Blogger 365 Day 262 - Scared, sort of

     Today should have been one of those typical days at work, with a few twists to be sure, but nothing out of the ordinary.  I did have some items that I had to enter into the system, we switched dairy providers on Tuesday which meant that all of the old dairy products that were in the system were no longer valid, and all of the new products had to be entered into the system.  Only two and a half pages of bar codes that needed to be entered, a time consuming process to be sure.  After all if you have seen the dairy case at your local grocery store, well, we carry pretty much everything they do, maybe even a few more things because of the variety of sizes involved.   On top of that I had my normal nonsense to deal with, but we had a keypad on a register go down so I had to try and fix it (but failed). 

     While I was working on getting all of the new dairy products into the register system I got a call on my cell phone.  That is not unusual, most of the calls I get are at work and are work related, but when I looked at the number on the screen I realized this wasn't one of those.  Instead it was from the same cell number as when my family showed up a couple of weeks ago and the casino excursion took place.  Since it was from home I figured I better pick it up.

     Turns out it was my mom's husband, he called to say that he was worried about her.  Apparently she has been experiencing some delusions, like when he would go pick things up for dinner or run out and get something, she would say to make sure that he gets something for me as well.  Mind you, I haven't been home since the family reunion back in July.  So Mike asked me to give her a call, which I did almost as soon as I got off the phone with him.  It was an odd sort of phone call, almost like she wasn't completely there.  In fact there were a couple of instances where she didn't even realize that I hadn't been around in a couple of months, she asked when I left.  Now my mom has been known to confusing names when talking, then again with the size of our family I am sure if you sat me down and had me try to name all of the cousins and aunts and uncles I have, I would be a pretty good bet to mess up a few myself, so if she were to juxtapose a name in a conversation, I never would pay it much mind.  But to have absolutely no idea if I was or wasn't even home.  Had I had the means I probably would have left work right then, it worried me that much.  But since I couldn't I called up my uncle Mouse (it's a nickname, he was not named Mouse at birth okay) and asked if he could give her a call, just a check up sort of thing in case I was being too worried.   If I was that is good, if I wasn't then he lives much closer than I do.

     About 20 minutes later I got a call back, Mouse said it sounded like everything was okay so maybe I am worrying over nothing.  But after I got home tonight I got another call from Mike, he wanted to know if I would be available this weekend, they need to clean out one of the bedrooms so new carpet can be brought in because of the fire damage that is only now being fixed.  I said I would be available Sunday, so Saturday night after I get off of work I am going to head home and have a Sunday full of furniture moving and carpet removing, but probably best of all I will be able to keep an eye on my mom, even if it is only for a day or so, just to make sure things are okay on the home front.

     Okay, enough rambling on about things no one else is interested in.  I am off to take a nap, do some laundry and bang out a Saturday full of fun at work.  Yay me!!!!