Three days in a row

I turned out to have to go to the work location a few hours away three days in a row to get things under control there. I learned an important lesson, namely that I can do that. I made sure to carve some time for myself, stopping at a rest stop each drive to stretch instead of driving straight through. I also made sure I was in bed early each night so I could get a good night's sleep. Success.

It also got my portion of the project complete. It feels good as for me at least, it marks the ending of the catching up that had to be done when I joined the company. With the backlog from when they were searching for a new employee to the slowness as I was getting up to speed and trying to prove to myself that I could do it.

Also in my recent past, I took my car in for regular service only to discover it needed two thousand dollars or work. And needed as in the dealer told me they would pay for a rental car for me until I got it fixed or traded it in. That was an unexpected financial blow. I decided to get it repaired, and spent five days in the rental while they did the work.

Driving to work

I get to drive out to the other city for work every day for the rest of the week until a project is finished. I have not yet had to go there on back to back days. We'll see how this goes. A day at a time is how it will go. I did go out there twice last week without issue. In fact on Friday when I went I was quite energetic. I am considering seeing if I am allowed to stay a night at a hotel for work. That way I can go one day and come back the next. My cats would miss me, but it would be less driving. I'd actually make less money doing that, as I can expense my driving.

Another month

One anxiety day in there, when I couldn't fall asleep the night before and had to wake up at 5:30 for work. Got very anxious and sick to my stomach driving to work.

Three days ago one of my two cats turned up missing. He wasn't anywhere i could find in the house, and didn't come sleep on the bed with me. I live in a duplex, with an inner door to stairs and the basement, and an outer door to the outside. I searched the basement and unused third floor storage space and didn't find him. I couldn't imagine him getting all the way outside without me noticing. Every morning and night I searched the basement and third floor again, and put out food and water which didn't get touched. I felt terrible and couldn't sleep.

Finally I saw him yesterday. It took a couple of hours to track him down and get him, he is a scared cat by nature. I felt so much better with him safely in the house again.