12/29/17

I’m thankful that i can now once again receive emails, after suddenly i just stopped being able to receive emails yesterday, i was resetting my cvs password to check on a prescription i needed to pick up this morning and i didn’t get the email and i resent it and i didn’t get it and i was like well CVS is fucked or something but then i just kept not getting any emails and then this morning had still not gotten any emails, even when i forced them to be sent from a variety of accounts, and i’m thankful that after looking in my iphone inbox app and the mobile web app for gmail and my desktop inbox app, i finally looked at the desktop web app for gmail and saw a small red alert indicating that i wasn’t able to send or receive email because i filled up my storage because i never delete email (it didn’t say that part but that’s why) and i wish they had you know SENT ME AN EMAIL about this rather than including a small notification in the legacy version of their desktop app but whatever, i’m thankful that i paid for a year of more storage and that now i am able to receive emails.

I’m thankful to lodge how anxious and upset i felt about this in my mind as an example to help me be more empathetic the next time a customer contacts me with a problem with our app. I’m thankful to have submitted polite technical feedback to google, even though who knows if that is just going into the digital equivalent of a filing cabinet in the back of a rarely-opened office.

I’m thankful that though my doctor’s office failed to respond to three separate requests from my pharmacy over the course of a week to refill my sleeping pill prescription, the pharmacist was able to give me a week’s supply to hold me over until they get their shit together, which was something i was really worried about like going on vacation and wanting to relax but then not being able to sleep because of withdrawal from my sleeping pill.

I’m thankful that though the two above things got me really fucking keyed up for the first morning of my vacation, i am slowly unwinding myself and writing this email is helping with that. I’m thankful to take deep breaths. I’m thankful that the airport shuttle is not crowded and so d and i each have our own row. I’m thankful i made sure i have small bills so i can tip the driver.

I’m thankful for the bottle of lemon flavored perrier i bought at cvs, which is very refreshing. I’m thankful that there is a chik-fil-a at the airport. I’m thankful that we don’t have to rush to our flight and i’m thankful that the time difference will be good on the way to las vegas (even if not on the way back)

I’m thankful for d’s old bluetooth keyboard, which i paired with my phone and am typing these notes on now, so that i can type these notes with the speed and fluidity of my laptop but without actually bringing my laptop, which would have tempted me to work on projects which is something i am definitely not fucking going to do on this vacation. I’m thankful, though, that I made a lot of progress on those projects this week and that other people at work were impressed by this. I’m thankful that even though it’s annoying that my phone is making the i at the beginning of every sentence capitalized, that is really not a thing worth being annoyed about.