Thoughts on the Second to the Last Day before I get a week off....

1. It's a most beautiful day in Wisconsin today. Too beautiful to be sitting at work. Yet, here I am.

2. I have just "blown off" an hour of training to "get ready for an upcoming appointment at 1pm". Yet, here I am, writing my blog.

3. I have to work tomorrow. It's Friday but it's the last day before I get a week off. Yet, I still have to work tomorrow and I really don't want to.

4. All of the "personalities" in this office are killing me. I'm over trying to placate grumpy people. Yet, I am the supervisor so it's part of what I do. Hence, looking forward to my week off.

5. I just ate pizza for lunch. That made the day a little bit brighter but I would rather have eaten pizza at home. Or eaten nothing at home. I just want to go home! Yet, here I am.

6. I do a job search every once in a while just to be sure there's nothing better out there. I've seen some things that have been intriguing. Yet, here I am.

7. My old boss is off today. I'm secretly hating him for it because I want to be off today. Yet, I know my time will come. Patience is a virtue.

8. My desk is a real mess. I should probably clean it up before I leave tomorrow. Yet, I don't think I will. I just don't care enough about crap like that.

9. I owe my friend $5. I've seen her here three times today. Yet, I haven't given her the money. I don't know why.

10. I think I'm starting to run out of ideas for this blog. I mean, there's stuff going on but I'm not sure I want to keep going into it. Mostly sad stuff that I try not to think about. Yet, I'm not ready to give up on this thing. Even if I use it for silly stuff like this.

Crap! I Made A Clean Spot!

I had this brilliant idea to do a world class clean up of my apartment. I mean, a total sandblast, move furniture, wash the carpets type of ordeal. Since this is a place where there used to be two smoker in residence (me being one of them...no longer, I might add. Yes, praise me...I am a quitter!) I decided it was high time to wash the walls. Seemed simple enough...get some cleaning stuff, spray it on, wipe it off. So, I started with all good intentions and for a while it was fine. It was getting clean. But, I soon lost all enthusiasm for the job. (Can you be enthusiastic about washing walls? I'm not so sure.) Anyway, I decided to take a break and then just got occupied with other important stuff like clicking around on the Internet, playing Text Twist and watching 'White Christmas' for the third time in four days. Now I have a big clean spot in the kitchen. See, the dirty walls used to make me feel guilty for not taking care of it earlier but I learned, over time, to shut out the nagging voices and look the other way. Now, those walls are nagging at me louder than ever. That's the trouble with cleaning. You make a clean spot and even though that one small part of the job is finished, the rest of the job seems to grow making me feel even more inadequate a housekeeper as I always feared I was. Ah well...

Getting back to work today after fours days of eating (TURKEY!) and drinking was very hard. I was all kinds of bitter and had some choice words for the alarm clock as it blasted me into consciousness. I understand why we need alarms clocks but I swear if I ever meet the person who invented them I will punch him or her right in the kisser. Everyone at work was on edge because, of course, no one wanted to be there. Eh, soon, very soon I shall have two weeks off to spend with Alex doing nothing more than thinking of what adventure we will have that day. I can't wait!

Just a side note - I took Van's kind advice (at least in part) and banished all remaining turkey from my home. I'm hanging onto the vodka though. That will come in handy later!