The Insanity Continues

I did not walk yesterday because I didn't sleep well Monday night. I worked until almost 8 leaving me less than two hours to relax before bed. My bladder woke me a couple of hours later and then my body made me get up an hour after that. It then took me too long to fall back to sleep. I figured it wouldn't hurt to miss one day. And it didn't.

Although I did not want to, I did walk this morning. I, once again, tried to go for more than 10 minutes and did, sort of. My goal was to walk until at least the second commercial break but I just couldn't get there.

Plans for the weekend:
Clean the kitchen and living room (since I did laundry last week instead), do the dishes (still two separate chores), work on my fic, meal prep for the coming week

What got done:
Clean the kitchen (sort of, explanation down below), the dishes (mostly, still have to put them away), wrote some on my fic (this thing will never be finished!), meal prepped for the coming week

So, my plan is always to clean Friday and Saturday nights. But this week I got sick starting around mid morning Friday and lasting until the early morning hours of Saturday. I figured that I could do everything other than the vacuuming (I need to pull furniture away from the walls and I so did not have the energy points for that). But I didn't.

I then told myself that I would clean the kitchen. And I did. Sort of. I wiped down the sink and the counter surrounding the sink and then realized as I was getting ready for bed, that I forgot to do the stove side of the kitchen. *face palm*

When I was at the store last week, I bought some steak strips for crock pot fajitas and two pounds of ground beef. When I went to put the steak strips in the fridge to thaw, I noticed that I only got one pound and the recipe calls for two pounds so I thawed the ground beef instead. I have prepped several tacos and now just need to make some rice to use up the last of the ground beef.

I had every intention of walking this morning but I was awakened by a massive cramp in my right ankle around midnight. The pain was so bad, I thought I was going to throw up. I had difficulty falling back to sleep and ended up sleeping through my alarm.

My birthday is Saturday and every year I get myself something. This year I got two window mounted cameras. I have one on the living room window (there are a lot of arguments that happen out of range of my Ring camera) and the other on my bedroom window so I can keep an eye on my car.

The white SUV to the far right of the picture is my car. The tree has been dead for the entire two years I have lived here. A month or so ago, one of the branches fell and just barely scraped my window. I really wish management would have the tree removed but at least they finally trimmed it so you don't get hit by branches when you walk past it.

I went to bed later than I wanted last night. As I walked into my room to get ready for bed, I realized I forgot to wash my bras (I only have three). Luckily the cycle only takes 28 minutes so it wasn't that late, but still.

I really did not want to walk this morning but I have a goal and I am determined to make it. The plan was to walk for an entire episode of House Hunters but my hip started hurting during the first commercial break. I'll try again tomorrow. I want to be able to walk for an entire episode by the time I see to my doctor next month.

I didn't post the past couple of days because I had made a red velvet cake and had several pieces every day and knew my glucose would be extremely high. Plus, I didn't really have anything to post about, but I do today.

When I started at this job back in 2015 (I was a temp until May 2016) we used a different software to enter the sales from our sites (I work for a gasoline distribution company) and we had to manually enter fuel rewards/car washes (fuel rewards are discounts given if you prepay for your gas or pay in cash).

The new software, our manager (W) has to enter these. She has so much to do that part of our job was to fill out a spreadsheet with the site number, the date, and the amount of the discount/car wash and send it to her once a month.

One of my coworkers (B), has had health issues since 2023 (bad enough that she missed almost a whole year of work). When she came back, W gave her the job of filling out this spreadsheet so that the rest of us don't have to do it. She also has other jobs that aren't important to this story, so she only fills this sheet out once or twice a week. When she does this, she does two things that annoy the shit outta me.

1) she marks the emails as read (I can let this one go because it's easy to mark them as unread) 2) if they have not sent in their paperwork when she's filling out the spreadsheet, she sends an email requesting it.

This last one I cannot let stand any longer. She sends these emails too early (the sites do not have to have their paperwork sent in until 9am our time) and she does not use the proper format (using a shared email, bolding and underlining the site number, the date missing, and how many days out, and writing out the the number of days missing instead of using the number (one instead of 1)). Plus, she doesn't always know if there's a reason the site hasn't sent in paperwork. W doesn't always communicate this via email so no one but that biller would know.

Just a few days after three of my sites were put on temporary hold (Tuesday of this week) and I was told via teams to not request paperwork from them, this came to a head. The hold had been lifted by then but that's not the point.

I sent her the following email:

B,

Please do not send emails to my sites requesting paperwork. The sites do not have to send in their paperwork until 9am. They tend to get upset when we request it before then.

Thank you,

I wrote and deleted several lines about how she doesn't always know if W has told me to not request paperwork. Her response:

Melissa,

I am only trying to get the paperwork that I need for their discounts, some of the sites are 1-2 days out , so please excuse me if I emailed your sites early.

Thank you,

All my sites were current through Saturday so not exactly sure what she was talking about. I thought about my response all day and finally sent this email:

B,

Please know that I am on top of requesting missing paperwork. I request every day, unless I’m off. Sometimes, I have been asked to not request paperwork for whatever reason and it is not always communicated via email so when you ask for paperwork when I have been asked not to, I get in trouble. I am asking you nicely to please wait until after 9am to see if I will request paperwork or if the site will send it in without it being requested.

If you must request it, please use the proper format. I have included an email where I have requested paperwork for you to see what I am talking about. This keeps it uniform within the site folders. Also, please remember to change the ‘from’ to the reports email, not your personal address.

Thank you,

She did not respond to my last email and has not requested paperwork before 9am since.

I wanted to get up and walk this morning but there are two reasons why I didn't.

1) I accidentally on purpose fell asleep on the couch.
2) I woke up around 12:30 and spent about 30 minutes in the bathroom being sick and then couldn't fall back asleep for nearly two hours.

But I did take a shower. Partially because my hair was gross and partially because I have to go to the store during my lunch today. Normally I go on Saturday mornings but I'm meeting my coworkers for lunch tomorrow. Our manager turns 50 in July and we're getting together to give her tickets to Wicked when they come to town next year. And Sunday is Father's Day and my brother wants us all to get together. So there really is no other time than today.

And, while yes, I COULD go after work, I get off at 4:30 and traffic at that time of day on a Friday is horrendous; I'd much rather take a longer lunch.

I have had a low grade headache for a couple of days now. I have not had a headache that wasn't due to sinus pressure or eye strain for a very long time. I also woke up with a massive leg cramp.

I finished watching The Closer and found Major Crimes (the spin off) on Philo. I wish I could watch Major Crimes while I'm working, but Philo has commercials and I hate commercials so I'll watch it on my TV where I can fast forward through them or mute the TV if I can't.

I've been meaning to do a watch through of The Mentalist so I think I'll watch that while I work.

My bad mood carried over to the weekend. Not even getting an advanced copy of the second book in the Dark Water series made it better. I tried to improve my mood by dressing cute to go to the store. I am still regretting that choice because I wore sandals and my feet still feel raw from sliding against the soles.

I tried a new recipe but with some additions. It's good enough but I think when I make it again, I'll follow the recipe to see which I like best.

For the first time in a while, I remember what I was dreaming when I woke up.

I owned a house and either had a bunch of people living with me or they were just visiting. I had gone somewhere and when I returned I wanted to take a shower but my bathroom door was shut and locked. I knocked and when the door opened, there were a couple of women in the bathroom. It was all steamy and the mirror was fogged. I shooed them out (I was pissed but too tired to do more than than remind them this was MY bathroom and they were NOT allowed to use it without my permission (they tried to say that they HAD to use it because the others were all being used and since I wasn't there they didn't think I'd mind)). Of course there was no hot water left. And then later while I was on the toilet another person came into the bathroom and left the door open (the toilet was RIGHT in front of the door for some reason). I complained and the MAN who had walked in on me rolled his eyes and left but did not shut the door behind him. After that I discovered that someone had taken most of my clothes (when I found them they were attempting to wash them (dress pants, satin shirt, bra, EVERYTHING) because they thought that would make up for them using my bathroom without permission.

Oh, and one of the women was Elisa Donovan (Morgan from Sabrina the Teenage Witch).

I have such a big case of the "i don't wanna's" today. I did not walk this morning and I don't feel bad about it. That is how much I do not care today. Really wish I did not have to work.

I need your guy's help. The story I'm working on (the one that I HATE) needs an ending. For reference, this is set in the Dark Blue (TNT show from 2009-2010) fandom.

Dean grew up rich but ignored. His parents disowned him when his father caught him kissing another boy. After a few years he landed on his feet as a police officer in LA. He had changed his name by then and firmly shut the door on his past.

Now his father has died and Dean received a letter explaining that he is mentioned in his father's will and if he doesn't attend all the 'events' prior to the reading of the will, then no one will receive their inheritance.

He goes but is far from happy about it. His mother tries to pretend they were a happy family.

My question is: what, if anything, should Dean inherit?

I'm leaning toward him getting more than his mother feels he should. And by that I mean, she thinks he should receive nothing because the last time Dean saw her he told her that she's dead to him. Plus, he got married without inviting her and refuses to tell her his wife's name. What she doesn't know is Dean is married to Carter, who accompanied him to his father's funeral. His exact inheritance would be his father's shares of the family company (60% (which makes him the new chairman of the board)) as well as the apartment in Manhattan.

There's also the option of Dean getting nothing but being specifically mentioned as further insult from a man who considered him a burden.

Or he could get everything and have to decide if he leaves his mother penniless and homeless.

So, dear friends, which would you chose? My daughter suggested Dean receiving an inheritance from a family member who is/was more powerful than his father but I'm not sure how to work that into his father's will.

I did not want to walk this morning. But I did!

I almost forgot to weigh myself before I got dressed (my scale says I have to be barefoot to use it because it measures more than weight). The last time I walked, I wanted to go for longer but I hadn't put my hair up so I stopped before I was ready. Today I put my hair up thinking I'd walk longer but after nearly nine minutes, I had to stop because I was uncomfortably hot and my hip was starting to hurt. I'm going to turn the AC back down when I start walking tomorrow and see how much longer I can walk.

I discovered last night that I bought too many hamburger buns. *face palm* I bought eight pre-made hamburger patties and for some reason that translated into me needing to buy two eight count packages of hamburger buns (WTF?). I was thinking I should buy more hamburger patties or maybe do Sloppy Joes, then decided I could turn the buns into garlic toast for the pasta I plan on having next week.

I do not like the shirt I put on today (took it off as soon as I took the picture). I thought the orange part at the neck and hem was just a strip but it's not. It like someone cut off the front of a shirt and sewed it to the seams of the blue one.

I had every intention of walking this morning, but around 3am I was woken by a massive Charlie horse (you'd think with how often it happens, I'd learn to not point my toes when I stretch). It took several minutes to unknot and when it did, it moved into my foot and then into my toes. It was so bad that I'm still kinda limping. And since I don't have anything to grab on to should I stumble (it's only a walking pad even though I call it a treadmill), I figure I shouldn't risk it.