Although my doctor only sees me looking like the image on the left, my Texas friends have only seen me looking like the image on the right. Today was a half-and-half day for me, and I hated looking like the fellow on the left when I'd rather look like the "girl" on the left. But then, Alfred, like Bugs Bunny was not afraid of putting on a dress when it is called for.
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Today started with me not getting enough sleep overnight. I was running on 3-4 hours of sleep when I woke up, and it didn't make sense for me to go back to sleep before going to the doctor's office at 9:45 am. As expected, the doctor was running a little late, and I could have arrived at 10 am without losing any time. However, with this visit, I saw my doctor relatively quickly (for him) and had the chance to tell him about the problem I've been having with my leg and the problem I've been having with my GI-Tract.
With the doctor's visit out of the way, I got a bite to eat and went home to take a nap. Even though I woke up around 1:00 pm/1:30 pm or so, I didn't bother going out again before the zoom meeting with my Texas friends. This was just as well, as I had some co-op business dropped on my lap, and I had to sign a document which would allow us to start negotiating the final cost for something previously required by our bank.
Around 7:00 pm, I got dressed as Marian and prepared to start the zoom around 8:00 pm. Now, I wasn't in the mood to talk a lot, as I was still tired. But I wasn't going to cancel things for tonight, as I don't want to get into that habit. My Texas friends came on first, followed by RQS. We caught up on what is going on in each others' lives, and the zoom lasted longer than usual. Around 10:20 pm, we ended the meeting, and I went out to CVS to pick up some stuff. While driving, I made my nightly call to RQS and we caught up on each other's day. I mentioned to RQS that when I mentioned the possibility of our friends visiting NYC, that it wasn't shot down out of hand. RQS noticed it too. But I'd rather see them in a city like Chicago, Philadelphia or Boston, where all of us would have to travel to get there.
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All in all, this wasn't as bad a day as it could have been. If a friend didn't cancel dinner for tonight, I'd have had no emotional energy left to enjoy the zoom with our friends. So, things worked out for the best after all.
