Where Did The Weekend Go?

I can't believe it's already Monday afternoon. What a nutty life this is. I feel like I've been on the road again, most likely because I have! And I sort of had a mini-panic attack when I looked at the calendar and realized next week is already 4th of July weekend. My office looks like someone ransacked it. I have those crazy raspberry ants crawling all around my computer table. I still have not unpacked fully from outreaches done back in May! And now I'll be gone out of the office from July 1-3 for my "Spanish for Law Enforcement Officers" class up at the sheriff's academy and on July 4 for the holiday. My office is never going to get straightened up.

This past Saturday found me downtown at the Houston Juneteenth Health Festival. I was in a tent outside in the new downtown park from 9:30am-6pm. I'm sure I don't need to mention how hot it was out there. I drank about 8-9 glasses of iced tea and lemonade and only went to the restroom once, which just shows how much fluid I was sweating out! I had lunch with an old friend that I had only met once before, about 3 years ago at another health fair. His booth was a couple over from mine. At the end of the day I donated blood and I went faster than I've ever gone before, thanks to all the fluids I'd been drinking all day! That shit gushed out, I swear! The other good news is that my cholesterol level continues to hang steady well below the danger 200 zone and this past Saturday registered at a nice 170. And my blood pressure was just fine, too! I have all these points at the Blood Center store and I'm trying to decide what to get for myself. I'm tempted by the MP3 player, but I don't know how they work...

We had the baby with us and on Sunday we had family time since I was pretty much gone all day Saturday. We were heathens and skipped church and went swimming instead. Then we went to see Get Smart which, although is getting mixed reviews, made me and S laugh and laugh. Then last night, after we got home from dropping the baby off, S shamed me into going running and I ran 1 whole mile, which I have not done in months and months. God, I hate running, but I love what it does! It's like Leonard Bernstein and his view towards Mahler: "I hate you Mahler, but I hate you on my knees."

This morning I had to head a county over to teach a class and tonight I suggested to S that we go to our old hangout, the Mezz, to watch wrestling for old times' sake and I'll spring for it out of my money from Job #2. We are going to see a marriage counselor on Thursday and I suspect that one of the things he's going to tell us is to focus on each other more, so I guess I'm getting a head start on the professional advice. I think the counseling will be a great thing for us. We need help communicating better since I'm the left-brainer and S is the right-brainer. Sometimes it seems like we're speaking 2 different languages. Mudflap and his girlfriend had attended a couples' workshop a couple of years ago and highly recommended the experience, but those workshops are hella expensive. Fortunately my insurance will cover this therapy!

In other news, we are going to try and get S signed up with my organization, the Sheriff's Reserves. I was talking to one of my friends recently who used to be a full-time cop with a local agency and he said it could take S 6 months to find a job! Gulp. So maybe I can pull some strings and get him signed up with our outfit and he can start getting experience as well as make some damn good $ working at the jail downtown. Who knows, maybe we can even patrol together sometime!