What it is and what it will be

Today is Labor Day, where people across the country are firing up grills, spending time with family and friends and just thinking I don't have to go to work today. I haven't gone to work in four weeks. I'm cleared to start working part time tomorrow and it's daunting to say the least. I'm edgy about going back to the office. Past the initial week to week and a half of my hospital stay there has been little support, whether by choice or just out of sight out of mind I don't know, but I'm nervous about going back in and it not being the same.

Not to mention that right now I'm only going to be working part time, so 4-5 hours a day. I'm sure that will make some people unhappy, but there's nothing I can really do about that. Other than the initial discomfort of seeing how it goes with my co-workers and reclaiming my cubicle space I am looking forward to going back to work. There is a certain comfort in recollecting the normal pieces of my day to day routine.

Yesterday was one of those for no reason emotionally trying days, we are going to blame it on the steroids again. Which even at 50mg are still having an impact. My dad and I walked down to the United Avondale Methodist Church which is about three blocks from my house and attended the service. Church has never been my thing so to speak, but it was comforting to go. The congregation was small, but Alabama did play in Atlanta the night before, and the pastor said a lot of people were out sick. I think I will go again. I enjoyed the sermon, he has a sense of humor, which is important because with everything else that's weighting on my mind I don't need to be made to feel worse.

I made lunch, feta and spinich turkey burgers, showing that I do have some of my dad's cooking genes. And then we went for a walk on the Cahaba River. Now I will say it was a little more than just walking down the sidewalk, there was gravel and hills and nature involved. And it wore me out. We ended up walking a little less than a mile total and that just wore me out for the rest of the day. When I start back tomorrow I'm going to go to the REC Center and swim laps afterwards. I figure that is a low impact exercise that will help me get back in shape and help cool me off since I tend to get really hot in the afternoons. We'll see how that goes.

Today's project: putting up a ceiling fan in the kitchen. Jason is not thrilled. I mentioned it to him and one point and like many of these things I think he blew it off. I had talked to my electrician about it and he said it could be done. So on Saturday my dad and I went out and found a fan! It's white with brushed nickel, a little on the modern -industrial side and since it's white it should blend in with the ceiling. I'm hoping that it will help air circulate in there while I'm cooking because it gets hot, hot, hot. This ceiling fan should be a lot easier to put up when compared to the one we installed in the bedroom. For that one Jason had to crawl around in the attic, not a very fun time.