It's Really "Been A Week"!!

As in "whew" - it's finally over.  Can we please have some calm?  Here are a few highlights:

• Two days of concrete work.  One to pressure wash and clean, the next to seal.  That means constant "keeping an eye" on the process, being available to help / answer questions.  The only way to get outdoors (for the mail, to go anywhere):  through the bedroom door to the outside.  Parking the car in our across-the-street neighbors driveway overnight. Writing an extra large check for the service.  Yes, it was an interesting couple of days.  But it's over and right now it's raining and it all looks sealed and really good. Yay for us.

• Doing the groundwork for fixing the grout in our shower.  Figuring out our options.  Exploring the costs.  Dealing with contractors (I hesitated to say professionals) who forget to follow up, who don't call back when they say they will, who pressure you to sign by continuing to "negotiate" the price and who apparently respond better to someone taller and with a deep voice who by virtue of that height and sound get better results.

• Received an invitation to a bridal shower.  Which stated that since we're all "social distancing" (I much-much-much prefer to use "physical distancing") only family will attend but you're invited to send a note, a card, or a gift (Translation:  you can't come but please send gifts). These last few years we had been receiving so many of these invitations that I finally decided I could do a shower gift or a wedding gift (and sometimes we were invited to a shower but not the wedding.  Seriously.  ???) but not both.  So now I'm in a quandary.

• I've had a headache almost non-stop since yesterday morning.  Haven't told The Husband.  He's having his own stressors.  I dislike going to sleep and waking up with a headache.  I haven't historically had lots of them.  And when I did they dissipated quickly.  This one has decided to settle in for the long haul.  I wish it away!!

• Had an owie on something not living.  It was distressing.  For all of us.

• Went to the granddaughter's high school graduation parade.  Everyone is scrambling to figure out what to do to make it memorable for the students so they don't feel slighted.  (I have a different take on that, but I'm old and irrelevant.) So they had this ginormous parade.  The graduating class was nearly 900 students.  The parade was long.  In the sun.  Started half an hour late. The vehicles were decorated beyond my ability to comprehend - pretty over the top.   The tops of my feet got sunburned. The parade was declared by someone that it was totally the best way to graduate - they should always do it. Hmmm.

• Other festivities accompanied the graduation.  We were actually invited to participate in one of them.

• Had alarms go off on our phones two nights in a row.  Because of the curfew in place in Salt Lake City because of the protests.  I finally turned that capability on my phone off.  I don't need anything more alarming.

• Feeling brain dead because I can't figure out what to get for The Husband for his birthday which is only a couple days before Father's Day.  We aren't really spending much money since he no longer works for an employer.  We don't really need anything (except house maintenance and that's not a gift) and he's never been one to want many things.  But I want to make him feel like he's valued and important.   It's a yearly challenge for me.

• Used the library curbside service to pick up some books that arrived for me.  What fun to see our daughter in the middle of her work day.  I was so excited to go that I was early.  (Though I really did think my appointment was for 2:20 instead of 2:40.  Was absolutely certain of it.) Who ever goes to an appointment early?  No wonder there was a lady waiting behind me (she did honk once) to get in the spot for her appointment (which was really 2:20).  Sigh.

So here, we are, Saturday morning.  I'm thinking about church tomorrow.  We'll only have tomorrow for church at home.  The following week is our postponed and rescheduled Stake Conference where we'll get a new Stake Presidency since our current one is going to S. Korea to be a mission president.  Then the following week is Father's Day and our first Sunday back to church.  We still don't know how that's going to work out.  I think they're planning on multiple Sacrament meetings to accomodate the large numbers of members in our ward. I'm a bit nervous.  Again - it's the lack of information that's troublesome for me.

It's raining outside and I keep looking at the driveway and feeling grateful that we took care of the sealing. Am so happy to have some fresh books to read from the library.  Those nearly 2,000 books on my Kindle and Nook aren't the same.  I like actual physical books.

And tomorrow?  Is the start of a new week.  I'm counting on fewer headaches, fewer things to do/fix/attend and fewer stresses.  I'll let you know how that goes.