Free

Morning … Apparently I am free of a boss this week, looks like he decided to take the week off.  I checked with my co-worker and even he was caught off guard by this.  We both knew he was talking about taking some time but he didn’t clearly define it or mark it on the calendar like we have to.  I guess that’s the advantage when your a boss. 

Yesterday was way busier than I had expected it to be.  Thus far today is all quiet and if it stays that way I won’t complain, despite it making for a long day I really am okay with it.  I honestly don’t want to work at all.  Had a rough nights sleep.  You’d think that would have hit me the day before I had to come back but nope, it hit me last night. 

Supper was store made Spaghetti with meat sauce.  I made it until 8p before I felt the desire for a snack.  Grabbed a Reece’s Peanut Butter Cup and washed it down with lots of water.  That took care of me for the evening. 

I had laptop issues with my anti-virus and fought with that much longer than I wanted to.  Mora clung to myside which didn’t exactly help matters but after a couple hours I got things squared away with the computer and Mora.  She was waiting for treats, which I had passed out earlier.  I guess she forgot about them.  Once I led her in the kitchen my troubles were over.  She nibbled on them and then jumped in bed like a good girl. 

I’ve got some kind of a winter itch on my chest.  I scratched it at first and that only made things worse.  I’ve put some anti-itch cream on it but that stuff doesn’t work well for me.  I plan to try to scrub it out in the shower.  I used to get this really bad all year long but now it only creeps up on me once or twice per year.  All I know is it feels a lot like poison ivy the more you scratch the more it itches to the point where it drives me insane.  I just want it as well as Winter to take a hike. 

Today is a much more relaxed day thus far compared to yesterday at this time.  I am hoping for no technology issues on my end today, for me that will be what I call a WIN. 

I think my Thanksgiving friends are doing their open house again on New Years.  However, I don’t have a formal invite and honestly there is tons of food and people in their small house it’s really cramped.  It’s usually a good time as people come and go.  I tend to stick around like glue.  Not sure that I will venture out to it this year.  I am on-call.  Here’s hoping they don’t call the cops to check on me again.  I will be listening on my scanner.  It’s all charged up and ready to go for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.

It would be great to just have one day off of work per week to just lounge and loaf.  I think it would make the week much more palatable.  I know that I could schedule my vacation time to take a particular day of the week off each week.  I’ve got a colleague that does it with Monday’s.  It’s that instead of taking a formal week or two week vacation.  However, he’s always scrambling to play catchup. 

The one thing about time off is the more you have the more you want.  I really enjoyed being able to do what I wanted, not having to worry about a phone chirping and there was no one bossing me around, other than the cats.  I am years from retirement but once I get there I don’t think I will have enough money to survive very long so it’s like I tell everyone, I will be working up until lunch on the day of my funeral.

Well, I’m going to try to take a break to get away from the computer and relax upstairs, perhaps work in a nap if I can, just hope the phone doesn’t call me back, maybe just maybe today will be like a day off I’m all for that. 

Stay warm and take care!