Sometimes a Run Is JUST What I Need

Somehow I don't seem to be able to do things at a normal pace. Life is either ON or OFF. Right now it's ON at full speed.

The bathroom is coming along pretty quickly, although my husband is grumpy, which makes me grumpy. He wanted to do the tile work around the bath, AFTER tiling the floor (so he could practice). The problem? Our toilet is sitting in the hallway, our vanity is laid out in the basement, and we have a bathroom full of tools. Oh, and Gerd's taking off for the Ukraine, which means he can't even start on the floor until April...IF he can get it started, and finished, before his trip to Europe for Easter. Our contractor wants to build the shower enclosure and needs to have an idea of how high to build the wall, so the tile has to be done now, if we want the construction of the bathroom to finish soon, and our house to go back to looking normal.

We can't do much about the Ukraine trip, except perhaps reschedule it, but the Ukraine part of his job is what's keeping his job alive in the company. He could do it later, along with the other Europe trip, but that would make him gone for 3 straight weeks while I go through hormone treatment alone, transfer alone, and find out the results of said treatment...alone. So we can't really win. If we wait until May or June for treatment we run into other plans, and Gerd will still be required to go back and forth to the Ukraine until he finds another job. Is he looking yet, no.

My work day wasn't much better today. Between having to redo my lesson plans 15 minutes before the school day (since the computer lab was down) and the counselor being away (in Hong Kong) for a week, it wasn't much of a Monday. Add to that a call from the pharmacy that said our medicine would be $2500 if we couldn't clear it through our insurance (we did, but it required a different billing code and a transfer to another pharmacy).

So a run to reduce stress was just about the best way I could spend my afternoon. Now I'm off to look up paneling for the bathroom, a storage shed for the backyard, and an arbor for the grapes that will now get here while Gerd is gone.