The letter of the week.....to end out the month of August is definitely "D!" Everything about this month has been Duh!!!! Dysfunction, disheartening, depressing, delayed, demanding and disastrous! Sounds fun, right? NOT!
Other than our little mini-getaway, the rest of the past four weeks mostly sucks. The first Friday of the month, Jeff dumped his bike....not unusual words for his prior 25 years of fun but this was his bicycle and he's 41....Separated shoulder, broken tendon, a new shoulder hole and much pain. I had assumed (and you know what that does) that we had passed the adventurous, "let's try anything" stage but I was obviously quite mistaken. What this meant, on top of the physical pain was ......out of work, required time for unemployment not met, teetering on the edge of insurance and newly acquired medical issues impeding surgery and care....One giant CLUSTER....can you spell that with a "D?"
Next we have bugs....I hate bugs...I'm such a dissenter of the bug world I have even come to hate ladybugs...Who doesn't like ladybugs? anyway, I digress....Poor Jett was besieged by some kind of creepy, crawly tiny menaces. He was peppered with bites, ran a fever, doctored, covid tested (of course anything warrants that these days) and itched uncontrollably.....poor guy :-( Of course, this was somehow his Dad's fault or mine or the devil's but surely not anyone else's! Our basement level was deep cleaned...twice and no critters or critter remains were found but it was , nonetheless, reason enough to not allow him here.
The power was out a couple of days ago. Not a big deal. It was actually quite nice to be untethered to technology for a couple of hours. When power was restored, everything returned to as normal as it ever is here with the exception of Bailee's TV and her computer not connecting to WiFi. This is just a hair short of Armageddon. Last night, my TV refused to connect.. I remained composed and watched my nightly fix of Yellowstone on my Kindle. I spoke for a while with a Verizon rep who told me that devices NOT connecting while most things did connect was not their problem...I can see something happening during the outage for one device but not intermittently with three. I'm convinced... more daily, that I am too old for this world...
The edict from the powers that be at school are now "mandating" masks at all times. I understand the hopes for this but I'm unsure how that works with 1200 children and their families who are also unsure of the whys! Thankfully, it's only two days for Bailee but it does change my perception of what those two days might hold. We'll try and do what's best, we'll refill the inhalers that have been unnecessary for the past 11 months and we'll cross our fingers that when November 4th rolls around, normalcy, of some kind, might return. Yes, I'm a Republican, yes I support most of Trump's policies and yes, I feel there is a lot of game-playing involved in politics, healthcare, finances and nearly every aspect of our 2020 life.
Basically, this month is as riddled with dysfunction as were all those preceding since March. Each day is a little more alien to the last, a little more lathered in unexpected expectations and little more f'd up! Tomorrow is when my world usually returns to a normal routine. School calendars arrive, kids return to school, the nights cool off, the leaves begin to drop, the pumpkins appear and order is in the house....I'm afraid another D will drop and disorder will continue. Can I be please be DONE?
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