No rest for the wicked...

Yikes! Monday hit me like a brick wall today. There is so much to be done before my time off later in the month and there is so much to be done at home before the holidays. I'm starting to feel that pre-holiday crunch! Today at work I begged out of a meeting just to get some of the stacks of paperwork to a reasonable level. I shouldn't have as there is likely to be something that I will be "volunteered" for in my absence but it was the only way I could get a handle on this mess that I refer to as my desk. I've been working on financial updates and applications for some of the people we case manage here. This is NOT why I went into Social Work! If I had any math skills I would have been an accountant and would be making twice as much money! Alas, it is inevitable...so with my trusty calculator and No. 2 pencil, here I sit adding away. ~sigh~ I just watched A Beautiful Mind again last night too so I'm sure that any second now all this arithmetic is going to make me start having conversations with people who aren't really there. But hey, if me going mad while doing math means that someday I would win the Nobel prize then it might actually be worth it!

On a more frustrating note, I weighed myself today. I gained 3 pounds... sheesh! This, I know, is not a good sign and I also know it's from all the pre-Christmas crap people are bringing to work with them now. I shall avoid those treats at all cost now. I know what lies ahead with my big fat Polish family Christmas! Better to save space for those high caloric goodies than to waste them on cheap, store bought Xmas cookies now. Begone, oh foul sugar cookies! Thou shalt not make your home on my hips! Or my ass, for that matter!