Today marks day 5 of a scheduled 10 days in the RV before we move into the place that we can have until October. It’s so close!
The kids seem to getting less tense as we’ve settled into a routine and they see that “ancient paternal one”, as my youngest calls me from time to time, has a plan and the plan is working. I am so relieved to observe it! My existential panic has been reduced to patience with my unease at the situation.
As glad as I am to see my children feeling better about things, I also need to make sure to take care of myself so that I can keep up the effort needed to meet their needs. My schedule has been:
wake up at 6:30am to rouse the kids. See my 16 year old of on bicycle to school.
Get in the car at 6:45am and take my 15 year old to their school about a half hour away.
Get to the parking lot at one of the restaurants where I work around 8:30 am. Read the news, do my daily wordle puzzle and then go in to the facility where I can take a shower before clocking on at 9:30am.
Work until 2:00pm. Leave to pick the 15 year old up from school.
Return the 15 year old to the RV in Key West around 2:45pm or 2:50pm.
Hustle over to the other restaurant location and clock in around 3:00pm.
Work until I finish closing the place around 9:00pm.
Go back to the RV and check homework. Sleep.
Rinse, repeat.
I am good with that schedule except that every time I have a day off lately, there has been a lot of pressing stuff that I need to address with what should have been down time. Such is the nature of a life in upheaval.
Like my kids, I see that the plan is working step by step. Soon the upheaval will be lessened. Soon school will be out for the year. Soon, some degree of normalcy will return. I will still need to figure out a new place to live in October. I will have to get a divorce lawyer and try to figure out retainer money. I will also need a lawyer to address the eviction that really doesn’t belong on my record, but hers. Still, the stability of a place until October, the end of the school year and the need to transport my 15 year old to and from, and the easing of the panic will make a huge difference in my life.
For now though, it’s physically and emotionally exhausting! That’s why I am excited tonight. I don’t work the morning restaurant shift tomorrow and it will be Saturday, so there will be no early morning run to drop my little one at school! Dad is gonna do some self care. I am going to go see some live reggae tonight! If you’ve seen my posts over the decades that I have spent here at Dkos, you know how much music means to me.
Papa’s gonna center himself some tonight!
Friday, May 13, 2022 · 10:41:21 PM +00:00
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lockewasright
I just found out that my older brother will be there. That’s great! He has a very calming influence on me. Additionally, a woman that I have always liked very much will be there and she just told me that she has a crush on me! (“Wacka wacka!” ~ Fozzie from The Muppet Show). And on top of that, the guy who owns the place (a friend) just handed me a buy one, get one coupon. That makes my drink budget like $10. (I am a cheap date). Not to worry, I am on foot.