After vacation

Here are some highlights of what happened after my vacation.

While riding the train home I got talking to a woman in a wheelchair who was sitting in the handicapped section of the train like me. After hearing her story about being homeless in California and the fact that she was looking for a change and decided to come east to Maine, having to wait 24 hours in Boston's South Station to wait to catch a bus/train to Maine I felt sorry for her and invited her home with me. I didn't check with my ride first and that was wrong of me. I brought this woman home and for the most part for a week things went relatively well. She was up a lot in the middle of the night which in turn woke me up and I was very tired for days. Yesterday morning she woke me up at 2 AM ranting and raving about something and I wasn't able to get back to sleep. The night before we had a thunder storm that knocked out the cable, internet and telephone and when she said she wanted to leave RIGHT then I took my cell phone outside to make a call to get a cab. There wasn't anyone on duty to drive a handicapped van at that time of the morning so I told the cab company that I would call later in the day if I still needed them. I also called the cable company to find out when the cable would be coming back on and of course I got shined on about that. I did tell them however that I wanted a credit for the day that I didn't have my services.

I managed to talk my house guest into staying till later in the morning and thought about trying to go back to sleep but knew it was useless so I just stayed up and got some house cleaning done that needed to be done. I got the whole kitchen cleaned, dishes washed and the dishwasher run which made me feel much better.

To make a long story short my house guest left around 10:30 yesterday morning to go to the train station to catch a train to who knows where. She has a ticket that will take her out of Union Station in Worcester today on the 12:57PM train into Chicago. I am in a way relieved she is gone but worry on the other hand what will happen to her in the 26 hours till she can catch the train out.

I managed to find someone who would be able to sit here while I took a shower yesterday. That was quite a chore to do and was even more tired after I took it than I was before. After getting dressed I came out to sit on the couch to watch TV with my friend and fell through the couch onto the floor. Yes folks I was sitting there with my legs up over my head! It is funny so go ahead and laugh at this time. Thank goodness my friend was able to help me get out of their but it kind of looked like a three stooges movie doing it. I had some extra shelving for my DVD cabinet and am using that to hold me up right now. I need to get to Southbridge to pick up a futon frame that I've been waiting 2 months to have brought to me. I have come to realize that if I wait for them to bring it my couch will fall apart completely before I get it.

I forgot to take my meds last night for some reason when my alarm for it went off and only remembered when it was time to go to bed. I kept wondering why I didn't feel tired and then it hit me. So I took them 2 hours later than usual so this morning I'm dragging butt because the meds are still in my system and since I got up at my usual time I'm still tired.

I'm praying that the day gets better. It's dark, damp and all around a crappy day and all I really want to do is crawl back into bed and sleep but there is to much that needs to be done around the house if I have the energy to do it. I'm going to play it by ear and see how the day goes from here.