2 Weeks

I am sort of a little bit looking forward to the next two weeks at work. As much as possible, anyway.

Next week Maryam's going on vacation. I was supposed to be, because James is going on a 4 day/night Coast trip with school. I tried and tried to get in to be a parent that gets to go. Unfortunately, too many parents wanted to go, so I do not get to. I didn't "win" the lottery that they pretended to draw from. The parents who don't work and are able to help in class all year get to go.

Now.
I can understand this. I really can. I used to BE that parent. However, I also knew the parents that worked COULDN'T go every day. This is why you should try to include them on trips like THIS. I had to cancel my PTO and this made it possible for Maryam to go someplace "nice". (That means anywhere but work)

So I couldn't go. And I am worried SICK about him.
He's excited to go. But what if.......

Anyway, so the next week I get to cover for Maryam. I like covering for other people. I normally create worksheets which is just data entry, but I AM trained to do all other kinds of wonderfully delightful stuff, so it's cool when I get to do something different. It really is.

The week after that is when I cover for (we will call her..) "Sheri". Sheri does the best wonderfully delightful stuff because when you do her job, you're so busy, you don't realize it's already time to go home. WOW.

The thing about it though, it this. Sheri is a stress case. Sheri thinks she has to "retrain" me on everything she does EVERY single time she goes away.

She's been sick, and I get on just fine.

I'm trying to be patient with all the retraining, but to be honest, it's not rocket science, and I have it all down.

ALL of it.

So she keeps coming over and bugging me all day and making me walk around with her and do stupid crap that I already know how to do. I even caught HER making a big mistake.

I wanna hide from her today. I don't want to see her any more. And I'll be stuck here til 4!

I feel SO sorry for myself today.

SIGH.

Bunnies and Zac Attacks

I am having such a hard time working today. (Yes again. I do realize I ALWAYS say this) I can't even blame it on
anything. I may have had too much wine last night... But the thing is,
that's MY fault and I don't like blaming myself. It's uncalled for in my
book.

So I woke up with, what I can only think may be a hangover. I don't
normally get hangovers and I imagine that that's what it feels like.
Lucky me.

So needless to say, I toyed with calling in today. But I have no PTO so
I couldn't. Plus I took off Tuesday and I really do need my job and
stuff, so here I a(Posted this the day after, acutally... James called me from school, I ended up leaving at ten because he needed me.. so it worked out.. slept the whole day...)

So Tuesday night.
Wait.
First of all, I have to state that we've been having Chelsea's best
friend Megan (since 3rd grade) stay with us during the week while she
goes to school.

Tuesday night, Megan comes in after I finally coaxed James into relaxing
and going to sleep by reading "Little House in the Big Woods". Yes, he
likes it. It bores him to sleep every night. I've never before read the
series, although I was a dedicated fan of the show... And there was
actually an entire chapter about Pa cleaning his rifle. We kept laughing
throughout the chapter... "Is this gun cleaning ever gonna end? Is this
CHAPTER ever gonna end?" We didn't know. He kept telling me to skip it,
but I couldn't. I had to see if it got better. It didn't.

And now I am attached to the family, so we are reading it.

All of it.

Anyway so he's finally been about bored to sleep and Megan comes in with
a baby jack rabbit. Woke him right back up. Naturally.

Okay.

Yes. It was very cute. Yes, it seemed very helpless.

She wanted to keep it in a box.
Problem is, this is a wild animal.

Oh, and I looked it up.. Mother of baby bunny is FRANTIC when she can't
find baby. Like any normal mother.

She will come back for it morning and evening for "up to a week".

It also says do NOT REMOVE BABY JACK RABBIT EVEN IF IT SEEMS ABANDONED
OR IN DANGER!!!!

That's a direct quote, by the way. Caps and all.

Megan says she "almost hit it" with the car. It was just "sitting there
on the road" so she "doesn't know what came over her" and she got out
and picked it up.

I said "Well maybe you can take it home and your parents will "help" you
take care of it." She said "Oh, they won't let me" I thought, "WOW.
Really? Must be up to ME then."

So I made them put it back the next night. I really do hope that the
mother DID come back for it.
I couldn't let it starve to death. It was still nursing! Not to mention,
I hate caging animals. Especially WILD ANIMALS.

Unless it's children. Children are rotten.


I've been on Prozac for over two weeks now. It's not working. I know, I
know, "give it a month" they say. SHE says... But the thing is, I don't
have a month! I want to have it work NOW! Everything is making me nuts
and I feel NO energy and I want to sleep all the time.

I am planning a nap like I do every morning when I wake up, but this
time, I'm really taking it. I'm not gonna let anyone ruin my nap plan.

For now, I guess I better go work so I can keep this job that I need to
have.