Selection Sunday

March 16,2025, Sunday morning, 8:54am, pacific standard time,office park,Laguna Niguel,California,USA. NCAA tournament selection Sunday has always been one of my favorite days of the year. Before my daughter was born I would plan to take the first week of the tournament off. I was so excited to watch basketball during the day I didn’t want to be distracted by work. Today is a beautiful, crisp spring morning. Many memories of happy times are filling space in my mind. I have already worked out and grabbed coffee. I am going to head to target and take care of shopping needs before I lose momentum.

Saturday afternoon

March 15, 2025, Saturday afternoon,4:16pm,pacific standard time,apartment in Aliso Viejo, California,USA. My daughter and her mom drove to Glendale this morning to shop for dresses and visit family. I woke up early, went for a walk, cleaned my bath/shower then came up to Aliso to spend the day with the dog. We are hanging out watching a show on Netflix. I am still plugging away on my affirmation book. Almost 700 entries. I changed the style of each entry a couple days ago. It makes them more powerful but also takes longer to write. That is fine. I am persistent. All will work out.

Friday afternoon in Costa Mesa

March 14, 2025, Friday afternoon,4:11pm,pacific standard time,office in Costa Mesa, California, USA. Only one hour to go before the weekend. Hanging out in the office, talking with people, clearing our emails. Right now work is a challenge. Numbers are low census wise and financially. Plus, referrals are slow. This place has issues but we will turn it around. It can’t happen fast enough for everyone involved. I am going to leave at 5pm and say hi to my daughter then go home and crash.

Sick of it already

March 13,2025, Thursday night,7:08pm,pacific standard time, apartment in Dana Point, California, USA. I am officially sick of going to the office. It isn’t the office per se. The space actually isn’t bad as far as offices go. I just don’t want to spend 50 hours of my week in any one place, the office or otherwise. That, coupled with sitting in traffic for an hour each morning and paying a toll to get home or to Aliso at a decent time in the evening is wearing thin. I am so ready for the weekend.

The worst

March 12, 2025, Wednesday night, 7:01pm,pacific standard time, parking lot of school of rock, San Juan Capistrano,California,USA. I knew going into this job the branch was in a tough spot. They had a tri-annual survey with serious issues in key areas, staff turnover was high and quality scores were low. What I didn’t know is the branch is the lowest performing one financially in the entire company. This morning the senior Vice President sent out an email regarding repayment penalties and Orange County was by far the worst. Later today he sent notice he is coming to town next week. Then the division President got on our afternoon marketing call to hear what we are working on. Right now we are ground zero for executive leadership oversight. The spotlight is white hot. I guess I wanted an opportunity to prove my worth. Here it is.

Thankful on a rainy morning

March 10,11,2035,Monday,Tuesday morning,4:46,pacific standard time,Planet Fitness parking lot, Laguna Niguel,California, USA. Yesterday was a drag. My sleep pattern was off and I woke up with a congestion headache on the back left base of my skull. I still have it this morning. The weather is rainy. That might be why my head still aches. Usually when a storm comes in I feel it. Be that as it may, I am thankful. I was able to get up and go for a walk before the rain really came down hard. I have a place to go today that gives me friendship and purpose and I am going to workout in ten minutes once the gym opens at 5am.

Sunday morning

March 9, 2025,Sunday morning,9:11am,pacific standard time,office building parking lot,Laguna Niguel,,California, USA. My daughter called around six last night and wanted to drive around. I got dressed and picked her up. We ended up in Foothill Ranch and got a daiquiri ice from Baskin Robbins. I slept in this morning. Plus, it is the start of daylight savings so I am really out of my routine. Right now I am gathering energy to take the dog for a walk after finishing my workout at Planet Fitness.

Saturday

March 8, 2025, Saturday afternoon,4:49pm,pacific standard time,bedroom of apartment in Dana Point, California, USA. I decided for the rest of the night I am going to stay in the back half of the apartment. I shut the bedroom door and won’t leave until morning. It feels strange to sequester myself but at the same time it feels like a mini-vacation. Almost hotel like. It has been a good day. Got up around six, hung out in the apartment then walked on the treadmill at the gym. Afterwards I went to Aliso Viejo, took the dog for a walk, got my daughter lunch, hung out at the office parking lot in Laguna Niguel, bought some jerky and fresh berries at Albertsons, then came home. Now I am going to read and enjoy the sunset.

Rainy day

March 6, 2024,Thursday afternoon,3:48pm,pacific standard time,office in Costa Mesa, California,USA. It is cold and rainy today. And I am not in the mood to be here. I had a headaches so I took some DayQuil and ibuprofen along with a lot of coffee. I am ready to go home and call it a day. This week needs to end.