Sunday and yesterday were stressful. We are getting our foundation fixed, and it necessitates being out of the house for a week. Due to busyness and stresses and both of us being procrastinators a bit, we didn't really start moving furniture and all of that until Sunday evening, and were up until midnight getting everything ready. Then I didn't fall asleep until after 1:00, and Noah didn't fall asleep until after 2:00, but we woke up at 6:00 am to continue work and make sure the pets were ready to go to the vet for boarding (no thanks to Ikki, who cleverly hid in the folds of the comforter on the library loveseat, and delayed us a further 10 minutes or so).
Noah took the animals to the vet, the workers arrived, I gave them keys and moved my car and kind of anxiously paced until Noah returned.
When he got back he told me to go ahead and go to HIIT at 9:00 since I missed the early morning class. This meant I got to see my friend lindsay, and it had been a minute. We were chatting in the parking lot afterwards, and I was telling her that hotel check-in wasn't until 3:00, but I had work at noon, so my options were either to go back to the house and quickly shower before the workers started interior work, or check in early at the hotel, with an $11/hour fee for every hour before check-in time.
She told me to come over and shower at her place. I deserved, but eventually took her up on the offer. And it was wonderful. Her kids and husband were out of the house, so it was just her and the adorable dog, and it was clean and quiet and restful. The guest bathroom had soft towels and a wonderful-smelling lemon sage shampoo, and it was just exactly what I needed.
After I showered, she toasted me some bread and got out some leftover tuna salad, and made me a plate with pickle-flavored chips to accompany the sandwich. It was a perfect act of kindness, and some much needed care at a stressful time.
Also, since Noah had taken off work to deal with all of the foundation stuff, he was able to come visit me on my break, so he picked up Starbucks for me and since it's the first nice weather day since spring, we sat in his car in the parking lot and just chatted and enjoyed the breeze and the shade.
And it was a good day at work. I got a customer's crickets all by myself, including getting air into the bag, a feat which has taken until this, my 9th day of work, to accomplish.
