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I'm taking a "recharge my batteries" day today. The last week was a wicked one. It started with getting bitten by a stray cat Sunday night which meant half a day dealing with animal control on Monday.
Monday I had to deal with repeated phone calls from the parent of one of my clients who wanted to yell at me for enforcing consequences on her little darling for not complying with his court orders.
That lead to waking up at 1:45AM Tuesday morning stressed out about having to confront the parent and kid face-to-face Tuesday. Add to that one of my other clients made an emergency visit to meet with me because he needed to talk about his oldest brother being shot over the weekend. Brother is a former client. He was alive, but in bad shape.
I was dealing with ongoing non-stop phone calls with my supervisor and a couple of my court ordered cases all week.
Add to this the weather has changed every day this week, one cold front after another all week. The changes in barometric pressure set off flares for me.
I was so exhausted when I got home Friday night I fell asleep sitting up on the sofa. I would sort of wake up, think I should go to bed and fall right back asleep. I finally toddled off to bed at 3AM when bladder pressure forced me to wake up enough to shuffle to the bathroom.
I'm still exhausted today and I hurt. There are about a million things that need to be done around the house and the farm. (Anyone who has ever lived on a farm knows the work never ends) For once I'm having the sense to let myself take the day and rest. Going to build a fire in the fireplace, read a good book and rest up.
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