A good Thursday

Today's been a pretty good day, despite some difficulty at work. Why is it so good, you ask, when I haven't updated since my month-long binge in January? Well, a few reasons:

1. The palsy is for sure getting better. Over the last couple of weeks, I've had less trouble talking and I've been able to eat and drink more easily. Full mobility still isn't there, but today I ate me an Italian sub for lunch. And I can swish liquid around in my mouth! And I can purse my lips! Now, if I could just get my eye to stop watering so much, I'll be all better. But there's still time.

2. I'm no longer in death crunch! Since Monday, I've been going home at a reasonable hour, sometimes when there's still light outside. I take something other than the last bus home at night, and in the morning I'm not completely exhausted with a zombie brain!

3. Because I'm no longer in death crunch, I'm able to go out to the Next Act for Thursday Night Melvin once again!It'll still take a while before people believe that I'm Melvining again, but at least Scottybomb and Nezbitt will be there to share pulled pork nachos with me!

4. I'm starting work on training documents at work. Something I've always disliked about the way we do things is that we bring in all sorts of bright-eyed and bushy-tailed hopefuls and systematically grind them into dust over the course of 27 months. It's like an infomercial, where you see a very disadvantageous way of doing things, someone gets frustrated and says, to the camera, "There's got to be a better way!" Well, there is, and I'm hoping to be one of the architects who brings this better way to the franchise. I'll be working with the dude who's already created a lot of the foundation I'll be using, and together we'll be a newbie-training powerhouse. But there's a lot of paperwork to pore over, develop, condense, tear apart, and shape into a coherent program that can be used on either project, or universally. The lesson here is: don't complain so loudly or so often unless you want to be put in charge of the solution.

5. I went outside this evening without a coat. It's the middle of February. Joy.

6. The Rose and I have been having difficulties over the last couple of months, because of my death crunch and her packing and moving back to her mom's. I'm happy to say that we're back on solid ground after a rather heated discussion. Yes, I cried like a girl, if you must know, but she got the Mercedes and custody of Mr. Puddles.

7. A quiet night, listening to Chemical Brothers. Great music to relax to..