I’m better now, but yesterday was kind of rough. It wasn’t taking Mom to the eye doctor in the morning. It wasn’t the extreme heat. It wasn’t driving in the extreme heat during rush hour traffic to get to Aiden’s baseball game. It wasn’t waiting all day for time cards and then having to do the payroll until 10:30 pm.

Okay, maybe it was a little bit that last one. But it was mostly all of those things coming together on the same day. And the only one I’m complaining about is the time card situation, which is recurring, but for which there is always an excuse, and it’s always a different excuse every time. That’s how they deflect, you know. If it’s a new excuse, one they’ve never used before, how can I be upset with them? If I am, it must be my problem.

It was exhaustion, both physical and mental. It was a lot of things physical, like an aching back and sore feet and legs and the numbing effect of spring allergies. It was a lot of things mental, too, but I can usually handle those mental things better when I’m not so physically spent. I’ll be better. I’m already better. I’m more than halfway back to okay.

I’ll tell you what helps. And don’t think I’m saying I don’t like hot weather, because I do. But our natural air conditioning kicked in today, and it was much cooler. Fog shrouded the coastal hills, and a cooling breeze blew in off the ocean, and life was just that much more bearable. It makes some of the other stuff a little easier to take.