Stress

Packing up my office today to get ready for my move. The building 36 vultures are circling my office, asking what I'm taking or leaving. Preparing it for the next tenant. I'll miss my office mate, CS. What a bummer. I've been in this seat for 2 years but it feels like just a few months because it always felt temporary since they moved me here when all of EB started falling apart and there was so much transition.

The good news is that my new office is located 3 floors up, to which I take the stairs everyday. Plus the hike from my car is added exercise. Bonus. The new "cube mates" are friendly and cool.

I guess the movers will move my stuff while I'm on travel on Monday. I'd better label my chair. I like my chair. I'm out to NASA Headquarters in DC from Mon-Wed.

Paul's in Colorado on business travel. He left this morning and comes back tonight. So we won't miss him for too long :) He's stressing hard, folks. With the job of small business owner, physical therapist, dad, and husband, he's finally starting to crack ;) We talked through alot last night that will help him manage it all so I think he's feeling better. I am relieved he's showing signs of stress because after 20 years I was starting to think the man never felt it. But really the truth is he can roll with more stress than we all can on a daily basis, but when it hits, it hits hard. But fortunately he recovers quickly when we regroup and re-game-plan. The worst part he feels is the clients in his clinic who bring negative energy in. The clients who don't show to their appointments and thus make no progress in healing. Then they ask why they're not getting better when they DO show up. Like it's all Paul's responsibility to heal these people. The thing he hates the most is people who don't take responsibility for their own health care. The specialists can only do so much if you don't comply with the programs you're given. I told him to kick those people to the curb. The clinic doesn't need their money in exchange for such a negative energy sink. Ick.

I told him now I understand why he was required to take so many psychology classes in school!

Hopefully our new game plan will make the clinic run more efficiently and just decrease the amount of stress Paul's got coming at him.

This morning Anna said, "What IS this?" several times as she held up something for me to report back on. The cool thing was that she had inflection in her question in all the right places, just like I would ask, "What IS this". It was super cute. She's growing up.

On the way to school, she had me play Gwen Stefani's "Crash" over and over. She waves her hands in the air through the entire song. Then if I make different hand movements from the front seat, she'll copy me. It's so cool.