Friday: phone calls, walk

A. did not go to school today, however, when that decision was made, no one told the school. So the school called, and both my phone and the land line rang. I hung up the phone, but the land line would not stop ringing, so I got up to answer it and, predictably, no one there. But by then, I was Awake. I left a message at the office, and when R. got up I asked that he at minimum tell me if A. decides not to go to school because I could have gotten back to sleep after calling the office but not after listening to the land line ring a dozen or more times.

I continue to sneeze excessively, even after taking allergy meds, so I’m thinking I probably have her cold as well. T. had it a couple weeks ago.

I did walk with M., but we skipped an indoor visit. I’m not especially worried about this thing, but M. lives with her parents and they are not young and one of them has complex medical issues.

I’ve done some laundry, cooked various meals for me and for A., and continued to transition to the new email.

Last night I -did- have a bit of a breakthrough in terms of understanding my current inability to progress on the second advice / I can’t stop thinking about your brother / here’s an alternative to anxiety as a motivational strategy book. I realized that I’d been trying to tackle this thing _without_ addressing the communication component and yeah, that’s just not going to work.

ETA: _so_ many calls from a Newburyport number about some presentation in Lowell to help people exit timeshares. _Obviously_ this is a scam, and I said bye the first time, and hung up the second time, the third time I said I’d give the guy 30 seconds (same number, quite possibly the same guy at least a couple of the times, insisting I not hang up on him), then interrupted after 30 seconds and said, no, this _is_ a scam good bye. He called back _again_ and insisted he wasn’t a scam so I said, do not call me again or I’m calling the attorney general’s office, and he said in a _very_ different tone of voice we don’t need that kind of trouble. Has not called again. I need to remember that one. That’s _useful_.

Also, JFC, there isn’t even such a thing as a non-scammy timeshare exit company, but _if there were_ they wouldn’t need to cold call and do high pressure tactics. They’d have a fucking line out the door.

Also, I _like_ my timeshares and know exactly how I would go about selling them anyway.

I’m feeling mildly optimistic that that John Oliver about time share exit scams has raised enough awareness that the cold callers are really suffering. They _should_ suffer. This is a really bad bad scam.