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Yoga with Debi, Seward App and Rosie and Papa


May 31, 2023: Alright it’s 12:20pm and I’ll do some of this today at least. So today I did my meds at 7:04am with a granola bar. Then I zoomed mom for like 15 minutes and figured out the stuff to write on my questionnaire for the Seward job application. Then I went to my yoga class with Debi. Funny enough yoga was kind of dead today. She said that it always slows down like that in summer at at the end of the sessions. There were literally just two or three other people there, whereas a few weeks ago the room was bursting full. The other people in the class were Gary, who I’ve talked to a bit, and I think one of the other women who was named Martha. Not sure about the last one. Then I ran over to Papa’s house and ate some sloppy joe’s with him. I kind of got confused about the time that my Open Door shift started today, and I got there very early. I thought it was’t 12pm, when it was 12:30pm, so I got there at 11:58 for my 12:30 shift. I also brought a limoncello La Croix to Open Door. Honestly today I wasn’t working my favorite position, that involves showing the clients around. Instead I was sitting at the greeter desk, which was the first position I ever did there. So I did walk one client around after Lourdes got her signed up, because her family was exclusively Spanish-speaking. I learned that they were Venezuelans, who we also had a lot of the other day, and they did say something about the situation in Venezuela being horrible, which is obvious. Funny enough that Venezuelan actually gave me her phone number, and I told her that I do have WhatsApp since I learned Spanish from Ecuadorians. The woman, Sulay, also said she was looking for work and I said that Open Door had just hired a Spanish-speaking coordinator of something, whose job posting I translated into Spanish. Then I asked the Mexican volunteer Lourdes how to say job posting in Spanish, and learned it’s “anuncio de trabajo.” That’s also when Lourdes was asking me who was hired, and I learned then that their recent Spanish-speaking hire was a woman named Liz, or Elizabeth. After that I went back to Papa’s house, and I decided that if I was gonna try to take my meds 12 hours apart, then I could eat something else in the middle of the day, and I was hungry. So I had a few meatballs with BBQ sauce and a couple potstickers with soy sauce around 4:30pm. That still leaves me more than enough time to not have eaten for two hours before the meds and take them at 7:04pm. Then after I did that I helped Papa fill out some ID verification for some job he’s applying for, which is substitute teaching. It was with Kelly Services, and I joked that it was called that for my middle name. That's when we had our dinner, which was some frozen cod we heated up in the oven and a baked potato. It was reasonably close to 9-14g of fat, so I did it with my meds, at 7:03pm. I missed my morning time by exactly one minute. Big failure, I say jokingly. At the end of the night Papa and I played a few hands of Canasta too. I was kinda beating him by a lot, but I didn’t write down the scores. Instead we decided to drive to a store the Google told Papa would have real Canasta decks to replace the one that I have that got kinda ruined by water or something. But I drove us over there and they didn’t have any. Guess Google just lied to us. Then I drove him back home and pretty much immediately decided to go home after that. Also realizing just now I didn’t take a pic of us playing Canasta, even though it was definitely a good point in my day. Instead, I just have Rosie lying on the floor, which was my BeReal, 55 minutes late.

 
 
 

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