This was the last day of our in-office responsibilities. They weren't mandatory attendance things, but, living so close to the office I felt like I had no excuse to beg off and not go. Almost everyone came in. We have new team mates that we've never met in person. So I felt compelled. Drawn. Wanting to be there.
My work bestie RC lives in Baltimore and she was going to come down for some of these meetings. There was a giant fire in the city that shut down the train lines on Tuesday. And then Wednesday she had a day of other obligations. Today, she made it!
So happy to have time with my bestie to chat, catch up, walk around the neighborhood, go to Starbucks, laugh at stuff. Catching her up on some drama at work and stuff, chats I had with some folks, and the whole thing... it was good to connect.
We were walking down the street and a balloon came around the corner and attacked us. I asked her to take my picture. Then I let it go again. I cropped this picture down to make it square, but I do want to say when I left the house my hair was wonderfully curled and amazing. Less than 3 hours in DC humidity and boom. Nothing. Ha.
Folks began leaving, flying home after days of activities. I scheduled two station meetings for 3pm and 4pm, and it kept me busy. I got to keep working while they got to move along.
RC left around 2 to head home to Baltimore. And I miss everyone already.
It's kind of funny, I was talking to one of my colleagues who stayed at a hotel one block from the office, and he said it was a real joy to come in at 8:30 every day, leave, go walk around the city, go out to dinner with other colleagues, grab a beer at the very favorite brewery around the corner, and be back in the hotel in bed by 9:30! No commute!
I had my commute, and it was a challenge each day in different ways. Today the train rides were both super easy, so that was a gift. And I was going to walk to the metro AND walk back, but Doug offered to drive me down so I accepted that. I did walk back though. And it was DC hot and humid, reminding me of how miserable it will be soon.
To think, we used to do this every damn day. I'm so relieved I do not have to do this on a regular basis. RC and I talked about how we should make a date once or twice a month to come into the city and be together. She is a big germ phobic and was incredibly anxious about being in a place that was "too peopley" like the train, so she wore a mask, and she hated people talking loud on the phone. She wished she had her emotional support stuffed animal to curl up into and scream... but she made it.
At the office, we landed in a cube together and someone asked why we were crammed in there together. It just seemed natural, we were talking and looking over things together and ... why do that with a divider between us? Someone else said "I really miss the way you two talk to each other, you are cracking me up."
It's true. We are fun and funny.
Tomorrow I go back to normal, we all go back to normal. Remote work, bare feet, a dog snuggled up to my thigh, walking around outside instead of doing my 250 steps on the fifth floor.
Here's me and the bestie. Digits below!
digits
exercise: 12/12 hours. A couple measurable walks but the big one was the walk home from the metro. 20 min/.93 miles; 13k+ steps by bedtime
blood glucose:
7am: 82
n/a
10:30pm: 118
food:
coffee/water
7am: phentermine
8:15am: met+glip
10am: some hash browns with onions and peppers; a couple bites of some sort of a frittata which ... was not good (sadly! our cafe usually has wonderful food but this was tasteless and bland).
1:45pm: bowl of ground turkey "bahn mi" bowl, tiny amount of rice, a lot of turkey, veggies, pretty good
5:30pm: met+glip
7:30pm: left over potato salad from the other day w/left over kielbasa diced up
9:30pm: jardiance
no alcohol/beer/wine
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