cards, recycling, work

Last weekend was Mother’s day and on the following Monday I headed out to visit the Ladies of New York. The younger and her son (my former room-mater) are “intermittently estranged” and I didn’t want Mother’s day to pass her by without a card. I stopped over after work had cards for both of them. We talked for a bit, I bragged on my nieces, and they both commented on how gray I was getting.

Sigh. At least they didn’t call me fat like last time. They really have no filters.

On the bright side, they both appreciated the visit and the cards.  So, good deed done.

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I’m proceeding with the decrapification of my house and got some old electronics cleared out. Most went to the Akron Computer Recycling Center – which involved multiple phone calls, two trips to Barberton, and a shop that looked like a Radio Shack had exploded. But, they wouldn’t take the TV.

I had heard that Best Buy had a recycling program – but with a catch. They would only take TV’s off your hands if you paid a recycling fee of $25.

Sigh. So, I took it in and then went to the service desk and paid the fee. Something about EPA regulations, I guess. It was annoying, but worth it to make a little more progress.

Today, I’ve been cleaning out closets and getting a few more bags ready to recycle.

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And I’ve needed the mental clearing as well. The past week of work was kinda rough. Felt like a losing battle – everything was more difficult than it needed to be and more complicated than it should have been. By Wednesday, I had reached a ‘weapons-grade irritability”

And then things… got a little better. Thursday morning, a few things went right and got less complicated. Friday was a quiet day and I got a lot done. I had to stay and close up the switchboard, but even that – while kind of annoying – wasn’t that bad.

The weekend has been quiet as well – lots of reading, movies, and video games. This afternoon, got a birthday party to go to that should be fun.

Still, I need to take some time off. Maybe find a few days here and there and just chill out. And later in the summer, I need to find a beach.