07-23-26 Things are getting real
Today was such a roller coaster, good and bad getting and giving, all of the things
Before going to work, I did take a good soak in the hot tub trying not to be bothered by the smoky air, which is even worse today
On my way to Rotary lunch I stopped at Joseph Creek Village to pick up mom‘s mail which I had been promised would be held for me and I now know that everything is being forwarded so it was just the things that arrived there in the first two weeks of July to pick up. I admit to being instantly angry to find out that rather than call me that there was a stack of mail. They marked, returned to sender on all of it and sent it back to the post office.
The lunch was really great as it was part two of a talk on dementia given by Cheryl Savage. I also sat with Heidi who told me that her friend was struggling with some pretty bad complaints about Joseph Creek as well and it turns out that that is the same person. The funeral Director was going to connect me with. I feel that we have a story for the newspaper about the expectations and disappointments of elder care in our community by a for-profit organization.
By the end of the meeting, I was calm down enough to go to the post office. I walked in and the post he who came out from the back, recognize me, and I explained what had happened and she went and checked to find a stack of Mom‘s mail. Thank goodness as it was her bank statement, credit card statement and forms to fill out for her investments. I know that she probably wasn’t supposed to just give it to me, but she knew who I was and she knew that the forward had already been put on the mail so it was a blessing of being known in a small city.
By 3 o’clock, I was pretty much done with any work, so Brett and I headed off to the Heid-out for happy hour and a good debrief. From there, our intention was to meet at Rotary Park where Jill and the girls were supposed to be but Brett got a call out to go to the Curling club and help set up the evacuation center. As I didn’t have rehearsal until 630 I headed over to join and help out. It felt good to be doing something proactive that hopefully will not be needed but is ready in case the city of Kimberley with its 8000 people needs to evacuate. I helped get the trailer unloaded and then took off for rehearsal. There was a nice group of people there and apparently it didn’t take them much longer to get it all done.
Rehearsal went very well as we read through the script again, recording it to put into the linelearner app. I am trying to be very careful not to direct, but I was put in my place quite sharply at one point. I did not react, even though my insides were on fire, I simply said acknowledged. It was nice to walk out with Nikki as we are both excited to be working together.
One of the odder things of the day was when I parked downtown and saw the amount a twoonie would buy only to put it in and only get an hour. Do better Cranbrook
A lovely part of the day was getting a message that I should run for Mayor, lol. It’s nice that someone sees that potential in me but my shoot from the hip personality is not made for politics
triumphgal 