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<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time in many months I had a video conference with my manager\u2014who technically isn\u2019t my manager at the moment because she\u2019s on partial leave. I used to really enjoy our weekly one-on-ones and didn\u2019t realize how much I missed talking with her until today. We chatted for an hour and a half about what\u2019s going on at work for me and a little about my personal life and the minor anxieties I\u2019m dealing with (ankle, bug bites, Hubby in pain, construction woes, and rogue neighbor). It\u2019s pretty much been a non-summer for both of us, and work is, well, somewhat on hold in some ways until re-organization issues settle and we figure out where our team is headed next. So 2021 isn\u2019t so much turning out to be a do-over but a do-again, only with different stressors.<\/p>\n
On the bright side, I scored an appointment with the skin doc, who prescribed a heavier arsenal of topical ointments for the bug bites than what I can get over the counter. Between that and Allegra, I feel more comfortable. While I was at it, I decided to get the first of the two shingles vaccines too. The doc kinda scared me into it because I\u2019ve also been experiencing a little tingling and stinging down my arm near where the bites are. When I step outside my house, I get the sensation of tiny pinpricks on my skin, as if no-seeums are crawling all over me (she admits, at the risk of sounding like she\u2019s going mad). It\u2019s bizarre, and it\u2019s making me paranoid of my own back yard.<\/p>\n
Hubby stayed home again today to give his foot a rest, which looks much better. He decided to stain the boardwalk he built earlier this (or was that last year). He\u2019s not crazy about the color, but I think it ties in nicely with our picket fence of a similar color. Later this afternoon we drove around to some more Little Free Libraries to distribute one of my books I\u2019m trying to offload. And as we sit here this evening we\u2019re getting more used to the light in the back yard, made possible by our neighbors. I\u2019m liking it more.<\/p>\n