can’t believe that this time next week we will be packing to go to Scotland. Checked out the current temps in Scotland this week and not one day was over 60f (15c). We are going to be brrrr…cold, which believe or not, I am actually excited about. After 4 wks of above normal temps here in Texas, I am already sick of the heat. Day after day of temperatures of 98-100f (36/37c) is very oppressive and we haven’t even started the summer months yet!
So the novelty of working has definitely dissipated, gone, zeroed out. Framing is fine, as long as its just production. Get a customer asking about framing a picture and I am a quivering wreck! I really don’t have a clue. That is not strictly true, if I could get over my nerves I would know what to do but the nerves hijack every time. Then the PC system, I am getting there but s-l-o-w-l-y, very slowly. As for the cutting table, if I am there for more than 5 hours (which is the usual) do not expect me to interested in your project. Hope my brain is still active and I am counting the yards correctly because by the 5th hr, it all blurs into one! Anyway this week I’m in the zone” which basically mean because its going to a busy week, I will where I am needed which will probably mean I will be on the register which I am pleased about because that might help with that side of framing.
The one thing that has improved has been the number of hours I am working. Now I just have to get Nev to trust me to be there on my own at 9am in the morning so I get hours in the morning rather than mid day. I am not very good with schedule when I have all that free time in the morning to do my own thin’ . I am just getting into the flow of things when I have to stop to go to work. Work not being a top priority, tends to be rushed the very edge of very late, in that I am leaving almost at the time I should be starting, not good! Its something I have known about myself for a long time, if has to be done, I need to get out in the morning before I get settled into the house. If I have grocery shopping to do, it better be done by 10am because later than that and it likely not to be done until the next day if I can help it.
The one thing that has WORRIED me a lot this week, it the fact my brain keeps seizing up. I want to say something, I really really draw up a complete and utter blank. If it happened just once it would not bother me but it happened several times this week. Its not as if its even a complex thing I am trying to remember. It things like a person’s name, a person I work with almost every day. Or the right phrase, like what do we call ourselves over the pager system….guest?. worker…blank…blank…blank..until I had to put down the phone because I could not remember the term ‘ associate” Having worked with Alzheimer’s patients, I know it often starts in the person’s 50’s and I must admit this is totally freaking me out as my biggest fear about getting old is losing my brain like that. I really don’t want to be in that state. My husband thinks I am stressing about nothing and he probably right but its scared the c*** out me I must admit. I want to be like Louise Bourgeois, creating works of art in my 90’s and still sharp as a fiddle!
CURRENT TEMPERATURE IN KILMARNOCK – 57F (14C) – WE ARE GOING TO BE FREEZING – I’M LOVIN’ IT!
