Up a little bit later today.
It was warm in the van. Slept without a blanket of any kind. Usually I like to have at least something over me just because comfortable or comforting or something like that.
But lately, it’s been warm enough that I don’t want anything because it’s just too warm.
Gratefully, it’s not so warm that I can’t sleep relatively well.
Don’t remember how it got started, but I spent a good chunk of the morning texting back and forth with one of my hill sisters. She isn’t really aware of The hardest challenges that I’m working through. I explained some of it to her today in generalities.
Life is hard.
Took out the trash.
Got a text from my friend, the grandmother of the little baby boy who I’m worried about. I went over to their house, and I hung out with the family for a while, my friend, her sister, a couple of her kids, and those grandkids.
I think it’s been years since I’ve been over there.
On the positive side of things, it appears progress is being made in the right direction in taking care of that little boy. Hopefully, there’s not any lasting ill effects.
My going forward ward is just to be in contact with the grandma who genuinely is doing everything that should be done to make sure that little boy gets the help he needs.
Things are crazy rough for her as well. Stage 4 cancer. Heart issues. Parkinson’s. Medical bills. Foreclosure In process.
😞
Life is hard.
After spending probably a couple 2 or 3 hours over there, chatting with her And her family and playing with the kids, I headed into Pea Ridge to the Wendy’s to get to work on my taxes again.
I was there working on stuff from I think around 12:30 or 1:00 all the way until maybe 9:00? I don’t remember for sure.
I had hopes that I was going to get finished today, but I realized That two of the accounts that I closed for the tree service business no longer had digital records available to me online. Do I either have to make the request and wait a week or 10 days or whatever it is, or I go into a branch and ask them to print out the records for me.
So I guess tomorrow I’ll be driving to the new Branch in Bentonville and having them print out all my records.
Gratefully, there’s not going to be much in the records. I would have preferred to have had them as digital records, but I guess I’ll take what I can get.
Good progress, though. Still more to do, but I think I should be able to get it done in another full day’s worth of work.
Got to love taxes.
Though I don’t love the taxes, I do like numbers, and being able to be inside in the AC and having a change of pace from working out in the heat all day trying to get crap done on the hill has actually been good for me a bit.
My friend had given me some quail eggs, but since I don’t have a refrigerator nor a means of cooking anything, I brought them over to my mom after I finished with the tax stuff for the day.
The little family was there inside of Wendy’s with me for probably 4 hours. The little girls wanting to hang out with me and play my computer and eat my food. 🙃
I miss kids. I miss being able to be with and teach and encourage and love.
I miss being a teacher.
Memories…
I was grateful that when I got back to Rover, It wasn’t beastly hot inside, even though I hadn’t been around to move the van to the shade for the afternoon sun.
🙏
Texted one of my brothers back and forth quite a bit about the music we used to listen to back in the ’90s.
Funny. Life goes by so quickly.
I’m melancholic right now.
I’m lonely.
I need to go to bed before I make dumb choices in an effort to self medicate.
My arms still smell like urine from holding one of those little girls.
Can’t seem to get the smell to go away.
Good night, world.
Lift the World 