day off doings

a day down, a couple days off work, and its been good.  i'm glad to be off, and i'm glad to be going back to work.  there is something satisfying about knowing you have productive things to do, a place that you are required to be, responsibilities to be met and money to be earned.  it has been a long time, sporadically broken by moments of jobs and influxes of funds.  but this could last for awhile.  and i'm not sorry about that at all...

today was a good day.  i got up with prayer, slept in because i took a Gabapentin and it took away more of the neuropathic pain in my feet.  i came downstairs, made myself some coffee, heated up my mother's pot and got started on breakfast.  as i said earlier, in coming downstairs, i found my friend Heather has been incarcerated again, has been having it fairly rough.  i intend to compose a letter to her, only because i know i am not going to commit to being a visitor for her this time.  i've done that twice before, and she has reset herself to chaos and decay.  i will not watch someone killing themselves.  regardless of the motivation.  but i digress again.

i'd said my good mornings and i'd had my breakfast.  i had no further plan than that, when Rachel called and asked what i was doing.  she had a doctor's appointment on this side of town and i told her she should come see me.  in the end, i gave her a ride to her appointment.  i went looking for shoes, trying to find more comfortable shoes for work, but that didn't pan out, though i did find a nice pair of slip-ons for me and house shoes for my mom.  i got Rachel, dropped her off, went to the store and got the shoes, and took them back to the house, gave my mom hers.  Rachel texted me, saying she was ready, so i went to pick her up and brought her back.

it was a nice visit.  we had lamb salad for lunch from the gyro and pizza place on Belmont.  we played dominoes, we actually danced in the backyard (an assignment from her counselor, to do something she used to like doing but stopped at least one time before her next session), and we talked.  it was a good visit, nice to have time with her on my day off.  next week i will likely be in Columbus, taking Syd to her brother.  and Rachel will likely have to take her daughter to a doctor's appointment, so i doubt if we'll hang out then.  but i take the time that is given to me, and i appreciate it.

i took her home not long ago, finished our lamb salads, took the trash out.  i'm going to fill the reservoir on my mom's C-Pap machine, and i'm going to shut it down.  no pill tonight.  no stress tomorrow, just get through the day and the night.  one day at a time, is how that goes.  i wish i had something more eventful, but a good day of company and affection is sometimes all the drama that i require.  Thank you, Jehovah.