little <\/em>more control over my data. The only way to have almost complete control is to run my own Mastodon server and I am not going to do that this time around. It’s just too much work and I don’t have the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The coming week is going to be a fairly long one. I have to work an extra 4 hour shift tomorrow so I will really be only off for 2.5 days. Next week, I will only have a day and a half off. It looks like, for the foreseeable future, every other week 2.5 days off. It’s going to be its own form of hell but I’ll take it. I need the money as Denisse will need more help in the coming months. I don’t mind because I love her and once she gets on her feet, I know that she will be able to reciprocate more. I am excited for her phlebotomy schooling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Denisse and I are going to make the trip to see mom at Lodge Lane, her memory care facility. She doesn’t know that we are coming and that is for the best. Sometimes, I think mom tells me to stay away because she doesn’t want to inconvenience me and might experience some shame and remorse about her condition. Ethan, my brother, helped me to realize that mom really needs family now more than ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I hope that my relief is on time and won’t lolly gag around. I’ve got to be back at the worksite at 7am tomorrow morning. I hope that the supervisor won’t be in a foul ass mood and stick me on the x-ray machine. If he does, I will most likely tell him politely but firmly that I won’t be doing this. If he gets an attitude about that, I’ll tell him to speak with the manager, Chris. Chris told me the shift would be a dock shift and I get to sit down and raise and lower the dock entry door. Those are my expectations\/boundaries and I will stick to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tomorrow evening will be a date night for Denisse and I. I am absolutely looking forward to it. We are going to watch the latest episode of The Pitt<\/em> and catch the franchise finale of the Halloween <\/em>movies. The finale is called (with an utter lack of imagination) Halloween Ends<\/em>. Still it should be entertaining. I like the cheesy horror genre. The shows don’t frighten or scare me anymore but I still enjoy the story lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Well that’s about all I have to write for the time being. Stay tuned for another exciting entry tomorrow – LMAO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am doing a lot better today than I was last night. Last night was rough because of the situation with my mother. I got a good long cry in and I feel better. I just wish I wasn’t so exhausted. I am going to have to stand up regularly so that I don’t fall […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}