Busy, busy girl
Lately I only get on about once a week (during the week) and a time or two on the weekend if I don't have a thousand things to do. By the time I read my friends page (even trimmed down) I have no time to post.
Work cut me back to three days a week due to trying to make the budget work in the last month of the year. I am the only part-timer that can be cut without causing overtime for others. For the time being I know what days I'll be working so that I can pick up soome stuff on the side. Main job MWF so I can make myself available to substitute on Tues & Thurs. I subbed at Verden on Tuesday. That was different to say the least. I won't get paid until January. Suck. I'm usually in bed by nine and up before six. (Hey, Dan...I saw that you called but had fallen asleep on the couch while trying to make it through a movie with the kids down. I woke up at the ass crack of dawn but you weren't online. My timing sucks.)
Michael has been getting a good amount of overtime. In order to cut costs they had sent a large amount of work to the new plant in China. In came a shipment of 30,000 that they farked up. By the time it was discovered what they were doing, they'd already farked up quite a few more. I could kiss them for taking us from 32-35 hours a week to 45-58 just in time for Christmas :-)
My car is making a weird noise. Let's all just hope it's the cold.
Trying to shop for Christmas in this town is a nightmare. This is the first Christmas I have not lived in the metro or worked in it and lived an hour away. I have three...count them three stocking stuffers and nothing else. Today will be a marathon. I am going to try to get most of it done today so that all I have to do is odds and ends on the same day we do my extended family Christmas. Christmas shopping in two trips...I'll either be happy at what I've accomplished by the end of the day or more stressed than I already am. Too bad we both get our bonuses *next week*. Grr. (At least we both get them. I'm only bitching about the timing and I'll shut up now.) I have ideas for everyone but that's about it. We are heading to Norman first then up to the south side. I had hoped to get to see some people but don't see it happening. The only relaxing thing we'll be taking the time to do is eating at Joe's Crab Shack before coming home. If anyone wants to join us to eat or just have a drink while we do, call my cell. (Hint hint...this means you.)
Last weekend I painted all of the whitish parts of the bathroom and got ready for all the non-whitish parts. Monday morning I decided I am painting a palm tree on the one wall that is only about the size of a trunk. (Both palm trees and being artistic in my own tarded way reminds me yet again that I missed lacyunderall's BD. I suck. Happy Birthday, Donna!!! .) I am now looking for silk palm leaves/branches for the top and just the right trunk colors of paint. Add one more thing to an already insane amount of shit I need to get done today since (you know me) I want it painted before Christmas. (See why I put my tree up a week before Thanksgiving?)
That's it for now. I need food.
Work cut me back to three days a week due to trying to make the budget work in the last month of the year. I am the only part-timer that can be cut without causing overtime for others. For the time being I know what days I'll be working so that I can pick up soome stuff on the side. Main job MWF so I can make myself available to substitute on Tues & Thurs. I subbed at Verden on Tuesday. That was different to say the least. I won't get paid until January. Suck. I'm usually in bed by nine and up before six. (Hey, Dan...I saw that you called but had fallen asleep on the couch while trying to make it through a movie with the kids down. I woke up at the ass crack of dawn but you weren't online. My timing sucks.)
Michael has been getting a good amount of overtime. In order to cut costs they had sent a large amount of work to the new plant in China. In came a shipment of 30,000 that they farked up. By the time it was discovered what they were doing, they'd already farked up quite a few more. I could kiss them for taking us from 32-35 hours a week to 45-58 just in time for Christmas :-)
My car is making a weird noise. Let's all just hope it's the cold.
Trying to shop for Christmas in this town is a nightmare. This is the first Christmas I have not lived in the metro or worked in it and lived an hour away. I have three...count them three stocking stuffers and nothing else. Today will be a marathon. I am going to try to get most of it done today so that all I have to do is odds and ends on the same day we do my extended family Christmas. Christmas shopping in two trips...I'll either be happy at what I've accomplished by the end of the day or more stressed than I already am. Too bad we both get our bonuses *next week*. Grr. (At least we both get them. I'm only bitching about the timing and I'll shut up now.) I have ideas for everyone but that's about it. We are heading to Norman first then up to the south side. I had hoped to get to see some people but don't see it happening. The only relaxing thing we'll be taking the time to do is eating at Joe's Crab Shack before coming home. If anyone wants to join us to eat or just have a drink while we do, call my cell. (Hint hint...this means you.)
Last weekend I painted all of the whitish parts of the bathroom and got ready for all the non-whitish parts. Monday morning I decided I am painting a palm tree on the one wall that is only about the size of a trunk. (Both palm trees and being artistic in my own tarded way reminds me yet again that I missed lacyunderall's BD. I suck. Happy Birthday, Donna!!! .) I am now looking for silk palm leaves/branches for the top and just the right trunk colors of paint. Add one more thing to an already insane amount of shit I need to get done today since (you know me) I want it painted before Christmas. (See why I put my tree up a week before Thanksgiving?)
That's it for now. I need food.