Oxnard-- Sometimes there just isn’t enough of me to go around. My average week is nonstop, seven days a week.
A TYPICAL week for me involves covering City and community events, writing those stories, delivering the paper, doing the banking, payroll, legal postings, financial budgets, being the billing manager, responding to questions that come in, and following up with all my employees and making sure they are moving in the right direction.
Add to that all the domestic chores around the house, including cooking, cleaning, reconciling the checkbook, all the grocery shopping, along with the recycling, trash, and making sure the 5-gallon water machine is full at home. You know, the glamorous life.
As I have said before, being driven to do all I can do was instilled in me when I was a child and drives me today.
For example, last Sunday, I wasn’t having a great blood sugar or kidney day. I pushed through it and attended the Muscles and Mojo Car Show at the Murphy Auto Museum, stopped at the grocery store to buy the J-Train some moisturizing face wash because, for some reason, soap won’t wash her face, then the J-Train and I made our…