Piano Lessons

So the new department at work is going well. It's a difference of more complex cases I worked on in Medicaid with less volume versus easy one-status cases but with enormous volume. I'm literally leaving work exhausted. The last two days I ate a protein bar for dinner and my favorite holiday pumpkin spice coffee from McDonald's. If you haven't tried it, do it! It's sweeter than Dunkin's pumpkin coffee but tastes so much better. Anyway, so I've been just dead tired when I get home, welcoming the cats wanting to sit on my lap, just so I can spend some time vegging in the chair. Wednesday I came home after work, Aziza was sleeping in her room - she takes naps after school sometimes - and after relaxing, I busied myself with some cleaning and some school assignments I had to work on. About 7-7:30 I hear Aziza awake in her room talking to a friend. I hadn't checked my phone since I got home - a new thing I've been doing lately, just not caring for the time being - and I don't know what it was that triggered it, but as I passed by Aziza's electric piano, I thought OMG, WE TOTALLY FORGOT TO GO TO HER LESSON AT 6;15! I run into her room and I'm like "Omg, omg, we forgot your lesson!" Aziza's piano teacher literally lives down the street from us, where she used to live pretty far into Apalachin, so it has been a real breeze for me. I run check my phone and there is her text: "So tonight's obviously a no go for piano :p. Everything alright?" I felt so bad. She is the sweetest person and Aziza has learned so much from her in just a year.

Of course I was crazy apologetic and of course she was like, "It's okay, it happens!" This did not make me feel any better, unfortunately. So glad we worked it out and then rescheduled for Friday (yesterday) at 4pm. I figured that's perfect. Aziza gets home at 3;30 and she can just walk right over there... literally less than a 5 minute walk. It's about 3:54 yesterday and I'm at my desk at work packing up, getting ready to go home and Aziza calls. She says, "Do I have a piano lesson today?" I'm like "Yes! Hurry up, get over there!" And then I realize I forgot to leave her a check to give Katie. I think to myself: Well done, Heather. I text Katie and tell her Aziza is coming over right now but I'll get the check to her later on (we owed her still from last week when Aziza canceled at the last minute). She says it's no problem. I rush home, hoping to get there by 4:30 and meet Aziza coming out so she can run back inside and give Katie the check. Stupid Friday night traffic prevails - of course - but I get there at like 4:29. Can I tell you I literally sat in the car and waited until 4:45 for Aziza to come out. They were watching the marching band video from the state championships from the week before - 2nd in the state! Okay, fine, I get that, but I rushed, I stressed over nothing. I could have even stopped somewhere, as I always have some errand to run after work, but I couldn't think of a thing except wanting to get home with the check.

Did I fail to mention that I'm working at this new job that has me on the phone all day interviewing people? And that I am in the last 7 weeks of my final 4 courses at Delhi University before graduating? I feel like I'm losing my mind. I'll be sitting and typing a paper or typing this right now, and I'll suddenly forget how to spell a word I've known since probably 4th grade. I'm in dire need of a vacation - far away from my life!!!