My week has been exhausting. Only partially due to the impending book launch. That has taken up a lot of my brain space, but vying for attention has been injury (not mine), car trouble (not mine), appointments (not mine), ADHD (not mine), and general family scheduling.
Last week, not only did Squirrel jam a finger and have to miss out on performing for color guard, but the game itself was rain delayed, and the band didn’t get to perform half time at all. Talk about a waste!
Monday the band had another opportunity to perform, but with Squirrel’s finger was not healed enough to participate. Of course, that didn’t mean having the night off. Instead, they watched from the sidelines. Monkey did get to perform, though. This was the first time this season that I’ve seen the band on a field. It felt incredibly strange to leave the performance without my children, but they had their car, and I was not needed.
Tuesday was College Night at the school, and I insisted that my children attend so they could at least start thinking about where they want to go. Monkey joined us immediately after theatre rehearsal (did I mention they will be in the school’s production of Outsiders?! I’m so proud!). I had to pretty much force both of them to talk to various school representatives because their anxiety was shutting them down. While I understand, I also know that I won’t be around to talk for them all the time, so they need to figure out how to do it.
Wednesday, I took Squirrel to the orthopedist that I’ve gone to for my foot a few times because that darn knee pain keeps coming back and no one has been able to give us an answer or solution. It felt like it would be another dead end, but lo and behold, he gave us an answer and a solution! Squirrel is now wearing a sleeve thing over the knee and will start physical therapy next week. It’s such a relief to finally feel like there’s something that can be done!
That night I attended the first of six Improv Level One classes. There are five other people in the class and if I hadn’t decided at the last minute (the night before) to join, the class would not have had enough people to justify keeping. I like the teacher and the other students, which makes it a bit less scary than it was the first day. I know I’m capable, but I’m fairly certain I will have anxiety every Wednesday for the next six weeks.
Thursday morning my husband needed me to drive him to pick up a rental car (he’d been out of town for work and waited to get a rental upon his return). He told me he was pretty sure he had a reservation with Avis. We got there and nope. His reservation was with Hertz. Drove him there and found out that they didn’t have the insurance information and it would come out of pocket. No rental car. I drove him to work, then ran errands before finally getting to the office. He worked late and I finally went and picked him up after eight o’clock.
Today I drove him to work again, went to my aqua class, picked up food for my kids to have before the football game, came to the office, and have no idea what I’m forgetting to do. I know there’s something. There must be. But heck if I know what it is!
Both kids texted me saying they had forgotten things they need for the game tonight, so I’m going to have to go by the house to pick those things up before taking food to them. Hopefully my husband will have a rental car and I won’t have to pick him up before the game and can instead come back to the office to gather everything I need for tomorrow.
As you can see, lots has been happening this week. Yet the book launch as continued to loom on the horizon. I keep telling myself that as soon as I get past Saturday, I’ll be good. But the truth is, next week is going to be crazy too. I just won’t have the launch to worry about anymore. Instead that portion of my scrambled brain will move on to the author showcase in two weeks.
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