This week feels like the Apple mental health survey(‘Have you ever felt that the difficulties are piling up so high that you can’t overcome them?”). I spend a disproportionate amount of time trying to schedule and reschedule things, and something pops up each time I squeeze things in. The worst part is that the work projects are moving at a slower speed than I would like them to move, which means I am leaving a lot of unfinished work right before going to a conference. I invested tons of effort to finish one of these “long-distance runners” last night, and it ended up being two and a half hours instead of twenty minutes, and not because of me. I am happy that I can put a checkmark and close the ticket, but I planned to finish packing last night, and I had no time for that, and now I am unsure when to finish except for right before the departure :).
Another “check” – I finally introduced another caregiver to mom. The positives about her are that she lives very close and is way more flexible. Mom at least didn’t dislike her and agreed to go for a walk with her a couple of times when I am away.
Also, I can’t believe it has been just a couple days since I was at the beach – it was heavily raining for the past two days, and yesterday it was sunny, but almost freezing in the morning. The good side is that I am more mentally prepared for Helsinki :).
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