I took a Trazadone to help me sleep last night, because I figured I might have trouble falling asleep with the probation meeting coming today. I can rationally know there’s on reason to worry about it, and still manage to worry. Better to take precautions.
And I did fall asleep just fine, but I woke around 3 with a pain in my low back on the left side. It wouldn’t let me fall back asleep, so I ended up getting up and taking some Alka Seltzer while reading on the couch for a while. Then back to bed; I did fall back asleep and into some more wild adventure dreams. A dream of being on Survivor and on a tribe called Muni, but the actual experience wasn’t very Survivor-like.
I got up at the alarm, but spent about 10 minutes journaling before going for my walk. I did the high mile again, even though the wind had died down. The moon was out, but not quite bright enough for me to forgo my headlamp. Much colder than it’s been recently, but the walk warmed me as it usually does.
I treated myself to an espresso with milk since I hadn’t gotten a full night’s sleep. Between training and meetings, my whole work day was pretty much booked, but I did have to leave at 10 to head down to Weiser to meet my probation officer and have my intake meeting.
The meeting went well, overall. The officer was matter-of-fact, and polite. I’ve got some homework for the next meeting, which will be in late April. After that, I’ll only need to meet with the officer once every three months. That is, if I’m still on supervised probation by then. My goal is to be off of it as soon as possible, which my lawyer will petition for as soon as I complete everything I need to complete. I’ve got everything done except for the community service hours, which should be completed on April 5th. And the drug and alcohol evaluation apparently hasn’t been filed yet with the court, though my completion of an 8 hour course has been.
I will need to deal with drug testing, and I won’t know if I’ll be required to test until the morning of the day I’m expected to get tested. That will require that I take time off of work, because their hours are my work hours. It’s a good thing that this is not the busy season at work, but it will be a bit of a pain to take that time with short notice. I will make it work, and with any luck I’ll be off supervision before I have to do that too many times.
I got back home in time to eat some lunch, and then it was back to the near constant meetings/training. My voice is getting a bit sore from all the talking I’m doing as part of training my new hire, but that will taper off a bit starting on Friday. I’ll be delegating some of their training for a good portion of next week before picking it up again the week after, but with good long rest breaks for me sprinkled in.
After work, I did a half mile walk to check the mail since I hadn’t had a chance to do that at lunch. Then I ate dinner and got ready to go to the hot springs. It was crowded today, but mostly with families. No sign of my Cemetery Crew. I haven’t seen anyone from the neighborhood there for weeks now. I wonder if they’re avoiding it because it’s spring break for a lot of districts. I hope to see them again soon; I miss having some social time. I did spend all my time in the hot tub though, which was nice and hot tonight. Really relaxing for all my muscles.
Once home again, I made sure to drink a lot of water. I didn’t drink as much as I’d prefer during the work day, and then sweated a bunch out in the hot tub, so if I don’t want to suffer in the next few days, I need to hydrate. Then I did spinal oscillations for my workout, and my ten minutes of staff spinning.
I’m on the track now. I just need to keep moving forward. Get the community service completed; get the evaluation filed with the court; petition to be removed from supervision. I can do this. Ambrose is with me, cheering me on. Reminding me to stay on target.
